{"id":4669,"date":"2021-11-29T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2021-11-29T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T08:10:14","slug":"carping-in-a-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=4669","title":{"rendered":"Carping In A Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The weather forecast looked ok(!) so I booked on to the Makins open on Phase 3 yesterday. Pulled out end peg 1 on Derwent, right by the car park. Hoped I\u2019d catch one or two but I really wanted to be right up the other end, which proved bang on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I caught 19lb but never had a bite once the blizzard arrived. Just 22lb was 4th in the continental payout, so I was one bite away. Think a big 50lb won from the other end of the lake where it sounded like the carp were all hiding under a big ice sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve probably left half my gear behind as I struggled to find it all under the snow afterwards! A day to sit in a hot bath and question one\u2019s sanity\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snow-carp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snow-carp1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snow-carp1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snow-carp1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snow-carp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snow-carp2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snow-carp2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/snow-carp2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather forecast looked ok(!) so I booked on to the Makins open on Phase 3 yesterday. Pulled out end peg 1 on Derwent, right by the car park. Hoped I\u2019d catch one or&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,73,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp","category-christmas","category-makins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","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=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}