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Stripers will hit most anything that a LM will eat, and vice versa. I've often caught both on the same baits. Matter of fact, I often use 10" ribbontail worms for Stripers, either Carolina rigged or on a jighead. Here in the Chesapeake area, I believe they take them for eels.

A JnP with a greenpumpkin/blue/white skirt also works, and I feel it imitates a blue crab real close, which Stripers & bass will certainly eat.

It's also possible the fish you lost could have been a big catfish, especially a channel cat. I've caught them on a variety of lures too!

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I had a buddy boat a 32lb Striper on a Bitsy Bug jig a few years back. took him 20 minutes to tire the fish out and get him in the boat but he was also fishing on the Main river Channel of Old Hickory Lake where those big stripers live. I have never caught a striper on a JNP but Lord knows I have boated some Flathead Cats in the 25 to 30 pound class many times on jigs. Well lets put it this way I got them up beside the boat and was able to cut the line and turn them loose. I fish 40 Braid on my jig rods so catching the big cats is not a problem. It's just a lot of fun and even more work. Flat heads will hit jigs alot as they mistake them from crawfish and Flat heads will not eat dead things like most cats will. I would be willing to guess if you were fishing docks that it was probably a very big Flathead and they will break your mono line really quick if it has any type of weak spot in it.........

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