{"id":1388,"date":"2016-10-20T18:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2016-10-20T18:10:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:10:02","slug":"fishing-whychus-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Whychus Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a break in the weather yesterday and Mary Ann and I got the chance to fish Whychus Creek, a small local creek where some great restoration efforts have been going to help bring back the salmon and steelhead runs from years ago.\u00a0 The water was a little high and off-colored from recent rains, but still very fishable.\u00a0 A quick bug sampling showed a mix of small mayfly nymphs, a few caddis, and stoneflies.\u00a0 Mary Ann and I both took our 7&#8242;\u00a0 0&#8243;\u00a0 4 wt bamboo rods, perfect for this little stream.\u00a0 While we didn&#8217;t catch a lot of fish, we picked up a few on nymphs, including a nice 11&#8243; native rainbow that took a #16 red serendipity.\u00a0 Here are a few photos from our afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1389\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?attachment_id=1389\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1389\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190005-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Whychus Creek from the bluff above.\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190005-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190005-580x326-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Whychus Creek from the bluff above.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1390\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?attachment_id=1390\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1390\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1390\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190012-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"Off-Color water but still very fishable.\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190012-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190012-580x326-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Off-Color water but still very fishable.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1391\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?attachment_id=1391\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1391\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1391\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190011-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the bugs we sampled from the creek\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190011-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190011-580x326-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the bugs we sampled from the creek<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1392\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?attachment_id=1392\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1392\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190017-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"A nice 11&quot; native rainbow I picked up\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190017-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PA190017-580x326-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nice 11&#8243; native rainbow I picked up<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a break in the weather yesterday and Mary Ann and I got the chance to fish Whychus Creek, a small local creek where some great restoration efforts have been going to help bring back the salmon and steelhead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":true,"_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":[3,46,27,4,34,10,55,110],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-bamboo","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-bamboo-rods","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-dave-dozer","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-mary-ann-dozer","tag-oregon","tag-whychus-creek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-mo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}