Slice the macks into thin chunks and dump them into a chum bag. Just let it hang over board and wait for the blues to school. Also keep in mind hook placement, blues hit tail first. The fall migration is upon us and the stripers are flooding into the rivers heavy. We have seen slot fish from hell everywhere.
Live bait is still the best bet for landing fish all day long.
Mackerel are everwhere along the mouth of the rivers using sabiki rigs with a 3oz. weight. Just set it back 15 feet and troll slow until you hook up then jig. Fly's of choice seem to be mack patterns and chart. Super fast sinking lines for the streamers and clousers. But the real fun is floating line with mack pattern poppers or slurpers.