{"id":1439,"date":"2010-11-07T12:04:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2010-11-10T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:04:23","slug":"hit-and-run-surfcasting-at-ditch-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-Run Surfcasting at Ditch Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Bob banged a keeper bass in record time<\/h3>\n

November 6, 2010<\/p>\n

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White Water: Bob's keeper near the East Deck Motel<\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s good reason why Big Bob needs a Gulfstream 5.\u00a0 One week he’s in DC, the next in Sonoma or Tahoe. Miami here, Gettysburg there, ad infinitum. For business, or pleasure, whatever. \u00a0The man just never stays still. Take a recent November Saturday morning. On the beach in East Hampton at daybreak, Bob phoned in a fish report at 730am saying the waves were outrageous and he\u2019s headed to Ditch Plains to watch the surfers. Shortly after 8am, he joined a conga line of fishermen in front of the East Deck Motel. In minutes, Bob nailed the only keeper from a slow pick of small fish in very big water.\u00a0 Then, off with his waders, on to breakfast at John\u2019s Pancake House, and then back to Clearwater marina to dry dock his boat for the season.\u00a0 Whew, I was so tired thinking of Bob’s day that I almost couldn\u2019t fish.\u00a0 Almost.<\/p>\n

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Bucktailin' Billy: A casting exercise at Ditch Plains<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, Bucktailin\u2019 Billy S. and I put in our time at Ditch Plains, Hither Hills and elsewhere on that same big water morning tide.\u00a0 But there was virtually no beach to ride and we never got even a bump on our casts. We quit before lunch.\u00a0 Later, however, I followed up on a fish call from Capt. Harvey Bennett and went back to the ocean beach where I banged two schoolies, one of which I dropped, in another slow pick west of Indian Wells Beach. \u00a0I ended the day with a casting exercise for naught near Napeague Lane. So what do to for dinner? Local whiting from Stuart’s Seafood poached in a garlicky clam broth served over linguine and shucked cherrystones. \u00a0That took the sting out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Bob banged a keeper bass in record time November 6, 2010 There\u2019s good reason why Big Bob needs a Gulfstream 5.\u00a0 One week he’s in DC, the next in Sonoma or Tahoe. Miami here, Gettysburg there, ad infinitum. For business, or pleasure, whatever. \u00a0The man just never stays still. Take a recent November Saturday […]<\/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-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","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=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}