{"id":7951,"date":"2026-02-04T21:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:34:50","slug":"how-end-silverfish-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=7951","title":{"rendered":"How End Silverfish Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I qualified for the THowsEnder Final at How End Fishery today!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was split between Dani\u2019s and Yasi\u2019s lakes and I\u2019ve drawn a really good peg 4 on Dani\u2019s and weighed 36lb 11oz to win the match. Caught mostly ide and a few skimmers, fishing my Matrix XTR700 at 13 metres with pinkies and maggots. Pretty simple fishing really, just pinging and potting bait and trying to work out the best way to keep bites coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere on the lake there\u2019s been a few monstrous perch caught, topped by a 3lb 5oz specimen! It\u2019s been surprisingly nice and dry today, too, after having rain and sleet all day yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s some real quality winter silverfish sport to be had at How End. I just wish it was a lot closer. Looking forward to the final in March now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-danis4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" data-id=\"7953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-danis4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-danis4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-danis4-300x180.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\/2026\/02\/how-end-finalist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" data-id=\"7954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-finalist.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-finalist.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-finalist-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-win-36lb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"640\" data-id=\"7955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-win-36lb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-win-36lb.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-end-win-36lb-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I qualified for the THowsEnder Final at How End Fishery today!\u00a0 It was split between Dani\u2019s and Yasi\u2019s lakes and I\u2019ve drawn a really good peg 4 on Dani\u2019s and weighed 36lb 11oz to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,123,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-end-fisheries","category-ide","category-silverfish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","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=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7956,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions\/7956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}