{"id":1037,"date":"2010-09-28T17:40:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2010-10-08T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T00:41:10","slug":"september-fades-to-october-and-the-bite-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"September Fades to October and The Bite Is On"},"content":{"rendered":"

September was the worst of times. It was the best of times. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

September 28, 2010<\/p>\n

The action began late in the afternoon, Friday, 9\/24\u2014where else–at Turtle Cove! A few fish. Nothing to write home about.\u00a0 Saturday AM, more of the same. Sunday? You could have stayed in bed. Nada.<\/p>\n

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Matt King took his first keeper bass in the corner under the bluff at Montauk<\/p><\/div>\n

But Monday was a whole different, ahem, kettle of fish. Insane action by many accounts.\u00a0 Wave after wave of bass moved through Turtle Cove, crossing west to east from Brown\u2019s rock to the Lighthouse jetty. At one point, the bass were in so close to shore that a rogue wave threw up a bunch onto terra firma. Those on the scene\u2014I was not\u2014reported quality fish–35-inchers; 15-plus pounders–in abundance. The action lasted all day. \u201dWater was purple from bloody bait,\u201d 4Runner Dan told me.\u00a0 \u201cRippling pods of fast moving schoolie bass were feeding on snapper blues and white bait.\u201d They exploded on pencil and Polaris poppers.<\/p>\n

The fish were back at TC at daybreak on Tuesday, September 28.\u00a0 Then, SE winds kicked up and turned off the southside spigot. Time for a scene change to Montauk\u2019s kinder and gentler northside.\u00a0Typical of my \u201cshoulda been here yesterday\u201d fishing fortunes, I showed up at the North Bar at first light on Tuesday. I love skipping the office for a weekday fishing foray on the beach. If there is an upside to growing old\u2014please, please tell me there is\u2014it may be license to do the things forbidden to us as kids.\u00a0 I was great a playing hookie from school in the 1960s.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t lost my touch now that I am in my \u201860s.<\/p>\n

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A steady pick of bass kept surfcasters happy on the North Bar <\/p><\/div>\n

There was plenty of action for me to share that Tuesday. Tons of bait around. And to hear the sharpies describe it, plenty of fish too.\u00a0 But the action was sporadic, requiring time, effort and luck to be in exactly the right spot when the fish decided to show. Otherwise, you\u2019d surely have thought the water was dead.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

There was fish all day from Clark\u2019s Cove to the refreshment stand bluff, about one-quarter of which were keeper bass. A few blues mixed in. I raised a few fish with a white pencil popper in the mini-blitzes that I was barely able to reach on the North Bar and False Point between 10am and 1130am, just before the flood. I nailed one short striper in the same area when the action resumed in the afternoon on the outgoing.\u00a0Blitzes were in and out and very fast moving. The afternoon settled into a slow pick for the longest casters. Then, at dusk, an up and down mini-pod worked between Clark\u2019s Cove and the entrance.\u00a0 But I was never able to reach them. Still, I felt the satisfaction of knowing that the fall run was on.\u00a0 October suddenly looked very promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September was the worst of times. It was the best of times. September 28, 2010 The action began late in the afternoon, Friday, 9\/24\u2014where else–at Turtle Cove! A few fish. Nothing to write home about.\u00a0 Saturday AM, more of the same. Sunday? You could have stayed in bed. Nada. But Monday was a whole different, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}