All species of temperate bass (striped bass, white bass, yellow bass, etc) are major fish eaters. I have very rarely caught them on worms while fishing, 99% of the time it is on a baitfish or crawdad imitaion, so if you can get crawdads small enough try them, or if you could collect some native baitfish, that might work too. Good luck! I had a small wiper about 5" in my aquarium and I couldnt get it to eat either!