S&S Bucktails currently offers 25 different lures including the Rattletail. When fluke season closes throughout the Northeast in September, Stanley Jr. said the bulk of his business switches over to striper-specific jigs such as the Slimfish sand-eel imitating jig and the Rockhopper Bucktail.

The wounded bunker action of Tony Maja’s Custom Bunker Spoon is irresistible to big stripers.

Every winter, the OTW Crew reviews some of their favorite fishing gear from the past season.