Nice. I live 1 mile away from where your striper may have been born. I usually use bucktals in inlets, or SP minnows instead of surface plugs. Catch a blue or a striper. In the hudson river, live herring 85% of the time, blood worms 10% of the time, and their voyage on the way out the hudson, either live eels on ballons or sp minnows while trolling.