{"id":175,"date":"2009-07-12T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2009-07-12T13:56:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:56:27","slug":"general-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/helpful-fishing-tips\/general-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"GENERAL TIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that fishing line degrades so at least once each season safely  discard all old leader line and replace it. If you don&#8217;t it could cost you the  fish of a life time.<\/p>\n<p>Balance your equipment by remembering that a 5 weight rod is for use with  small flies and light leaders and that a 9 weight is for lure fishing. If you  try using fine leaders on, say, a 9 weight rod you will leave the hook in the  fish on the strike as the rod is too powerful for the leader.<\/p>\n<p>If you are killing fish remember to spoon the fish for clues as to what they  are eating. By doing this you can put on a suitable imitation and catch plenty  of fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that fishing line degrades so at least once each season safely discard all old leader line and replace it. If you don&#8217;t it could cost you the fish of a life time. Balance your equipment by remembering that a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/helpful-fishing-tips\/general-tips\/\">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":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}