{"id":178766,"date":"2019-07-22T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/?p=178766"},"modified":"2019-07-22T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:30:09","slug":"bismarck-man-who-invented-bottom-bouncers-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/bismarck-man-who-invented-bottom-bouncers-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Bismarck man who Invented Bottom Bouncers honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Nicholson, The Associated Press<br \/>\nPublished Saturday, July 20, 2019 10:51AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. &#8212; A Bismarck man whose invention in 1964 revolutionized walleye fishing is being inducted into the North Dakota Fishing Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom bouncer today is a staple of most anglers&#8217; tackle boxes, for fishing lakes or rivers with weedy or rocky bottoms that can cause a lot of lost tackle and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>They have the late Bob Meter to thank. Half a century ago, his own frustration led to the creation of what has become a classic piece of tackle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/lifestyle\/bismarck-man-who-revolutionized-walleye-fishing-honoured-1.4516489\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Nicholson, The Associated Press Published Saturday, July 20, 2019 10:51AM EDT BISMARCK, N.D. &#8212; A Bismarck man whose invention in 1964 revolutionized walleye fishing is being inducted into the North Dakota Fishing Hall of Fame. The bottom bouncer today is a staple of most anglers&#8217; tackle boxes, for fishing lakes or rivers with weedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178767,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178766\/revisions\/178767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}