{"id":2393,"date":"2015-10-29T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mangledfly.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2015-10-29T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:09:06","slug":"esl-old-standby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mangledfly.com\/esl-old-standby\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL old standby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New and fancy patterns are always coming out, but sometimes going old school is the best policy. \u00a0The ESL is a standard pattern. \u00a0ESL stands for Egg Sucking Leech. \u00a0Yesterday we got on the board with a fresh steelhead up from the lake that very morning, if I had to guess. \u00a0On a orange headed black rabbit strip egg sucking leech.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"5\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/9ZZZ06prUS\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nickel Dimer finding the old standby ESL to her liking. 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