{"id":3399,"date":"2009-05-09T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2009-05-09T07:47:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T14:47:55","slug":"the-creek-ends-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2009\/05\/09\/the-creek-ends-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creek ends here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I may have been just a tad hasty<\/strong> distancing myself from all those\u00a0blueline trout fiends &#8211; \u00a0now that I&#8217;ve been banned from all other venues, some <em>dry fly purist<\/em> dam operator just gave me my comeuppance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3400\" title=\"The Creek stops here\" src=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dry.jpg\" alt=\"The Creek stops here\" width=\"439\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dry.jpg 439w, https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dry-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Add three consecutive years of drought, a ton of tomatoes, and a satanic water manager with a grudge, and it&#8217;s time for a profuse apology.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>I love trout fishermen and their pristine environs, in fact, some of my best friends fish dry flies.<\/em>..&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rings kinda hollow, but it was a semi-sincere first attempt. I figured a stunning Mother&#8217;s Day bouquet left on his porch tommorrow, with the inscription, &#8220;Me sorry, now turn the creek back on Mother%$**r.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;home water&#8221; is no more. Potholes and the deeper runs will contain water, but as\u00a0temperatures grow and the flow isn&#8217;t restored &#8211; it&#8217;ll be a dead creek shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Not much a fellow can do other than empty his hydration bag in the deep spot, and stifle the sobs with Shad.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c2fd4376-e57a-466f-97a3-175628d5901e\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Little%20Stinking\">Little Stinking<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/death%20of%20a%20creek\">death of a creek<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/tomatos\">tomatos<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/drought\">drought<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have been just a tad hasty distancing myself from all those\u00a0blueline trout fiends &#8211; \u00a0now that I&#8217;ve been banned from all other venues, some dry fly purist dam operator just gave me my comeuppance. \u00a0 Add three consecutive years of drought, a ton of tomatoes, and a satanic water manager with a grudge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brownlining","category-fly-fishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}