{"id":63,"date":"2019-07-27T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.252.254.161\/?p=63"},"modified":"2019-07-28T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T03:10:56","slug":"the-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"The Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not long to go now. A few more things to book for the return trip and I&#8217;m all set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buuutt, I&#8217;m really excited about the new gear I&#8217;ve got to chase the fish in Iceland. Have a look at this loot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iceland Fishing Gear\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l7MbM8w0GhM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The folks at Hookup Bait and Tackle in Ferntree Gully looked after me with a new rod and reel for the Iceland trip. I decided on the Scott Radian rod in a 7-weight, coupled with a Lamson Guru 3 reel, Scientific Anglers Mastery wf7 floating line, and a spare spool with AirFlo Sixth Sense Sink 5 line also in 7 weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the balance of the rod and reel, and the little features that come with a handcrafted rod. Such as the hand written script on the rod, the alignment dots on the sections, the un-sanded finish on the rod and the self indexing reelseat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This outfit has enough grunt to stop the biggest salmon and sea-run brown trout in the Icelandic rivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long to go now. A few more things to book for the return trip and I&#8217;m all set. Buuutt, I&#8217;m really excited about the new gear I&#8217;ve got to chase the fish in Iceland. Have a look at this loot! The folks at Hookup Bait and Tackle in Ferntree Gully looked after me with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/?p=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Gear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4,8,10],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flyfishing","tag-iceland","tag-scottflyrods","tag-waterworkslamson","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewoollybugger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}