夏日干飞钓鳟鱼：大多数钓友却忽视了 | 第187集

一到夏天，大家都爱用那些大号飞蝇，比如胖乎乎的切尔诺贝利或者皇家同花顺。

You get into summer and everyone gets excited to throw big bugs like a chubby Chernobyl or a royal flush.

这些飞蝇确实有时候特别管用。

And those certainly get the job done sometimes.

可有几种小飞虫，大多数钓友——包括我——都常常忽略。

There's a couple of flies that most anglers, myself included, just overlook.

整个夏天，鳟鱼都把它们当食物，可它们却很少出现在虫情表上。

These bugs are on the menu for trout all through summer, but they rarely make it onto a hatch chart.

所以今天在《Untangled》里，我会告诉你这几种飞蝇是什么，为什么你该试试，以及为什么它们年复一年总被忽视。

So today on Untangled, I'll share with you what those flies are, why you should think about using them, and why I think they get overlooked so much year after year.

这是《Untangled》，为每个人而做的飞蝇钓。

This is untangled, fly fishing for everyone.

每个人。

Everybody.

欢迎收看。

Welcome to it.

欢迎收看《Untangled》，我是主持人斯宾塞·杜兰，今天又回到VFC高级垂钓研究学院，这里不颁学位，因为学习永无止境。

This is Untangled, and I am your host, Spencer Durant, back here at the VFC Institute for Advanced Angling Studies where we don't give degrees because the learning never stops.

说到学习，最近几期节目我开头总在讲自己的失败和错误。

And speaking of learning, I have opened a lot of the shows lately with my failures and my mistakes.

幸运的是，这些经历真的让我学到了不少东西。

I've been learning quite a lot from those lately, thankfully.

今天这期也一样，我要聊一个我过去几乎完全忽视的问题——直到去年，准确说是过去一年半左右，我整个钓鱼生涯里都没好好用过两种明明在鱼食谱上的虫子。

And today's show is gonna be no different because it's time to talk about something that up until the last, oh, I'd say year, year and a half or so, I spent my entire fishing career until, like I said, the last year, year and a half, criminally underutilizing two bugs that are on the menu.

它们是鳟鱼夏季饮食里的重要组成部分，也就是蚂蚁和甲虫。

They're a big part of a trout's diet, especially in the summer, and that would be your ants and your beetles.

我说的蚂蚁，是那种毁掉你野餐的小虫子，不是你姑姑凯伦。

And I'm talking ant like the the little critter that ruined your picnics, not your aunt Karen.

我坚决不念成‘姑姑’。

I refuse to pronounce it aunt.

明白吗？

K?

我可不是在葡萄园长大的，也没事儿就去海滩找杰拉德打场网球，不是那样的。

I I didn't grow up with an estate in the vineyards and going down to play a spot of tennis with a Gerard down by the beach and no.

是蚂蚁，不是姨妈。

It's ant.

我就死磕这个说法了。

I'm gonna die on that hill.

不过说来有点不好意思，直到最近之前，我确实没怎么用过蚂蚁和甲虫饵。

Anyways, it feels kind of funny to admit that, yeah, up until recently, I didn't spend a lot of time with ants and beetles.

但我知道，不只我一个人这样，很多人根本没怎么想过用这两种饵。

But I know I'm not the only one who never went that or who never really gave them a lot of thought.

我很高兴自己终于去了解了它们，开始真正使用，也亲自验证了效果，现在能跟大家分享这些经验。

And I'm I'm glad that I was able to, you know, learn about them and really start using them and and put that knowledge to the test the last little bit and then be able to come and share what I've learned with y'all.

今天我们要聊的就是：什么时候、哪里能找到蚂蚁和甲虫，为什么鳟鱼爱吃它们，它们为什么是菜单上的常客，该怎么钓，最后当然会推荐我们VFC团队最常用的几种仿生饵。

But that's what we're gonna learn about today is when and where you're gonna find ants and beetles, why trout eat them, why they're part of the menu, how to fish them, and then, of course, we will end with the patterns that we recommend you use here from all of us at VFC.

那咱们就开始吧。

So let's start out.

我最近在为这期节目做些研究、整理资料时，读到一些关于用蚂蚁和甲虫飞钓的旧故事，其中有一篇是欧内斯特·施维伯特写的。

As I was doing a little bit of research and just getting some notes together for the show this week, I was reading some old stories about fly fishing with ants and beetles, and I came across one that Ernest Schwiebert wrote.

如果你不知道欧内斯特·施维伯特是谁，他是二十世纪最早一批系统研究飞钓的作家之一，把很多关于水生昆虫的知识带进了大众视野。

If you don't know who Ernest Schwiebert is, he is one of the pioneering fly fishing writers of the twentieth century who brought a lot of knowledge about aquatic insects into the mainstream.

抱歉。

Excuse me.

他的文字有时候不太好懂，读起来挺费劲。

It wasn't always easy to read or easy to understand.

他的几本书内容特别密集，但他确实把很多专业知识带到了台前。

Some of his books are very dense, but he brought a lot of that knowledge out of the forefront.

他为这方面的推广做了很多贡献。

He did a lot for it.

他在19年……这文章是哪年的？

And in '19 when's the date on this?

1978年，他写了一篇专门讲蚂蚁的小文章。

1978, he wrote this little story all about ants.

他写过的一段话特别打动我，想跟你们分享一下。

So one thing that he wrote really stuck out to me, wanted to share it with you.

他说：‘很少有钓鱼人意识到，蚂蚁在鳟鱼的食谱中占着重要地位，因为大多数飞蝇钓手更关注蜉蝣和其他水生昆虫。’

He said, quote, few anglers realize that ants are a major factor in the trout diet since most fly fishermen are more conscious of mayflies and other aquatic insects.

所有钓鱼人都见过，在春夏季炎热的午后，鳟鱼在水面轻轻吸食蚂蚁，可大多数人并不明白，那些鱼其实是在吃蚂蚁。

All fishermen have seen trout taking ants during the hot afternoons of spring and summer, most without realizing what the fish were doing as they sipped and bulged softly in the surface film.

是的。

Yeah.

我完全可以证实这一点。

Well, I can attest to that.

最近我越来越了解蚂蚁和甲虫之后，发现确实如此。

That is true over the last little bit as I have learned more about ants and beetles.

欧内斯特说的这句话非常准确。

That is a very true statement from Ernest.

我会在节目笔记里附上他的全文链接，如果你想读的话。

And I'll go ahead and link his entire piece down in the show notes if you wanna read it.

但我觉得，结合我最近的一些经历，再加上那些经常钓蚂蚁和甲虫的钓手们的经验，最重要的一点是：这些东西在鱼的食谱里所占的比例，远比我们大多数人意识到的要大得多。

But the big takeaway, I think, to take from that and then my experiences last little bit, and then, of course, the experiences of all the anglers who regularly fish ants and beetles is that they are a a much larger part of a fish's diet than most of us recognize.

蚂蚁和甲虫虽然不像蚂蚁那样数量庞大，但一旦掉到水面上，鱼就会特别关注它们，因为它们个头大，看起来就像一顿丰盛的大餐，跟蝗虫一样能吸引鱼的注意。

Ants, especially beetles, they're not they're not going to be as abundant in in huge numbers as ants are, but they really do get a ton of attention from the fish when they land on the water because, you they're big, they they make this big juicy looking meal the same way that a hopper gets a lot of attention from fish.

甲虫也是同样的道理。

Beetles are gonna get that too.

还有来自另一位优秀飞蝇钓作家的信息，这次是蕾妮·哈罗普。

And another bit of information from another wonderful fly fishing writer and this time fly tire, Renee Harrop.

他非常有名。

He's really famous.

他来自爱达荷州，因为在亨利斯福克河开发出的一系列钓饵而广为人知。

He's from Idaho, really famous for his patterns that he developed out there on the Henry's Fork.

他曾在另一篇文章里讲过一个关于一位老人的故事。

And he told a story once in another article about this old guy.

这位老人叫加什，真是个很有年代感的好名字。

His name was Gash, which is a great old guy name.

这位叫加什的老先生，总是去亨利斯福克河的铁路段钓鱼，那地方被誉为全球最难钓鳟鱼的水域之一。

And he he this Gash guy would always fish the railroad section of the Henry's Fork, is renowned for being one of the toughest pieces of trout water to fish anywhere on the planet.

加什每次去钓鱼，只用一种旧式的鹿毛甲虫假饵。

And all that Gash would ever use when he would go fishing was this old deer hair beetle pattern.

雷nee·哈罗普在文章里提到，这位老先生认为，如果让鳟鱼自己选，它们永远会挑甲虫，而不是其他任何饵料。

And Renee Harrop wrote in his story, he said that this old guy, quote, thought that given a choice, trout would always select a beetle over anything else that might be available.

虽然这个观点还没被我完全证实，但鳟鱼对甲虫的反应确实有种特别之处。

Though this theory has never been completely proven to my satisfaction, there is definitely something special in the way trout respond to beetles.

和认识他的人一样，我把这种行为被更多人注意到，归功于加什。

And like others who knew him, I credit Gash for creating greater awareness of this behavior.

自从在河边遇见他之后，我钓鱼时带的甲虫假饵就多了起来。

I carry and fish more beetles since I met him along the river.

听了雷nee·哈罗普的说法，再加上欧内斯特·施维伯特提醒我们：这些饵确实重要，但不是人人都用，

So getting hearing that from Renee Harrop and then the reminder from Ernest Schwiebert that, hey, these are important, but we know not everybody uses them.

这让我对自己过去在飞钓生涯里一直忽略甲虫假饵，心里好受了一点。

Again, makes me feel a little bit better about the fact that I ignored them for so long in my fly fishing career.

但这确实让你对蚂蚁和甲虫在鱼类饮食中的作用有了一个宏观的认识。

But that really gives you that high level overview of the role that ants and beetles play in a fish's diet.

它们确实会被吃掉。

They do get eaten.

它们被吃掉的频率比我们想象的要高得多，待会儿我就细说。

They do get taken quite frequently more than we realize, and I'll get to that in a minute.

但它们也不只是在西部或者高山溪流里才用得上。

But they're they're also not something that just be used out west or in the high mountain streams either.

我觉得施维伯特说的那番话确实有道理。

And I I really think what what Schwiebert said about it all was true.

他说，我们根本不像关注蜉蝣、石蛾和摇蚊那样注意到它们的存在。

He said that, you know, we're just not aware of them in the way that we are aware of mayflies and caddis and midges.

它们没有水生昆虫那种吸引人的美感。

They don't have that same beauty appeal of aquatic insects.

另一个让人难以察觉鱼在吃蚂蚁的原因是——甲虫还好说，但蚂蚁特别不容易浮在水面上。

And the other thing that makes it tough to realize that fish are eating ants in particular beetles is a little bit easier, but ants in particular is that ants don't float really high on the surface.

它们没有那种直立的大翅膀，也没有像毛茸茸帐篷一样的翅膀，个头小，本来就不太适合浮在水面上。

They don't have those big upright wings or the big bushy tent like wings, and they're smaller and they're not really designed to float.

水生昆虫是，蚂蚁却不是。

Aquatic insects are, ants are not.

所以它们在水面上浮得低，如果你不仔细看，根本不会立刻意识到——哦，那条鱼是在吃蚂蚁。

So they don't sit as high in the water, and if you're not paying very close attention, it's not always immediately obvious that, oh, that fish is eating ants.

看起来只是鱼跃起来吞了点水面的东西，但你根本看不清那到底是什么。

It just looks like they came up and took something off the surface, and you couldn't really tell what it was.

所以我们忽略它，其实也不奇怪。

So it's not surprising that we overlook it.

我们很少看到，也根本不会想到它们，因为它们不像蜉蝣、石蛾或石蝇那样显眼，那些虫子可是到处乱爬，惹人注意。

We don't see it very often, and we just don't think about them because they're not as in your face as the mayflies and the caddis or the stoneflies that crawl all over your whatever else you're looking at.

如果你还不清楚我刚才说的那些虫子是什么——比如蜉蝣、石蝇、摇蚊，我们之前聊过的那些水生昆虫，我们专门整理了一份详尽资料，讲它们什么时候羽化、什么时候用、推荐用什么假饵、怎么搭配钓组，全都有。

And just in case you don't know what those other flies are, you know, mayflies, stoneflies, caterflies, midges that we've been talking about, we've got a whole bunch of information about all the aquatic insects, when they hatch, when to use them, flies we recommend, rigs, all that stuff.

这些内容都在我们的《野外指南》里。

All this is in our Field Guide.

这是一本完全免费的防水螺旋装订小册子。

It's this completely free little waterproof spiral bound book.

我们设计它时，就是为了能轻松放进任何钓鱼包里。

We designed it to fit inside just about any fishing pack.

再说一遍，它是免费的，而且防水。

And again, it's free and it's waterproof.

所以你直接拿上就行。

So you just grab it.

往包里一塞就完事。

It goes right in your pack.

在河边的时候，所有这些信息都能随时翻看。

You've got all this information to reference right there on the river.

不用非得在去河边前，费劲下载个播客来听。

You don't have to try and download a podcast and listen to this right before you go to the river or whatever.

你只要一掏出来，指南就在那儿，随时可用。

You could just, boom, pull the field guide out, and it's there.

再说一遍，这些完全是免费的。

Again, they're completely free.

我们希望每个人都能拿到一份。

We want you guys to have them.

你只需要付一下邮费，就能收到它们。

You just need to pay shipping to get them to you.

如果你想要一本，可以在节目笔记里找到链接，或者如果你看的是视频播客，屏幕上也会显示二维码。

So if you'd like a copy, there's a link down in the show notes, or there will be a QR code here on the screen as well if you're watching the video podcast.

考虑到这些，我们知道鳟鱼确实会吃蚂蚁和甲虫。

So with all that in mind, we know trout are gonna eat ants of beetles.

那我们在什么时候、什么地方用这些假饵呢？

When and where do we bust these flies out?

什么时候该开始用它们？

When do we start using them?

它们主要是夏天用的饵，但会延续到初秋，差不多从融雪结束一直到今年第一次大冻霜之前。

Well, they're definitely summertime flies, but they're gonna bleed over into early fall to basically from end of runoff ish to the first big freeze of the year.

现在用蚂蚁和甲虫饵特别合适。

It's a great time to be using ants and beetles.

尤其是大风天，特别适合钓这些虫子，毕竟它们是陆生昆虫。

And really, any hot windy day is gonna be especially great to fish these bugs in particular since they're terrestrial insects.

它们并不生活在水里。

They don't live in the water.

它们可能住在水边，但跟石蛾或蜉蝣不一样，不会在水里生活。

They'll live near it, but they don't live in it the way that your caddyssey or mayflies do.

刮风的时候，很多会被吹到河里。

So the windy days blows a lot of them to the river.

它们本身飞得不算好，一阵大风就可能把它们吹到河面上。

They're not always the greatest flyers, so you get a big wind gust that might blow them out to the river.

一不小心就掉进水里了。

They might fall in.

甲虫停在岸边的植物上，也可能一不小心掉进水里。

The beetles might be on the stream side vegetation, then they fall in as well.

到了夏天越往后，水里出现的蚂蚁和甲虫就越多。

And the later and later we get into the summer, the more and more ants and beetles you're going to see in the water.

因为夏天越往后，其他地方的植物越干枯死亡，但靠近河边的植被依然茂盛翠绿，这些昆虫就喜欢待在那儿觅食。

Because as you get later and later into the summer, all the other vegetation starts to dry out, starts to die, but all the stuff closest to the river stays nice and lush and green, and that's where these bugs wanna hang out and eat their food.

所以夏天越往后，你就越该用这些虫子来钓鱼。

So later and later you get in the summer, the more and more you're gonna look to fish with these bugs.

这大概就是什么时候该用这些虫饵的总体情况了。

So that's really kind of the high level overview of when you want to fish them.

不过，遇到大规模的飞蚁交配群时，你也可以用蚂蚁饵来钓鱼。

But with ants, you can also fish them if you run into any big mating swarm of flying ants.

没错，这确实会发生，如果你以前没见过的话。

And, yes, that is a thing, if you haven't seen it before.

我本人还没碰上过几次这样的情况。

I'd never run into too many of them.

我不确定是不是某些地方更常见一些。

I don't know if it's more common in some areas versus others.

其实我以前也没怎么留意过蚂蚁，直到我刚才提到的那个时候。

I've also just never really paid a lot of attention to ants either up until, like, I I mentioned a little while ago.

不过根据我听说的、读到的和观察到的，一旦遇到这种交配的飞蚁群，场面会特别热闹。

So but from from what I've been told, what I've read and looked at, these flying swarms of mating ants will create enough of a frenzy if you get into them.

鱼会优先吃这些飞蚁，而不是蜉蝣或石蛾之类的其他昆虫，因为它们就是冲着这顿大餐去的，我觉得这点特别有意思。

The fish will eat those over mayflies or caddis or whatever else happens to be on the water because they'll just go for the gains, which I think is really interesting that they'll they'll key in on them that way.

我从来没碰上过那种大量飞蚁掉进水里的交配大群。

And I've never been into that big swarm of mating ants that all kinda end up in the water.

但如果你遇到过，一定要在评论里说说。

But if you have, definitely drop a comment.

跟我们分享一下你的经历。

Tell us about that experience.

我觉得看看这样的情况一定很有趣。

I think that'll be cool to see.

亲身经历一下也一定很棒。

And cool to experience too.

但我记得，当时我正在看书，或者是在跟人聊天。

But I I remember I was reading I was either reading or talking to somebody.

这周为了做这期节目，我做了不少准备工作。

I did I did fair amount of that prepping for the show this week.

他们跟我讲，有一次他们在西部一条著名的自由河钓鱼，带了全套的水生昆虫饵料。

And they were telling me about a time they were out on one of the big famous Freestones out here in the West, and they had all their aquatic insects.

一切准备就绪，刚走到水边，就发现一群彩虹鳟正在那儿悠闲地吃东西。

They were ready to go, and they get down to the water, and they found a bunch of rainbows that were just snacking, just munching.

可不管他们扔什么饵，鱼就是理都不理。

But they were ignoring every aquatic insect that threw at them.

最后他们才反应过来，原来水里飞着的那些小黑点，是蚂蚁。

And finally, they realized, oh, these flying little black things they see in there are ants.

于是他们随身带着工具，赶紧临时绑了几个蚂蚁假饵。

So they had a vice with them, so they tried to tie up a couple of ants real quick.

然后重新回到水边。

Go back out there.

他们钓到了几条鱼，但大部分时间都无视了水里的昆虫，那次唯一钓到的鱼，都是靠蚂蚁钓上的。

They caught a few, but they mostly just ignored the aquatic insects, and the only fish they caught came on the ants on that trip.

所以这种事情确实是会发生的。

So it does happen.

就像我说的，我真希望有一天能亲身体验一次。

Like I said, I'd love to experience that at some point.

所以，我下一个大目标可能是去找找这种蚂蚁落水的现象，不管怎么称呼它吧。

So maybe my next big goal is go find an ant fall or whatever we wanna call it.

不是什么羽化飞舞的蜉蝣，而是蚂蚁落水。

Instead of a spinner fall, it'll be an ant fall.

不过呢。

But yeah.

所以这也是个提醒，你得留心观察。

So it it's that's another time when you wanna just pay attention.

如果你看到很多蚂蚁，尤其是满天飞的蚂蚁，就赶紧绑个蚂蚁假饵，因为很可能有不少蚂蚁掉进水里了。

If you see a lot of ants, if you see the flying ants that are buzzing around, tie an ant on because there's a very good chance that there are some ending up in the water.

所以总结一下，我建议你在融雪结束后，一直到本季第一场霜冻前，多试试用蚂蚁和甲虫饵钓鱼。

So again, to sum this all up, I would focus on fishing your ants and your beetles anytime after runoff until about that first frost of the season.

特别是当你看到鱼在跃出水面，却没发现任何水生昆虫时，一定要用蚂蚁饵。

And then I would especially focus on fishing with an ant when you see fish rising, but you don't see any specific aquatic insects on the surface.

因为这种时候，钓鱼人真的特别抓狂。

Because that's one of those really frustrating moments that you get into as an angler.

你明明看见鱼在吃食，能清楚地看到它们在水下活动，可水面却连一只虫子都看不到。

As you're out there, the fish are rising, you can clearly see them doing something under the surface, but they're not they're not giving you any clues that you don't see any bugs on the surface either.

对。

Yeah.

它们也可能是趁着石蛾蛹浮上水面时在吃这些幼虫。

They they might be eating caddis pupa as they come up in their emergence.

我们知道鱼特别爱吃这个，但也很有可能它们同时在吃蚂蚁。

We know fish love to snack on those, but there's also a really good chance that they're eating the ants too.

所以如果水面啥虫子都没有，就直接抛蚂蚁饵。

So if you don't see anything on the surface, throw some ants.

你可能会让自己都吃一惊。

You you might end up surprising yourself.

至于甲虫，就像我之前说的，它们引发鱼咬钩的概率，比蚱蜢甚至蝉还要高。

Now with beetles, like I mentioned earlier, they are a lot more likely to get that response that grasshoppers or even cicadas do, honestly.

我钓甲虫的方式，和钓蝉差不多。

The the way that I fish beetles is very similar to how I fish cicadas.

就像蝉羽化的时候，很少会看到一大片蝉连续不断地飞满整条河，不像蜉蝣或者摇蚊那样密密麻麻地铺在水面上。

And it's the same thing with a cicada hatch is it's pretty rare to get into, like, a a steady stream of cicadas just all over the river the way that you see a lot of mayflies or a lot of midges on the water surface.

但如果鱼不太活跃，把甲虫饵抛到岸边附近，轻轻抽动几下，让它看起来像在挣扎，就能吸引鱼过来。

But if the fish aren't doing very much, a beetle, if you throw it tight to the bank, you kinda twitch it a little bit to make it look like it's struggling, that's gonna get some fish to come over.

最起码它们会凑过来看一眼，但有很大概率直接一口吞掉，毕竟这是顿大餐。

And at a bare minimum, they're gonna look at it, but there's a high likelihood they're just gonna eat it too because that's a big ticket meal.

现在正是时候。

It's the right time of year.

鱼早就习惯看到它们了，吃起来的频率会比你想象的高得多。

They're used to seeing them, and they will eat them more than you anticipate.

所以这就是钓这些虫子有趣的地方。

So that that's what's kinda fun about fishing them.

很多人一想到大泡沫浮虫，第一反应就是蚱蜢，但甲虫却常常被忽略。

You think big foam bugs, the default for a lot of folks is grasshoppers, but beetles, they kinda get overlooked.

再说地点，我真的想强调，这里其实没那么重要，因为蚂蚁和甲虫在鳟鱼溪流里几乎到处都能见到，除非是特别高的海拔地区。

And then, again, location, I wanna stress this, really doesn't matter too much here either because you're gonna find ants and beetles active on trout streams, honestly, everywhere except maybe like the really high elevation stuff.

我敢肯定高处也有蚂蚁。

I'm sure there's ants up there.

我敢肯定高处也有甲虫。

I'm sure there's beetles up there.

我只是不太确定。

I just don't I don't know.

我不清楚海拔一万一千英尺的地方蚂蚁到底是什么情况。

I I don't know for sure like what the ant situation is at 11,000 feet.

但如果你在一万一千英尺的高处钓鱼，要是那条溪里的割喉鳟和溪鳟不吃蚂蚁或甲虫，我反而会觉得很意外。

But if you're up there at 11,000 feet and you're fishing a stream, I would also be very surprised if the cutthroat and the brook trout in that stream didn't wanna eat an ant or beetle.

所以不管你住在落基山脉，还是东海岸，或者德里特尔地区，不管你在哪儿钓鱼，蚂蚁和甲虫都是鱼的常见食物。

So they're they're gonna work for you regardless if you live, yeah, here in the Rockies or if you're somewhere on the East Coast or in the Driftless, wherever you're fishing, ants and beetles are gonna be on the menu.

接下来咱们聊聊实际钓鱼时该怎么操作。

Now let's also dive into some actual how to on the fishing side of it.

我觉得接下来这部分会挺有意思的。

I think that'll be a fun thing to get into next.

咱们先从蚂蚁说起。

Let's start with the ants.

行吧？

K?

如果你在河边，看到鱼在跃起进食，动作看起来像是在吃成虫。

If you are on the river, you see fish rising, you see them eating in a way that that looks like they're eating adults.

你看到鱼的头部破水而出，水面还有点溅起，但根本看不到水面上有昆虫。

You see the head breaking the surface, you see a little bit more of a splash, but you don't see any insects on the water at that point.

这时候用蚂蚁就对了。

Ants would be a great bet.

投掷甲虫也是个不错的选择，因为鱼儿已经明确告诉你了——它们正抬头觅食，愿意在水面吃东西，而我们知道鳟鱼特别爱吃陆生昆虫。

Beetles would also be a great bet because what's going on is the fish are showing you that, hey, they're looking up, they are willing to eat off the top, and we know trout love terrestrial insects.

这些昆虫营养丰富，我觉得鳟鱼特别喜欢它们，就是因为知道它们逃不掉。

They're a high value food item, and I think they really love them just because they know they can't escape.

对吧？

Right?

它们清楚，跟蜉蝣、摇蚊或者石蛾不一样，那些虫子有翅膀，天生就是为了飞离水面的。

They know that unlike mayflies or midges or caddis, which they have wings, they're designed to get off of the water.

当鳟鱼去吃它们的时候，那些虫子说不定最后一秒就能飞走。

When the trout go to eat them, there's a chance those fish could fly away at the last second.

但陆生昆虫根本不是为在水面上生活设计的，一掉到水里就慌了神。

Terrestrial insects are not designed to be on the water as they kind of freak out when they fall on there.

就像我，每次打开冰箱发现所有的翅酱都没了，心里就一紧：哎呀不好。

Like me, when I, you know, open the fridge and realize all my wing sauce is gone, I'm like, oh, no.

然后我就愣那么一小会儿。

And I kinda have a little moment.

它们在水面上也是这么做的。

They're doing the same thing on the water.

糟了。

Crap.

真倒霉。

Crap.

我全身都湿透了。

I'm I'm wet.

鱼儿们心里清楚得很。

So the fish know that.

我敢说它们就是知道。

I I swear they do.

它们心里想：哦，没错。

They're like, oh, yeah.

这家伙跑不掉了。

That guy can't get away from me.

所以它们完全可以慢悠悠地游过去，想加速的时候再猛冲一把。

So they could just kinda take their time and cruise over to it and then freight train it if they want to.

这就是为什么钓鱼时用蚂蚁和甲虫这么有吸引力——鱼知道这些东西根本逃不掉。

So that's part of the appeal to fishing ants and beetles, really, is the fish know that they can't get away.

如果你看到鱼在冒泡，像是在吃成虫，但水面却看不到任何昆虫，你试了几次 parachute Adams 或 elk hair caddis 都没反应，那不妨换蚂蚁或甲虫， chances 很大。

So if you do see again, you see some rises that look like the fish are eating adults, but you don't see any bugs on the surface, and maybe you throw a cast or two towards them with a parachute Adams or an elk or catus and they ignore that, go to an ant or a beetle because there's a very good chance.

再说一遍，它们是在抬头看。

Again, they're looking up.

它们在告诉你：我现在就乐意在水面吃东西。

They're telling you, hey, I'm more than happy to eat off the surface right now.

你得找到能真正让它们下嘴的东西，很多时候，答案就是蚂蚁和甲虫。

You just gotta find something that will actually get them to commit, and a lot of time, it's gonna be ants and beetles.

如果你看到鱼在冒泡，但没完全破出水面，只是隐隐约约地鼓起一个小包或轻微上浮。

Now if you are in a situation where you see some fish rising and they're not quite breaking the surface, you you kinda see that telltale emerge or rise.

就像之前欧内斯特·施维伯特说的，你看到水面上那一点点凸起和晃动了吗？

Like Ernest Schwiebert said earlier, you see that little bump and roll in the surface film?

看起来它们正在吃东西。

Looks like they're they're eating.

你能看出它们很活跃，但并没有真正破水而出。

You'd tell they're active, but they're not really breaking the surface.

这时候挂个沉水蚂蚁最合适了。

That's a great time to tie on a sunken ant.

而且，蚂蚁不像水生昆虫那样能长时间浮在水面上。

And, again, ants don't stay up and float forever like an aquatic insect will.

它们的结构根本不是为此设计的。

They're just not designed for that.

迟早会沉下去，陷在水面薄膜里，有点被淹着的感觉。

They're going to eventually sink and fall into the surface film, and they'll be kinda drowned a little bit.

鳟鱼吃它们时，动作和吃其他卡在水面薄膜里的东西完全一样。

And trout are gonna eat them with the same movement that they eat anything else that's stuck in the surface film.

所以你在外头，明明看到鱼在大口吃东西，可水面上却看不到任何昆虫？

So again, you're out there, you see fish clearly chowing down on something, but you don't see any bugs on the water?

是的

Yeah.

挂上一只沉底蚂蚁，你肯定能有收获。

Throwing an ant on, a sunken ant, and you are gonna be in business there.

倒数第二点，不是最后一点。

And the last thing not the last thing, second to last thing.

我刚才说话有点跳脱了。

I got ahead of myself in my notes here.

我还要提醒一下，钓甲虫的时候，像我刚才说的，一定要加点抽动的动作。

I would also recommend when you're fishing your beetles, I mentioned this a minute ago, but make sure you utilize some kind of twitch when you're fishing those beetles.

因为陆生昆虫本来就不适合待在水里。

Because again, your terrestrial insects, they're not designed to be on the water.

它们只是掉进水里了。

They fall in it.

它们就跟我不一样。

They're like me.

我说真的，我都饿了，想吃晚饭了。

You know, I'm ready for dinner.

我岳母总给我端上青豆之类乱七八糟的东西。

My mother-in-law puts green beans in front of me or something ridiculous like that.

其实现在我岳母正在给我做饭，因为我们最近搬来和她家住一段时间。

And, yeah, my mother-in-law is making me dinner right now because we're we're living with you in laws for a little bit while we move.

不过呢，也不是非得跟大家说这些，但我就顺口一提。

But anyways, not that everyone needed to know that, but there you go.

我现在就在岳父母家的地下室里。

I'm in my in law's basement.

所以你完全可以信我。

So you can really trust me.

我一边做播客，一边待在岳父母家的地下室——不是同时干这两件事，但这就是钓鱼人标配的组合了，对吧？

I'm podcasting, and I'm in my in law's basement, not at the same time, but that that's just the the the combo that you expect out of a fly angler.

对吧？

Right?

但你知道吗，他们当时在哪来着？

But, you know, they see where was I?

哦，对了。

Oh, yeah.

它们掉进水里，会有点慌乱。

They they fall into the water, and they freak out a little bit.

它们本不该在那儿的。

They're not supposed to be there.

它们特别想逃开。

They really wanna get away from it.

它们很想从水里出去，所以会拼命挣扎。

They really want to get out of the water, so they're gonna struggle.

它们不会像蜉蝣那样安静地随波漂浮。

They're not just gonna dead drift there perfectly still like a mayfly will.

它们肯定会动来动去的。

They're gonna there's gonna be some movement.

所以稍微抬起钓竿，让竿尖轻轻左右晃动，让飞线微微移动，这样甲虫在水面上就会产生一点拖曳和波纹。

So lifting your rod a little bit, wiggling the rod tip back and forth, moving the fly line just slightly enough that that beetle kinda makes a little bit of drag, little bit of wake.

你能看到它轻轻抖动的样子。

You can see it just kinda wiggle.

这模仿了它们掉进水里时的真实动作，有时候，正是这点动静，能促使那条鱼下定决心——它觉得饵挺像样，但又有点犹豫。

That imitates what they really do when they fall in the water, and that can sometimes be the little bit of action you need to do to close a deal between a fish that's like, that looks good, but I don't know.

它有点警惕。

I'm kinda wary.

好吧。

Like, alright.

你这盘子里明明有培根和黄油，可我一眼就看见底下藏着青豆。

You gave me there's bacon and butter on this plate, but I see green beans under that.

不行。

Nope.

你这么轻轻一抖，它就咬钩了。

You do that little twitch and they're gonna commit.

到那时候，鱼就会咬了。

They're gonna eat it at that point.

真有意思，就这么一点点动作，居然就能奏效。

It really is interesting how that can work out, just that little bit of movement.

在进入蝇饵图案之前，还有一件事要说。

And then the last thing as well before we get into the fly patterns.

对于蚂蚁和其他一些陆生昆虫，我发现颜色的作用其实比很多水生昆虫还要大。

With ants and with some other terrestrial insects too, I have found that color can actually play a bigger role than it does with a lot of our aquatic insects.

我们通常说，尺寸最重要，形状其次，颜色最不重要。

We talk about size being the most important, shape being next, and color being the least important.

但就在过去这几年，我跟朋友一起去钓鱼时，已经遇到好几次这种情况了——我还在用我惯用的米色和黑色蚱蜢饵，

But there's been multiple times over the last just couple of years even where I've been out fishing with buddies, and I'm fishing just my usual tan and black hoppers and whatnot.

我有个朋友去年用的是粉红色的饵，

And my buddies I I had one guy last year, he's fishing pink stuff.

结果鱼都疯了一样地咬他的饵。

And the fish were going nuts for it.

不知为什么，粉红色在水面上形成的对比特别能刺激鱼，它们特别喜欢。

For whatever reason, they that that contrast of the pink on the water just set them off, and they loved it.

飞蝇的大小和款式都一样，只是把棕色换成粉红色，鱼就疯狂咬钩。

Same size of fly, same style, just pink instead of tan, and they were going nuts on it.

所以我强烈建议，多准备几种不同颜色的蚂蚁饵，还有不同色调的甲虫饵。

So I would definitely say, yeah, have a few different colors of ants, have a few different colors and shades of beetles.

多备几种选择总没坏处，因为我在钓陆生昆虫时确实见过颜色起关键作用的情况。

Just try and have different options on hand because I have seen that actually matter when it comes to terrestrial insects.

而且我们知道，野外的蚂蚁颜色其实多种多样。

And then we know there's a bunch of different colored ants out there.

有红色的、黑色的、棕色的，有带翅膀的、没翅膀的，有大的、也有小的。

You get a red, black, brown, wings, no wings, you know, big, small.

所以随身带几种不同颜色和尺寸的蚂蚁饵，万一遇到鱼只咬特定颜色或大小的蚂蚁，你就不会措手不及。

So having a having some kind of variety on hand is gonna help you if you run into fish that, you know, are actually keyed in on a very specific size or color of ant on the water.

说了这么多，希望这些内容能帮你更好地准备应对蚂蚁和甲虫的钓鱼场景。

So with all that said, hopefully, that's a pretty good primer to get you guys ready for ants and beetles.

你听我的，这些饵真的能带来明显差别。

You know, take it from me, they really do make a difference.

最近我用甲虫饵钓鱼的次数多了很多。

I fished beetles a lot more lately.

我用蚂蚁饵也用得更频繁了，有时候我都在想，我怎么以前没早点这么做呢？

I fished ants a lot more lately, and it's just one of those things where I I I ask myself, why have I not been doing this?

它们特别有效，尤其是中午的时候，鱼还很活跃，但水面上没什么虫子，因为没虫子孵化，这时候用它们简直能扭转局面。

They're very effective, especially, like I said, the the middle of the day when the fish are still active, but they're not really there's not a lot of bugs on the water because there's not a hatch going on middle of the day, They're they're a game changer.

确实如此，效果太明显了。

They they really have been.

我以前住的地方附近有条河，那里有个钓客圈里的潜规则——其实真算得上是秘密，因为很多常去钓鱼的人都不这么做，但所有向导都用。

You know, one river by me, I used to live where we used to live, one of the guide secrets on that river, and it actually was a guide secret, because a lot of the other guys I knew who fished it didn't do this, but all the guides did.

就算在黄蜉蝣大爆发的时候，他们也几乎只用甲虫饵，因为河面上的甲虫实在太多了。

They would just throw beetles almost exclusively even during the big yellow sally hatch because there were still just so many beetles up there.

所以这招真的管用。

So it really does work.

这事儿你越做越会觉得意外。

It is one of those things that will surprise you the more you do it.

你也会有跟我类似的体验。

You'll have some experiences like I did.

不过话说回来，咱们还是来看看我们真正推荐的那些蝇饵吧。

But with all that in mind, let's look at the fly patterns themselves that we actually recommend.

这些蝇饵我们全都有。

And we've got all of these fly patterns available.

如果你感兴趣，我们网站上有三联装套装。

If you're interested, they're in our three packs on our website.

我也会在节目笔记里放上链接。

I'll drop a link to those in the show notes as well.

说不定我再加个二维码进去。

And maybe maybe I'll even throw in a QR code.

就看我剪辑播客的时候记不记得了。

We'll see if I remember when I'm editing the podcast.

这样你要是想拿几个，随时都能拿到。

But that way, just if you wanna grab a few, they're there for you.

它们便宜又简单。

They're, you know, cheap, easy.

一包有三个。

You got three of them.

咱们先说说艾米蚂蚁蝇。

But let's start with the Amy's ant.

这是咱们最推荐的蚂蚁蝇款式之一。

This is one of the great ant patterns that we have.

这款蚂蚁蝇体型稍大，浮力很好，能浮得很高。

It's a little bit larger of an ant pattern, and it's designed to float pretty high.

特别适合作为干蝇加垂蝇组合里的上层浮蝇。

And it's gonna work pretty well as the top fly in a dry dropper rig.

它的身体是双层泡沫做的，用了两种不同颜色的泡沫，再配上一些羽茎，模拟蚂蚁的胸腔和圆润的部位。

And it's it's got this double decker foam body with two different colors of foam, and then it's got some hackle on it to kinda simulate the the thoraxes and, like, the the more round parts of the ant.

底部还加了一点毛料，增加对比度，让 fly 看起来更像活虫。

And then it's got a little bit of dubbing on the bottom that gives us some contrast and some bugginess.

这是一款非常全面实用的蚂蚁假饵。

It's just a really good all around ant pattern.

事实上，我们 VFC 学习小组里有个人几周前刚跟我说，他几乎每次都用 Amy's Ant，甚至比用 Chubby Chernobyl 还频繁，因为这玩意儿在水面上看起来和动起来都特别像真蚂蚁，是他钓大浮蝇的首选。

And in fact, one of one of the guys in our VFC school group, he was telling us just a couple weeks ago that he actually fishes the Amy's ant all the time, even over the chubby Chernobyl because it just looks and feels so buggy on the water, and it's like his go to big dry fly.

这是一个很实用的小款式，用起来绝对靠谱。

So it's a good little pattern that is going to serve you well.

接下来我想推荐的是 Bionic Ant。

The next one I'd recommend is the Bionic Ant.

这是个全泡沫做的假饵，前后各加了一点羽纱，模拟腿脚之类的结构。

This is a completely foam fly with a little bit of hackle around the front and the back to, again, simulate legs and stuff.

它的泡沫身体被分成了几段均匀的部分，看起来更接近真实的蚂蚁。

But it's got a foam body that's divided into kinda even segments that make it look a little bit more realistic of an ant, I would say.

这种分节和轮廓，几乎能模仿你遇到的任何一种蚂蚁。

It's just got the right segmentation, right profile to mimic just about any ant that you run into.

这个蝇饵特别简单。

Really simple fly.

浮力还不错，不过设计上更注重逼真效果。

They float fairly well, but again, tied to be a bit more realistic looking.

下一个建议备着的是沉水蚁，顾名思义，专门模仿那些沉到水下的蚂蚁。

The next one I would recommend to have on hand is the sunken ant, which as its name implies, is designed to imitate ants that have sunk below the surface.

它的前段有个小珠子，加上一点UV树脂裹着线材，再用一些闪毛模拟腿，后半段用毛羽处理，模仿蚂蚁圆润的腹部和胸部。

So the front of it's got this little bead on it, a little bit of UV resin over some thread, and then you've got some flash to imitate the legs, and then a dubbing back half to imitate the other parts of the round abdomen and thorax part of the ant itself.

最后，我们推荐的甲虫款是高可视甲虫。

And then last but not least, our beetle pattern we recommend is just the high vis beetle.

很简单。

Simple.

大小刚刚好，不太大也不太小。

It's not too big, not too small.

尺寸特别适合模仿甲虫，关键是背上有一根醒目的橙色浮标，配上黑色身体，在水面上一眼就能看到。

It's real good beetle size, but it's got a nice bright orange post on it over a black body so that you can see that on the water fairly easily.

如果你用这种 fly 搭配一个小的垂钓饵，效果也完全没问题。

And if you fish, like, a smaller dropper with this, you'd get away with that.

这有点像蝉形 fly，虽然有人会在蝉形 fly 下面加垂钓饵，但我知道的钓客通常只用单只干蝇。

It it's kinda like a cicada where you can fish droppers on cicadas, but folks I know who fish cicadas, you're usually just fishing the single dry fly.

我用高可视甲虫 fly 也是同样的思路。

It's kinda where I go with the high vis beetle.

对我来说，就只是用单只干蝇而已。

I just it's a single dry fly setup for me.

不过这些 fly 本质上还是保持简单，主要是调整大小和颜色而已。

But those are you know, we keep it kinda simple, just have different sizes and colors within that.

这套 fly 组合很适合你刚开始尝试这些虫形 fly，整个夏天都可以用。

But that that's a good collection to start you off as you experiment with these bugs for the rest of summer.

希望这个清单对你有帮助。

So hopefully, that list is helpful.

希望我们聊的其他内容也对你有帮助。

Hopefully, everything else we talked about is helpful.

如果你对钓蚂蚁和甲虫有什么其他技巧或建议，我们非常期待听到你的分享。

If you've got any other tips or tricks or feedback about fishing ants and beetles, we would definitely love to hear it.

你可以在评论区留下这些信息。

You can drop all that info down in the comments.

接下来我们要进入本周节目的问答环节了，就像我们在《Untangled》每期节目里做的那样，后半段会直接回答像你这样的听众和观众提出的问题。

But it is time to move on to the q and a portion of this week's episode because just like we do here every week at Untangled, we're gonna spend the last half of the show directly answering questions from listeners and viewers just like yourself.

如果你有想问的飞钓问题，可以在节目说明里找到提交渠道，如果你是在看视频播客，屏幕上也会直接显示这个链接。

So if you've got a fly fishing question that you would like answered, there's a link to send those into us down in the show notes, or you can find that right here on the screen if you're watching the video podcast.

来自怀俄明州的安东尼提出了第一个问题，他写道：我一有机会就去钓鱼。

Anthony from Wyoming has our first question, writes in and says, go fishing every chance I get.

去年我经常能钓到鱼。

Last year, I was consistently catching fish.

今年因为水位太低，我连鱼都钓不到，只钓到一堆水草。

This year with water levels being way low, I'm struggling to catch anything but moss.

如果有任何建议，我都非常需要。

Any tips would help.

我实在想不通。

I can't wrap my head around it.

安东尼，你这个问题问得非常好。

Anthony, this is a really good question.

在回答之前，我有个问题想问你。

And before I answer, I've got one question for you.

今年你有没有对钓具或钓鱼方式做任何调整？

Have you adjusted your rigs at all or your approach at all from last year to this year?

我这么问是因为，我知道你之前成功过，所以无论过了几周、几个月还是几年，你还是会带着同样的钓具、去同样的地方、用同样的方法，想复制过去的成功。

And I ask that because I know there's a lot of comfort in you had success, so you show up whether it's a week, a month, or a year later, and you fish the same rig, you fish the same spot, you fish the same style, you you look to try and do everything the same so you can repeat that success.

我刚开始玩飞蝇钓的时候，也总是这样。

I did that all the time when I was starting out fly fishing.

这没什么不对的。

There's nothing wrong with it.

我只是很清楚这一点。

I I just know it.

能够这样反复取得成功，确实让人感到特别安心，也特别有成就感。

There's there's something very comforting and very rewarding about being able to repeat success like that.

所以你会尽量一直沿用这套方法。

So you try to try to do that as much as you can.

但问题在于，当环境发生变化时——就像你提到的——这套方法就不一定管用了。

And the issue with that is when conditions change, just like you noted, it doesn't always work.

去年管用的招数，未必一年后还有效，尤其是在我们正经历严重干旱的情况下。

What worked last year is not always going to work exactly a year later, especially when we're in a big drought like we are.

很多地方的水位都降得又快又多。

Water levels have have dropped so so much, so quickly in so many different places.

所以，直接回应你提到的问题，假设你现在钓到的都是水草，

So the first thing that I would do, just addressing the issue directly, say you're catching a ton of moss.

我首先会建议你调整钓组的深度，因为如果你钓到的是水草，那多半你用的是 nymph 或干飞加坠的钓法。

So the first thing that I would do is I would adjust the depth of your rig because I assume you say you're catching moss, you're probably nymphing or fishing a dry dropper rig of some sort.

如果你总被水草挂住、老是钩到石头，那基本可以确定，你的钓组下得太深了。

So if you are consistently hooking into moss, you're constantly snagging on the rocks, that's the dead giveaway that you are just fishing too deep.

所以把浮标往你的蝇饵那边挪近一点，把副线剪短些，整体用更短的干蝇带垂钓组合，或者换轻一点的蝇饵，别用太重的。

So make sure you move that indicator close to your flies, trim your dropper tags a bit, go to a shorter dry dropper rig in general, maybe go with a lighter fly instead of a really heavy one.

如果你用了铅坠，不妨去掉一个。

If you're using split shot, maybe ditch a split shot.

不断微调你的装备，直到不再老是挂底，每次抛投都不再缠上水草。

Just tweak your rig continually until you're not snagging up on the bottom and getting moss on every single cast.

这样调整之后，效果会明显不一样。

That's going to make a difference for you.

明白吗？

K?

不过另一点我最近也提过，但这里再直接说一下：鱼一年到头的位置是会变的。

The other part of this though is I've addressed this a a bit lately, but I'm gonna just touch on it directly here for you, is that fish chains positions during the year.

二月你找到它们的地方，到了七月很可能就找不到了。

The water you find them in in February is not the water you're likely going to find them in come July.

它们就是会到处游动。

They're they're just moving around.