The author with a striped bass hooked on a prior fishing trip. Striper fishermen Roger Zalucky, left, of Troy, and Jack Whitman of Colonie both hook into fish while wading the Hudson River Friday ...

I’ve fished for more than 20 years, and I caught my first striped bass 18 years ago in Noyack Bay on the East End of Long Island, where I fell in love with the sport on summer vacations as a boy.