{"id":943,"date":"2015-07-08T17:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T17:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2015-07-08T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:35:37","slug":"new-bamboo-fly-rod-gets-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"A New Bamboo Fly Rod Gets Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris sent me this great photo of his first rainbow on his new bamboo rod I built him (below). \u00a0This photo was from the Ruby Valley in Montana. \u00a0He sure looks like a happy angler, although he might need a little work on his &#8220;posing for pictures&#8221;. \u00a0Thanks for sharing Chris.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_994\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150625_163721-2-580x326.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-994\" class=\"size-full wp-image-994\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150625_163721-2-580x326.jpg\" alt=\"A Great Rainbow on a New Bamboo Fly Rod.\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150625_163721-2-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150625_163721-2-580x326-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Great Rainbow on a New Bamboo Fly Rod.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just finished a great new rod for a good friend and fellow angler whom I&#8217;ve\u00a0known for several years.\u00a0 \u00a0 Chris and I have been in conversation about his first bamboo fly rod for quite some time, and this rod is his retirement gift to himself. \u00a0After casting several of my rods, he chose an 8&#8242;\u00a0 0&#8243;\u00a0 5\/6 wt progressive action rod from my Signature Series of rods.\u00a0 It has a wonderfully smooth action to it, and it&#8217;s a good all-around rod for a variety of fishing conditions.\u00a0 He and I will hit one of our local trout streams tomorrow to test drive the rod.\u00a0 Here is a quick look at what he&#8217;ll get getting:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_944\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1014-580x393.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-944\" class=\"size-full wp-image-944\" src=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1014-580x393.jpg\" alt=\"My 8'  0&quot;  6 wt Signature Series Bamboo Fly Rod\" width=\"580\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1014-580x393.jpg 580w, https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1014-580x393-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My 8&#8242; 0&#8243; 5\/6 wt Signature Series Bamboo Fly Rod<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris sent me this great photo of his first rainbow on his new bamboo rod I built him (below). \u00a0This photo was from the Ruby Valley in Montana. \u00a0He sure looks like a happy angler, although he might need a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=943\">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":[22],"tags":[3,46,27,4,34],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rod-building","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-bamboo-rods","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-dave-dozer","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-fd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}