{"id":910,"date":"2017-06-23T08:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T07:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=910"},"modified":"2017-07-28T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T07:59:47","slug":"looking-back-fisho-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back \u2013 Fisho 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-1-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m biased but I still rate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-3-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-3-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>2006 Fishomania Final at Hayfield Lakes as the best to date. It was my first final, red hot and with a huge thunderstorm five minutes from the end. I&#8217;ve never seen TV cranes come down so fast!<\/p>\n<p>The fish fed like mad down the edges and it was neck and neck between Neil Machin and Nathan Watson on end pegs 1 and 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-4-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-4-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Once I politely shoved the cameraman and weighers in off my next palette I could finally catch down my edge as well. There was<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> a lot of catching up to do but I ended up 3rd with 73.88kg (163lb) and the biggest fish prize worth \u00a32,500 with a 12lb 8oz carp. <\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">The last hour I was absolutely bagging but pulling too hard to try and catch up, which cost me a lot of fish. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">The crowds were also amazing, each side of the lake trying to outdo the other as if it was a football match. Then, immediately after the match all the Yorkshire loonies stripped off and jumped in the lake! Once packed up in the tropical monsoon we then had fun watching half the car park having to be towed or pushed out of the fields. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Great fun and a day I&#8217;ll never forget!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-912 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-2.jpg 428w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2006-fisho-2-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m biased but I still rate the 2006 Fishomania Final at Hayfield Lakes as the best to date. It was my first final, red hot and with a huge thunderstorm five minutes&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishomania","category-fishing-venues","category-hayfield-lakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}