{"id":1400,"date":"2010-11-01T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T02:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2010-11-08T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T02:01:20","slug":"halloween-striper-and-the-pumpkin-ale-taste-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Striper and the Pumpkin Ale Taste-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can’t Miss Dan’s comeback with <\/strong>schoolies and\u00a0a keeper<\/h3>\n

October 29-31, 2010<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Comeback fisherman of 2010: Dan with a schoolie striper<\/span><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

After our family gathering dispersed on October 26, Dan stayed the week leading up to Halloween and had good fishing from beginning to end.\u00a0 One afternoon, he strolled down to the beach at the end of TI Drive where, as he says, \u201cI had all the fish I wanted.\u201d Unfortunately, they were schoolies of the 26-inch variety, so nothing to plate for the early part of his vacation.\u00a0 But on Friday morning, once the wet and foggy weather was gone, he scored a bunch of fish, including a 31-inch keeper, fishing the bar just west of Indian Wells beach.<\/p>\n

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Halloween Keeper: Dan banged this 31-inch striper near Indian Wells beach<\/p><\/div>\n

Saturday and Sunday, I joined Dan trying to recreate his success. \u00a0Big winds and a strong west to east rip in the surf made fishing a real challenge.\u00a0 Dan managed two shorties. His friend Sydney\u2014hereafter known as Seagull Syd\u2014tangled a gull and I wore the skunk. On Sunday morning, Big Bob\u2019s son, John M. and bucktailing Billy S. joined us for a brief, got-to-get-back-to-work, first light session.\u00a0 Billy S. was late to the party, joining us near Atlantic beach around 8am.\u00a0 But he saved the morning with a hook up on a 26-inch schoolie, putting him decidedly a striper ahead in the Surf Rookie of the Year standings.<\/p>\n

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Pumpkin Alers: Natalie L., Dan, Sydney, Whiskey Dave<\/p><\/div>\n

The highlight of the weekend took place at home on Saturday evening.\u00a0 Seagull Syd and Whiskey David A. were packing 14\u2014that\u2019s right 14!\u2014varieties of Pumpkin Ale and a spreadsheet on which to judge them.\u00a0 Their annual Pumpkin Ale Taste Off was built around a dinner featuring Daniel\u2019s Friday morning keeper, cooked in a Livornese variation; sauteed with capers, shallots, green olives, plum tomatoes and white wine. It was additionally adorned with two dozen little neck clams.<\/p>\n

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Striped Bass Livornese adorned with little neck clams<\/p><\/div>\n

Seasonal sides were roasted local cauliflower and brussell sprouts, brown rice with red onions, celery and carrots, arugula salad and, for dessert, pumkin ice-cream pie with ginger snap crumble crust.<\/p>\n

Billy stayed after we all split early on Sunday.\u00a0 He worked the Montauk ocean beach west of the Surfside overlook on tips from Harvey and Sam D. that the fish were holed up pretty strong near Gurney\u2019s Inn. He managed one short before daybreak on Monday.\u00a0 Top of the Rookie leader board he remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can’t Miss Dan’s comeback with schoolies and\u00a0a keeper October 29-31, 2010 Saturday and Sunday, I joined Dan trying to recreate his success. \u00a0Big winds and a strong west to east rip in the surf made fishing a real challenge.\u00a0 Dan managed two shorties. His friend Sydney\u2014hereafter known as Seagull Syd\u2014tangled a gull and I wore […]<\/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-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","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=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}