Bomber and Mega Bait Saltwater Fishing Lures

The Bomber is one of the most effective lures for catching striped bass. The Mega Bait is also great. Cast Bombers and Mega Baits into the pocket by a jetty as the sun goes down and catch a striped bass.

About Swimming Lures For Striped Bass Fishing

Swimming lures are either wood or plastic and have a protruding lip that bites into the water and makes the lure dive. It also imparts a side-to-side motion, or wobble, to the lure that makes it appear like a swimming baitfish. Some swimming lures have metal lips that can be bent, or tuned, to make the lure bite in more and dive deeper.

When we go freshwater fishing we use similar lures, but we call them crankbaits.

One good place to use swimming lures is around jetties, especially in the pockets. Baitfish often get stacked up in the pockets, and striped bass go looking for them there. If you can, without interfering with others fishing from the jetties, make a few casts right up close to rocks around the jetties. Baitfish hide among the rocks.

You can fish swimming lures at different depths by:
1. Casting out the lure and retrieving it slowly along the water not allowing it to dig in much. The lure will stay close to the surface and make a "V" wake. Often this will get some attention and draw a strike.
2. Cast, then retrieve the lure a little faster, just enough to make the lip dig in and create the characteristic wobble. You can feel the resulting pulsation through the line so that you can tell if the lure is working as intended. This is the most common way to fish a swimming lure.
3. Use a plug with a metal lip bent down a little, or a lure with a longer lip. This plug will dig in more when retrieved and go deeper in the water column.

I usually fish these lures with a teaser ahead of them. Then you have two lures working at the same time, one small lure (the teaser) with a larger lure (the bomber) chasing it. Also the bomber acts as a casting weight for the smaller lure.

The bomber is also a good sand eel imitation, especially with the teaser ahead of it.

For striped bass, retrieve slowly. Fast retrieves are for bluefish.

Fishing the White Water

The secret in catching stripers with lures is to throw them where the stripers are. The stripers are where they have an advantage. That is where the waves are breaking, tumbling and disorienting the baitfish. Many surf fishermen try for distance, thinking the further they cast is the best. They are often throwing their lures right over the stripers, which may be in or near the white water right in front of them.