I've caught the little snapper blues in Long Island Sound, they were fun on light tackle. Any relative of the yellowtail is good enough for me. Especially a forktail with teeth! White Seabass are killer, but they are not known for dogging you like a yellowtail. Tie a YT and a WSB tail to tail, the seabass is drowning. I heard that stripers fight really well, unfortunetly my experience with them is dinks at Skinner, not the same. A 35 lb. WSB and a 35 lb. tail are not even close to being in the same league. Kind of remarkable how well the stripers established themselves on the west coast, the LMB, brown trout, etc. have done equally well since being stocked in the late 1800's. Kind of cool how California can hold records for all of these fish, glad my family moved me out here when I was an infant. (Not to say I'm not jealous of the offshore fishery they have back there, pretty sick!) At least we have better surf, usually, don't look at this summer for a marker.