{"id":521,"date":"2011-01-31T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/?p=521"},"modified":"2011-01-31T22:54:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T03:54:28","slug":"521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"The Gartside Grub"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A large part of what makes running this web site fun is the people you meet. Last week’s newsletter brought a reply from\u00a0 Doctor Robert Gartside of the Lake District in the UK–not a relative of Jack’s, but a sharer of\u00a0 his\u00a0 love for of angling.<\/p>\n

A tyer himself, he wrote “When I fished Tweed, I tied a fly which I called the Gartside Grub. It was a salmon fly on a\u00a0 fair sized treble\u00a0 with a red wool tag and mingled brown & yellow deer hair wings a body of olive wool ribbed with red floss.. As simple as that but it looked just right in the Autumn colours and caught a fish first time out. My Ghillie was delighted as it was the first for his boat for a fortnight and I went on to catch my biggest salmon (25lbs)\u00a0 and also my best catch of five in one day. I also had the\u00a0 unusual experience of getting\u00a0 three fresh salmon in four casts and the first weighed 21 lbs<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

That’s some pretty outstanding fishing. I asked for a picture of a Gartside Grub and he was kind enough to send this one. Not the best photo but Jack would have been delighted.<\/p>\n

He also included a fishing report (always love reading those!): “…It is\u00a0 really the off season for game fishing here but that delightful fish the Grayling is still in season and I am patiently awaiting an opportunity to take my friend Lord C. to fish for them on the Hodder…<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A large part of what makes running this web site fun is the people you meet. Last week’s newsletter brought a reply from\u00a0 Doctor Robert Gartside of the Lake District in the UK–not a relative of Jack’s, but a sharer of\u00a0 his\u00a0 love for of angling. A tyer himself, he wrote “When I fished Tweed, … Continue reading “The Gartside Grub”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackgartside.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}