{"id":1434,"date":"2020-09-11T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2020-09-11T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:27:02","slug":"the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2020\/09\/11\/the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"The (subtle) Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This HT10 is on its way to Bonny Scotland – I\u2019m not sure where it\u2019s going after this, but I\u2019m fairly certain it\u2019s not for the trout fishing! I must find out actually, because I\u2019m always interested in the lives the HTs lead \ud83d\ude42
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This is of course my go-to rod here in the jungle. I\u2019m very partial to SA\u2019s Infinity line on this rod. The Infinity is one of those strange lines that is mid weight (half AFFTA heavy), which is obviously favoured my many anglers. However with this particular line\/rod combination and for the fast shots I need to make here in the Malaysian Jungle, I actually use the 9 1\/2WT line (9).
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Be that as it may, it\u2019s very close to something I requested from Bruce some 4 or 5 years ago, ie a line with a head that tapers down pretty much from the front. I don\u2019t actually think Bruce thought \u201cI\u2019ll do this and won\u2019t tell Paul about it!\u201d Because I know that\u2019s actually not what happened!
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What actually happened is that SA discovered that anglers were fishing their Redfish line for Permit, and so they adjusted it – more for Permit I suppose – and brought out this new taper. I know this, because when Jono Shales was visiting me a few years ago, he brought with him some Redfish lines and since I loved them, he left me one and I subsequently wrote to SA saying that they were fantastic for what I was doing. Josh – who has replaced Bruce – said something along the lines of \u201cthat\u2019s awesome, Paul, would you like to test a new line that we have in development?\u201d It was the Infinity, and it\u2019s currently my go-to Snakehead shot fly line.
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Of course this rod wasn\u2019t designed around the Infinity, it was in fact tested using RIO\u2019s Technical Tarpon taper! Another great line. The original line I had, had a 60\u2019 head as I recall, which is very different to what I\u2019m throwing now!
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Anyway, great to see another HT10 released from the Sexyloops Workshop. Excellent build quality, as always, from our master craftsman Lee.
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If you are interested in an HT10 – standard or customised – then you can order here<\/a> or else drop me an email<\/a> and we can discuss your requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks, Paul <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This HT10 is on its way to Bonny Scotland – I\u2019m not sure where it\u2019s going after this, but I\u2019m fairly certain it\u2019s not for the trout fishing! I must find out actually, because I\u2019m always interested in the lives the HTs lead \ud83d\ude42 This is of course my go-to rod here in the jungle. … Continue reading “The (subtle) Beast”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}