{"id":1523,"date":"2010-11-02T22:09:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2011-09-05T22:34:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T05:34:01","slug":"election-day-keeper-and-the-ugly-as-sin-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Keeper and the Ugly as Sin Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><strong>Tea Party, schmee party. \u00a0 I voted the stars &amp;<em> stripers<\/em> party<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 2, 2010:<\/strong>\u00a0Cold and clear. Frost warnings. Temps in the 30s; wind chills high 20s.\u00a0\u00a0On a tip from John P., who has a client living in the\u00a0Ditch Plains\u00a0Mobile Home Condo Park, I intending to &#8220;do the walk&#8221;. \u00a0Intense bird activity close in near the East Deck Motel delayed my trek, but the action was too far to reach. I watched a few shorts taken from the rocks before heading east on foot. I never saw a tide so low. I marched past\u00a0a couple of hundred yards of mossy\u00a0boulder fields. I followed a thick school of birds towards Cavett&#8217;s Cove, but they never came within reach. I ate my breakfast, found an ugly as sin black and brown tied fly\u2014which would prove deadly later\u2014and a Striper Swiper popping plug. Back to my truck to survey conditions at Montauk Point. George of the Jungle was keeping vigil near the North Bar. Otherwise nada. Back to Amagansett.\u00a0 Birds working\u2014first Gannets of the season\u2014far off Napeague. I moved in front of the blue house near Mako Lane where I had two shorts. Slammin&#8217; Sam the Hook walked up to the shoreline, threw a left-handed cast, and reeled in a double header. Little fish were hitting inside the inner bar.\u00a0I pulled out my fly rod for the first time this season. \u00a0Switched back to plugging with a shorty Hopkins and used my ugly-as-sin fly as a teaster on an eight foot Mojo rod. I nailed a fatty keeper that leapt in the waves. It put up a vigorous but brief fight. I stayed in the same spot and had bumps all afternoon and two more shorts\u2014my own double header. Home early to filet my keeper.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1986\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2011\/09\/ElectionDayKeeper2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1986   \" title=\"ElectionDayKeeper2010\" src=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2011\/09\/ElectionDayKeeper2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2011\/09\/ElectionDayKeeper2010.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2011\/09\/ElectionDayKeeper2010-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election Day Keeper: I voted for the stars and stripers ticket<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea Party, schmee party. \u00a0 I voted the stars &amp; stripers party Nov. 2, 2010:\u00a0Cold and clear. Frost warnings. Temps in the 30s; wind chills high 20s.\u00a0\u00a0On a tip from John P., who has a client living in the\u00a0Ditch Plains\u00a0Mobile Home Condo Park, I intending to &#8220;do the walk&#8221;. \u00a0Intense bird activity close in near [&hellip;]<\/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-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","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=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}