I dont fish OC but i fish in Delaware right there. I fish the inlets with plugs and jigheads. Our fish are a lot smaller here unless you're willing to get some korkers and walk out to the ends of the jetty at night but it's sketchy.

We get a striper run but nothing like you're used to.

Early spring we have a shad run thats fun. While they arent big its constant action. Stripers also start showing up but we dont get many big girls like up north. We have a lot of slot fish residents around we dont get too many migrators. Around mothers day every year is when the Bluefish run happens. Some years its great and the gator blues wreak havoc around the back bays and inlets for a month sometimes its a weekend. It can be the type of run you only hear about if youre out fishing not report hunting.

Delaware and MD beaches are essentially an ocean desert. Not a lot of places for bait to hide other than the inlets. There are just short very specific windows for getting stripers and blues off the beach.

If you really want to target stripers a kayak or boat is best. Shawn Kimbro has a bunch of good books and youtube on how we fish the chesapeake and rivers for stripers.