フライフィッシングで英会話

Sorry folks that I haven't written for ages. To be honest, on top of the fact that I had been too busy, I didn't have enough materials to write about. I hadn't had passion as well. Even though you are into something, sometimes you lose motivation for a while. This doesn't mean that you totally lost interest in what you like, but it just happens from time to time. This experience happened to me even in studying English when I was younger. You cannot avoid this in order to continue doing something. This may be a part of process to achieve something in a sense as everything we have to do in our lives is what we create in the long term. Nothing cannot be realized without continuation and only cold-blood people can do without any hiatus and some temporary stoppage. So sometimes we have to stop to continue doing.

Anyway, I made a trip to New Mexico during the winter holiday. It turned out to be a very spiritual trip as well as a successful angling trip. While I caught a lot of fish under very severe weather condition that was affected by some reverse effects of "El nino" phenomenon, I encountered many cultural aspects which we cannot see in the beaten tracks in regular tourist spots in the US. If you visit or just like America, you should include the cultue of naive Americans. New Mexico is the best place to know their lives and cultures. I visited one of two world heritage sites NM has: Taos pueblo, a village of native Americans; thus it is preserved for their heritage. My wife and I happened to watch their ritual dance. Besides cultural instigation we received from their culture, the scenery the states has also inspired us to appreciate both nature and lead to rethink of some tragic side of our civilization.



Speaking of fishing, the San Juan is one of the great fisheris in North America. Although it is more of artifial fishing site as rainbows do not regenerte and they are stocked while browns regenerate, we can also enjoy the well-managed fishey thoughout the year. I caught tons of beautiful rainbows on nymphs even in winter and lucklily managed to enjoy dry fly fishing on the last day of fishing and landed some beauties of brown.



New Mexico has a lot to do and lots to see. Shopping too is great. If you like Indian accessories, this is where you can find a lot of rare items. There are some cowboy hat and boots stores. Foods are also awesome. Usually in other states you get tired of some American food; here there is additinal culinary cultue: Mexican cuisine. So you do not get tired. Rather you do not feel like leaving this beautiful country.

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.