{"id":1072,"date":"2010-10-08T19:12:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T02:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2011-09-05T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T03:36:47","slug":"lunch-can-wait-striped-bass-are-blitzing-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Can Wait; Striped Bass Are Blitzing Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

How about a sandwich on a rock at Montauk Point?<\/h3>\n

OCT. 7, 2010:<\/strong> <\/span>Hi Fred: By way of introduction, happily I am MDC’s father-in-law. I have been following you for sometime now and I have really enjoyed your comments and observations. I have drowned a few worms myself. I will be in Montauk, tomorrow, Oct. 7, and would like to take you to lunch. Thank you, best wishes. Carl G.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear\u00a0 Carl:<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for the invitation. It would’ve been a pleasure sit down and get acquainted at John\u2019s Pancake House. However, the bite was on real good this week and I was fortunate enough to have a two mid-week days to take advantage of the fine weather and the good fishing. Best not to leave the beach all things considered. \u00a0I’m sure you’d agree.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Stripers blitzed the rocks at Brown's; October surf fishing is heating up in Montauk<\/p><\/div>\n

Fish were blitzing everywhere around the point on Wednesday.\u00a0 I slept in and missed the dawn action on the northside. But the fish were just getting warmed up on the \u00a0ocean side when I got there <\/em>mid-morning <\/em>for the outgoing tide. I spent virtually the entire day at Turtle Cove where the fish blitzed in and out, back and forth, between Brown\u2019s and the Lighthouse jetty. Brought my lunch, you know. There was a short lull at the tide change and then it started up again even hotter. \u00a0At one point in the afternoon, the stripers were at our feet. A few keeper bass were taken from the blitz. But more times than not, aggresive bluefish were quicker to the lure.\u00a0 The lazy stripers were content to inhale spearing and even smaller bay anchovies: the tiny white or rain bait beneath the voracious blues. I wound up with six decent sized choppers for the cooler.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was back early on Thursday. But the morning did not produce.\u00a0 In the afternoon, after I ran into you on the street in Montauk\u2014was that an amazing coincidence, or what?\u2014I was mesmerized by wild striper blitzes off the Lighthouse and Scott\u2019s Cove. The fish were out of surfcasting range, but they kept the mosquito fleet of fly-casting boats real happy. I waited in vain for a repeat of the prior day’s action in TC. Finally, I succumbed to the hike to Brown\u2019s, mounted a rock and managed one 26-inch striper on a bucktail from my slimy perch.\u00a0 Blitzes came and went but the fish were very finicky.\u00a0 Poppers and tins pulled right through, bouncing off fish with nary a bite.\u00a0 The longest casters hurled bucktails and banged fish in a slow but steady pick until sundown.\u00a0 October is humming.<\/em><\/p>\n

Should you come back to Montauk, be sure to let me know.\u00a0 We\u2019ll take a few sandwiches down to Turtle Cove, North Bar or wherever the fish decide to show.<\/em><\/p>\n

Best Regards,<\/em><\/p>\n

Fred<\/em><\/p>\n

PS: Thanks for the book, <\/em>Striper Chronicles.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How about a sandwich on a rock at Montauk Point? OCT. 7, 2010: Hi Fred: By way of introduction, happily I am MDC’s father-in-law. I have been following you for sometime now and I have really enjoyed your comments and observations. I have drowned a few worms myself. I will be in Montauk, tomorrow, Oct. […]<\/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-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","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=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}