Welcome aboard Tony, lots of strippers over on this coast, but, i'm totally into freshwater bass. A lot of the lures we talk about will get crushed by stripers. Send some pics when you thump em.
Like a couple guys mentioned, if it swims a bass will attack because the hunger overrides most other factors. The size of the food will not matter. They will attack and then attempt to eat it. I'm sure some of you guys have had a bass hit a lure way to big to swallow. I once caught a ten inch bass on a surface lure much bigger than the bass.