{"id":265,"date":"2009-10-26T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2009-11-02T12:34:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:34:55","slug":"schoolie-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Schoolie Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stripers in Diapers Rule!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER \u00a024-25, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was Family Weekend at Diane&#8217;s \u00a0college \u00a0in Northampton, MA\u2014so she traveled to the beach for visit with us there. A much better idea than the alternative.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_264\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-264\" title=\"Diane Photog Montauk beach\" src=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2009\/11\/IMG_1544-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Diane came to fish but the only action she saw was through the lens of her vintage Canon SLR\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2009\/11\/IMG_1544-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2009\/11\/IMG_1544-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane came to fish but the only action she saw was through the lens of her vintage Canon SLR<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Diane and I went out both weekend mornings to search for the elusive stripers, but all we could manage was a couple of schoolie shorts. Diane never even donned her waders, even though we were fishing on the sandy beaches of Montauk village. Instead, she shot photos for a school project.<\/p>\n<p>As per usual, all we found was a slow pick of small fish\u2014all bass\u2014ranging in size from 20 to 27 inches. If there was a 28-inch keeper walked off the beach, I didn&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the weather was unseasonably warmish with temperatures in the 60s, winds SW that kicked up pretty good as the day progressed. We had rain showers morning and afternoon. I got my short bass around 8am on a sandbar at the east end of Montauk village.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_290\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-290\" title=\"IMG_1549\" src=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2009\/11\/IMG_15491-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond jigs sized A17 with green tubes have been consistently deadly on the small bass that have dominated the Montauk surfcasting action this season\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2009\/11\/IMG_15491-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2009\/11\/IMG_15491-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/2009\/11\/IMG_15491.jpg 1786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond jigs sized A17 with green tubes have been consistently deadly on the small bass that have dominated the Montauk surfcasting action this season<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We searched the rest of the morning for some hotter action, but nothing ever developed. We took the afternoon off. On Sunday, we fished a very abbreviated session from sun up to 9am. I got one perky short on a diamond jig, in the same place I fished the day before. Lots of other short bass taken. No blues sighted.<\/p>\n<p>To date, this has shaped up as one very unusal and disappointing season in the surf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stripers in Diapers Rule! SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER \u00a024-25, 2009 It was Family Weekend at Diane&#8217;s \u00a0college \u00a0in Northampton, MA\u2014so she traveled to the beach for visit with us there. A much better idea than the alternative. Diane and I went out both weekend mornings to search for the elusive stripers, but all we could [&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-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}