{"id":867,"date":"2015-02-01T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T18:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2015-02-01T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T18:48:42","slug":"fishing-on-the-metolius-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Fishing on the Metolius River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance to wiggle some bamboo rods\u00a0two days ago\u00a0on the Metolius River with my good friend Chris. My weapon of choice was a 8&#8242;\u00a0 3&#8243;\u00a0 5 wt medium fast action rod.\u00a0 It was a cold and cloudy day on the Metolius but there were a few BWOs out. Saw a few fish rising around 1:00 PM in isolated spots and picked up a small rainbow on a #18 BWO Cripple. I also picked up a nice 12&#8243; rainbow on a #12 Tellico Nymph drifted along the bottom&#8230;what a great fly for winter trout fishing here in Oregon.\u00a0 And, because this fly is relatively unknown around here, I&#8217;m sure the educated trout in the Metolius River have never seen it.\u00a0Here is Chris drifting nymphs through a popular run and one of my fish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_869\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1300014-580x435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-869\" class=\"size-full wp-image-869\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1300014-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"Fishing the Metolius River in Central Oregon.\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1300014-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1300014-580x435-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing the Metolius River in Central Oregon.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_870\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1300018-580x435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-870\" class=\"size-full wp-image-870\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1300018-580x435.jpg\" alt=\"A nice Metolius River rainbow that took a Tellico Nymph.\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1300018-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/P1300018-580x435-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nice Metolius River rainbow that took a Tellico Nymph.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance to wiggle some bamboo rods\u00a0two days ago\u00a0on the Metolius River with my good friend Chris. My weapon of choice was a 8&#8242;\u00a0 3&#8243;\u00a0 5 wt medium fast action rod.\u00a0 It was a cold and cloudy day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=867\">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":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":[8,79],"tags":[3,46,27,4,14,13,34,61,49,55],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-bamboo","category-flies","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-bamboo-rods","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-dave-dozer","tag-euronymphing","tag-french-nymphing","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-metolius-river","tag-nymph-fishing","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}