??? about striper beds and mating

I have a boat in a marina, and decided to try an experiment to see if it would attract fish. I submerged a platform about 3-4 feet deep, it's about as wide as the slip, and about 8 feet front to back. So even though I'm in about 30 feet of water, I still have a shallow area at the front of my slip. I put some containers full of mud/sand from the river on the platform to grow water plants in. I didn't think of all this until the end of last summer, but during the winter it did attract some little minnow sized fish...thousands of them. They still hang out there, but during the past couple of weeks some stripers have been hanging out too. Last week I noticed that one seems to have decided one of the planters is his/her territory, and it hangs around it all the time. Every once in a while a much larger one would come along, and the "owner" didn't chase it off but instead acted interested in its presence. Now there is another one who appears to have taken posession of one of the other planters, and acts toward it like the first one did. When the larger fish comes along, now it looks like it goes to both of the ones who have their own territories. For some reason I've got the impression that the males have decided the planters are their bedding area, and the larger fish is a female or are different females checking things out. Can anyone tell me if that's likely to be the situation? Where online can I learn more about their methods of reproduction?

Thanks for any help! David

Your search engine is your friend. Enter "striped bass" into the window and hit *go*; you'll get hundreds of links.

http://www.striped-bass.com/fishing/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_bass http://www.stripersonline.com/ http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/sos/spsyn/af/sbass/ http://www.stripersurf.com/