Tea Party, schmee party. I voted the stars & stripers party
Nov. 2, 2010: Cold and clear. Frost warnings. Temps in the 30s; wind chills high 20s. On a tip from John P., who has a client living in the Ditch Plains Mobile Home Condo Park, I intending to “do the walk”. Intense bird activity close in near the East Deck Motel delayed my trek, but the action was too far to reach. I watched a few shorts taken from the rocks before heading east on foot. I never saw a tide so low. I marched past a couple of hundred yards of mossy boulder fields. I followed a thick school of birds towards Cavett’s Cove, but they never came within reach. I ate my breakfast, found an ugly as sin black and brown tied fly—which would prove deadly later—and a Striper Swiper popping plug. Back to my truck to survey conditions at Montauk Point. George of the Jungle was keeping vigil near the North Bar. Otherwise nada. Back to Amagansett. Birds working—first Gannets of the season—far off Napeague. I moved in front of the blue house near Mako Lane where I had two shorts. Slammin’ Sam the Hook walked up to the shoreline, threw a left-handed cast, and reeled in a double header. Little fish were hitting inside the inner bar. I pulled out my fly rod for the first time this season. Switched back to plugging with a shorty Hopkins and used my ugly-as-sin fly as a teaster on an eight foot Mojo rod. I nailed a fatty keeper that leapt in the waves. It put up a vigorous but brief fight. I stayed in the same spot and had bumps all afternoon and two more shorts—my own double header. Home early to filet my keeper.
Election Day Keeper: I voted for the stars and stripers ticket