My dad and I have just gotten into the live bait for stipers just recently. We are using brood minnows but we are not having any luck. We are doing everything that we have read. We just cannot get the fish to bite. We have been in tons of fish and cannot get so much as a hit. The other day we put in at LBS and ran all the way to point 11 looking for them. We cannot get them to hit top either, that is what we had luck with last year.