{"id":914,"date":"2006-06-23T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T15:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=914"},"modified":"2006-06-23T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T15:09:39","slug":"the-summer-of-a-thousand-fish-begins-with-a-single-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2006\/06\/23\/the-summer-of-a-thousand-fish-begins-with-a-single-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer of a Thousand Fish Begins with a Single Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Landed the first striper of the year last night right off our dock. If I hadn&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t know what I would have done because the fish were jumping all around me. I had no luck whatsoever with either the white or olive\/white (last year they preferred chartreuse, fickle things that they are) clausers the good folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennebecangler.com\/\">Kennebec Angler<\/a> have had luck with, though I dutifully cast those for a good 45 minutes. Seeing the fish continue to rise, however, I decided to try something a little different &#8211; a surface fly. An oliv-ish baitfish type popper in this case. Five casts later, I hooked a very nice young striper about a foot long. <\/p>\n<p>I was quite content and more than a little proud of myself until I spoke with a friend back in Colorado who landed a 16 inch rainbow trout this weekend up in Grand Lake, where I&#8217;ve never caught anything bigger than 8 or 10 inches. <\/p>\n<p>And then I remembered David Churbuck&#8217;s brother&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churbuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=619\">fish<\/a>, and I felt even worse. While I&#8217;m studiously trying to hold on to the moral high ground as I fish solely on fly rods rather than spin, the fact is that that fish is an order of magnitude larger than anything I&#8217;ve caught. It&#8217;s not even close. <\/p>\n<p>But in any event, it&#8217;s good to be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landed the first striper of the year last night right off our dock. If I hadn&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t know what I would have done because the fish were jumping all around me. I had no luck whatsoever with either the white or olive\/white (last year they preferred chartreuse, fickle things that they are) clausers the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}