{"id":1097,"date":"2015-11-02T18:43:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2015-11-02T18:43:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T18:43:35","slug":"my-bamboo-switch-rod-for-steelhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"My Bamboo Switch Rod for Steelhead."},"content":{"rendered":"

Mary Ann and I just got back from 3 days of camping on the Deschutes River in search of steelhead.\u00a0 We met up with a great group of folks and camped at a Rebar Campground.\u00a0 We had a wonderful time but the steelhead action was very slow.\u00a0 Among 12 accomplished steelheaders, only 2 steelhead were landed over 3 days…none by Mary Ann nor I.\u00a0 I took along my 10′\u00a0 6″\u00a0 5 wt Hollow Built Bamboo Switch Rod for the trip, and split my time between swinging hairwing streamers on sinking leaders and nymphing with large stonefly nymph immtations.\u00a0 I manged to pick up a handful of nice rainbows,\u00a0two whitefish, and one very large sucker nymphing but had no success\u00a0swinging.\u00a0 Overall, not great fishing success but we had a great time camping out with group.\u00a0 Here are a few photos of our trip:<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a>

Our campsite at Rebar Campground.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Swinging<\/a>

Swinging through Steelhead Flats Run.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Nymphing<\/a>

Nymphing below Halfway Bar Island.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A decent rainbow I caught right at camp that took a brown stonefly nymph.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Ann and I just got back from 3 days of camping on the Deschutes River in search of steelhead.\u00a0 We met up with a great group of folks and camped at a Rebar Campground.\u00a0 We had a wonderful time … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[3,46,33,27,4,62,34,49,55],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-bamboo","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-bamboo-rods","tag-bamboo-switch-rod","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-dave-dozer","tag-deschutes-river","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-nymph-fishing","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-hH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}