{"id":1898,"date":"2011-09-04T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T17:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2011-09-06T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:53:50","slug":"fishtales-2011-wet-and-wild-irenes-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"FishTales 2011: Wet and Wild Irene’s Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"
“I gotta do something about it: Do I ice her? Do I marry her?”<\/strong><\/h5>\n
September 4, 2011:\u00a0<\/strong>The line is from Prizzi’s Honor<\/span>,<\/a> in case you don’t recognize it. Consider it an alternative to the severely overused “Good Night Irene” cliche with which we bade farewell to last week’s hurricane-turned-tropical-storm.<\/span><\/h5>\n
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Cocktail Bluefish for Tenacious Billy at Sammy's Beach<\/p><\/div>\n

Speaking of cliches, when the going gets tough, the tough….go fishing! \u00a0Which is exactly what\u00a02010 Surf Rookie of the Year Billy S.<\/a> and his family did as soon as Irene left the East End.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I\u2019ve assessed Irene\u2019s impact on the\u00a0official\u00a0post-Labor Day start of my fishing season ahead. For sure, navigating our south facing ocean beaches by truck will be trickier than usual, considering the pounding the shore took from Georgica, to Napeague to Gurney\u2019s in Montauk and beyond.<\/p>\n

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Irene's Fury: Montauk town beach storm surf seen from atop the Surfside overlook<\/p><\/div>\n

It remains to be seen if this year\u2019s pummeling is as bad as the beach erosion left behind by tropical storm Earl, <\/a>which struck our East End very hard last September,\u00a0nearly a year ago to this day.<\/p>\n

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Indian Wells Beach: Gouged by high tides and storm winds<\/p><\/div>\n

In Amagansett, beaches lost at least 5 feet of soft sand, washed down to hardpan. They are severely sloped and in some places narrowed to unpassable at high tide. Wind–the big culprit as the predicted 12-inch rains never materialized–and higher than normal tides\u00a0that coincided with Irene\u2019s arrival, August 27 and 28,\u00a0gouged the primary dunes, which the sea breached on beaches to the west in East Hampton and Wainscott. Plenty of downed trees in the villages, but damage and chaos way below what was feared.<\/a> Power in Amagansett and much of East Hampton was out for 4 to 5 days.\u00a0In hindsight, we were luckier than most on the east coast. As a hurricane, Irene\u00a0whacked tens of millions on the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to New Jersey <\/a> before weakening. Then, the huge size and slow path of the storm wreaked havoc with flooding in upstate New York and Vermont.<\/p>\n

My pre-Irene \u201cPlan-A\u201d was to ride out Irene in Amagansett. We had water, food and booze. How bad could things get? But on second thought, we went with “Plan-B”: Get out of Dodge. Without power, Irene would have gotten old as soon as we sobered up.\u00a0Once we returned to the beach, we grilled up the dozen filet mignon medallions that defrosted in our unpowered freezer. Then I\u00a0 prepped four racks of baby back ribs for a weekend beach party.<\/p>\n

All this meat has made me anxious to get into the surf and land some keeper bass. Suprisingly, a plump, pink striper filet, courtesy of John M.’s offshore\u00a0Birthday-Bass\u00a0fishing charter, landed in my fridge by surprise yesterday. Yum. Labor Day can\u2019t get here soon enough. Tomorrow, it is fishing season for Fred.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Good Eats for Bass: Irene churned a potpurri of clams, mussels, crabs at the surfline<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I gotta do something about it: Do I ice her? Do I marry her?” September 4, 2011:\u00a0The line is from Prizzi’s Honor, in case you don’t recognize it. Consider it an alternative to the severely overused “Good Night Irene” cliche with which we bade farewell to last week’s hurricane-turned-tropical-storm. Speaking of cliches, when the going […]<\/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-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","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=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}