{"id":1690,"date":"2010-11-29T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2015-09-10T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:16:46","slug":"tenacious-bill-2010-surf-rookie-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Tenacious Bill: 2010 Surf Rookie of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tenacious Billy S. wraps up the honor; \u00a0keeps on fishing…and fishing…and fishing…..<\/h5>\n
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Team of Rivals: John P. and Billy S. with a sand-eel stuffed bass at Napeague Ln<\/p><\/div>\n

Nov. 29, 2010:<\/strong>\u00a0As I write this, Bucktailin’ Billy S. is somewhere on the East End of Long Island, surfcasting Dusty Springfield style. That is, he’s “wishing and hoping” that rumors of a herring run, able to produce 11th hour keeper bass, are something more than just that: rumors.<\/span><\/p>\n

On tenacity alone, Billy vanquished all comers this season. But for 2010 Surf Rookie of The Year<\/a> honors he had a worthy rival in Joltin’ John P. who scored\u00a0high in fish caught per session. John had a\u00a0solid October with a keeper at Montauk <\/a>and schoolies in East Hampton<\/a>.\u00a0Billy caught a decent amount of bluefish and bass the whole season long, including his first keeper striper<\/a> from the surf in late October.\u00a0Billy essentially sealed the deal on his award when he and\u00a0Joltin’ John P. fished the sand eel invasion at Napeague Lane, Amagansett, head-to-head on the weekend of Nov. 13-14.<\/p>\n

For three days prior, big NE winds and extreme new moon tides conspired against good fishing so there was no bass fillets for the table when we all sat down with our wives for a night-before dinner. Instead we feasted on striped bass brandade <\/a>and fish chowder both of which were cobbled together from the remains and morsels of my pre-Veteran’s Day keeper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a spirited evening–literally–fueled by a copious amount of wine hauled in by John P. Was this his attempt to influence the judges? Wait, there were no judges. \u00a0Surf Roookie of the Year was decided by the catch.\u00a0 And the next morning, Billy managed a lone schoolie to keep the skunk off our party and chisel his name indelibly into the rookie leaderboard. \u00a0He then had the temerity to leave the beach for an 11am tee-time at Montauk Downs–where he scored his first ever hole in one on Montauk’s par-3 2nd hole.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Congrats to Billy S., evermore known as Tenacious Bill. \u00a0A salute as well to John P., and all those I had the pleasure to fish with in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tenacious Billy S. wraps up the honor; \u00a0keeps on fishing…and fishing…and fishing….. Nov. 29, 2010:\u00a0As I write this, Bucktailin’ Billy S. is somewhere on the East End of Long Island, surfcasting Dusty Springfield style. That is, he’s “wishing and hoping” that rumors of a herring run, able to produce 11th hour keeper bass, are something […]<\/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-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","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=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}