GEAR: I'm on a mission to get down deep after big stripers. So, after asking for advice on several fishing website forums, and doing some research online, I decided to buy a RIO T-14 Shooting head from Urban Angler. For anyone in the NYC area, the guys there are extremely helpful and enthusiastic, and you won't feel bad asking them dumb questions.
I got 26 feet of the T-14, and paired it to a RIO running line. Supposedly, it has a sink rate of 10 inches per second. Right now, the fast sink line I use has a sink rate of six inches per second. I can't wait to try to get down deep after those bass I've previously caught only with a bucktail and a spinning rod. Stay tuned.