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SLOVENIAN FLY FISHING NEWS,
HUCHO-HUCHO REPORTS
SUMMER FLY FISHING,
15.7.2010 Summer heat has put the hammer down and the fish went down too! Where? On the bottom of the rivers, at least during the hottest parts of the day. In case you are planning to fish on Sava Bohinjka , Soca, Unica or other Slovenian rivers in next weeks, we recommend you to come in our Fauna shop in Bled one afternoon earlier than your fishing day and get a permit for the next day. Waking up at 5 AM, will be rewarded with a beautiful morning, calm water conditions and dry fly activity! As soon as the sun peaks over the mountains, fish goes down on the bottom and ignores dry flies. During the day small nymphs or streamers are your best weapon. Hatch comes late in the evening, yesterday we saw small brown May flies hatching on the Radovna river. Sedge hatch comes very late in the evening, almost at the end of fishing day. The fish feeding on this hatch is brown trout. Rainbows and grayling ignore it usually.. What more to say.. take an early bed, skip breakfast and you will have a fishing day to remember!
AFTER THE STORM,
24.6.2010 Just another day or two and water levels will go down to the normal, as they were before the last rain hit us previous weekend. A few days of high water level on the Sava Bohinjka and all other Slovenian fly fishing rivers did somehow "reset" the feeding mode of the fish, which is now striking more or less on smaller nymphs closer to the the bottom or what is also interesting, on really big dry flies!? Hatch does not happen every evening any more, but you can always catch well with dry fly. It just needs to be big enough. In general all rivers in Slovenia are fishable now, Unica and Krka are still above normal but should go down in a couple of days. Great end of June is expected!
HOT, HOTTER, THE HOTTEST FLY FISHING!,
13.6.2010 Absence of news can mean only one thing; we are too busy to write them! Fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka and other Slovenian rivers is in full swing and guys came from really all the globe to experience some evening hatches and frenzy feeding of trout and grayling , jumping some half meter out of the water to grab their dinner. Last week saw some really hot days, pushing leaders down to 6X (0.12mm) during the day. Fly fishing is best in the morning and on late afternoon when the heat comes down a little. Make sure you have some dark fly pattern or brownish ephemera fly on size 10-12 when evening hatch starts! During the day do not save with large streamer or nymph! Fish is deep and you need to go down to them, with some heavy stuff! Except large grayling, trout will not come up during hot day. Some fly fishing rivers have already low - summer levels (Idrijca, Krka, Sora) to fish them will required small flies and fine leaders by now. This week will see some storms and cooling down to 23 degrees. We will see how this will affect fly fishing !? Will definitely affect fly fisherman, having a beer or two less :-) And Fauna fly shop will probably sell some rain jacket :-)
WHEN WILL YOU FLY FISH IF NOT NOW!?,
27.5.2010 Enjoying the thrill of spring time fly fishing fever, we can say that fly fishing is finally in some serious swing now! Another week went by and if you were not here, you can regret that! Nothing else than sun, clear water and frenzy fish This week, everybody were catching fish on almost every fly they put on. Looks like weeks of high and snow cold water created a kind of a fast for the fish, who want to cope all that was lost now!? When we have a really hot day, water level still goes up because there is some more snow to melt away in the mountains. But despite higher level, fishing is ok. If you want to meet low levels, just go on the river early in the morning.. For your information, Soca is still high and white from snow melt. Other rivers in Slo. are more or less ok. There is some rain coming this weekend, hopefully it will not be something serious. Try to have a great fly fishing weekend, we will surely have one! :-))
NO MORE HESITATION GUYS!!,
20.5.2010 Finally and I mean really at last, high water is gone and Sava Bohinjka has shown her true quality, meaning all guys who are on the area at the moment can consider them self lucky! Fly fishing is awesome and fish is striking like crazy! Does not matter either you fish with a nymph or dry fly or streamer, as long that the fly is BIG, fish will take all! And as great conditions would not be enough, Mayfly hatch has began , pushing hundreds of mostly yellowish mayflies in the air, creating true fly fishing paradise. There are some storms forecasted again for the weekend, but hopefully will be more of a disturbance than some serious weather change. Stay connected, we will soon post some more images!
HIGH LEVELS STILL ROLLING,
12.5.2010 Some time since our last news, but to be honest, there is not much to write about.. Sava has decided to start her snow melt and on top of that rain hits us almost every day.. Pure fishing paradise, yeah :-/ Good news is, that weather is turning to be better in next week to come and there is not much snow on mountain peaks any more. Don`t ask, when the Sava will be perfect, this is now a one million $ question! Radovna will be fine till the end of the week and also Krka has nice water levels. Never fished Krka before? Visit us in Fauna shop and get a map of how to go there plus fishing permit. It is 50minuts of drive from Bled.
Not to stay without some pictures, our cooperating fisherman and guide, J.R. went to some nice and small tributary of the Soca river and hooked this nice marble cross-breed on one of our mini series tungsten nymph . Which one?? You guess! ;-)
