{"id":328,"date":"2013-06-22T20:13:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T20:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tungsten-beads.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=328"},"modified":"2017-11-13T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:47:18","slug":"nidd-day-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Nidd day sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_759\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"size-full wp-image-759\" src=\"https:\/\/Tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9109062005_23ea4ae99f_o.jpg\" alt=\"The river Nidd at Pateley Bridge\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9109062005_23ea4ae99f_o.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9109062005_23ea4ae99f_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9109062005_23ea4ae99f_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/9109062005_23ea4ae99f_o-810x608.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The river Nidd at Pateley Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>I soon realised the fish further downstream had flattered me<strong><!--more--><\/strong>. Now I had to be more careful, smaller flies on a long leader and finer tippet while avoiding the canopy. Every movement had to be slow and smooth, the desire to catch fish causing me to slow down. \u00a0At first even my careful casts were spooking fish, \u00a0then the fish continued to rise but ignored my fly. When I finally caught a fish it was wonderful, I had seen the glimmer of the side of a fish as my previous cast drifted past so I aimed a little further across. I saw him move slowly up, then strike my fly with vigour. \u00a0This fish was the memory of my day, it was beautiful to see him swim away from my hand&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>It had taken me most of the day to wind down enough to remember what fly fishing really is. So much more than just catching fish, but more being truly present in your surroundings. That morning I had purchased the Nidderdale Angling club day ticket in Patelely Bridge, a lovely little village near Harrogate.\u00a0The Nidd as it passes through Pateley Bridge is lively with rising fish that are relatively easy to catch. I had spent a couple of hours working my way up this first section which ends at a weir, an enjoyable morning. After a very tasty sandwhich from the village eaten on the bank overlooking the river while watching the fish rising I had headed \u00a0further upstream to the water above the weir I started fishing as the water was just beginning to move&#8230;&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>After watching that fish swim away\u00a0I continued slowly and carefully fishing working on my technique.\u00a0The river had forced me to slow down I started to appreciate the simple pleasures such as seeing a kingfisher flying past, the stillness and warmth of this early summers day, I \u00a0realised that this is what fly fishing really is. \u00a0No chance of a fish with splashy casts or large flies, I dropped down to #20 to match the midge the trout appeared to be taking, this did the trick now and again though I suspect I should have fished smaller flies than this. \u00a0This is the top most stretch of the day ticket water, not many walkers venture this far and you feel as though you have the place to yourself. \u00a0The surroundings are serene and nature abounds.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the day so much I have decided to purchase a season ticket, I&#8217;ll be back for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I soon realised the fish further downstream had flattered me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5,29,30,31,37,45],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing","tag-fishing","tag-dry-fly","tag-summer","tag-trout","tag-day-ticket-water","tag-nidd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tungsten-beads-plus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}