{"id":8065,"date":"2026-03-14T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2026-03-14T21:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:44:05","slug":"last-fish-of-the-river-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8065","title":{"rendered":"Last Fish Of The River Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday was my last river trip of the season. Decided to get up early and go on the Thames. It wasn&#8217;t easy fishing after all the cold overnight rain, but I was rewarded with this gnarly old warrior. Wish I&#8217;d packed my scales! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought I&#8217;d try something a bit different, so I caught it on punched Red Leicester dusted in parmesan! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So nice to end the season with an epic fight and a great big rub-a-dub chub!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/thames-chub-penultimate-day-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/thames-chub-penultimate-day-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/thames-chub-penultimate-day-2026.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/thames-chub-penultimate-day-2026-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/thames-chub-penultimate-day-2026-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was my last river trip of the season. Decided to get up early and go on the Thames. It wasn&#8217;t easy fishing after all the cold overnight rain, but I was rewarded with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,50,55,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chub","category-feeder-fishing","category-river","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065","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=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}