Flyfishing at Sava river and Lipnica creek

For this weekend on Sunday me and my friend Evgen decided to fish easy going, just for few hours. In the morning we started flyfishing at Sava river, casting some streamers-muddlers. After few casts i hooked a hucho-danube salmon app 60cm, not the big one but still some action… During the day we used more nimphs for some rainbow or brown trout. We were using small tommy nimphs tied on 16# hook. Nimph was perfect. We caught some wild rainbow trouts and also some grayling in sizes up to 45cm.

It was 12 o clock when Evgen said to me : » Come lets check tributary creek Lipnica«. I said, ok lets go there for 1 hour. As soon as we came down to the small stream Lipnica we started catching fish after fish. It was crazy. Oh, I need to tell you that Lipnica creek inhibates only wild fish, so fish looks really awesome, awesome colors…We caught some rainbow trout in sizes up to 35cm. It was almost 13.00 so I tied 6cm 5g muddler for some last casts before we ended fishing for that day. I just casted 2 times under the dam in the white water and bubbles . I stripped 2 or 3 times and BOOOOOMMMM….What a strike! After 10 minutes fighting with a fish  in the river bed and on the bottom, I landed in my net pretty wild brown trout. Gorgeus fish just for the end. Wow!

See you next time, tight lines guys.

Opening marble trout season

For a 3rd. Of April i was fishing with my friend Klemen at some small rivers, managed by fishing club Tolmin.  As you already know i prefer small rivers and creek while i fish for my self.

In the morning it was preety sunny weather and the river Bača was low, so we did not expect catching many marble trout, but anyway this time we were just easy-going and enjoying nature.  We where using small muddlers and we caught some small marble trouts and cross breed in sizes up to 40 cm. We also caught a beautiful grayling app. 40cm. After 3 hours of fishing we decided to take a break, so we went back home to Klemen having some lunch.

It was getting cloudy in the afternoon, so we decided to fish for 1 or 2 hours more.  While we were driving to a small stream (Trebuščica) it started raining and i thought, perfect maybe we catch some good size marble. We where driving up along Trebuščica river for 30 minutes , to some hidden spots in the canyon. We did not take waders, we were just casting muddlers from the shore so we did not make any noice, no crossing, no walking into river. We just wanted to sneek up  as good as we can.

In the canyon Klemen said to me: »Try just to jig a muddler under a big rock«. So i was climbing up the rock and holding my rod. I dropped a muddler under the rock in a deep pool and jig it 2 or 3 times then I saw marble comming and it took a muddler very aggressive.  After a short fight we landed a marble app. 50cm in the net. It was a just perfect, pure nice looking marble trouts.  After taking a few photos we released a fish.

It was just perfect, we realy enjoyed that rainy afternoon fishing. I like fishing in rain while my aim is catching a marble trout.

So guys, season is opened. Welcome!

Flyfishing season opening in Slovenia

In Slovenia the flyfishing season starts on 1st. of March. But on 1st. of March only few rivers are open for FF. Those are: Sava, Savinja, Radovna, Rižana… Other rivers like Idrijca, Soča, Unica, Kokra etc opens on 1st. of April.

Anyway me and my friend  started flyfishing season at Sava River (Fishing Club Radovljica).  It was quite warm and sunny day, water level was low, but it was perfect for some nimph fishing. We used some small nimps like Tommy nimph and I tell you, we had crazy flyfishing that day.

Fish was hungry and we were  catching them one after another. It really suprised me that we mostly caught graylings. I think we caught about 30 graylings in a few hours, few rainbow trouts and one brown trout.

So we started FF season successfully. Welcome!

The choice of the destination – searching for hucho

 

There are always two types of fishermen. There are those who take a fishing trip knowing that will certainly catch fish and do not want to run any risks cathcing no fish and there are those who prefer venturing on places and some rare fish species like it is hucho hucho, the danue salmon. You need to be ready to discover new horizons and commit yourself as self- denial, intuition and a lot of passion just to catch one fish in 5 or 6 days…
It is clear that fishing trip for hucho is not the destination for those who expect to catch a lot of fish in an easy way and with no effort, but that fish would bring you so much joy if you catch it, that you will remmember that moment once and for all.

Flyfishing for marble trout or danube salmon- hucho hucho

Flyfishing for those two species is almost simmilar. We use mostly 9# or 10# rod, sinking lines and streamers. For marble trout we use usually 7-10cm in lenght, for hucho hucho 10-20cm in lenght of the streamer.

Also the best conditions for flyfishing on marble trout and danube salmon is when water level is rising, getting milky color or even brown color of water.

The very important thing is that fisherman do not wade in the river if it is not necessary. Usually we wade only when crossing the river or so. Also very important is not to make any noise with walking on the shore (espacialy when you have low clear water level). So for the best results you need to cast from the shore.

Often people are making mistake when they stay at one pool too long time. Belive me if the marble trout or danube salmon is hungry, it would take a streamer on a first cast. Casting 5 times in same direction is usually only waste of time. On the picture below you can see how you can cast the pool in appropriate way without wasting time.

With marble trout or danube salmon is just like you need to find those fish who are hungry so ussually when the pool is small size 5 casts are enough, for bigger poool 10-15 casts. If you have no strike, you just move to another pool, simmple is that.