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Fly fishing

2012年10月20日 09時17分14秒 | Others
Fly fishing

Fly fishing is not an easy fishing in which anyone can dabble but is a fascinating one for several reasons. In fishing, usually you only have to put a bite at the hook, decide the length between the sinker and the hook, and throw it directly to the fishing point. Fly fishing needs a little bit more rituals: as it features using an artificial fly instead of the bite and casts it with a tapered line like a whip. Firstly, you have to choose the fly among functional categories such as dry, streamer or wet as well as the categories in the shape of an aqua insect such as divided wings, keel and so on, considering time, temperature and a favour of a fish. Regarding the favour, some fly fishermen take the trouble of taking aqua insects out of fish’s stomach to confirm and study what kind of ones they like to eat in the river. This is like a scholarly research rather than a leisure activity. Secondly, as to the casting, you have to learn several casting methods in addition to the basic overhead cast* such as tower cast when avoiding a tall tree behind you. It is like a pitcher throwing a curve in a baseball game.

Incidentally, when you hear the aforementioned things, you may have questions if fly fishing can catch fish more effectively than the normal fishing which uses the bite with flavour although the method of fly fishing is very complex and it attracts fishes with only its shape and colour. The answer is yes and no, depending on the situations. If you want to catch many fishes, you only have to use a large fishing net or poison.

Fly fishing is not necessarily the fishing for taking fishes effectively, but for enjoying the process to catch fishes as sports. This makes an angler may gives a wide berth to fly fishing, simultaneously it is the factor inherent to fly fishing which makes it fascinating.

Secondly, what make fly fishing attractive is their equipments and the river. You can find their photos in a fly fishing magazine. The fishing vest, bag, flies themselves are functional and have a good handsome shape and design. As to the latter, the rivers where the trout live are located in rural district and are clear, wide, and relatively runs shallow. If it runs in a huge green fields or forests, the stage is well set for the entertainment. Imagine the scene that you go fly fishing there in the morning mist. The surface of the current is beginning to shine, reflecting the sunshine in the tranquil. It must be such a breathtaking scenery that you cannot believe it existing really in Japan today.

The aforementioned things are attractive enough to lure us into the fly fishing world, however, there is the third attractive factor, which is more fundamental and instinctive one - pleasure to cook and eat the fish. When you ask an angler what kind of fishing he does, you usually do not want to know what kind of fish he likes to eat, but to fish. The purpose of angling is to enjoy the process of catching the fish, however, I think that fishing in a broad sense starts from casting a bite or a fly in a river and ends in eating the dish of the fish. The target of the fly fishing often is a trout. So I think that the reason why you go fly fishing is to eat a trout is a rare motivation, but can be reasonable. It must be the pleasure only for a fisherman to cook and eat the trout which he caught by himself, imagining the family peoples' smile for the dish. Furthermore, as to the liquor for it, it is a common knowledge that white wine suits the dish of a fish and red wine suits the dish of meat. Even red wine, however, may suit the dish of the trout if it is big and had fought you fiercely like a beast! And if you really missed to catch the bigger trout, however, it is advisable that you do not tell the family the story, because it will sound like a fishy story.

Thus the fly fishing is complex, beautiful and pleasant, which makes it attractive and worth challenging for an adult man.

Note: Carrying out a proper overhead cast, you stand with the line straight and then start the cast smoothly in an upward direction. Make sure that the line projects backwards by stopping the tip of the rod sharply while it is still rising. Once the overhead cast has been perfected it can be very easily adapted to the backhand cast and side cast.


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