爱钓鱼的爱尔兰牧师

鸭绒25（译）

2023年12月30日

一位爱尔兰牧师喜欢飞钓。这是他的一项嗜好。

今年，到目前为止，天气一直不好。他还没有机会穿上他那心爱的长统防水胶靴，也没有机会把他最喜欢的人造昆虫诱饵从盒子里拿出来。

奇怪的是，一到周日，天气就会变好。但周日，当然是他必须上班的日子。

天气预报说，下个周日又是个好天气。所以，他打电话给另一位牧师同事，声称自己因流感而失声，并卧床不起。他请他代班替他布道。

飞钓牧师驱车50英里来到海岸附近的一条河。那里，没有人会认识他。

天上，有一位天使正在监视着这一带的情况，看到了牧师的所作所为。他将这事告诉了上帝。上帝答应他会为此做点什么。

当牧师第一次抛出鱼线时，就有一张巨大的鱼嘴吞下了诱饵。 他在河岸边跑来跑去，与鱼搏斗了一个多小时。最后，当他终于把这条怪兽般大小的鱼拖上岸时，结果发现这是一条打破世界纪录的最大鲑鱼。

天使困惑地问上帝：“为什么你要让他钓到这么大的鱼？我本以为，你是要给他点教训的。”

上帝回答说：“我已经给他教训了。你认为他敢声张这件事吗？”

注：英语“Fly Fishing”中译为“飞钓”或“飞蝇钓”，是一种特别的钓鱼方法。它使用特殊的飞钓鱼线、鱼杆，和人工制作的鱼饵，通常是会飞的昆虫，来引诱鱼儿上钩。因此，飞钓所钓的鱼大多是肉食性鱼类。钓者通常会穿着防水服站在水中抛线钓鱼。这种钓法源自16世纪的英国，后传至整个欧洲和北美。飞钓由于它的技术难度较高，使它也成为了一项运动。世界飞钓大赛（FIPS-Mouche）于1989年开始每年举办。2023年的第42届飞钓大赛在斯洛伐克（Slovakia）举办，由法国赢得冠军。

原文： Fishing Irish Priest

An Irish priest loved to fly fish，it was an obsession of his。

So far this year the weather had been so bad that he hadn't had a chance to get his beloved waders on and his favorite flies out of their box。

Strangely though，every Sunday the weather had been good，but of course Sunday is the day he has to go to work。

The weather forecast was good again for the coming Sunday so he called a fellow priest claiming to have lost his voice and be in bed with the flu。He asked him to take over his sermon。

The fly fishing priest drove fifty miles to a river near the coast so that no one would recognize him。An angel up in Heaven was keeping watch and saw what the priest was doing。He told God who agreed that he would do something about it。

With the first cast of his line a huge fish mouth gulped down the fly。For over an hour the priest ran up and down the river bank fighting the fish。At the end when he finally landed the monster size fish it turned out to be a world record Salmon。

Confused the angel asked God：“Why did you let him catch that huge fish? I thought you were going to teach him a lesson。”

God replied：“I did。 Who do you think he's going to tell？”