{"id":2435,"date":"2014-12-20T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T09:25:11","slug":"durham-ranger-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2014\/12\/durham-ranger-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham Ranger Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2436\" src=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2014.12.20.dryfly.me.durham_ranger\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>I started reading &#8220;Tied in the hand&#8221; by Sven-Olov H\u00e5rd yesterday (review and more about that book later) and was inspired when I got up this morning to do a variant of the Durham Ranger (not tied in hand though!). The Ranger pattern is one I will start out with when I start tying in hand: not that complex, doesn&#8217;t require that many materials and is general\u00a0not that hard to tie once you get a couple of flies tied up.<\/p>\n<p>This one is tied for fishing, so I&#8217;m not that worried about the rather large head, or the fact that the GP doesn&#8217;t sit 100%, but tying these variants up for fishing is a very good exercise for tying up presentation-class flies later on, so I&#8217;ll just keep at it until I get it right. I tied this one up with red sealwool and orange tippet in the wing instead of the original pattern, but I think the colors came together well for this fly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger_close.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2437\" src=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger_close-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2014.12.20.dryfly.me.durham_ranger_close\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger_close-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger_close-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger_close-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014.12.20.dryfly.me_.durham_ranger_close.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started reading &#8220;Tied in the hand&#8221; by Sven-Olov H\u00e5rd yesterday (review and more about that book later) and was inspired when I got up this morning to do a variant of the Durham Ranger (not tied in hand though!).<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[347,366,367,356,162],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salmon","tag-classic","tag-durham-ranger","tag-laks","tag-ranger","tag-salmon-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}