{"id":57,"date":"2008-08-29T05:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T09:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-08-29T05:33:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T09:33:31","slug":"lost-a-tuna-again-8282008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Lost a Tuna again! &#8211; 8\/28\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out alone today. The fleet was working off their moorings and flying their bait kites. I hopped up on the bank where Jeff Smith and I had been fishing. I learned a lot about finding the fish and hooking up, but my knot tying skills have a lot to be desired. I had never tied braid to mono before. Being the expert computer user, I googled braid to mono knots. The web gave up that I should tie a bimini twist on the end of the braid to double up the end. Then I should tie a double uni knot to join the two.<\/p>\n<p>Bad idea for me. It held for all the blues and dogfish I caught, but 5 minutes into the fight with a tuna my double uni knot gave way.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the ramp, a local captain named Gil told me about the slim beauty knot, and after closing, I should super glue the knot to be safe. I did so and will try it on Friday 8\/29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out alone today. The fleet was working off their moorings and flying their bait kites. I hopped up on the bank where Jeff Smith and I had been fishing. I learned a lot about finding the fish and hooking up, but my knot tying skills have a lot to be desired. I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fletcherfishing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}