{"id":304,"date":"2013-05-24T20:20:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/?p=304"},"modified":"2014-11-26T22:58:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T22:58:43","slug":"hooks-that-cover-many-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Hooks that cover many bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/varivas_2200bl_hook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-306\" alt=\"Varivas 2200BL Hooks\" src=\"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/varivas_2200bl_hook.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fishing earlier in the week, flies were on the water, Black Knats, Hawthorns, LDO&#8217;s, Medium Olives and Mayflies.<br \/>\nThe fish were looking up and rising, some were obvious and some were very subtle, just gentle sips.<br \/>\nSo I started off with a Black Klink size 12 to cover the Hawthorns and it worked a treat, later on when there was more Mayflies about I switched to an extended body Mayfly and that worked as well, when it was obvious the the fish were taking Olives\u00a0I switched to Olive Klinks, size 12 for the LDO&#8217;s and 14 for the Medium Olives. All of the flies were tied on the same hook pattern, just two sizes, if the fish had been fixed on the Black Knat it would have been the same hook pattern either a size 16 or 18 Black Klink. The hook pattern was the <em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fly-fishing-tackle.co.uk\/acatalog\/Varivas_Freshwater_Hooks.html#.UZ-0bpUZe5R\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Varivas 2200BL<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em>, which has become my go to hook pattern for Klinks, extended body upwings and emerging sedge pupa.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our full range of \u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a title=\"Varivas Hooks Saltwater and Freshwater Fly Fishing Hooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fly-fishing-tackle.co.uk\/acatalog\/Varivas_Hooks.html\">Varivas Hooks<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and other <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a title=\"Varivas Fly Fishing Leaders, Tippet, Hooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fly-fishing-tackle.co.uk\/acatalog\/Varivas.html\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Varivas\u00a0Fly Fishing Products<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishing earlier in the week, flies were on the water, Black Knats, Hawthorns, LDO&#8217;s, Medium Olives and Mayflies. The fish were looking up and rising, some were obvious and some were very subtle, just gentle sips. So I started off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/?p=304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-fishing","category-fly-tying-materials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fly-tying.co.uk\/fly-tying-news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}