最有价值的飞蝇钓技巧 | 每周小贴士 #10

是什么让你在水上难以稳定地取得持续的成功？

What's keeping you from having consistent repeatable success out on the water?

就像那些向导或者钓了几十年鱼的老手那样，自信满满地钓鱼。

From fishing with that same sort of confidence you see guides approach it with or anglers who've been fishing for decades.

真的是因为时间够多，或者练熟了投掷、选饵这些技术吗？

Is it really just time and honing a bunch of technical skills like casting or fly selection?

这些确实有帮助，但我认识的那些顶尖钓手——就是我长大后想成为的那种人——未必投得最准，也说不出水里每一种昆虫的拉丁名。

Well, that stuff helps, but the best anglers I know, the ones I say I wanna be like when I grow up aren't necessarily the best casters and none of them can tell you the Latin name of every single bug on the water.

但他们都有一个共同点，其实很简单。

What they all have in common is really simple.

他们特别擅长观察水面，并根据看到的情况来调整应对策略。

They're incredible at watching the water and using what they see to inform how they tackle any given situation.

最重要的是，这种能力才是区分普通钓手和顶尖钓手的关键。

More than anything, this is the skill that separates the good from the great anglers.

所以今天在《Untangled》里，我会告诉你为什么这一点如此重要，以及掌握观察与等待的艺术，如何让你的钓鱼成功率明显提升。

So today on Untangled, I'll walk you through why this is so important and how mastering the art of watching and waiting will make you a noticeably more successful angler.

这里是《Untangled》，为每一位飞钓爱好者打造。

This is Untangled, fly fishing for everyone.

由Ventures Fly Co. 呈现。

Presented by Ventures Fly Co.

嘿，欢迎收听。

Hey, Welcome to it.

欢迎来到《Untangled》。

This is Untangled.

我是主持人斯宾塞·杜兰，这是我们在这些纯音频节目中做的第十期‘每周一招’特辑。

I'm your host, Spencer Durant, and this is the tenth tip of the week episode that we've done here on these audio only shows.

希望你们都喜欢这种‘每周一招’的格式。

So hopefully, you all enjoy these tip of the week formats.

如果有任何建议，或者特别想了解的内容，我们始终提供链接，欢迎随时提问或留言。

If you've got feedback for it, if there's something specific that you'd like to see, there's always links to send questions and stuff in or to leave comments or whatnot.

千万别错过。

Please do that.

如果你有什么想在这些每周小贴士里看到的内容，随时告诉我。

Let me know if there's anything you would like to see in these tips of the week.

不过今天我想先讲个小故事，为这期节目做个铺垫。

But I am gonna set the stage for this show today with a little story.

大约一个月前，我和亚历克斯还有我的好朋友瑞安·麦卡洛一起出去钓鱼。

About a month ago, I was out fishing with Alex and then my good friend Ryan McCullough.

我之前在节目里提到过他好几次。

I've mentioned him on this on the show quite a bit.

这次亚历克斯和瑞安终于见面了。

And Alex and Ryan, they finally got to meet each other.

我们三个人头一回一起出钓。

We finally all got to fish together.

那真是特别棒的一天。

It was a fantastic time.

和他们一起钓鱼，玩得特别开心。

Had an absolute blast with them.

我们第一天去钓鱼时，找了个挺长的河段，空间刚好够我们三人同时钓鱼，正好夹在两个水潭之间。

And the first day that we were out fishing, we set up we've had this nice long run that had enough room for the three of us, and it stretched kinda between these two pools.

我们拿着钓竿走到岸边，但谁都没急着装饵。

So we take our rods down to the bank, but none of us rigged up yet.

我们只是先找到想钓的位置，下了河岸，本来指望能看见些蓝翅橄榄蝇，或者石蛾，再不济也有PMD。

We just found where we wanted to fish, got down to the river, and we were expecting to see maybe some blue winged olives, maybe some caddis, maybe PMDs.

今年冬天天气反常，虫子出没的时间很乱，但我们还是盼着能有某种蜉蝣，说不定再赶上一波石蛾出水。

With the weather this winter, it's been kinda weird with the hatches, but we were expecting some sort of mayfly and then maybe a caddis hatch coming off as well.

可那天天气太暖了，蓝翅橄榄蝇根本没出来，阳光又太强，根本看不到大规模的蜉蝣群飞。

But the weather is just a little bit too warm for the blue winged olives to pop, and it was just really too bright and sunny for a really thick mayfly hatch when we were out on the water.

我们到那儿时，也看到几只小蠓虫在飞，但数量少得可怜。

There were a few midges buzzing too when we we got down there, but nothing in really huge numbers.

更奇怪的是，我们没看到一条鱼浮上来吃食——这河平时可是鱼儿全天候都在吃虫的。

And then the other thing we noticed was that there weren't any fish rising, which was kinda weird because this river is known for fish that rise, like, twenty four seven.

简直像开了挂一样。

It feels like.

河水的颜色有点发浑。

And then the water was just slightly off color.

我们掌握了这么多信息，看了这么多细节，让我想到了几种不同的钓鱼策略。

So we had all this information, all this this stuff we were looking at that told me, you know, different ways that I could tackle the river.

这条河里，摇蚊一直是鱼类主要的食物来源，比其他河流更重要。

And this is a river where midges are always a a really big part of the fish's diet more so than in other rivers.

摇蚊在哪儿都重要，但有些地方，它们就是唯一的关键。

Midges are always important, but some places they are that's that's it.

鱼就特别爱吃摇蚊，这条河就是这样的地方。

That's just what the fish love is midges, and this is one of those rivers.

我观察了大概十分钟，看到的都是之前说过的那些情况，最后决定用一钩浮漂一钩沉饵的组合，下面挂个摇蚊幼虫，上面配一只小蜉蝣，想着就算数量不多，应该还是会有蜉蝣在水面上活动。

So after watching the water for like ten minutes and seeing more of what I've already described, I just decided I was gonna set up a dry dropper rig with a midge nymph on the bottom and then put a small mayfly on top because I thought there should still be some mayflies out and about even if there's not a lot.

这周早些时候下过一阵雨，所以我做了个推测。

And then it had been a little stormy earlier in the week, so I would I was making an assumption.

我们没在现场，所以也不确定。

We weren't there so I don't know.

我也不太确定，但我就猜着，可能有几只蜉蝣飞出来了，鱼应该能认出来。

I I couldn't tell for sure, but I was making an assumption that, yeah, there's probably been a few mayflies out about the fish will recognize it.

所以我才选了这个饵。

So that's why I put that on.

然后亚历克斯也搭了类似的钓组，接着往下游走了一段，开始试探水面。

And then Alex, he actually put up a similar rig, and then he went a little little ways downstream to start working the water.

瑞安根本没做任何调整。

And Ryan didn't rig anything up at all.

他是个彻头彻尾的浮蝇派。

He is a dry fly purist through and through.

所以他一直盯着水面，等着有什么动静，等着看到持续的吃饵痕迹。

And so he just kept watching the water and waiting for something to happen, waiting to see some consistent rises.

我们确实看到几处靠近岸边的溅水痕迹，还有一次在河心一块大石头后面，但这些动静都不连贯。

We did see a few splashy rises close to the bank, then one out behind a boulder in the middle of the river, but there's no consistency to them.

水面上的虫子不多，所以我们也不敢肯定鱼到底在吃什么。

There wasn't a lot of bugs on top of the water, so we weren't a 100% sure what they ate.

那种情况根本不会让人想到要拿出干蝇饵来。

It just wasn't the kind of situation where you think, oh, I'm gonna bust out my dry flies.

他就坐在那儿，等着有什么动静。

So he's sitting there waiting for something to happen.

亚历克斯和我卖力地钓了一个小时，但那时候根本没钓到什么。

Alex and I fish hard for about an hour, and we really didn't have much to show for it at that point.

瑞安根本没钓鱼，因为他没看到鱼跃起，所以我们又回到最初搭伙的地方，拿了点零食，继续盯着水面。

And again, Ryan didn't fish because he didn't see any risers, so we all go back to the same part of the bank where we set up shop To begin, we grab some snacks and we just kept watching the water.

我们四处张望，想弄清楚到底发生了什么，毕竟之前已经试过好几种方法了。

Just kept looking around, trying to see what was going on because we we tried a few things so far.

那些办法都没用，那时候我们只能重新琢磨对策。

They hadn't panned out and it it was kinda back to the drawing board for us at that point.

吃完零食后，我又拿了一瓶冰凉的健怡可乐，瑞安和我决定往上游走走。

So after our snacks, I grabbed another nice ice cold Diet Coke, and Ryan and I decided we're gonna walk upstream.

公路就在河岸正上方。

The road's right above the river right there.

所以我们决定顺流而上走走，想看看能不能发现有鱼跃出水面，或者有昆虫，至少找点证据证明这条河里真有鱼——毕竟那时候我们都快怀疑它们是不是根本不存在了。

So we wanted to walk upstream, see if we could spot any rising fish, any bugs, any sign that there were actually fish in the river because we were at the point where we were starting to doubt their existence.

亚历克斯说：我就留在这儿了。

And Alex said, you know, I'll stay in this spot.

我继续在这儿钓。

I'll keep fishing it.

这水段不错。

It's good water.

这儿肯定有鱼。

There's gotta be something here.

我们就走了，刚离开大概五分钟。

So we left, and Ryan and I have been gone, like, five minutes.

突然听见亚历克斯大喊。

And we we hear Alex yell.

他喊的是：伙计们，有鱼上钩了！

And it was the yell of, guys, this is a fish.

我得帮忙，真的需要人搭把手。

I need like, I I'm gonna need a hand with it.

我们赶紧转身，往河岸上方的路跑上去。

So we turn around, and we're up on the road above the river.

从上面看得清清楚楚，他钓着东西，那鱼一跃而起，体型大得吓人。

So we got a good view, and he was tight to something, and then it jumped, and it was huge.

就算隔那么远，我也忍不住惊呼：天啊。

Even from that far away, I was like, oh my gosh.

这鱼也太大了吧。

That's a big fish.

我们立马往回狂奔。

So we hightail it back.

我顺手抄起抄网。

I grab the net.

赶紧过去帮他把鱼控制住。

I help him get it wrangled in.

结果是一条21英寸的彩虹鳟，又粗又壮，简直大得离谱。

Turns out to be this, like, 21 inch rainbow, just thick, fat, just sloppy big fish.

亚历克斯用的是皇家同花顺飞蝇，那种体型较大的陆生饵，因为他终于看到水面上有虫子，认出是石蝇。

And Alex had caught it on a royal flush, which is a larger terrestrial style fly because he'd seen some bugs on the water finally, and he knew they were stoneflies.

他一看见那虫子，立马就说：‘用皇家同花顺。’

And once he saw that, he's like, oh, royal flush.

一抛就中。

Boom.

这饵的大小跟那虫子一模一样。

This looks it's the same size.

形状也完全对得上。

It's the same shape.

这下肯定能骗到它。

It's gonna work perfect.

他完美地模仿了那虫子。

He matched it.

啪！

Boom.

就这样钓到了那条鱼。

Caught the fish that way.

你可能不知道石蝇是什么，也不一定了解我们今天提到的其他一些蝇饵。

And, you know, you might not know what a stonefly is, and you might not know some of the other flies that we've talked about so far today.

如果是这样的话，我们正好有一本野外指南。

So if that's the case, we've actually got this field guide.

完全是免费的。

It's completely free.

里面包含了所有你需要知道的信息：这些昆虫种类、它们的出没时间、我们推荐的对应蝇饵，还有其他很多实用内容。

It's got everything you need to know about all these different bug species in them, when they're coming off, flies that we recommend for them, a bunch of other stuff, a bunch of other information that's good to have.

完全防水的。

It's a completely waterproof.

这是一本实实在在的野外指南。

It's actual physical field guide.

它是螺旋装订的，大小正好能放进你的钓鱼包里。

It's spiral bound, so it's sized to fit just right there in your fishing pack.

里面包含了所有这些信息，而且完全免费。

We've got all this information in there, and it's completely free.

我们只让你承担一下邮费，把手册寄给你。

We just have you pay the shipping to get it to you.

我们就是希望你能掌握这些信息，万一你遇到这种情况，看到一条虫子却不知道是什么，一掏手册就能马上搞清楚。

We just want you to have all this information so that when when you're in a situation like this, you see a bug, you don't know what it is, boom, pull out the field guide, you can figure it out real quick.

你可以去 vfc.media/fieldguide 获取这份手册。

So you can go get that at vfc.media/fieldguide.

再次提醒，网址是 vfc.media/fieldguide，节目简介里也有链接。

Again, that's a vfc.media/fieldguide, or there's a link down in the show notes as well.

如果你对这些蝇饵不太熟悉，这确实是辨认它们的好办法。

But that that's a very helpful way to to figure out what these flies are if you're not super familiar with them.

于是亚历克斯钓到了那条大彩虹鳟。

So Alex catches that big rainbow.

我们开始在水边上下仔细找更多的石蝇，因为他之前看到过几只。

We start looking high and low for more stoneflies because he'd seen a couple.

你猜怎么着？

And what do you know?

终于有几只出现了，因为天气够暖了，石蝇都出来活动了。

There were a few out finally because it had warmed up enough that the stoneflies were out.

它们正忙着自己的事。

They're doing their thing.

玩得挺开心的。

They're having a good time.

就在这个时候，我们终于看到了瑞安一直等着的景象——鱼群持续在浮水。

And that is when we actually finally saw what Ryan especially had been waiting for, which was consistently rising fish.

就在离我们大概三十英尺远的岸边，紧贴着水边，几乎就在岸边几英寸的地方。

Maybe 30 feet up the bank from us, tucked right when I say right next to the bank, they're within like inches of the bank.

在阴影里，有两条鱼正不停地浮上来，吞食那些正想爬到岸边、晾干翅膀、飞走的石蝇。

In the shadows, there were two fish rising just munching as these stoneflies were trying to crawl the bank, dry their wings, and fly away.

我看了看瑞安，瑞安也看着我，他说：不，你先来。

And I looked at Ryan, and Ryan looked at me, and he's like, no, you fish first.

我就想，这我可不跟你争。

So I was like, I'm not gonna argue with you on that.

于是我朝那边抛了一竿。

So I threw a cast up there.

漂移得有点怪。

It was kind of a weird drift.

我得换个角度试试。

I had to get a different angle on it.

大概是我扔到第三或第四次的时候，终于钓上鱼了。

So I think the third or fourth cast that I threw through there, I I hooked a fish.

是条不错的褐鳟，不算特别大，但绝对是一条结实的好鱼，它直接 confidently 吞下了那只石蛾。

Pretty decent brown, nothing crazy, but a a really solid fish and it came up and it just confidently sipped that stonefly.

看着它一口咬住饵的样子，真是特别过瘾。

It was just so much fun to watch him just chomp on it.

但我钓上来后放了，拍了张照，然后就轮到Ryan了。

But I caught it, let it go, we got a picture of it, and then it was Ryan's turn.

他没有像我那样一上来就急着甩竿，而是坐下来，静静观察，等了一分钟，想再等一个翻花，看看该往哪儿投。

And he didn't just start fishing immediately like I did, because he sat, he watched, he waited for a minute for another rise, wanted to see where to cast.

他正盯着我之前钓到鱼的上游方向，那里之前有两条鱼在翻腾，突然，一条鱼就在他左肩外五英尺的地方冒了出来。

And as he's looking upstream where I caught mine and where the two had been rising, this fish rises literally five feet from him just to his left.

他收了点线，甩出一竿，把饵轻轻丢在他前方十英尺处，精准地顺着水流送到了鱼冒泡的位置。

So he reels in a little bit of line, and he throws a cast, like, 10 feet in front of him and just high sticks this drift right into where this fish rose.

鱼立刻浮上来，一口吞掉饵，他稳稳地把这条十八英寸的褐鳟抄进了网里。

And then the fish rises and eats it five feet from him, and he puts this 18 inch brown in the net.

我真没见过比这更绝的抛投了。

One of the most ridiculous cast I have honestly ever seen.

简直太离谱了。

It it was just it was ridiculous.

我讲这些故事，是因为你到河边来，如果不留心，不看水势，不跟着水流的节奏走，光凭自己想钓什么就硬来，那多半要空手而归。

So I tell these stories because you show up to the river, and if you're not paying attention, you're you're not paying attention to the water, and you're not letting the water dictate what you do, you're not letting it guide all of your choices, and you try to force things to happen based on what you wanna fish, chances are you're gonna get skunked.

明白吗？

K?

如果我们一到河边就坚持用蜉蝣饵钓鱼，尽管当时根本没蜉蝣出水，还一味地猛抛蜉蝣饵，指望鱼要么吃要么不吃，那我们这一天很可能一无所获，因为我们太盯着蜉蝣了，根本不会注意到后来开始出水的石蛾。

Because if if we'd shown up and we'd insisted on fishing mayflies on this river, even though they weren't hatching, and we just pounded the water relentlessly with mayflies until, you know, the fish either ate it or didn't, there's a really good chance we would have been skunked that day because we would have been so laser focused on the mayflies that I don't know that we would have even noticed the stoneflies that started hatching later.

明白吗？

K?

所以我们没那样做，没想着‘我知道会发生什么’，然后硬要按自己的想法来，而是到了河边，发现水面几乎没什么动静，就凭直觉行事。

So instead of taking that approach where you go and you think, oh, I know what's gonna happen, and you you try and make things happen the way you want, instead we showed up, we didn't see very much going on at all, and we went with our gut instincts.

你多钓几次，自然就会培养出这种直觉。

And you'll you'll develop that the more and more you fish.

你积累的经验越多，对直觉的把握就越准。

You'll get a lot better at instincts as you've got more experiences to draw on.

但当第一个计划没奏效时，哪怕我们当时觉得它挺靠谱、挺有把握，我们也立刻回到最可靠的方法——观察、等待，然后根据河流的反应来调整。

But when that first plan didn't pan out, even though we thought it was good, we felt confident about it, then we just went back to what we know works, which is watching, waiting, and then reacting to what the river is gonna do.

我经常听新手说他们在河边钓得特别不顺，聊起来通常都是：‘我去了，把箱子里的饵都试了一遍，鱼就是不咬。’

And so often, I'll tell you, I hear from beginners all the time about how they're they're having a tough time on the water, and the conversation usually goes, you know, I went out, I tried everything in my box, and the fish didn't like any of it.

我第一反应就是：我懂，我经历过。

And my first reaction to that is, hey, I've been there.

我真的经历过，完全理解那种感觉，确实挺糟的，我也替你难过。

I have been there, and I understand it, and it is not fun, and I am sorry because it sucks.

但接下来我会问：你干嘛把所有饵都试一遍？

But the the next reaction is, well, why did you try everything?

你用这些 fly 的时候，有没考虑过什么策略或理由？

Was there any sort of method to why you used the flies in the presentations that you did?

我不是说每个情况都得分析得特别细，但要是看到鱼在吃蜉蝣，你偏扔个掠食性假饵，结果怪鱼不吃，那问题出在你，不在鱼。

And I'm not saying that you have to be overtly analytical about every single situation, but it's a fisher rising to eat mayflies and you throw a streamer instead, then you get upset about the fish not eating the streamer, that that one's on you that's not on the fish.

对。

Yeah.

鱼几乎总在告诉你：它们在吃什么、躲在哪里、想要什么样的饵姿。

The fish are almost always telling you something about what they're eating, where they're hiding, what kind of presentation they want.

如果你一到河边，照老办法试了没效果，就接着把整个箱子的饵挨个扔一遍，那确实很难有收获。

And if you just go to the river, try your usual setup, it doesn't work, and then default to just cycling through your box after that and try and throw the whole box at the river, then, yeah, you really are gonna struggle.

你总会遇到那种把整个箱子的饵都试一遍，结果一个都不咬的日子。

You are going to have you you are gonna have those days where you throw the whole box at them and nothing sticks.

如果你想让这些方法持续有效、可重复地成功，那就得有个合理的理由和方法，不能瞎试。

There has to be some sort of reason, some sort of method to why you're doing what you're doing if you want those things to end up working consistently for you and in a repeatable way.

我一开始就说过了，你想要的是那种稳定、可复制的成功。

And I mentioned that right at the very beginning of the show that you want that consistent repeatable success.

你做的每一件事，都得有它的道理。

There's gotta be a reason for what you're doing.

我来举几个例子，帮你更清楚地理解这一点。

Let let me give you some examples to clarify this for you.

假设你到了河边。

Let's say you get to the river.

那是清晨。

It's early morning.

现在是夏天，你知道因为是夏天，石蛾正活跃。

It's summer, and you know that because it's summer, the caddis are going.

PMDs也在飞。

PMDs are going as well.

说不定还有些大蜉蝣。

Maybe even some drakes.

这两种都是蜉蝣。

Those are two mayfly species.

但你一到水边，却连一只石蛾都看不到。

But when you get to the water, you don't see a single caddisapp.

也没见到任何蜉蝣。

You don't see any mayflies.

只看到几只小蠓虫在乱飞，鱼根本不起口。

All you see are a few midges buzzing, and there's no fish rising.

明白了。

K.

鱼都不起口，除了蠓虫，别的昆虫也没怎么活动。

With the absence of fish rising, no bugs other than midges being terribly active.

根据我的经验，我觉得鱼都躲在深水区，等着下一次大规模的羽化出现。

What I draw from that based on my experiences is that the fish are hanging out down deeper, and they're waiting for the next bitch big hatch.

不好意思。

Pardon me.

它们在等下一次大羽化，好游到浅水区的流速快的水道和激流里觅食。

They're waiting for the next big hatch so they can move into those feeding lanes and the riffles and runs in the shallower water.

现在是夏天，鱼儿很可能对一只顺流而下的石蛾、PMD或者龙虱有反应，毕竟它们平时就常看到这些昆虫。

Now because it's summer, there is a pretty decent chance that a fish or two are gonna react to a caddis drifting in front of them or a PMD or drake because they're used to seeing those flies.

它们饿了。

They're hungry.

到时候，就算只是看到虫子漂到水面，它们也可能直接冲上来吃掉。

They they really might just see it drift up on the surface, come up, and eat it anyways at that point.

所以我还是会用其中一个当浮漂钓组的上饵，但我更在意的是把 nymph 钓组沉到深处——我猜鱼现在就藏在那里，等羽化真正开始之前。

So I will go ahead and use one of those as the top fly in a dry dropper rig, but I'm much more focused on getting my nymph down deep to where I suspect the fish are actually hanging out before the hatch really starts.

明白吗？

K?

所以我会用这个干蝇垂钓组合，如果我钓得够仔细、够到位，但还是没钓到鱼，那就说明我要么搞错了鱼的位置，要么猜错了它们今天想吃哪种饵。

So I'll go through with that dry dropper rig, and if I fish that well, if I fish that dry dropper rig effectively and I don't catch anything, then that tells me I'm either wrong about where the fish are hanging out or I'm wrong about what fly they wanted to eat that day.

百分之九十的情况下，我都猜错了鱼在哪。

Now 90% of the time, I'm wrong about where the fish are.

我特别容易在河边走的时候把鱼吓跑，明明觉得那儿不可能有鱼，结果一过去，鱼全在那儿。

I am so bad at walking up the river and spooking fish out of places where I didn't think they would be because it's like, oh, well, they're not gonna be there today.

它们本来待在那种水里，转眼就换到另一种水里了。

They've they've all been in this kind of water, and then they're in a different kind of water.

对。

Yes.

你得留意这类模式，这对你会很有帮助。

You wanna look for patterns like that that that's gonna be beneficial for you.

如果你发现鱼总是在两英尺深的水流交界处上钩，那就把每一个这样的地方都好好钓一遍。

Because if you notice that you're catching a lot of fish in the seams that are, like, two feet deep, you wanna fish every single one of those.

但如果你遇到一个只有一英尺半深的水流交界处，心想这儿肯定没鱼，结果一踩过去，一条大鱼被你吓跑了，那你就会跟我一样，觉得自己像大脚怪半夜踩着泥巴回家一样。

But if you get to a seam that's only a foot and a half deep or so and you think, oh, there's no fish in there, and then you spook a giant out of there, you're gonna feel like I do when you're stomping up the river like Bigfoot coming home late.

有时候我真就是这种感觉，哥们儿。

That's how I feel sometimes, man.

我吃得太多鸡翅，又喝了太多健怡可乐，走路都摇摇晃晃的，就这么一路踩着河水往上走，根本没好好琢磨该在哪儿下钩。

Like, I'm so overstuffed with wings and Diet Coke, I can't balance, and I'm just stomping up the river, and I'm not taking time to, you know, try and be thorough with where I where I'm fishing.

所以我说，九成时间我都猜不准鱼在哪儿。

So that's why I say, you know, like 90% of the time, I'm wrong about where the fish are.

它们要么比我钓 nymph 的地方更深，要么就在更浅的水里，早就开始吃那些即将羽化的成虫幼虫了。

So they're either usually deeper than where I've been getting my nymphs or they're holding in shallower water, and they're already eating the nymphs of the adults.

虽然我们还没看见成群的石蛾、PMDs 和大蜉蝣飞出来，但鱼已经在吃那些刚开始冒头的幼虫了。

Even though we don't see those adult caddis and PMDs and drakes out yet, they're eating the nymphs that are starting to emerge.

明白吗？

K?

在这种情况下，我接下来就会换几种不同的水区试试，直到找到鱼真正待的地方。

So in that situation, my next move would be to target slightly different types of water until I find out where the fish are.

我做的这一切，其实就是听河和鱼给我的信号，然后调整我的钓法去配合它们。

And I'm in all of this, what I'm doing is I'm taking what the river and the fish are telling me, and then I'm adapting my approach to match it.

我不是硬要逼着它们按我的想法来。

I'm not trying to force what I wanna do onto them.

我让它们告诉我该怎么做。

I'm letting them tell me what to do.

十五年前我可能会那么做，其实都超过十五年了。

Now what I would have done fifteen years ago, it's a brand longer than fifteen years ago.

我数学不好。

I I can't do math.

我刚入门钓鱼那会儿，一到夏天的早晨，就会直接开到那段水流边。

What I would have done as a brand new angler when I started out is would have pulled up to a run on that summer same summer morning.

我会在同一个地方用一只Elkhart Cattus连着钓好几个小时，死活觉得鱼迟早会咬，拼命想让鱼顺从我，而不是换个思路想想：今天鱼想玩的是哪一出？

I would have fished an Elkhart Cattus over the same piece of water for hours, insisting that the fish are gonna eat it eventually, and I would try and try and try to get the fish to bend to my will instead of going the other way around saying, okay, this is the game the fish wanna play today?

明白了。

Alright.

好，我就跟你碰一碰，用你自己的方式赢你，你这该死的鳟鱼。

I'm a meet you and I'm gonna beat you at your own game, you stinking dadgum trout.

这一切都发生在我真正停下来观察、等待、看清楚发生了什么之后。

And that all happened because I never stopped to actually watch, wait, and see what was going on.

再举个假设的例子。

Another hypothetical.

明白吗？

K?

假设你下午才到河边。

Let's say you get to the river in the afternoon.

蜉蝣正大量出水，鱼也在不断跃起，但它们的咬钩并不稳定。

The caddis are going nuts and the fish are rising, but they're not rising very consistently.

别一看到蜉蝣飞、鱼在吃，就马上换上蛾子或蜉蝣假饵，先停一停，观察一分钟——鱼到底在吃什么东西？

Instead of just tying on that elk or caddis because there's caddis going and there's fish rising, instead of tying that elk or caddis on, you should stop and watch for a minute because what are the fish actually rising on?

它们是在吃那些刚从水面飞走、准备去交配的成年蜉蝣吗？

Are they eating the adult caddis as they're skittering away from the water and and leaving the river to go mate?

还是说，蜉蝣在水面以上盘旋，偶尔快速点一下水，又立刻飞回去，像是在产卵？

Are the caddis buzzing high above the water, going down to touch it real quick, and then flying back up like they're laying eggs?

好。

K.

鱼是不是在它们短暂触水的时候就咬住了？

And are the fish grabbing them as they briefly touch the water?

或者更重要的是，有没有什么虫子在孵化，只是你太关注石蛾没注意到，而 trout 实际上吃的是这些浮在水面的虫子？

Or more importantly, are there any bugs hatching that maybe you didn't see because you're focused on the caddis and is that what the trout are actually eating off the top of the surface?

再说一次，我刚起步那会儿，看到天上飞着石蛾，

Again, young, first time I started doing this Spencer, I would just see caddis in the air.

看到鱼跃起，就默认是石蛾出羽，鱼饿了。

I'd see fish rising and assume it's a caddis hatch and the fish are hungry.

很多时候确实如此。

And very often that's true.

很多时候这样处理也没错。

Very often it's gonna serve you well.

我们之所以让你观察水面、水面下和周围的情况，是有原因的。

There's a reason we tell you to see what's going on in, on, and around the water.

但有时候，这种事最近就发生在我身上。

But sometimes, this happened to me quite recently.

我到水边时，正赶上一场大规模的羽化。

I get out on the water in this huge hatch.

可那些鱼根本对成虫没兴趣。

The fish weren't really interested in the caddis adults at all.

我看到的每一次跃起都是零星的。

All the rises I saw were sporadic.

那些跃起很猛烈，像是鱼在拍打刚要浮上来的蛹，或者正要回水面上产卵的石蛾。

They were splashy, kinda like the fish were trying to smack emergers or egg laying caddis coming back to the water.

没有那种规律的、有节奏的跃起。

There weren't consistent rhythmic rises.

也看不出哪里有鱼在集中吃食，没法确定该往哪儿抛竿。

Nothing that told me, okay, cast here to these fish.

看到这种情况，我就知道鱼很可能是在吃那些还没到水面薄膜、正往上浮的石蛾蛹。

What it tells me when I see stuff like that is the fish are likely eating the emerging caddis pupa where they're not in the surface film yet, but they're on their way up to it.

所以，像无铅pheasant tail或者半成品的石蛾这样的蝇饵，特别适合在 Elk Ear 石蛾成虫或其他石蛾成虫蝇饵旁边垂钓，能精准覆盖水体上层三分之一，那里正是鱼儿实际在觅食的位置。

So a fly like a weightless pheasant tail or a half baked caddis, it's a fantastic little pattern to fish right off of Elk Ear caddis or any other adult caddis fly, and then get into that top third of the water column where the fish are probably hanging out where they're actually looking.

当我学会把这些观察串联起来，明白自己为什么要这样搭配装备，飞蝇会落在哪里，以及这和我看到的鱼的行为有什么关系时，我才真正从‘靠运气钓鱼’转变成有了底气，觉得自己多少懂点门道了。

And once I learned to make these kinds of connections, once I learned how to make these observations and actually think about why I was rigging up the way that I do, where my flies were going to go, and how that fit into what I already saw the fish doing or not doing, that's really when I went from feeling like I just got lucky a lot out on the water to feeling like I actually had some confidence and maybe knew a little bit about what we were doing out there.

我在 VFC 里经常提到这一点，我们所有人都在讲：要搞清楚事情背后的原因。

And I I talk about this all the time at VFC, all of us do, and that is understanding the why behind things.

如果你真想在飞钓上有所成就，光懂这些是远远不够的。

It is not enough if you wanna be successful as a fly angler.

光知道怎么挥杆、怎么抛投、怎么操作才能钓到鱼，这远远不够。

It is not enough to just understand the mechanics and and the the actual motions that you need to do to catch fish.

你必须明白，为什么你要这么做。

You have to understand why you're doing things that way.

当你从河边退后一步，静静观察、耐心等待，愿意花点时间不钓鱼，只是看和等，你就能学到大量关于水下发生了什么的信息。

And when you step back from the river, when you watch and you wait and you're willing to take a minute and not fish, and you observe, you learn so much about what's going on.

自从我们开始拍视频、出外景拍摄这几年，我和 Alex 通过当镜头后面的人、透过镜头观察鱼群、不亲自下竿，只是全程用镜头追踪，学到了太多东西了。

I can't tell you how much Alex and I have learned in the last three or four years since we've started making all these videos and filming and being out on the water, just by being the one behind the camera and looking at these fish through the camera lens and not fishing, just following it all with the lens, We've learned so much.

我们观察到的一些现象简直让人震惊，比如昆虫在水面上的移动和停驻方式，还有鱼对它们的反应，尤其是那些拒食的瞬间。

It's blown our minds some of the things that we've observed about how the the bugs actually move and sit on the water, how the fish actually react to them, especially the refusals that we get.

我们经常拍到鱼近距离拒食飞蝇的镜头，但根本搞不懂它们为什么不吃。

You know, we'll see some close-up shots of fish refusing flies for reasons we can't figure out.

明白吗？

K?

镜头里看起来漂移完美，可鱼就是觉得哪里不对劲。

Because it looks like a perfect drift on the camera, but there still was something about that the fish didn't like.

所有这些，其实都源于我们拍摄时保持的那个最基础的动作——停下来、观察、等待。多年来，这教会了我们太多，我敢说，它也会让你更懂鱼的行为，因为你一旦静下心来看，就能看到那些‘为什么’。

All of that, again, kind of unique situation where we're filming things, but still just that very basic motion of just stopping, watching, and waiting has taught us so much over the years, and I guarantee it's gonna teach you a lot about how the fish are acting because when you take the time to observe it, you're you're going to see some of that why.

你会更清楚自己为什么要这么做。

You're gonna understand a little bit more of why you're doing this.

明白吗？

K?

所以，如果你真想在今年的钓鱼技术上取得突破，真正提升上鱼率，那你最该培养的技能，就是学会观察、等待，然后听从水流和鱼的提示去行动。

So if you really wanna make some big strides as an angler this year, you really wanna improve, you really wanna improve your catch rate on the water, then the most important skill you can develop is learning to watch, to wait, and then to do what the water and the fish are telling you to do.

这一定会让你受益匪浅。

And that is gonna help you out a ton.

我敢保证。

I guarantee it.

如果你还有任何反馈、问题，或者想进一步讨论这个话题，欢迎在评论区留言，也可以加入我们的学习群，告诉我你的想法。

And if you got any other feedback, any questions, comments, follow ups about this at all, please definitely drop a comment, let me know, jump into our school group as well and let me know there.

我很想继续聊聊这个话题，但毫无疑问，这是钓鱼人最该掌握、也最值得培养的一项飞蝇钓技巧。

I'd love to continue the conversation about this, but this really is the most valuable fly fishing skill that I think anglers can and should develop.

希望这些内容对你有帮助。

So hopefully that helped out.

如果你对这个话题有什么新的见解，也欢迎在评论区分享。

If you got any other insight on this you wanna share, again, drop those comments.

不过今天就先到这里了，大家该收工去忙自己的事了。

But until next time folks, it is time to wrap this up and get on with our day.

咱们下次再聊，现在赶紧去河边吧，好好享受，过好每一天。

So I will see and talk to y'all later, but until then, get out on the water, enjoy yourselves, and live real life.