We are in this pattern of a lot of small bait along the oceanfront. I'm talking one to two inch bay anchovies. Albies, stripers and blues are feeding on them. When they are on the small stuff, they can get mighty picky, and that's what's going on right now.
The larger bait, peanut bunker, is generally holed up in the backwaters and in the Bay. It just doesn't seem to want to come out. When it does, the fish will get far more aggressive. The other larger bait that we often see at this time of year is mullet. I've seen very little of this bait so far this year. The stripers get super aggressive when on this bait and will hit a variety of mid size plugs.
When bay anchovies are around, I've had my best luck catching stripers on a wooden egg float and a fly, something I have written a lot about. The fly I have been using is a pink Deceiver. That fly is running about three feet off the float with a Varivas fluoro 35 lb. test leader. Judging by what I see being caught around me, my float and fly is your best bet right now to catch stripers and even albies (when you see them feeding on top) when these fish are keyed on small bait.
Take a look at this video clip of stripers foraging under schools of bay anchovies. It is typical of what's been going on in the past couple of weeks:
