Habitat:
The striped bass or "striper" is native to most of the East Coast, ranging from the lower St. Lawrence River in Canada to northern Florida, and along portions of the Gulf of Mexico.  Stripers inhabit the whole coast surf, inshore bars, reefs, tide rips, bays and estuaries.  Stripers are particularly active in areas with tidal and current flows and in the wash of breaking waves.

Diet:
Striped bass eat a variety of foods, including fish such as alewives, flounder, sea herring, menhaden, sand lance, silver hake, tomcod, smelt, silversides and eels, as well as lobsters, crabs, soft clams, small mussels, sea worms and squid.  

They feed throughout the day, during the midsummer they tend to become more nocturnal.