Since no one is responding, I'll talk. I've only caught one stripper. It was last Feb. and she was 18lbs. I started out trolling AC plug and Castaic trout on 30# reg. line, with no sucess. A boat trolling next to us Caught a small bass and he was trolling a needlefish 11 colors down, at the time my fish finder was not working. So I changed up to a big diving crankbait. I trolled it the bait at different depths but ended up trolling it almost all the way out on my corsair 400, so about 100yds or just under. I trolled for another 4 or 5 hours with notheing then my rod started going and I knew I was not hung on bottem, because the bottem was probably almost 100 feet. The fish hit right on a main lake point at a very steep bank, my guess is about 40feet down at the time. Other guys around here fish the launch ramps where the planded trout are dumped. The best thing to do is just go out and give it a real try. From what I've heard stripers are more of a open deep water fish. And use big plugs of at least 9"-12" I think I caught mine on the day before a front, I meant to go out the day of the storm but the forecasters were wrong about when the storm would move in. It rained here today, which got my brain going, because every year when we get rain people catch big large mouth bass at the launch ramps, need I say more. I feel the rain breaks up the surface and makes the big ones less able to determine real or fake trout and very few people are dedicated enough to fish in the rain when its 45 deg. Hope this helps.