{"id":4705,"date":"2022-12-20T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2023-12-22T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:23:17","slug":"merry-fishmas-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=4705","title":{"rendered":"MERRY FISHMAS 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DEC. 20, 2022:<\/strong> Just a few days back, the fat lady sang her end-of-striped-bass-season song. She took the stage in New Jersey, far from the Montauk rips where the Fishing Faithful and I usually pursue our surfcasting adventures. The sand eel bait that never set up on Long Island’s East End surf, settled in as a two week long buffet for slot-sized bass off the beach in Seaside Heights. Jersey googs’ and sharpies alike binged on them with every cast. We, on the other hand, witnessed with envy this season’s curtain call the same way we spent so much of the last three years–we viewed it all on YouTube<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full season had its share memorable moments on the East End. A Springtime bumper-crop of big bad bluefish f<\/a>rom sheltered East Hampton coves and harbors; a summer filled with fat schoolie stripers<\/a> on the sandy shores of Amagansett beaches; a few Autumn days of textbook bass blitzes<\/a> on Montauk’s north and south sides. I caught and released a personal best<\/a> in October; Doc Catalano of the Red Hill Gang scored a Santiago-worthy catch<\/a> in a raging nor’easter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any day–or night–fishing in the surf is better than any alternative, no matter the outcome. But as surfcasting seasons go, 2022 was a lean and random harvest. It’s little wonder then, that Big Brother Frank<\/a> and I present our annual Fishmas Card in honor of the Fat lady singing the blues. Jingle, jingle y’all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this year, thanks to a little help from Dear Daughter Diane and Rebecca up in Maine, the Fishmas Card is a music video! So click on the photo below to sing along!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BLUE FISHMAS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(To the tune of Blue Christmas)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019l have a blue Fishmas without you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ll be so blue surfcasting without you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pencil poppers of red on a foam-crested sea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Won\u2019t catch a bass dear, if you don\u2019t fish with me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And when those big keepers start biting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll be so blue while they are fighting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019ll be weakfish at night<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Mag Darters so bright<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But I’ll have a blue, blue, bluefish Fishmas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lyrics by Fred & Frank Abatemarco with apologies to Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson; Graphic design by Chaweenee; Photo by Bucktailin\u2019 Billy Black.<\/sub><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEC. 20, 2022: Just a few days back, the fat lady sang her end-of-striped-bass-season song. She took the stage in New Jersey, far from the Montauk rips where the Fishing Faithful and I usually pursue our surfcasting adventures. The sand eel bait that never set up on Long Island’s East End surf, settled in as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","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=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4847,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}