{"id":4182,"date":"2020-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2020-06-15T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:48:30","slug":"william-blacker-standard-flies-4-the-sooty-olive-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2020\/06\/william-blacker-standard-flies-4-the-sooty-olive-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"William Blacker: Standard Flies 4. The Sooty Olive Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4-web-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4-web-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4-web-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4-web-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4-web-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4-web-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip<\/strong>: Gold<br><strong>Body<\/strong>: Dark olive mohair <br><strong>Throat<\/strong>: Dark olive hackle<br><strong>Wing<\/strong>: Woodcock or starling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flypattern.org\/authors\/william-blacker\/book\/the-art-of-angling\/pattern\/the-black-ant\">The Sooty Olive 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 three 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\/06\/blacker_standard_4_set-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4_set-web-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4_set-web-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4_set-web-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4_set-web-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4_set-web-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_4_set-web-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found a deep green hackle deep in my hackle box that really matched the mohair in the body. A patch that I didn&#8217;t remember, but showed up just in time for this pattern that I believe in: the color, the movement and shape should give plenty of trout this summer! A variant should be a spider-version without the wing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip: GoldBody: Dark olive mohair Throat: Dark olive hackleWing: Woodcock or starling. The Sooty Olive Fly from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in hand on a vintage blind-eye hook, while the three below<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":[493],"tags":[497,481],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-williamblacker","tag-standardflies","tag-williamblacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","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=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}