{"id":4138,"date":"2020-03-28T14:25:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2020-03-28T14:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:25:37","slug":"william-blacker-standard-flies-10-the-little-castle-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2020\/03\/william-blacker-standard-flies-10-the-little-castle-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"William Blacker: Standard flies 10. The Little Castle Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly-web-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly-web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly-web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly-web-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip<\/strong>: Gold<br><strong>Tail<\/strong>: Two fibres of yellow mallard<br><strong>Body<\/strong>: Yellow silk<br><strong>Front-hackle<\/strong>: Yellow hackle at the shoulder<br><strong>Wing<\/strong>: Thrush&#8217;s wing, or yellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flypattern.org\/authors\/william-blacker\/book\/the-art-of-angling\/pattern\/the-little-castle-fly\">The Little Castle Fly<\/a> from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in  hand on a vintage blind-eye hook, while the two below all are tied for  fishing on <a href=\"http:\/\/flyhooks.org\/ahrex\/fw-580-wet-fly\">Ahrex FW580<\/a>  #10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly_set-web-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly_set-web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly_set-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly_set-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly_set-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly_set-web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/blacker_standard_flies_10_little_castle_fly_set-web-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip: GoldTail: Two fibres of yellow mallardBody: Yellow silkFront-hackle: Yellow hackle at the shoulderWing: Thrush&#8217;s wing, or yellow The Little Castle Fly from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in hand on a vintage<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":[83,493],"tags":[484,481],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wetfly","category-williamblacker","tag-blacker","tag-williamblacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","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=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}