FishTales

The good thing about the end of fishing season is how seamlessly it segues to the season for making merry.  Therefore, in an unending quest to blend the our two most beloved seasons, Big Brother Frank and I offer you our annual Fishmas Card.

Tight lines in the New Year and jingle jingle, y’all.

Lovely Weather for a Surfcast Together With You

(to the tune of Sleigh Ride, by Mitchell Parrish and Leroy Anderson, 1948)

 Just see those striped bass finning

Ring-ting-tingling too

Come on it’s lovely weather

For a surfcast together with you

Outside the tide is falling

And Googins are calling, “Yoo-hoo”

Come on it’s lovely weather

For a surfcast together with you!

Fish ‘em up, fish em up, fish em up

Let’s go; how far can you throw?

We’re fishing in a wild nor’easter blow.

Crank em in, crank em in, crank em in

Don’t snag; keep your hands off the drag.

We’re casting along with a song

Of a fisherman’s fairy land.

Our lures are sharp and shiny,

And picked out by Harvey with glee.

We’re in the suds together

Like two sharpies with white boots would be.

Cast over the bar out deeper

And nail a keeper or two.

Come on, it’s lovely weather

For a surfcast together with you.

There’s a striped bass party

At the home of old Jack Yee.

It will be the perfect ending of a blitz for me.

We’ll be filleting the fish

We love to grill without a single stop

At the barbeque while we watch

The Clampie pop; Pop! Pop! Pop!

There’s a happy feeling

Nothing on a boat can match.

When that big’un in the wash winds up

a 12-pound catch.

It’ll nearly be like a picture print

By Currier and Ives.

These wonderful fish are the things

We remember all through our lives!

Just see those striped bass finning

Ring-ting-tingling too.

Come on it’s lovely weather

For a surfcast together with you.

Outside the tide is falling

And Googins are calling, “Yoo hoo”.

Come on it’s lovely weather

For a surfcast together with you.

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