{"id":1890,"date":"2018-03-08T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2018-03-08T18:14:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:14:23","slug":"fishing-the-metolius-river-with-a-new-bamboo-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1890","title":{"rendered":"Fishing the Metolius River with a new Bamboo Rod."},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, I find the time to build a new rod for myself.\u00a0 I recently completed an 8′\u00a0 0″\u00a0 5 wt medium progressive action rod for me, and Mary Ann and I got out on the Metolius River for 2 hours for some casting…and possibly catching!\u00a0 I took my new rod, and she took our her new 7′\u00a0 9″\u00a0 4 wt that she just finished building. Her rod was a mate to mine, just a little shorter and lighter.
\nWinter fishing on the Metolius River can be slow sometimes, and although there were a few mayflies coming off, we only managed a couple of smaller rainbows. But the rods were amazing to cast, perfect actions for the Metolius River and small dry flies.\u00a0 Here are a few photos:<\/p>\n

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Getting ready to hit the Metolius River with our new rods.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A nice tight loop for Mary Ann.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A colorful little 9″ rainbow that took my #18 Purple Comparadun dry fly.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, I find the time to build a new rod for myself.\u00a0 I recently completed an 8′\u00a0 0″\u00a0 5 wt medium progressive action rod for me, and Mary Ann and I got out on the Metolius River for 2 hours … 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":[22,8],"tags":[3,46,27,4,34,10,61],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rod-building","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-metolius-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","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=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}