Smokey Ball is a former mayor of Corner Brook, a small community centred around the paper milling industry at the mouth of the Humber River in Newfoundland.
Parked on just about every filling station and fishing shop counter in this part of the world is a large jar full of Smokey's "bombers" - torpedo-shaped fishing flies made from deer hair and a slightly faded orange hackle feather, tipped with caribou fur
Other people make bombers too but most of the local fishermen say Smokey's are the best. They fish it upstream, mending the line so that the fly floats undisturbed. But this is dry fly fishing for salmon.
I know that salmon will take a dry fly and I know they take flies off the surface. There are many rivers in Scotland, Iceland and Norway where streamer-like flies such as the Collie Dog and the Moonray Shadow are fished, sometimes with a hitch in the line to create a riffle. The salmon are attracted to the disturbance.
But the bomber doesn't seem to work so well when pulled across the water. "We always fish it upriver. It seems to annoy the fish and sooner or later one will go for it," says fishing guide John Park.
It did too. I must have covered some fish I could see lying in the stream as many as 100 times when, suddenly, a head reared up for the fly. Nothing. Two casts later, the same happened. Again, not a twitch on the line. "You're supposed to strike as soon as you see it," said John.
"Oh," I said. Again, I was missing some crucial piece of information. In the same way I had been frustrated when opening my fly box, armed with double and treble hooks, only to be told that the fishing rules stated single hooks, unbarbed, with no weight added to the fly.
I felt slightly guilty, ashamed and somewhat unsporting in the same way that I might if I had gone to a pheasant shoot with a Bofors anti-aircraft gun. What Newfoundland anglers call their "play fair" rules were introduced a few years ago out of desperation in an effort to restore dwindling salmon stocks.
Not more than 14 years ago, the Humber River was almost clear of salmon, before the loggers stopped floating their timber down the river. Bacterial action on the wood had starved the water of oxygen, spoiling habitat for migrating salmon.
Today stocks are recovering but the great days are probably gone for ever. When Lee Wulff, one of the pioneers of modern salmonfishing techniques, first came to Newfoundland in 1937, he spent days making his way by boat up the Humber River.
At Big Falls, a natural 12ft-high barrier, salmon were gathered in their thousands, leaping a dozen at a time to get over the obstacle. Wulff assembled his fly rod and started fishing below the falls. By the evening, when he called a halt, he had landed 75 salmon, releasing all but his first fish.
Today catch and release is enforced by strict quotas of no more than six fish per season, but all the anglers I saw catch fish were fishing for their quota. Some, however, will deliberately release a hooked fish before they are played out. For someone who has been accustomed to viewing a fish on the bank as a caught fish, the practice seems odd.
Not everyone used to fishing a beat system will enjoy the first-come- first-served routines of the local anglers on some of the most popular stretches of the Humber. Static fishing is not for me.
Guiding services, such as the one offered by Joe Dicks at Explore Newfoundland, can get you out to the wilder places. Sadly, I missed out on a day fishing the Main River, where Dicks and his party managed to find some water well enough oxygenated in the unseasonably warm conditions to hold taking fish.
Smokey Ball is a former mayor of Corner Brook, a small community centred around the paper milling industry at the mouth of the Humber River in Newfoundland.
Parked on just about every filling station and fishing shop counter in this part of the world is a large jar full of Smokey's "bombers" - torpedo-shaped fishing flies made from deer hair and a slightly faded orange hackle feather, tipped with caribou fur
Other people make bombers too but most of the local fishermen say Smokey's are the best. They fish it upstream, mending the line so that the fly floats undisturbed. But this is dry fly fishing for salmon.
I know that salmon will take a dry fly and I know they take flies off the surface. There are many rivers in Scotland, Iceland and Norway where streamer-like flies such as the Collie Dog and the Moonray Shadow are fished, sometimes with a hitch in the line to create a riffle. The salmon are attracted to the disturbance.
But the bomber doesn't seem to work so well when pulled across the water. "We always fish it upriver. It seems to annoy the fish and sooner or later one will go for it," says fishing guide John Park.
It did too. I must have covered some fish I could see lying in the stream as many as 100 times when, suddenly, a head reared up for the fly. Nothing. Two casts later, the same happened. Again, not a twitch on the line. "You're supposed to strike as soon as you see it," said John.
"Oh," I said. Again, I was missing some crucial piece of information. In the same way I had been frustrated when opening my fly box, armed with double and treble hooks, only to be told that the fishing rules stated single hooks, unbarbed, with no weight added to the fly.
I felt slightly guilty, ashamed and somewhat unsporting in the same way that I might if I had gone to a pheasant shoot with a Bofors anti-aircraft gun. What Newfoundland anglers call their "play fair" rules were introduced a few years ago out of desperation in an effort to restore dwindling salmon stocks.
Not more than 14 years ago, the Humber River was almost clear of salmon, before the loggers stopped floating their timber down the river. Bacterial action on the wood had starved the water of oxygen, spoiling habitat for migrating salmon.
Today stocks are recovering but the great days are probably gone for ever. When Lee Wulff, one of the pioneers of modern salmonfishing techniques, first came to Newfoundland in 1937, he spent days making his way by boat up the Humber River.
At Big Falls, a natural 12ft-high barrier, salmon were gathered in their thousands, leaping a dozen at a time to get over the obstacle. Wulff assembled his fly rod and started fishing below the falls. By the evening, when he called a halt, he had landed 75 salmon, releasing all but his first fish.
Today catch and release is enforced by strict quotas of no more than six fish per season, but all the anglers I saw catch fish were fishing for their quota. Some, however, will deliberately release a hooked fish before they are played out. For someone who has been accustomed to viewing a fish on the bank as a caught fish, the practice seems odd.
Not everyone used to fishing a beat system will enjoy the first-come- first-served routines of the local anglers on some of the most popular stretches of the Humber. Static fishing is not for me.
斯莫基•鲍尔(Smokey Ball)曾任科纳布鲁克市长，这是位于加拿大纽芬兰省亨伯河口造纸业中心的一个小社区。
在世界的这个角落，几乎每个加油站和渔具店柜台上，都有一个巨大的坛子，装满了斯莫基的 "轰炸机"--鱼雷形状的蝇钩，用鹿毛和暗橙色饰毛制成，钩头上是驯鹿毛皮。
其他人也制作轰炸机，但当地多数垂钓者都表示，斯莫基的轰炸机是最好的。他们逆流垂钓，调整鱼线，让蝇钩能静静地在水上漂浮。不过，这里说的是用拟饵钓三文鱼。
我知道，三文鱼会咬住拟饵，也知道它们会跳出水面咬钩。苏格兰、冰岛和挪威有许多河流，这里使用Collie Dog和Moonray Shadow等长条形的钓饵，有时会在鱼线上打一个结，制造涟漪。水面的波动会把三文鱼吸引过来。
但是，在把轰炸机拖过水面时，效果似乎不那么好。垂钓向导约翰•帕克 (John Park)表示："我们总是在上游垂钓。这似乎会让鱼心烦，早晚会有一只上钩。"
确实如此。我恐怕已经把水中能看到的鱼数了不下100遍，然后，突然，一条鱼猛跳起来，直扑鱼钩。然而，没有鱼上钩。又甩了两次钩后，发生了同样的事。鱼线上还是不见动静。约翰表示："你应该一看到鱼就收线。"
"哦，"我回答，再次忽略了一些关键信息。令我同样沮丧的是，我打开装着双钩和三锚钓钩的钓箱，结果被告知，垂钓规定要求，只能使用单钩，不能有倒钩，不能增加钓钩重量。
我感到有些负疚感，有些惭愧，还有些不光明正大，就好像用博福斯(Bofors)高射炮打野鸡一样。由于三文鱼数量不断减少，纽芬兰垂钓者所说的"公平垂钓"(play fair)规定在几年前于绝望之中推出，以期增加三文鱼数量。
就在不到 14年前，亨伯河的三文鱼几乎灭绝。后来伐木者停止了沿河漂运木材的做法。木材的细菌作用耗尽了水中的氧气，破坏了迁徙性三文鱼的栖息环境。
如今三文鱼数量开始回升，但之前的美好时光可能已一去不复返。当作为现代三文鱼垂钓技术开拓者之一的李 •伍尔夫(Lee Wulff)1937年第一次来到纽芬兰的时候，他花了数日时间，坐船沿亨伯河逆流而上。
在12英尺高的天然屏障大瀑布(Big Fall)前，成千上万的三文鱼聚在一起，每次都有10多条鱼同时跳起来，试图越过障碍。伍尔夫装好拟饵钓竿，开始在瀑布下垂钓。到傍晚停止垂钓时，他已钓上了75条三文鱼。除了第一条外，他把其余的全部放生了。
如今，这种捉放行为通过每人不超过6条鱼的严格配额而强制执行，不过我见到的所有垂钓者，都是按配额垂钓的。然而，有些人会在鱼儿耗尽体力之前，故意将上钩的鱼放生。对某些人而言，这种做法似乎有些奇怪。这些人习惯性地认为，只有岸上的鱼才是被捕获的鱼。
在亨伯河一些最受欢迎的水域，当地垂钓者奉行先到先得的惯例，但不是所有习惯于以竞争方式垂钓的人，都欣赏这一惯例。安静地垂钓不适合我。
类似Explore Newfoundland乔•迪克斯 (Joe Dicks)提供的向导服务，能带你去更荒僻的地方。可惜的是，我错过了前往美因河 (Main River)的垂钓。那天，迪克斯一行成功找到了几片氧气充足的水域，环境异常温暖，栖息着供人垂钓的鱼。
在不同国家，甚至不同河流，垂钓同一类鱼使用的不同方法之多，至今仍然让我感到吃惊。轰炸机适用于苏格兰吗？我能想到迪伊河(Dee)的几个地方，或许本月晚些时候，我可以在那里一试身手。
然而，未来两周，我得完成环绕英国和爱尔兰的帆船赛。重量控制非常严格，不过我还是偷偷放了点鱼线和鱼饵，以备机会出现。只要能钓鱼，你就得钓鱼。
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Parked on just about every filling station and fishing shop counter in this part of the world is a large jar full of Smokey's "bombers" - torpedo-shaped fishing flies made from deer hair and a slightly faded orange hackle feather, tipped with caribou fur
Other people make bombers too but most of the local fishermen say Smokey's are the best. They fish it upstream, mending the line so that the fly floats undisturbed. But this is dry fly fishing for salmon.
I know that salmon will take a dry fly and I know they take flies off the surface. There are many rivers in Scotland, Iceland and Norway where streamer-like flies such as the Collie Dog and the Moonray Shadow are fished, sometimes with a hitch in the line to create a riffle. The salmon are attracted to the disturbance.
But the bomber doesn't seem to work so well when pulled across the water. "We always fish it upriver. It seems to annoy the fish and sooner or later one will go for it," says fishing guide John Park.
It did too. I must have covered some fish I could see lying in the stream as many as 100 times when, suddenly, a head reared up for the fly. Nothing. Two casts later, the same happened. Again, not a twitch on the line. "You're supposed to strike as soon as you see it," said John.
"Oh," I said. Again, I was missing some crucial piece of information. In the same way I had been frustrated when opening my fly box, armed with double and treble hooks, only to be told that the fishing rules stated single hooks, unbarbed, with no weight added to the fly.
I felt slightly guilty, ashamed and somewhat unsporting in the same way that I might if I had gone to a pheasant shoot with a Bofors anti-aircraft gun. What Newfoundland anglers call their "play fair" rules were introduced a few years ago out of desperation in an effort to restore dwindling salmon stocks.
Not more than 14 years ago, the Humber River was almost clear of salmon, before the loggers stopped floating their timber down the river. Bacterial action on the wood had starved the water of oxygen, spoiling habitat for migrating salmon.
Today stocks are recovering but the great days are probably gone for ever. When Lee Wulff, one of the pioneers of modern salmonfishing techniques, first came to Newfoundland in 1937, he spent days making his way by boat up the Humber River.
At Big Falls, a natural 12ft-high barrier, salmon were gathered in their thousands, leaping a dozen at a time to get over the obstacle. Wulff assembled his fly rod and started fishing below the falls. By the evening, when he called a halt, he had landed 75 salmon, releasing all but his first fish.
Today catch and release is enforced by strict quotas of no more than six fish per season, but all the anglers I saw catch fish were fishing for their quota. Some, however, will deliberately release a hooked fish before they are played out. For someone who has been accustomed to viewing a fish on the bank as a caught fish, the practice seems odd.
Not everyone used to fishing a beat system will enjoy the first-come- first-served routines of the local anglers on some of the most popular stretches of the Humber. Static fishing is not for me.
Guiding services, such as the one offered by Joe Dicks at Explore Newfoundland, can get you out to the wilder places. Sadly, I missed out on a day fishing the Main River, where Dicks and his party managed to find some water well enough oxygenated in the unseasonably warm conditions to hold taking fish.
Smokey Ball is a former mayor of Corner Brook, a small community centred around the paper milling industry at the mouth of the Humber River in Newfoundland.
Parked on just about every filling station and fishing shop counter in this part of the world is a large jar full of Smokey's "bombers" - torpedo-shaped fishing flies made from deer hair and a slightly faded orange hackle feather, tipped with caribou fur
Other people make bombers too but most of the local fishermen say Smokey's are the best. They fish it upstream, mending the line so that the fly floats undisturbed. But this is dry fly fishing for salmon.
I know that salmon will take a dry fly and I know they take flies off the surface. There are many rivers in Scotland, Iceland and Norway where streamer-like flies such as the Collie Dog and the Moonray Shadow are fished, sometimes with a hitch in the line to create a riffle. The salmon are attracted to the disturbance.
But the bomber doesn't seem to work so well when pulled across the water. "We always fish it upriver. It seems to annoy the fish and sooner or later one will go for it," says fishing guide John Park.
It did too. I must have covered some fish I could see lying in the stream as many as 100 times when, suddenly, a head reared up for the fly. Nothing. Two casts later, the same happened. Again, not a twitch on the line. "You're supposed to strike as soon as you see it," said John.
"Oh," I said. Again, I was missing some crucial piece of information. In the same way I had been frustrated when opening my fly box, armed with double and treble hooks, only to be told that the fishing rules stated single hooks, unbarbed, with no weight added to the fly.
I felt slightly guilty, ashamed and somewhat unsporting in the same way that I might if I had gone to a pheasant shoot with a Bofors anti-aircraft gun. What Newfoundland anglers call their "play fair" rules were introduced a few years ago out of desperation in an effort to restore dwindling salmon stocks.
Not more than 14 years ago, the Humber River was almost clear of salmon, before the loggers stopped floating their timber down the river. Bacterial action on the wood had starved the water of oxygen, spoiling habitat for migrating salmon.
Today stocks are recovering but the great days are probably gone for ever. When Lee Wulff, one of the pioneers of modern salmonfishing techniques, first came to Newfoundland in 1937, he spent days making his way by boat up the Humber River.
At Big Falls, a natural 12ft-high barrier, salmon were gathered in their thousands, leaping a dozen at a time to get over the obstacle. Wulff assembled his fly rod and started fishing below the falls. By the evening, when he called a halt, he had landed 75 salmon, releasing all but his first fish.
Today catch and release is enforced by strict quotas of no more than six fish per season, but all the anglers I saw catch fish were fishing for their quota. Some, however, will deliberately release a hooked fish before they are played out. For someone who has been accustomed to viewing a fish on the bank as a caught fish, the practice seems odd.
Not everyone used to fishing a beat system will enjoy the first-come- first-served routines of the local anglers on some of the most popular stretches of the Humber. Static fishing is not for me.
斯莫基•鲍尔(Smokey Ball)曾任科纳布鲁克市长，这是位于加拿大纽芬兰省亨伯河口造纸业中心的一个小社区。
在世界的这个角落，几乎每个加油站和渔具店柜台上，都有一个巨大的坛子，装满了斯莫基的 "轰炸机"--鱼雷形状的蝇钩，用鹿毛和暗橙色饰毛制成，钩头上是驯鹿毛皮。
其他人也制作轰炸机，但当地多数垂钓者都表示，斯莫基的轰炸机是最好的。他们逆流垂钓，调整鱼线，让蝇钩能静静地在水上漂浮。不过，这里说的是用拟饵钓三文鱼。
我知道，三文鱼会咬住拟饵，也知道它们会跳出水面咬钩。苏格兰、冰岛和挪威有许多河流，这里使用Collie Dog和Moonray Shadow等长条形的钓饵，有时会在鱼线上打一个结，制造涟漪。水面的波动会把三文鱼吸引过来。
但是，在把轰炸机拖过水面时，效果似乎不那么好。垂钓向导约翰•帕克 (John Park)表示："我们总是在上游垂钓。这似乎会让鱼心烦，早晚会有一只上钩。"
确实如此。我恐怕已经把水中能看到的鱼数了不下100遍，然后，突然，一条鱼猛跳起来，直扑鱼钩。然而，没有鱼上钩。又甩了两次钩后，发生了同样的事。鱼线上还是不见动静。约翰表示："你应该一看到鱼就收线。"
"哦，"我回答，再次忽略了一些关键信息。令我同样沮丧的是，我打开装着双钩和三锚钓钩的钓箱，结果被告知，垂钓规定要求，只能使用单钩，不能有倒钩，不能增加钓钩重量。
我感到有些负疚感，有些惭愧，还有些不光明正大，就好像用博福斯(Bofors)高射炮打野鸡一样。由于三文鱼数量不断减少，纽芬兰垂钓者所说的"公平垂钓"(play fair)规定在几年前于绝望之中推出，以期增加三文鱼数量。
就在不到 14年前，亨伯河的三文鱼几乎灭绝。后来伐木者停止了沿河漂运木材的做法。木材的细菌作用耗尽了水中的氧气，破坏了迁徙性三文鱼的栖息环境。
如今三文鱼数量开始回升，但之前的美好时光可能已一去不复返。当作为现代三文鱼垂钓技术开拓者之一的李 •伍尔夫(Lee Wulff)1937年第一次来到纽芬兰的时候，他花了数日时间，坐船沿亨伯河逆流而上。
在12英尺高的天然屏障大瀑布(Big Fall)前，成千上万的三文鱼聚在一起，每次都有10多条鱼同时跳起来，试图越过障碍。伍尔夫装好拟饵钓竿，开始在瀑布下垂钓。到傍晚停止垂钓时，他已钓上了75条三文鱼。除了第一条外，他把其余的全部放生了。
如今，这种捉放行为通过每人不超过6条鱼的严格配额而强制执行，不过我见到的所有垂钓者，都是按配额垂钓的。然而，有些人会在鱼儿耗尽体力之前，故意将上钩的鱼放生。对某些人而言，这种做法似乎有些奇怪。这些人习惯性地认为，只有岸上的鱼才是被捕获的鱼。
在亨伯河一些最受欢迎的水域，当地垂钓者奉行先到先得的惯例，但不是所有习惯于以竞争方式垂钓的人，都欣赏这一惯例。安静地垂钓不适合我。
类似Explore Newfoundland乔•迪克斯 (Joe Dicks)提供的向导服务，能带你去更荒僻的地方。可惜的是，我错过了前往美因河 (Main River)的垂钓。那天，迪克斯一行成功找到了几片氧气充足的水域，环境异常温暖，栖息着供人垂钓的鱼。
在不同国家，甚至不同河流，垂钓同一类鱼使用的不同方法之多，至今仍然让我感到吃惊。轰炸机适用于苏格兰吗？我能想到迪伊河(Dee)的几个地方，或许本月晚些时候，我可以在那里一试身手。
然而，未来两周，我得完成环绕英国和爱尔兰的帆船赛。重量控制非常严格，不过我还是偷偷放了点鱼线和鱼饵，以备机会出现。只要能钓鱼，你就得钓鱼。
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- fishing [´fiʃiŋ]
n.钓鱼；捕鱼；渔业 四级词汇 - undisturbed [,ʌndis´tə:bd] a.未受干扰的；镇静的 四级词汇
- iceland [´aislənd] n.冰岛 六级词汇
- collie [´kɔli] n.柯利牧羊犬 六级词汇
- twitch [twitʃ] v.&n.(使)抽动；急拉 四级词汇
- treble [´trebəl] a.&n.三倍(重)的 六级词汇
- newfoundland [,nju:fənd´lænd] n.纽芬兰(岛) 六级词汇
- desperation [,despə´reiʃən] n.铤而走险，拼命 四级词汇
- taking [´teikiŋ] a.迷人的 n.捕获物 六级词汇
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