I’d been shut out in my few beach expeditions for spring bass, and thought the best way to hook into one, a big one, was to meet the stripers on their turf. Right now the striped bass are running the river mouths along the East Coast. I met up with Jason Puris of thefin.com, and we hoped to get in touch with some big 20-plus pounders up in Connecticut. For that we hooked up with Mike Warecke. On my first cast I hooked up with my first striper of the year, a healthy ocean fish in the 10-12 pound class.   Jason hooked up with bass from the same class. At the start of outgoing in the morning we cast Mike’s Minnows (Warecke’s variant on…