{"id":917,"date":"2015-11-02T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/fly-fishing\/"},"modified":"2015-11-02T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T09:05:59","slug":"fly-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/fly-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s a good thing to try when you have a dodgy wrist? Well, fly fishing obviously! Amazingly, the wrist held out (must have been my amazing technique &#8211; not) as H and I had a lesson on my birthday and then stood at the trout lake for 3 hours trying to relieve it of a fish.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I could practically hear the fish bloody laughing &#8211; some of them swam by and gave me a wave with their fins, I kid you not, they were that visible and I still couldn&#39;t tempt one onto my fly. 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Shame about my major steroid chops, but here is the obligatory birthday pic pre-dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly taken my a chap who thought the windows were better photographic material than us &#8211; and he could well have been right x<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01b7c7e646d5970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"P1190097\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0105359a4116970b01b7c7e646d5970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01b7c7e646d5970b-500wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"P1190097\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s a good thing to try when you have a dodgy wrist? Well, fly fishing obviously! 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