{"id":1266,"date":"2013-10-18T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2013-10-18T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:43:41","slug":"hale-bob-with-a-copper-john-tied-off-the-back-of-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/hale-bob-with-a-copper-john-tied-off-the-back-of-the-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Hale Bob with a Copper John tied off the back of the hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a rough week trying to get caught up at home after the Wounded Warrior Event.\u00a0\u00a0 I was scheduled to go to the Trinity yesterday \u00a0but it just didn\u2019t work out.\u00a0 Instead I went up to the club around\u00a05:00.\u00a0 I wanted to try out my new Sage\u00a0 One six weight Spey Rod in preparation for my trip to the Trinity the end of this month. \u00a0\u00a0I started swinging\u00a0 a Hale Bob with a copper John tied off the back of the hook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1268\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1268\" alt=\"Hale Bob with a Copper John tied off the back of the hook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-content\/uploads\/hale-bob-american-river-fly-fishing.png\" width=\"366\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-content\/uploads\/hale-bob-american-river-fly-fishing-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-content\/uploads\/hale-bob-american-river-fly-fishing.png 366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hale Bob Fly<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1267\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" alt=\"Hale Bob with a Copper John tied off the back of the hook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-content\/uploads\/copper-john-fly-american-river.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-content\/uploads\/copper-john-fly-american-river-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-content\/uploads\/copper-john-fly-american-river.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_1267\" style=\"width: 336px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Copper John tied off the back of the hook<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After about 5 or 6 casts I hooked a good size fish that got off by bending the hook.\u00a0\u00a0 I straighten the hook and then started casting again more concerned about my casting than fishing.\u00a0\u00a0 I did practice bumping the line to get more action.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After another half dozen casts I hooked a 20\u201d rainbow that made some very impressive runs.\u00a0 You can always tell it is a big fish when the fish starts making long runs up or down stream.\u00a0\u00a0 This fish made some nice runs of 25 plus yards up and back down the river.\u00a0\u00a0 Eventually I got him into some shallow water before landing him.\u00a0 Sorry I did not have a camera as I was there to practice casting, not fishing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since I have started Spey Fishing for trout below the campground I have been hooking two or three 18\u201d to 20\u201d rainbows in about an hour of fishing.\u00a0\u00a0 You won\u2019t catch as many fish swinging flies versus dry or nymphing.\u00a0 However the quality of the fish will greatly improve and the fish will be very aggressive when you do hook them.\u00a0\u00a0 It takes some time and practice to learn the cast and land the fish.\u00a0 This is my first year of casting and I can reach the other side of the river below the campground fairly easily.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I really enjoy the \u201ctake\u201d when a fish grabs the fly while it is swinging by them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tight Lines,<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a rough week trying to get caught up  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-trout-preserve","tag-hale-bob-with-a-copper-john-tied-off-the-back-of-the-hook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horseshoebarpreserve.com\/fly-fishing-american-river\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}