{"id":3894,"date":"2020-03-09T03:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2020-03-09T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:43:36","slug":"back-in-the-golden-rod-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=3894","title":{"rendered":"Back In The Golden Rod Final!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/golden-rod-larford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/golden-rod-larford-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/golden-rod-larford-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/golden-rod-larford.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>I fished the final qualifier for the Golden Rod Final at Larford Lakes yesterday&#8230; and qualified!<\/p>\n<p>It fished really hard on my side of Speci Lake as it\u2019s not seen much bait since the floods, but I won the 20-angler zone with 20lb 12oz of bream and skimmers on the feeder. After two hours I was probably last on the lake, but my positive tactics paid off as I netted some nice big bream and the peg got stronger and stronger.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t go into too much detail as the two-day Final is only next weekend, but tackle wise I used my favourite Horizon XS Slim 3.3m rods, Horizon X 3000 reels loaded with 8lb Horizon mono and swapped between the new 20g Matrix Standard Cage Feeders and an Open Alloy Method Feeder. I also used a bag of fishery micros glugged in the new Dynamite F1 Sweet Sticky Pellet Syrup and green Milled Expander.<\/p>\n<p>Chuffed to get in the Final two years on the trot. Hopefully I can get a bit nearer to that \u00a310,000 winner\u2019s cheque this time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/golden-rod-larford-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/golden-rod-larford-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/golden-rod-larford-2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/golden-rod-larford-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fished the final qualifier for the Golden Rod Final at Larford Lakes yesterday&#8230; and qualified! It fished really hard on my side of Speci Lake as it\u2019s not seen much bait since the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,50,41,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bream","category-feeder-fishing","category-larford-lakes","category-skimmers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3902,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}