Having Fun in River Anton 石灰岩溪的趣味釣遊

我首次造訪英國是在2008年春天，從此就讓我對於英國的自然風光與西式毛鉤文化深深著迷。就在那次，小左、大軒與我在機緣下認識了英國的毛鉤釣友—理察及保羅，並且在他們的協助下造訪英國的私人水域垂釣。回國後，想再次造訪英國的念頭一直揮之不去。
2010年11月，終於有機會再次前往，並且能與老朋友相聚。
The spring in 2008 was the first time I visited England. I was fascinated by the view of the countryside in England and the English fly fishing culture. Additionally, Wesley, Caddis and I became friends with two English anglers, Paul and Richard, who were kindly hosted us to fish trout in private water. Since that, I tried to manage myself to come to England again. 

In the November of 2010, I finally had a chance. I felt exciting when I stepped on this isle again. The reasons are not only I looked forward to my fishing journey, but also it was really nice to see friends again.

原本保羅計畫帶我到Wales作釣，但無奈前一周的大雨，造成河水上漲，於是他只得換到漢普郡(Hampshire)的小溪。到了當地市中心停車場，保羅囑咐我下車並換上涉水服。
我吃驚地問道：「難道我們要在市中心釣魚嗎？」
「沒錯！就是市中心。」保羅肯定地回答。
而這條名為安通河(R. Anton)的小溪正是泰斯特河(R. Test)在漢普郡的支流。
At first, Paul planed to take me to fish in Wales, but unfortunately, the river was high caused by the rainfall last week. So he decided to take me to angle in a small chalk stream in Hampshire. When I was told to put on my wader in the parking lot of the city, I was a little surprised. “Where is the place we are going to fish? In the city center?’ I asked. “Yes, we will try in the city center.” Paul just answered. The river we fished was River Anton, which is one of the tributes of River Test in Hampshire.

保羅找到一個充滿大茴香魚與棕鱒的藻床釣點，其中還有不少魚正在上浮攝食羽化中的若蟲。我們用的是由法蘭克 廋亦(Frank Sawyer)先生所發表的雉雞尾若蟲毛鉤，而別看這款毛鉤是簡單的老樣式，它可是讓這理的魚兒為之瘋狂。因為我倆竟然在2小時內沒換過釣點，而且還拉起十幾尾魚。
我不得不說：「這市中心的小溪還真不是蓋的！
Paul and I discovered a point where many big grayling and brown trout gathered around weed bed. Some of them even raised to take the emerger. We fish with a pheasant tail which was developed by Frank Sawyer, it is a really simple old pattern but it still works very well till today. Because the point was so well, we did not move forward for the rest of two hour fishing. Paul and I caught about a dozen of grayling and trout. Such result was not bad for a small chalk stream in the city center.  

Nobody Loves White Fish西式毛鉤會白魚

在石溪(Rock Cr.)中游，我們由路邊走下釣人踏出的步徑，這裡離主流還有些距離，而在這當中，森林裡有條小溪，像極了曾去過的英國號手溪，於是我向威廉示意，先在這裡晃晃，不過一個多小時的搜尋，除了美麗的風景，就只有一尾小的不能再小的虹鱒。

In the middle of Rock Creek, we walked down to the trail which stepped by anglers.
There was still certain distance to reach main stream from the trail. We found a small stream in the forest, it was like Horner Water in England where I have ever been. So I told William that I would like to take a try. After an hour searching, I gamed nothing but with the joy of beautiful scenery and caught a rainbow trout which could not be even much smaller.

就在往下游走去的同時，遠遠地看到威廉的竿子呈現滿弓，不過不一會兒就看著魚兒衝向下游鑽入流心，又是個飲恨！但沒多久，換吐司的竿子傳來魚訊，而且從釣竿的彎度，應該於不小呢，可一掃昨天的怨氣。纏鬥一會後，魚兒漸露疲態，威廉一個漂亮的下網，幫忙將魚撈起。「哇！是白魚、是白魚耶！」威廉大聲地嚷著，沒見過白魚的我們開心莫名，畢竟這是溫帶靠寒帶或溫帶山區才有的魚種。但就在這條白魚之後，吐司像是找到白魚的家，連著一接一尾地拉，而接連遭遇魚隻脫逃的威廉，也只得放棄原本的釣點，試試這新朋友，結果才一下子，就見他的黏土浮標下沉，又是一尾！
While I was moving to downstream, I saw William’s rod bent as crescent. But it was not too long then the trout dived into the current. Regret for losing fish again. Then Hank’s rod had response. From the curve of rod, the fish seem to be good size. After a couple of minutes of fighting, the fish finally turned to weak. William netted the fish with pretty movement. “Wow! White fish, it is white fish!” William shouted out. White fish is the fish which separates only in north country, and we felt extremely exciting about it because we had never seen this kind of fish before.
After landing up this white fish, Hank seemed to find their home and caught one after one. William gave up the original point he fished and came to try white fish, the new friend we just encountered. It cost a few minutes, William’s floatant sank into the water, one more white fish!

照鱒魚的習性來說，應該很容易受到驚嚇，但這裡的白魚卻傻的有點讓人訝異，同個釣點竟然能一尾接一尾地拉起，加上中魚後牠雖然體積不小，卻不會藉著水流向下逃竄或躍起洗鰓，增加起魚的困難度，甚至還會逆流上溯，便於釣人收線，所以拼鬥力大不如虹鱒與棕鱒，也才不被當作主要對象魚，不過牠至少讓遠方來的我們一賭尊容。可惜的是下午還有路程要趕，於是只得告別石溪，向柏士門(Bozeman)挺進，而柏士門則更是蒙大拿州西式毛鉤的重鎮。
According to the habitual behavior of trout, they should be nervous and easily scared. But the white fish here was too silly to believe that we could catch several in the same point. Although white fish was big, they did not swim down to the current nor leaped out of water. It even swam toward to upstream made it was easy for the angler to roll back the line. White fish is not as powerful as rainbow and brown trout, and such is the reason that anglers do not take it as the major game fish. But the show up of white fish let us see its’ appearance at least. We had a long journey to go in the afternoon. Therefore, we had to say goodbye to Rock Cr. and drove to Bozeman. And Bozeman, is the important fly fishing location in Montana.

Nice Ending in Hyalite Creek 秀麗小溪—Hyalite Cr.

在蒙大拿的最後一天釣遊地點，是當地中國餐廳那位美麗服務生的建議，即柏茲曼(Bozeman)市郊的Hyalite溪。當地人描述，Hyalite溪是東嘉樂丁河(E. Gallatin R.)支流，景色秀麗可愛，不過溪幅小、魚體不大，故較少有人造訪釣魚。
Hyalite Creek was the place where we fished the last day we were in Montana. It was a suggestion by the sweet waitress in Chinese food restaurant. Hyalite Cr. is the tribute of Eastern Gallatin R., narrow but nice, and few people comes to fish there.

車行20分鐘，進了山區便是小溪中游，此處設有一座小壩，但已頹圮，現在水流順旁邊沖出的新河道往下游流去。Hyalite溪頗像台灣丹野的卡社溪支流，或是英國號手溪、日本湯川，如此環境正是我們所熟悉，因此眾人均選擇二號線重竿。
We drove about 20 minutes then arrived the midstream where was in the forest. There was a small damaged dam, and the stream had washed a new way and ran toward to downstream. Hyalite Cr looks like the tributes of Danja in Taiwan, Horner Water in England or Yu Stream in Japan. Such fishing environment was we familiar with, so we all choose to use #2 fly tackle.

由於少人釣遊，因此毛鉤一落水魚兒便衝來捧場，但體型不大，於是我把注意力放在廢壩前的標點。從上浮的水紋看來，底下的魚兒體型比水流中的大，加上水底佈滿藻床，應該有不錯的對手可以試試。低身緩緩靠近，掛上偏光鏡，果然發現水下有數尾一尺左右的虹鱒慵懶地游著！不過清澈緩慢的「反轉流」因食物容易聚集，所以魚兒對食物挺挑，僅捕食極小的搖蚊蛹。於是翻了翻毛鉤盒，選了一枚20號的羽化搖蚊蛹毛鉤，並在前導線前銜接60公分的7X毛鉤子線。
Because few people fished here, so trout bit fly without any hesitation once it fell on the surface. The size of trout are small, so I put my concentration on the spot where was in front of the damaged dam. From the signal of raise, I supposed the trout was bigger than those in flow. In addition, the bottom of the stream was covered by weed bed, there should be some nice size trout could make a test. I stalked the trout carefully, with the aid of polarizes, I could find out there was some 12 inches rainbow swam lazily. The trout is much selective due to the food gather in the clean and slow swirl easily. Trout took tiny midge only. I looked over my boxes, then picked a #20 midge pupa up and attached it on the 60cm- long 7X tippet.

這種環境作釣務必要注意水流，也要避免毛鉤落水後的漂浮過程出現拖曳(Drag)，以免不自然的動作驚擾魚兒、增加戒心。若順利的話，漂浮過程中魚兒便會上浮捕食；若沒反應，得先順流飄，迨流至止水處等一下，再等魚兒接近時，輕輕抖動竿尖，讓毛鉤製造小小的水紋，這時魚兒會以為有昆蟲掙扎，便可能發動攻擊，於是以此法成功釣上三尾29公分的虹鱒。

Fishing in such spot must be careful with flow. In order to alert the trout, angler should avoid making fly drag during the drift. If the drift is successful, trout will rises and takes the fly. And if trout dose not take fly, you should let the fly drift to still water and wait for a while. When trout approaches the fly, then quiver the fly slightly to make small ripple. The trout may mistake that as the insect struggles on the surface and takes the fly. I had used this method and catch 3 rainbow trout which is 12 inches long.

一直逗留在壩前甚是可惜，於是趕緊提起腳步追上威廉與吐司。當然啦，沿路上看似標點的淺瀨並沒放過，只不過前面已有兩位先行者，所以接下來釣上的魚兒都是Baby。行進一百多公尺後，看見吐司興奮地從上游跑來，原來是他在一處瀨頭釣上一尾30公分的虹鱒，算是本日的最大尾獎！
I could not keep fishing in front of dam, so I decided to move myself to catch up William and Hank. I did not give up trying the spots while I was moving to upstream, of course. But most of my catch was baby trout which left from the two first movers. I marched about 100 meters then saw Hank ran toward me excitedly. He just caught a 12 inches rainbow trout in the pool head, and the trout was the biggest prize today.

接著拍完照片後，我倆繼續往上游去尋找威廉。這時看見威廉在一座小木橋前，正專心地拋投，原來是他發現一處魚窟，簡直是「釣之不竭」！有了這麼好的釣況，當然也順便把攝影機拿出來，好好紀錄畫面。於是我們邊釣、邊拍，一路再往上游走去，直到天色完全暗下，而如此親切、秀麗的小溪也就成為我們在美國的釣遊句點。
After taking photo, we walked to upstream to find William. Then we saw William concentrated on fishing in front of a small wooden bridge. He found a pool where trout was abundant, and it was even seemed that the trout was unlimited. I took out DV camera to record the procedure. We fished and took photos until the sky became totally dark. Such nice and beautiful stream was the end of our fishing journey in America.

Peter’s Secret Spot彼得阿伯的秘密釣場

嚴格說起來，在柏茲曼(Bozeman)一連三天的釣況都不算理想，加上天氣越來越冷，所以提前結束了凱莫隆橋(Cameron Bridge)的釣遊，改到大黃石釣具店(Great Yellow Stone Fly Fishing Shop)採購，順便打聽有無較好的釣場。一進入大黃石釣具店，店內的人對我們這批黃面孔多少有些訝異，且多半以為是日本人，於是自我介紹後便向他們請教。其中一位名叫彼得(Peter)的阿伯特別熱心，原來他是退休人士，在此享受退而不休的打工生活，他建議到嘉樂丁河下游的曼哈坦，因為那裡有他的秘密釣點。
Frankly to say, the results of fishing were not good in the past three day in Bozeman. In the other hand, the weather became colder and colder, so we finished the fishing in Cameron Bridge in advance then drove to Great Yellow Stone Fly Fishing Shop to buy some goods and also asked some information. Once we entered Great Yellow Stone
Fly Fishing Shop, people in the shop were surprised by us, and most of them though we were Japanese. After introducing ourselves, one man who named as Peter treated us much enthusiastic. He was a retired man and enjoyed the carefree living. He suggested us to fish in Manhattan, downstream of Gallatin R., there was his personal secret fishing spot.
隔日，因距離較遠，於是提前出發前往曼哈坦(Manhattan)。這是個頗迷你的小鎮。駛出小鎮後，接著看見一望無際的牧場，清晨的光線照在大地，乳牛低頭吃著草，遠方還未散去的霧氣，晨曦中的寧靜鄉間真是美的說不出話！在如此氣氛中，循著告示牌下溪，並依彼得阿伯的指示往上游走去。據他的說法，循溪走30分鐘，便能看到一段大白壁(Great White Wall)，而從白壁開始就是他的秘窟。由於這裡更原始，所以一路上有許多鹿的蹄印、排遺、河狸的水壩，甚至還看見三頭正在尋找食物的白尾鹿，那種與野生動物的面對面接觸，令人驚喜！
Next day, we got up early and drove to Manhattan. Manhattan is tiny. When we penetrated through the town, all we saw was the no boundary ranch. Clear sunshine brightened the ground, cows lowed their head and chewed the grass. Fog in the distant place did not clear out yet. What a beautiful scenery it was. We followed the introduction of sign to move toward to river, then forward to upstream direction just as Peter said. According to his saying, we went forward to upstream for an half hour then could see the Great White Wall, and that was his secret spot. Because the place was original, so we could see a lot of footprints and waste left by deer, and dam made by beaver. And we even saw three white tail deer were feeding. It was a surprise to met wildlife face to face.
30分鐘後，「果然沒錯，就是這兒！」威廉確定地說，而我們當然是趕緊進入作戰位置，結果不到二分鐘，吐司就釣上一條大魚。有了前幾天的經驗，這次當然是小心翼翼地對應，但纏鬥幾分鐘後，露頭的竟是尾43公分的大白魚。接著，我的浮標也頓了一下，一揚竿便發現游動的力量不小，但又不像是白魚那種向上溯的感覺，於是冷靜取代了興奮，逐步將魚往岸邊淺灘帶，並設法制服牠。由於水流不若嘉樂丁河急，所以沒花太多時間便把這條38公分的棕鱒擺平，也為此次來美國留下一項新紀錄。有了這樣振奮人心的成果，威廉也不示弱，拉上幾尾虹鱒，只可惜體型小了些，但這樣的狀況值得我們繼續向前進，於是決定快速上溯，再逐步往回釣。

After 30 minutes walking, we finally saw the destination. “Here it is”, William said affirmatively. We all got into position quickly. It was less than two minutes, Hank caught a big trout. With the previous experience, Hank fought the fish carefully. After several minutes of fighting, the result came up with a big white fish. My floatant had a small stop, I made a strike then felt the strong against power from the other side. It did not swim to the upstream just as white fish would dose.
The excitement soon was replaced with clam, I led the fish to shallow riverside and tried to defeated it. Because the flow was not as fast as Gallatin R., so it did not cost too much time to land this 15 inches brown trout up. This was my personal new record in America. With such cheerful result, William also landed several rainbow trout up, but they were small. The result encouraged us to keep moving to upstream.

接下來的釣點，雖然一看就知道底下有大物，但真是讓人頭皮發麻，因為河狸的關係，使得潭區有不少倒木，而這就是要面對的標點。如此環境讓我們快速折損毛鉤，然而正所謂「不入虎穴，焉得虎子」，在這樣的釣場裡吐司還是釣上一尾40公分的棕鱒，並且與另一尾38公分的棕鱒纏鬥時，足足追著牠跑了100多公尺，越過兩個瀨區。
The following spots we faced, were definitely good spots. But the wood piles in the pool which made by beaver became the big problem for us. However, just as the saying nothing ventured, nothing gained, even the spot caused us loose several flies quickly, Hank still caught a16 inches and 15 inches brown trout as the sweet return. Particularly, Hank had ran more than 100yds and crossed two riffle when he fought with a 15 inches brown trout.

下午的釣遊過程中，天空不時飄下陣雨，且每當開始飄雨，水面就出現鱒魚上浮的漣漪，但當地鱒魚對乾毛鉤的挑剔，卻讓人頻頻受挫，而雨一停上浮的動作就結束，這算是大自然中物種互動的趣味。隨著時間越來越接近傍晚，風寒效應越來越明顯，於是三人決定提前往回走，但就在此時竟然迷路了！
During the fishing in the afternoon, it rained occasionally. Interestingly, when it started to rain, trout rose, once it stopped raining, so did trout. But the trout were selective to dry fly, what was frustration to us. When the time closed to evening, it started to get colder. We decided to return in advance, but in the meanwhile, we found ourselves were lost.

由小徑切入主流時，我還特別以一根枯樹幹做記號，但回程時卻因為不熟悉環境而走入舊河道，這下可慘了！因為美國的私人地可不能任意闖入，於是只好沿著圍籬亂繞，而即便遇到獵人，他們的描述也不算清楚，就這樣「晃」了一個多小時，最後只得跨過私人地，才尋得停車的產業道路，也成為這次釣遊的驚險經驗。
While we cut to main stream from the trail, I had picked up a wood as the mark. But we were lost in the return. What a big problem it was, because a man can not enter private land without permit in America. We walked around by fence, and even we met the hunters, we still could not get clear information from their description. We wasted an hour more, and finally we were forced to cross private land to access the trail where we parked our car. It was the adventurous experience during the fishing trip.

Fishing in the Quiet and Lovely Horner Water 浪漫釣遊在號手溪

翌日，保羅和李察帶領我們來到Somerset的另一處釣場—號手溪（Horner Water）。號手溪可說是李察老爹的秘密花園，究竟它有多隱密呢？當一行人去購買釣魚券時才知道，手中這張釣魚券收據，竟然是早在半個世紀前就印製好，五十多年來因鮮少有釣人造訪，以致於當初印製好的釣魚券迄今尚未使用完畢！
The next day, Paul and Richard took us to Horner Water, the other fishing water in Somerset. Horner Water is the secret garden of Richard. Once we came to tollbooth and buy the fishing tickets, we finally realized that the tickets we got, which was printed in a half of century ago. There are few people who know Horner Water, so the tickets still haven’t been sold out.

雖然號手溪的棕鱒不若昨日我們在坦河所交手的鱒魚精明，但是由於該溪流幅極小，溪流兩側林木夾雜，綠蔭遮天，因此在此垂釣鱒魚，完全是考驗釣手選擇標點和拋投的能力。為了方便在狹小空間內揮灑釣組，李察老爹特定為我們準備了一把6呎6吋的竹製毛鉤竿，而前導線也縮短為九呎不到。
Despite the trout in Horner Water was not as tough as we fished in River Tone, however, due to the stream is extremely narrow, both of the riversides are woody, and the trees even overgrow to cover the sky. It was the test for the casting and point-selecting skill of an angler. In order to cast in such a small room, Richard prepared a 6’6” bamboo rod for us particularly, in the other hand, the leader shorten to less than 9ft.

有了前一天與棕鱒交手的經驗，這回便很快得以進入狀況。小左首先依循老爹的指引下竿，沒一會兒功夫，一尾莫近二十公分的小棕鱒手到擒來。正當大家圍上前去，為這尾漂亮的小棕鱒感到驚嘆時，李察特別解釋，這裡的棕鱒是原生的陸封型鱒，長久以來沒有人來此放流人工繁殖的棕鱒，因此號手溪的棕鱒皆是當地的原生鱒魚。接著大軒與我也有所斬獲，尤其後來大軒更在一處不被看好的標點內，擒獲一尾二十六公分左右的棕鱒，總算一掃昨日的晦氣。
Due to having the trout fishing experience from yesterday, this time we got on track soon. Wesley followed the instruction by Richard, it only cost him a few minutes, then Wesley got a small brown trout which was about 20cm. While we were exclaiming for the small but beautiful trout, Richard explained that there was no people has ever released artificial trout in Horner Water, thus all the brown trout in Horner Water is native and landlocked species. Next, Caddis and I got some brown trout, too. Especially, Caddis landed up a big trout which was about 26cm in an unfavorable point. Caddis washed the bad luck away finally.

號手溪除了是尋幽釣鱒的好去處外，且因位在伊斯摩（Exmoor）國家公園境內，故假日時來附近從事各種戶外活動的人也不少。樸實不加修飾的小徑，不僅健行者往來不息，偶而還有騎士駕著駿馬通過。中午休息時，大夥便乘著涼風坐在溪邊的草坪上，一邊享用老爹為我們準備的三明治午餐，一邊分享彼此的釣遊經驗，真是人生樂事一樁！就在這一片風聲、水聲中，偶而夾雜著人們言談的笑聲，我們在號手溪渡過了一個愉快的週末。
Horner Water is a good place for fly fishing, and because it is located in the region of Exmoor National Park, there are many people come here to practice outdoor activities in holiday. There were a lot of people go hiking in the simple trail, sometimes horseback rider passed through the trail, too. When it was in the noon, we decided to take a rest, enjoying the sandwich which Richard prepared for us. It was a pleasure to share the fly fishing and travel experience with each other. With the sounds of breeze, stream and people's laughter, we spent an enjoyable weekend in Horner Water.

Encounter with Trout 與鱒魚驚豔的邂逅

正當我們感到一籌莫展時，忍不住請經驗老到的李察老爹為我們示範。只見他左手撐著溯溪杖、右手持竿，輕鬆自在的揮灑釣竿，由於坦河的溪幅狹小，因此李察採取一次拋投，除了避免過多假拋動作嚇到鱒魚，二來縮短拋投距離可避免釣組掛到草叢和樹枝。不一會功夫，老爹就得到兩次魚訊，其中一次大夥還目睹了一尾不小的棕鱒整隻躍出水面補食毛鉤。有了這兩次魚訊，讓岸上觀望的我們自嘆弗如，倘若再釣不到魚，真的是技術不夠，而非溪裡無魚。

While we were frustrated, we asked the well experienced Richard to make demonstration for us. Richard held a stick in his left hand, and cast the fly with right hand easily. Because River Tone was narrow, thus Richard did one false cast at each cast. By doing so, it could prevent the trout from being scared by movement of cast, secondly, the short cast avoided the line and fly being trapped by tree or weed. And just for a while, Richard got responses for twice, and among of which everybody even saw a big brown trout jumped out of the water to bite the fly. After seeing the demonstration, we all had to admire Richard’s skill. If we could not catch any trout, the reason would be our fishing skill, not there was no trout in the river.
保羅引領著我來到稍微上游一點的標點，指了前方傍水而生的草叢，認為那裡可能藏有鱒魚，要我嘗試看看。我跪在河岸邊並且壓低身子，小心的將毛鉤送入標點，毛鉤沿著草叢漂了幾次依舊沒有反應，當我準備放棄時，平靜的水面驟然迸出了一個水花，儘管揚竿不及，保羅卻馬上提醒我，要我再將毛鉤拋到同一個標點，因為鱒魚可能還在原處。這回有了準備，當水面再次出現魚訊時，一記準確的作合，釣線一繃緊，中魚的喜悅自嘴角揚起！
Paul led me come to a point where was further upstream, pointing at the area which was close to weed, he though there might be a trout and asked me to take a try. I knelt down to keep myself low, then cast a fly into the point carefully. The fly had floated by the side of weed for several times, there was no response. But just while I was going to give up, there came a splash that broke the clam water. Despite I missed the chance, Paul reminded me to cast the fly in the same point, because the trout might still be there. This time I prepared well, once a splash came, a nice strike made the line tight, then a smile came one the angler’s face.
這尾棕鱒的釣獲，為大夥打了一劑強心針，接著小左也在一處緩流區，擒獲他此行的第一尾鱒魚；不僅如此，午後溪邊出現大量蜉蝣羽化，小左更在一處緩流區請上一尾漂亮的茴香魚。之後，小左示意要我再試試看，因為茴香魚的個性較溫吞，不若棕鱒那般神經質，因此標點附近應該還有別的茴香魚可釣，果不其然，毛鉤一落水，我便中了一尾茴香魚，然而這尾茴香魚卻立刻順流潛至水底的沈木堆，再加上使用無倒鉤的毛鉤，因此讓牠脫鉤，煞是可惜！
After I landed up the first trout, it was a great pump for everybody. Later, Wesley also caught a brown trout. Additionally, while there were a lot of mayflies hatched in the afternoon, Wesley even landed up a beautiful grayling in upstream. After Wesley released the grayling, then he made a gesture for me to take a try. Because grayling is not as nervous as brown trout, so probably there is still some grayling can fish. It was true, I got a grayling immediately once my dry fly touched the surface. However, the grayling swam downstream by the flow and dived into woods, besides, I used barbless hook, so I lost it in the end. What a shame.
不過最悶的還是大軒，無論多麼努力的拋投、操竿，始終無法獲得鱒魚的青睞。不過就在他拖著釣組，打算更換標點時，一旁的毛鉤卻炸出個大水花，只見大軒宛如被電到一般，下意識做了揚竿的動作，可惜因水面滯線過多，作合不及，看到此景，岸上的一群人無不笑彎了腰，只留下大軒兀自楞在溪邊。總而言之，首日的坦河釣遊，小左與我還是共拉起二尾茴香魚與三尾棕鱒。
However, Caddis was the one who has bad luck. No matter how hard he did, he did not find favour with trout. While Caddis dragged line and tried to move forward, then all of sudden, there was a big splash on his fly. Caddis was shocked and made a strike without any consideration, but it had been too late to strike. All of us laughed, leaving the Caddis stunned in the riverside. In general, the first day of fishing trip Wesley and I still landed two grayling and three brown trout up.

There Is No Luck 毫無僥倖的機會

保羅和李察首先引領我們到他們的社團專屬釣場，即坦河（River Tone）的上游。初次來此農場旁的釣場，打量了一下釣場環境，心裡不免要懷疑：這不過就是條給牛隻飲水的小溪溝吧，真的有鱒魚可釣嗎？李察老爹似乎看穿我的心事，解釋說明，這裡就是他們常來的釣場之一，裡面除了有棕鱒之外，還有茴香魚可釣，運氣好時還可以遇到逾尺的大傢伙。
Paul and Richard led us to their private water, the upstream of River Tone. Once we got to the fishing place, I looked around the environment and I was a little “surprised”. This is just a small stream for the cows which run through the farm, is it possible to fish any trout? I though it in mind. Richard seemed to see through my mind. He explained that here was one of the private water where they often come to fish. There is not only brown trout but also grayling, and the angler even can catch the trout which is over 30cm if he has some good luck.
接著保羅指出一個可能藏有棕鱒的標點，示意我們可以試試看，這是個位於一棵倒樹後方的標點，並不容易施展拋投動作，大軒、小左以及筆者三人彼此互看了一下，還是決定把這樣標點留給釣鱒經驗較豐富的小左下手。小左緩緩的從下游接近標點，從捲線器裡抽出一段重量，揮個兩三下進行短距離拋投，小心的將毛鉤落在倒樹的樹蔭下。此時李察老爹特別提醒我們，當地的鱒魚因長期經歷釣友的「調教」，早已練就識別毛鉤或水生昆蟲的好功夫；毛鉤漂餌時，務必要呈現「自然漂餌」（Nature drift），一旦毛鉤漂餌不自然，稍微刮出點水痕，水下的鱒魚馬上便識破釣人的詭計。另外，因為我們來訪前才下了一週的大雨，水溫偏低，降低了水生昆蟲的羽化和鱒魚的活性，因此垂釣難度更為增加。試了一會兒，小左不禁皺了眉頭，直呼不容易！

Paul pointed out a point where probably would be a trout hind there, and asked us to take a try. This was a point which just behind a falling tree, and is was not easy to do the cast. Caddis, Wesley and I looked at each other, and decided to leave the point to Wesley who has better experience in trout fishing. Wesley approached the point from downstream carefully, extracting a length of fly line from the reel, then we saw Wesley did a short cast to let the fly fall on the surface which just under the shadow of tree. Meanwhile, Richard reminded us that the trout in the water are well educated, they have learned how to distinguish the artificial fly and nature insect. The angler must present fly with nature drift, and if there is any dead drag occur, the trout in the water will know that it is a trick. In addition, it had rained heavily for one week just before we arrived, the water temperature was low, so the hatch of aquatic insects and activity of trout was low, too. This was another disadvantage factor for fishing. Wesley had tried for a while, bending his brows, and said that it was not easy to fish the trout.
大軒見水色不算清澈，打算從若蟲毛鉤下手，看看能否誘騙到棕鱒。此時保羅又補充說道，這裡的鱒魚攝食動作很輕，很難透過直感方式抓住鱒魚啄食若蟲毛鉤的魚訊。釣者以若蟲毛鉤垂釣時，除了必須做到自然漂餌的操竿技巧外，還必須仔細觀察重量線線端的動作，若原本漂浮於水面的重量線稍微出現停滯的動作，便是鱒魚吸入毛鉤，但揚竿不及，鱒魚仍會因發現上當，而快速的將毛鉤吐出。我們三人依序試了乾毛鉤和若蟲毛鉤釣法，竟然連一個魚訊也沒有，這下子可難倒我們了！
Caddis saw that the water was not clear, so decided to fish with nymph and to try that if there was any trout. Paul then reminded him, said that the bait the nymph very light, it was difficult for angler to catch the signal from baiting. When angler fish with nymph, he should present the fly with drag free, additionally, he also has to watch the moment of line tip carefully. If the line behaves any hesitancy, it is the signal of baiting. Then angler should hook the trout immediately, or the trout will find out the artificial fly is a trick and reject it. We three guys had tried with dry and nymph, there were no result. It was a difficult challenge for us.

The Angling Regulation of UK 英國垂釣須知

英國的垂釣申請算是比較複雜些。首先，釣者必須先向「環境局」(Environment Agency)申請釣竿執照(rod license)有了釣竿執照後，雖然可以持該執照到一些野場水域垂釣，但是大部分的鱒魚釣場，釣者必須另外取得當地的垂釣許可，而擁有或承租當地垂釣權的單位可能是國家公園、私人農場或是民間釣魚社團等等，一日券的收費從10英鎊左右到數十英鎊以上不等。倘若沒有獲得相關單位允許而擅自闖入私人水域垂釣，被抓到的話可是會被重罰2000～3000英鎊喔！

英國釣季大致上分為兩階段，即三月到十月是棕鱒的釣季，而茴香魚的釣季則是從六月到翌年的二月，不過開放時間及管理方式的細節，各地會有些微差異。

The procedure of applying fishing license in UK is a little complex. First, the angler has to apply rod license from Environment Agency. After the rod license is acquired, the angler can fish in certain waters, but most of trout fishing waters require specific permit for fishing in local. The fishing right probably owned by national park, private farm or private fishing club etc. The daily ticket usually charges from 10 pounds to dozens of pounds. If the angler does not get appropriated license and fish in private water, he will be heavily fined from 2,000 pounds to 3,000 pounds.

There are two fishing seasons in UK. The season for brown trout starts from March to October, and for grayling, begins from June to February. The detail of opening season and regulations differ by locals.

Fly Fishing Trip in Lake District 英格蘭湖區釣遊

湖區國家公園境內擁有為數眾多的湖泊和溪流，想當然爾，這裡絕對是不可錯過的重點釣場區域。由於湖區的水域樣貌多變，再加上溪流和湖泊的迴游路徑並未遭到攔砂壩或水庫的干擾，因此湖區也是英格蘭一帶少數仍有出產迴游性鱒鮭魚的地方，望著深邃的湖水，總是給人有一種臥虎藏龍的神秘感。這裡除了有為數眾多的棕鱒和棘鱸外，湖泊裡尚有體型碩大的狗魚、Char、海鱒和鮭魚，比起英格蘭地區其他地區，湖區的釣遊魚種資源顯得豐富許多，若說湖區是英格蘭的魚類資源寶庫可是一點也不為過。

當我們抵達湖區時，沒一會兒，陰沈的天空竟然下起雨來，突如其來的雨勢，就好像有人從天空倒了一桶水似的，來得又快又疾。既然無法在外漫步取景，我們只好隔著車窗玻璃，沿途欣賞略為模糊的湖區風景。 然而說也奇怪，當山丘東側的塞爾湖(Thirlmere)地區降下傾盆大雨時，另一側的凱斯科鎮(Keswick)卻是滴雨未下，短短十英里左右的路程，天氣的轉變竟然如此戲劇化，沒辦法，這就是天氣詭譎的英國。於是趁著天色尚明，我們決定先在城鎮附近的格列塔河 (River Greta)進行垂釣。

初次在國外垂釣，興奮的心情很難掩飾，吸引我們的不只是挑戰垂釣鱒魚的新鮮感，釣場周遭的環境對我們而言也是全新的體驗。但是當我們沿著河岸搜尋了將近兩公里，除了得到那麼唯一一次的鱒魚攝食魚訊之外，大部分的時候卻是連個魚影也沒瞧見，此時心裡不免涼了半截。不過還好大夥對於魚獲早已經看的開，甚至還打趣的討論著，該不會是我們來晚了，所以溪裡面鱒魚早在釣季開放的前幾天就被操光了吧？最後我們意興闌珊，索性放棄釣魚，就當作是沿著溪邊散步賞景吧。

傍晚當我們結束釣遊上岸時，一身的釣魚裝很難不引起別人的注意，這時，背後傳來一句話：「你們是毛鉤釣者嗎？」回頭一看，原來是一位英國的毛鉤同好呢。與他交談我們才知道，因為不久之前的大雨導致河水高漲，幾乎把溪中的鱒魚都沖到溪流下游甚至是湖泊裡，再者，五月初的天氣尚涼，因此鱒魚可能還沒有從湖泊上溯至溪流，不然往常格列塔河都有著不錯的釣況。我們三人聽了他的解釋，心中的疑惑總算獲得了解答，儘管幾個小時的釣遊毫無斬獲，但至少我們釣得了一個下午的閒情。