{"id":767,"date":"2010-07-26T08:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2010-09-26T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T16:13:31","slug":"uh-oh-wsj-discovers-surfcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Uh Oh! WSJ Discovers Surfcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

How did we survive before Murdoch Ran the WS Journal?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

July 26, 2010<\/p>\n

First of all, don’t believe anything you read in this surf fishing\u00a0article from the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. \u00a0There are NO FISH in Montauk. \u00a0Not now; Not ever. \u00a0They’re all in Jersey. \u00a0I swear. Please tell ALL your friends.<\/p>\n

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Freddie "The Eel": He only comes out at night. (Photo by Jack Yee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Furthermore, the author took some liberties with Fred Kalkstein’s nickname. \u00a0It is “Freddie The Eel”. \u00a0That’s a shame, too. Because while Melnyk gets all the press, Freddie gets all the fish. The BIG fish. He used to live on my street in Amagansett and, back in the day, we’d chase schools of bluefish together on the sandy beaches. But then the quest for big bass became a jihad for Freddie and he went native. \u00a0For years now, Freddie ONLY fishes at night and ALONE. \u00a0He actually had a live-eel tank installed into a new beach house he had constructed some years back. \u00a0Freddie never tells anyone exactly where he fishes. \u00a0We all know the general vicinity: The rocky southside beaches that stretch from Ditch Plains east of the village of Montauk to the moors approaching\u00a0the old Air Force radar station and the\u00a0lighthouse. But the precise rock where Freddie perches and casts and catches is a well kept secret. \u00a0Pound for pound, cast for cast, Freddie outfishes everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How did we survive before Murdoch Ran the WS Journal? July 26, 2010 First of all, don’t believe anything you read in this surf fishing\u00a0article from the Wall Street Journal. \u00a0There are NO FISH in Montauk. \u00a0Not now; Not ever. \u00a0They’re all in Jersey. \u00a0I swear. Please tell ALL your friends. Furthermore, the author took […]<\/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-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fishtales.abatemarco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}