フライフィッシングで英会話

What I have been turned off these days is that I have to face more congestion on highways on weekends as our government launched a flat rate highway toll system for weekend drives last year. I don't mean to be against it. But I used to go to Yamanashi, Tochigi and Nagano. I probably spent so much money on tolls but I was able to enjoy more quality weekend without much hassle on the fishing trip.

While my fishing trips have drastically decreased in number lately, I now chase more quality in fishing: being isolated from everyday hectic life and want to convers with nature and fancy about how people in the past enjoyed the beauty of nature of this country.

Nevertheless, it is far from an easy job to find ideal angling hideaways on the suburbs of the metropolitan Tokyo. Fortunately, as I live in the vicinity of the border of Saitama and Tokyo, Ome, the western part of Tokyo, is easily accessible. There rests my long time favorite fishing hermitage: Yozawa Fishing Area. Despite the fact that the fish there are mostly stocked espeically rainbows and there are few fish that are naturally reproduced except some yamame, catch and release are voluntarilly practiced and most fly anglers go there for mere recreation purely geared to enhancing their angling skills or narcisstic joy which I assume is what flyfishing is all about.



Anyhow, when I hit the area this Monday, the mercury hit summer-like temperature unlike in the month and had to perspire without much flyfishing somersault. With the low level water like studded puddles and its clearness like Japanese sake , odds of catching leapers weren't very high. Yet, my satisfaction level was as high as Mt. Fuji as I could enjoy invaluable solitude and apprecaite the greeness of the mid spring. Considering one-hour travelling, this hideway cannot be disposed of or plainly dispised although I look for more genuine interaction with wild nature and wild beings.