フライフィッシングで英会話

Just reading "Trout Bum" by John Gierach, I took an interest in the fly he mentioned in his episode The Fly Box. It seems effective and easy to tie. Usually I do not bother to tie many flies or tie fancy ones as it takes a lot of time and more costly to me in a way. Instead, I'd rather purchase some complex ones from commercial tiers. But for some wet flies like soft hackles and some standard dries and nymphes, as far as it is foolproof, I don't mind going for it to kill long running nights in fall and winter. I guess the fly Gierach stated about in his book appears to be one for those armchair flyfishermen like me. I found a video on how to tie this easy immitation bug.

Hi, there. sorry I couldn't update the content for almost a year. I am back now. I will post some interesting music, shows, video clips from the internet from now on again. I may not be able to write or explain as much as before. But I'm sure you will continue to enjoy what I find.

What I found today is a great fishing show which was aired long time ago probably on TV in America. I do not know the details on this film. But as far as I know, this is the show featuring the legendary fly angler Lee Wulf who did a lot of adventurous fishing back then. The film shows his fight with atlantic salmon on the lihgt tackle. Although the definition of the film is poor, we can still feel some sensation of fish fighting throught the video. The locatoin of the rive is the famous salmon river in the north America the Miramichi where I actualy fished myself some years ago.

Have fun with the show.

Hi, folks.

Sorry I still cannot fully upload things I want to post. I'm still busy with what I have to do now and cannot have enough leisure time at all.

For the meantime, I found something interesting today. The music I found "Fishing for a dream." or the artist has nothing to do with fishing, still less flyfishing. But the title expression has the word fish. So I posted this song. The song sounds cool although the music is not my kind of music. But anyway, the expression "fish for" means look for. So this expression can be used in everyday English.

In any case, enjoy the song. It's really cool.



You can find this lyric in the next page.

Hi, fishing buddies.

How have you been coping with this muggy weather?

But bugs and fish are active and I'm sure you guys are having fun

Sorry for the long absence.

I will come back and write some fishing dialogues or give fishing English tips sometime in fall.

Meanwhile, please enjoy cool videos I've found.

Tight lines.

bamboo、つまり竹のことです。フライフィッシングの歴史は先端素材の進化と一致します。現代ではcarbon graphite (カーボングラファイト)が大量生産素材として使われていますが一昔前はglassfiber (グラスファイバー)が主要な釣竿の素材で記した。これらの素材は釣竿以外の工業製品で使われており釣竿の素材が常に先端素材というのは興味深いことです。

しかし、人工素材が全盛になるまで、つまり戦後まではほとんどが自然素材を使っていました。最初はgreenheart、lancewood、hickoryなどの木材が釣竿として使われていました。しかし、ダブルハンドロッドを除けば実用的な素材がなかったようです。特にドライフライが普及した19世紀後半になるとそれらよりも軽い竹が使われるようになりました。最初はイギリスの植民地だったインドのカルカッタバンブーを使用していたようですが、虫食いの多く中空になる（自然ホローです）ロッドは嫌われ、トンキン（中国）ケーン（cane = bamboo)が使用されるようになったようです。

フライフィッシングの世界では今でもこのバンブーを使う人が多く、作る人たち（bamboo builder）から古い竹竿を集める人（bamboo collector)と多くのマニアを生み出しています。

さて今回は、バンブーを作る工程のYouTubeを見てください。字幕にロシア語かスカンジナビアの言葉らしき言語が出ますが、ナレーションは英語です。映像から見るとどうもこのロッドはThomas & Thomas のbuilding processのようです。マニアにとっても面白いで映像ですね。

つづきにバンブービルディングに使えそうな動詞を一覧にしました。ナレーションの文字起こしができたら時間があるときにやってみます。皆さんも聞き取りがんばって下さい。