{"id":1905,"date":"2023-04-28T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T07:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2023-04-28T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T07:02:25","slug":"pro8-the-workhorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2023\/04\/28\/pro8-the-workhorse\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro8 the workhorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we first designed this rod I called it a \u201ccannon with finesse\u201d! An 8WT is a real go-to workhorse. I\u2019ve certainly mistreated mine on fish \ud83d\ude42 It\u2019s a fairly lightweight SW rod, a heavy trout rod and for me a go-to Snakehead rod, all rolled into one.<\/p>\n<p>This rod has gone to Wales but ultimately it\u2019s heading to Senegal, where I have an Australian Zoom Casting \u201cathlete\u201d \ud83d\ude42 Talking of which, for those who want it, every HT currently being sent receives a free Zoom Casting session with me. We can talk fishing, we can talk double haul, we can even talk beer!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/25C90B62-7665-4B32-901C-1AF60213C25B-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/25C90B62-7665-4B32-901C-1AF60213C25B-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/25C90B62-7665-4B32-901C-1AF60213C25B-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/25C90B62-7665-4B32-901C-1AF60213C25B.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The finest cork money can buy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/F3667953-BF51-4F88-8D22-3251D1451895-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/F3667953-BF51-4F88-8D22-3251D1451895-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/F3667953-BF51-4F88-8D22-3251D1451895-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/F3667953-BF51-4F88-8D22-3251D1451895.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I fish this rod over 300 days\/year, year in year out. For flylines I recommend SA Bonefish8, SA MED8, SA Infinity8, SA Redfish8 and I\u2019m currently testing the Ballistic Saltwater 8. Most of these are true-to-weight 8WT lines. A couple are half over. My go-to line is currently the Bonefish.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">I actually made a video mentioning this rod last week\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Giant Snakehead &amp; the HT8\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQUhJaV-hTw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can find out about all Sexyloops flyrods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/index.php\/webshop\/list\/70\/fly-rods\">here<\/a>. You can email me on <a href=\"mailto:paul@sexyloops.com\">paul@sexyloops.com<\/a>\u00a0and I am WhatsAppable (?) on +60198549552 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first designed this rod I called it a \u201ccannon with finesse\u201d! An 8WT is a real go-to workhorse. I\u2019ve certainly mistreated mine on fish \ud83d\ude42 It\u2019s a fairly lightweight SW rod, a heavy trout rod and for me a go-to Snakehead rod, all rolled into one. This rod has gone to Wales but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2023\/04\/28\/pro8-the-workhorse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pro8 the workhorse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1906,"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\/1905"}],"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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}