{"id":8015,"date":"2026-02-26T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8015"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:58:45","slug":"finally-got-back-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8015","title":{"rendered":"Finally Got Back On The River!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After weeks of rain and floods I finally got back on the river two days ago! It&#8217;s been so frustrating to see flooded fields for so long. I found a nice big back eddy on the Avon and just took a feeder rod and some old bait, plus a nice sweet mix of Sonubaits Sweet Skimmer, Deep Water and Roach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t the easiest of sessions and something very sharp cut me off twice, losing two good fish and two good feeders, but I was very pleased with what I caught and five different species. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should make a nice film. Hopefully the rivers will be float fishable very soon, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lido-catch-shot-640-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lido-catch-shot-640-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lido-catch-shot-640-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lido-catch-shot-640-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of rain and floods I finally got back on the river two days ago! It&#8217;s been so frustrating to see flooded fields for so long. I found a nice big back eddy&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,55,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feeder-fishing","category-river","category-river-avon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015","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=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8022,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions\/8022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}