今回は10月3日の日記を英訳したものです。DビッドとSアンナに読んでもらいので。 A fly fishing section is prepared in the Lifestyle Design College of Kakegawa. Eleven people became a student this year. In them is an American called D-vid. He never did fly fishing before, and has no experience in fishing at all in the mountain stream either. This year, he studied fly fishing very seriously, read books often, and did practice well, they say. When several months have passed after the opening of the school, he began to improve his technique well, and finally he caught the first trout-Iwana in his whole life on the Oigawa headwaters in September. Soon later, he caught another Iwana in Kawamata River, and he is said to catch an Amago in the river in Shizuoka. It is a wonderful progress, and it is done so quickly! Fly fishing is not an easy way of fishing. It is quite common that the beginner can not catch a fish in the 1st year especially on a natural river in Japan. It was true on my case either... Moreover, it is amazing that he caught a trout on a natural mountain stream within a half of a year! He came to Japan from South Carolina and will return to his hometown someday. Near his home town, there is a beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains where native brook trout inhabits. In the US, it will be easier to catch fish than Japan considerably, since there are much fewer anglers in the US than Japan. Therefore, he will surely catch brook trout easily in the Blue Ridge Mountains because he got a skill to catch fish in the natural stream in Japan. This will be the results of the efforts he made by himself, of his genius partly, and of good environment and friends. I am very pleased as a man in his teaching side. I know he went to fishing alone on September 30th, Sunday. It was a rainy and chilly day. And he left home at 5 o'clock in the morning! S-anne, his wife, told me in a telephone that she was amazed so much at that time. Now, another fishing widow may be born! I am becoming a little anxious with whether I may be blamed by her. Since he is a good student of Kyousirou (it's me), I am just thinking to give him a pen name "Kyougorou." The voice of blame of lacking fairness as a lecturer may appear because I praise only one of the students this time. But, since his fishing madness becomes enough to be evaluated as a good average, it will be accepted that he deserves to be taken up here. |