{"id":112,"date":"2009-07-12T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2009-07-12T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:16:57","slug":"red-copper-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/useful-tying-patterns\/red-copper-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Copper Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Red Copper Wire Nymph<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Materials Required :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Straight  Shank Wet Fly Hook Sizes 12 \u2013 16<br \/>\n*Fine Red Copper  Wire<br \/>\n*Clear Varnish<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tying :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Place hook in  vice and position the wire in the centre of the hook shank with some wire facing  towards the bend.\u00a0 Wind in open turns towards the eye and do two turns close  together behind the eye and break the wire off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-110\" title=\"r1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/r1-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"r1\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/r1-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/r1.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Take the other wire down and around the bend in open turns  and break off and place a light coat of varnish over the wire to prevent it  sliding on the hook.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-111\" title=\"r2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/r2-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"r2\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/r2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/r2.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is usually fished on a floating line and is either left static  or retrieved very slowly and bites are generally very positive. Maybe there is  just a slight suggestion of bloodworm. If you have the patience it is an  extremely effective fly especially on hard fished waters.<\/p>\n<p>We find that by  far the best colour is red copper wire and normal copper is nothing like as  effective.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Copper Wire Nymph Materials Required : * Straight Shank Wet Fly Hook Sizes 12 \u2013 16 *Fine Red Copper Wire *Clear Varnish Tying : 1. Place hook in vice and position the wire in the centre of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/useful-tying-patterns\/red-copper-wire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}