On the east coast this technique works well for stripers in dirty water. I try and dive current lines or ony really bad day vis. lines. I'll drift with the current making drops until I hear tautogs grunting and crunching on mussles. This normally indicates a fishy area and I'll drop and hold on the bottom. On bad vis. days I'' crawl over rocks until a patch of clear water is founr, or a good position to silhoute fish against the surface. I'll then wedge my fins and body into a crack to keep from moving and wait...
The stripers are curious and a little noise on descent is okay. if you make any noise after they show up they will take off w/ an audible noise from their tail fin. If you find them w/ good vis. and keep from moving they'll circle you for your whole dive.
Another little trick is to look at the surface of the substrait your on. I'll look at the rocks and small growth and invertibartes for half my dive. This distracts/relaxes me. I'll then slowly look up and normally the fish will have arrived and grown used to you w/out being scared.
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