{"id":4245,"date":"2020-07-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2020-06-21T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:21:21","slug":"william-blacker-standard-flies-17-blue-blow-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2020\/07\/william-blacker-standard-flies-17-blue-blow-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"William Blacker: Standard Flies 17. Blue Blow Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17-web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17-web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17-web.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Body<\/strong>: Mole or water-rat&#8217;s fur, mixed with yellow mohair<br><strong>Tail<\/strong>: Mouse&#8217;s whiskers <br><strong>Hackle<\/strong>: Dun<br><strong>Wing<\/strong>: Tomtit&#8217;s tail feather<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flypattern.org\/authors\/william-blacker\/book\/the-art-of-angling\/pattern\/the-black-ant\">Blue Blow 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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17_set-web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17_set-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17_set-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17_set-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17_set-web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blacker_standard_17_set-web.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One with a couple of subsititutes: mouse whiskers is not something I&#8217;ve got in my stash, so I chose some of the thinnest whiskers from a Hare. The wing was also substituted with Grouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body: Mole or water-rat&#8217;s fur, mixed with yellow mohairTail: Mouse&#8217;s whiskers Hackle: DunWing: Tomtit&#8217;s tail feather Blue Blow Fly from The Art of Angling by William Blacker. The one above is tied in hand on a vintage blind-eye hook, while<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-4245","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\/4245","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=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}