We ranked the all-time best lures for striped bass, including spoons, crankbaits, and jerkbaits. These are our tested favorites for fishing stripers in freshwater or saltwater.

No boat? No problem! We're boatless today fishing top water on the saltwater shores looking for those striped bass. The set up 20 lb Thunderbraid, with a 20 lb Thundercarbon leader. a single snap, and ...

Melchiondo prefers to use a 6-8 inch SluG-Go, Ron Z worm or a Hogy brand plastic lure. Either of these long and slender lures seem to yield double-digit striped bass over other types of lures.

The striped bass fishing along the New Jersey coast and certainly in the Delaware River is the best many have seen in 10 years.

Striped bass are a special fish. About the time cold temperatures render many species docile, stripers go on a late-year feeding frenzy that extends the cold-weather fishing season by several weeks.

Striped bass are primarily saltwater fish that spawn in fresh water along the coasts, but they can survive for extended periods without returning to the sea.

Striped bass isn't the only thing you may catch on a trip. We caught some nice spotted bass with topwater lures. Spotted bass are another aggressive game fish that puts up quite a fight.

So, with all this catching going on, here is a recipe for grilling striped bass from the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association Cooking Your Catch columnist Paula Smalec.