{"id":2204,"date":"2013-10-30T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2013-10-30T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T03:34:09","slug":"trout-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"Trout Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_onkayak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2205\" alt=\"2013-10-30_onkayak\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_onkayak-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_onkayak-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_onkayak-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_onkayak.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I ran into 3 fishing boats on my way out, today. I asked one of the fishermen what they were trying to catch, and he responded, &#8220;trout&#8221;. Well, that explains it, doesn&#8217;t it? Everyone loves the speckled trout. But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>So I picked a spot where I could clean up without first paddling out onto the main creek. I set up a scene where my kayak gets grounded and I have to step out onto the muddy flat to push it off. It turns out the mud is deeper and softer than I anticipated (it actually was, by the way). I lost my grip on the kayak, which drifted out of reach, and I was left in the middle of the treacherous mud, with nothing to grab onto. <a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2207 alignright\" alt=\"2013-10-30_struggle2\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle2-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Needless to say, this saga didn&#8217;t end well. I had planned on making it a &#8220;stuck&#8221; video, with me sinking up to my armpits in the thick mud and hoping someone would rescue me before the tide came in and drowned me. As it turned out, the tide took a little longer than I expected, so I sank a bit deeper than I had planned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2206 alignleft\" alt=\"2013-10-30_struggle1\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle1-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-30_struggle1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My biggest challenge with this video will be deciding how to edit it. The video will be over 30 minutes long, if I let the entire saga unfold in real time. That makes a rather expensive video.\u00a0 I may look for creative ways to trim it down some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into 3 fishing boats on my way out, today. I asked one of the fishermen what they were trying to catch, and he responded, &#8220;trout&#8221;. Well, that explains it, doesn&#8217;t it? Everyone loves the speckled trout. But I digress. So I picked a spot where I could clean up without first paddling out &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepmud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}