{"id":2242,"date":"2011-12-19T22:39:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2011-12-20T06:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T13:16:19","slug":"fishmas-card-2011-keeper-bass-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"Fishmas Card 2011: Keeper Bass Coming to Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Never Say Never. The season officially ended last week, but did anyone tell the fish?<\/h5>\n<h5>December 19, 2011:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\">Right up until the closing bell on December 15, \u00a0the 2011 striped bass surfcasting season was consistently \u00a03 to 4 weeks off schedule.\u00a0 September was a sleeper.\u00a0 The &#8220;count-on-able&#8221; Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur blitzes didn\u2019t happen until Columbus Day weekend. And the herring and bunker runs that historically characterize November hardly appeared until early December.\u00a0 At this rate, we may in fact have keeper bass for Christmas. That notion inspired this year\u2019s Fishmas card by me and Big Brother Frank.<\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_2243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 429px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2011\/12\/FishmasCard2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2243 \" title=\"FishmasCard2011\" src=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2011\/12\/FishmasCard2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2011\/12\/FishmasCard2011.jpg 960w, http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2011\/12\/FishmasCard2011-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a>L<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;\">yrics by Fred and Frank; photo by St. Toni of the Blitz; graphics design by Chawenee.<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Keeper Bass Are Coming To Town<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>(To the tune of &#8220;Santa Claus Is Coming To Town&#8221;)<\/div>\n<div>You better cast straight<\/div>\n<div>And tie on a fly<\/div>\n<div>Look for the bait<\/div>\n<div>I\u2019m telling you why<\/div>\n<div>Keeper bass are coming to town.<\/div>\n<div>They\u2019re in at sun-rise<\/div>\n<div>Along with the blues<\/div>\n<div>Gonna find out<\/div>\n<div>Who\u2019s paying their dues<\/div>\n<div>Keeper Bass are coming to town.<\/div>\n<div>They see you with your buck tails<\/div>\n<div>They know when things are jake<\/div>\n<div>They know if you\u2019re a goog\u2019 or not<\/div>\n<div>So be good for goodness sake!<\/div>\n<div>O! They\u2019re blitzing the Light<\/div>\n<div>So work that new lure<\/div>\n<div>A really good bite<\/div>\n<div>Big stripers for sure<\/div>\n<div>Keeper Bass are coming to town.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never Say Never. The season officially ended last week, but did anyone tell the fish? December 19, 2011:\u00a0Right up until the closing bell on December 15, \u00a0the 2011 striped bass surfcasting season was consistently \u00a03 to 4 weeks off schedule.\u00a0 September was a sleeper.\u00a0 The &#8220;count-on-able&#8221; Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur blitzes didn\u2019t happen until [&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-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","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=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}