{"id":275,"date":"2014-04-21T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2014-06-10T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T17:02:23","slug":"beat-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/streams\/holsloot\/beat-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat 1 &#038; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Beat 1<\/h3>\n<p>[hcolumns]<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<p>[columnhelper col-md-4]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full img-responsive img-rounded  alignleft\" alt=\"Compliments of Tom Sutcliffe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Holsloot1_TS_300_225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>[columnhelper col-md-8]<\/p>\n<p>Beat 1 presents lovely water that demands some very technical casting in places. This beat often produces good numbers of trout and some pleasurable sections of dry fly water amongst beds of aquatic grasses.<\/p>\n<p>Using a dapping technique, place dry flies in the pockets among the grasses \u2013 numerous smaller trout hang out here.\u00a0 Also remember to fish larger and more buoyant caddis patterns, such as the Elk Hair, and Stimulators in the headwater of fast runs.<\/p>\n<p>The rainbows not only instinctively take up station in fast water, but they also show a preference to areas with elevated oxygen levels in the mid-to-late summer heat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/hcolumns]<\/p>\n<h3>Beat 2<\/h3>\n<p>[hcolumns]<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<p>[columnhelper col-md-4]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  img-rounded img-responsive\" alt=\"Compliments of Tom Sutcliffe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Holsloot3_TS_300_2251.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>[columnhelper col-md-8]<\/p>\n<p>Beat 2 is a mix of heavily-bushed sections and large pools, some of which need to be bypassed in the surrounding fynbos.<\/p>\n<p>An important tip is to enter the pools from downstream with as little disturbance as possible and fish the fringes and undercuts in the tail-outs.\u00a0Trout often take up station in the shallow, shaded parts under bank-side vegetation near the tails of pools.<\/p>\n<p>As with a lot of the water on the Holsloot you can&#8217;t go wrong with\u00a0a #12 Ed\u2019s Hopper pattern tied with bright yellow foam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/hcolumns]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beat 1 [hcolumns] [columnhelper col-md-4] [columnhelper col-md-8] Beat 1 presents lovely water that demands some very technical casting in places. This beat often produces good &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/464"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}