{"id":257,"date":"2013-03-19T22:54:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tungsten-beads.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2017-11-13T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:06:38","slug":"2013-year-of-the-dry-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"2013 &#8211; Year of the Dry Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_774\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-774\" class=\"size-full wp-image-774\" src=\"https:\/\/Tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7083336237_2dbc8bc025_k.jpg\" alt=\"The River Cover in early spring\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7083336237_2dbc8bc025_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7083336237_2dbc8bc025_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7083336237_2dbc8bc025_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7083336237_2dbc8bc025_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7083336237_2dbc8bc025_k-810x608.jpg 810w, https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/7083336237_2dbc8bc025_k-1140x855.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The River Cover in early spring<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big believer in New Year\u2019s resolutions<strong><!--more--><\/strong>, I&#8217;ve noticed these resolutions are rarely kept, however I have decided on a New Season\u2019s resolution instead. As a personal challenge I have decided to restrict my fishing to dry fly only for the whole of the 2013 trout season.<\/p>\n<p>My definition of dry fly for this challenge is very broad, I will fish emergers, surface lures, if I fish still waters I might even use a booby but I will only fish on the top. I&#8217;m not just restricting myself to traditional tackle either, I will fish both fly rod with reel and Tenkara\/Tanago.<\/p>\n<p>I know I will catch less fish but I&#8217;m hoping to hone my dry fly skills to a new level and to learn to bring fish up when they are not showing at the surface. Maybe it won&#8217;t make me a dry fly expert but I&#8217;m looking forward to the challenge, no doubt there will be difficult times but I&#8217;m optimistic that as the year goes on I will achieve a new level of ability with the dry fly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be reporting back here as the year goes on, whatever you have planned for 2013 I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to say Happy New Season!<\/p>\n<p>Joel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m not a big believer in New Year\u2019s resolutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5,29,37,53,57],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing","tag-fishing","tag-dry-fly","tag-day-ticket-water","tag-spring","tag-cover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}