Wade is there any striper surfcasting in the Santa Cruz area? Pacifica is best (it used to be unbelievably good at Rockaway Beach, Lind Mar, there, and farther north at the end of Pacifica). Smaller stripers sometimes run outside the surf (but reachable with an average cast) between El Granada (Princeton) and Half Moon Bay (surf better than the Princeton jetty for stripers there in my opinion), but maybe Santa Cruz is too far south for any consistent striper action.

Bob