{"id":2659,"date":"2025-08-02T16:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/?page_id=2659"},"modified":"2025-08-02T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:36:50","slug":"joel-hill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/flies-by-artist\/joel-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Hill, from Lakewood, Washington, was the guest tyer for May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He provided excellent instruction on how to tie slender Spey flies.<\/p>\n<p>He likes the skinny sparse floss bodies of these flies because they sink quickly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He uses them to fish for Steelhead on his favorite western Washington rivers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"jig1\" class=\"justified-image-grid jig-9b15bbdd4a188e3552e2859381be42e5 jig-preset-global jig-source-nextgen\"><div class=\"jig-clearfix\"><\/div><noscript id=\"jig1-html\" class=\"justified-image-grid-html\" data-lazy-src=\"skiplazyload\" data-src=\"skipunveillazyload\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/gallery\/joel-hill\/Freestyle-Purple-Spey-close-up.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fnwsalmonflyguild.org%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fjoel-hill%2FFreestyle-Purple-Spey-close-up.JPG&amp;h=230&amp;q=90&amp;f=.JPG\" alt=\"Freestyle-Purple-Spey-close-up\" width=\"293\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">Freestyle-Purple-Spey-close-up<\/p><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/gallery\/joel-hill\/Zoom-Feed-with-close-up-shot-of-the-fly.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fnwsalmonflyguild.org%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fjoel-hill%2FZoom-Feed-with-close-up-shot-of-the-fly.JPG&amp;h=230&amp;q=90&amp;f=.JPG\" alt=\"Zoom-Feed-with-close-up-shot-of-the-fly\" width=\"301\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">Zoom-Feed-with-close-up-shot-of-the-fly<\/p><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/gallery\/joel-hill\/Classroom-cropped.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fnwsalmonflyguild.org%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fjoel-hill%2FClassroom-cropped.JPG&amp;h=230&amp;q=90&amp;f=.JPG\" alt=\"Classroom-cropped\" width=\"408\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">Classroom-cropped<\/p><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/gallery\/joel-hill\/Sol-Duc-variant.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fnwsalmonflyguild.org%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fjoel-hill%2FSol-Duc-variant.JPG&amp;h=230&amp;q=90&amp;f=.JPG\" alt=\"Sol-Duc-variant\" width=\"309\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">Sol-Duc-variant<\/p><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/gallery\/joel-hill\/Freestyle-Purple-Spey-cropped.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fnwsalmonflyguild.org%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fjoel-hill%2FFreestyle-Purple-Spey-cropped.JPG&amp;h=230&amp;q=90&amp;f=.JPG\" alt=\"Freestyle-Purple-Spey-cropped\" width=\"306\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">Freestyle-Purple-Spey-cropped<\/p><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/gallery\/joel-hill\/Courtesan-variant.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/justified-image-grid\/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fnwsalmonflyguild.org%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fjoel-hill%2FCourtesan-variant.JPG&amp;h=230&amp;q=90&amp;f=.JPG\" alt=\"Courtesan-variant\" width=\"290\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"jig-HTMLdescription\">Courtesan-variant<\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/noscript><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Hill, from Lakewood, Washington, was the guest tyer for May.&nbsp; He provided excellent instruction on how to tie slender Spey flies. He likes the skinny sparse floss bodies of these flies because they sink quickly.&nbsp; He uses them to fish for Steelhead on his favorite western Washington rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2659","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2659\/revisions\/2660"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwsalmonflyguild.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}