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SLOVENIAN FLY FISHING NEWS, HUCHO-HUCHO REPORTS

 

INTO THE AUTUMN FISHING, 2.9.2010   The first days in September showed us new face of the rivers, much more calm and quiet than we were used seeing them in August, when crowds of people were seeking some refreshments on the river banks of Sava Bohinjka, Soca, Idrijca etc.. Now the kids had to go back to school and the fathers have again time to grab a fly fishing rods! Having quite low temperature for early September, we are hoping to get some more sun in the middle of the month and experience nice autumn dry fly fishing for grayling . Best timing for fishing has moved from early morning hours to later times, since the rainbow and brown trout activity is poor as long as the sun peaks out. Flies on the average are smaller than they use to be and nymphs should not have to be too shinny. Since there was quite some rain last week, Sava is not on her lowest level, allowing also some nice streamer fly fishing for larger trout. Do not forget, than in average, September and October are better months to fly fish than August was..
NICE PIKE PERCH FROM LAKE BLED, 23.8.2010   Little off topic, but still interesting enough to mention here: a really nice specie of pike-perch (zander) was caught in lake Bled recently. The beast had 101cm and 10,20kg! Happy fisherman mr. Klaus W. really has a good hand for lake Bled, if you remember, last year he managed to land a really nice wels, weighting 56kg. Thanks for sharing the image with us and as for all the others who want to beat this catch: Fauna rents also a fishing boat if needed :-)
RAIN HAS RESET THE RIVERS, 18.8.2010   Storms are a common thing that can happen in August and it did happen also this year.. we were struggling with high water last week, but now it looks like things are going back to normal and fishing will be very nice again. Recently we went on a guiding tour on the Soča river and find very nice grayling activity on the upper - Institute part of the famous river. The best time of the day was early morning, before the sun rise, when fish was really careless for the fly type. Just as long as you were withing sizes 12-16 and having some cdc feather on, almost every larger grayling was willing to rise up and take it. At least those were the conditions before this cold chill. We will see now how recent rain affected the feeding mode of the fish. Slowly but surely season is turning in to a autumn part, when dry fly will again be the best choice to fish for grayling!
SMALL, SMALLER, THE SMALLEST!, 5.8.2010   An optimal fly fishing conditions on the Sava Bohinjka just don`t want to stop and lots of fly fisherman can mean only one: old fame of the Sava is coming back! Years of anti cormoran service during the winter time has payed back by nice graylings and brownies returning to the golden ripples of Sava.. well, the story becomes harder once you meet the low and crystal clear water which most of slovenian rivers has these days. Lots of guys are asking what to do, fish does not want to move for their nymph and grayling is ignoring the dry fly?? And than we say, can you please show your fly boxes? And inside you find nothing smaller than size 14. And second question is what diameter of the tippet material are you using? Quite fine, down to 0.14mm some say.. Well, 0.14 in August is like an elephant in a porcelain store :-) switch down to a nymph size 20 and attach it to a 0.10mm fluorocarbon for God`s sake and you will be back in the business again!
THE REAL TEST COMES WITH AUGUST!, 29.7.2010   August 2010 is knocking on the door and superb July is leaving us. Why superb? Because it has not been so nice for the fly fishing for many years! Optimal water levels of Sava Bohinjka, great sunny weather and nice grayling population in the rivers, what could be a better combination!? Well, fairytale is slowly ending and August will put it`s hammer down; low water levels and very fastidious fish made quite some gray hair amongst not so skilled fly fisherman in the last week or so. Be warned, that in case you are coming to fly fish in Slovenia in August and want to fish with sth. else than just a streamer, than leave your 0.18 and 0.16 tippet material at home. Also big nymphs can stay at home, not to cause too much of additional weight in your baggage. What you need now on the majority of Slovenian streams are very fine tippets, small dries and micro nymphs. Yes, streamer works too, but not everybody is willing to cast it around all the time. ;-)
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! ;-)
FISH STRIKES INCREASING, 22.4.2010   We were off line all previous weekend because of some server upgrade. So instead writing some news, we went on fly fishing :-) this time in the canyon of Sava Bohinjka`s Bled section. The one who knows which part are we talking about also knows, there is some pretty stiff path to walk before arriving to some hot spots. But despite cold chilly wind in the evening, fly fishing was nice. Several large graylings were spotted, unfortunately still closed for fly fishing.. We saw them chasing nymphs quite beneath the surface. I tried to present a nice cdc fly to the most aggressive one and he came up on the first cast, but behold! he just pushed the fly away with his nose, actually showing no intention to grab it. All next casts, were just pure ignorance. Clear signal that we will have to wait a little for the real dry fly season. On the other hand, rainbows are showing pretty vivid action attacking all that is black and small (leeches are a common food in this time of the year). to conclude: we have better April than in 2009! Cheers! The same goes for the Sava Dolinka, which is far less white than it was in 2009. As seing from the main image, contributed by Mr. R.P.
STILL NO SNOW MELT, 16.4.2010   Mid of April on Sava Bohinjka sees nice but chilly mornings and warm days with first dry fly hatches. Not much of fishing crowd yet, but it won`t stay like that for a long time.. water levels are still low and clear, no snow melt yet. This winter was quite poor with snow, meaning even when snow melt water will come it will be gone in a week. Really nice forecast for coming season. See you around and sharpen your hooks! In case you will need a fishing permit for Sava or Radovna, Krka.. we open Fauna shop in Bled every day at 08:00 AM. Yes, even on Sunday.
SUNSHINE TILL THE END OF THE WEEK , 6.4.2010   As it fits for the month of April, weather can be changed dramatically just over the night. And if Bled area had rain and snow last week, now we have perfect sun and nice, clear water levels of Sava Bohinjka, Radovna.. Sava Radovljica needs a day or two more to get down. First news also came recently from Krka , which was fine last week, but now became high and dark since rain effect comes with a few days delay . (Krka has it`s source under ground). First fish can be cached also on small dries but just in the mids of the day when the sun is on it`s peak. We can count on some more rain in April (the next weekend) so keep in mind that some special streamer can come handy ;-)
APRIL STARTED BADLY, 1.4.2010   Like we expected, nice March was followed by rainy and cold April 1st. With today, major fly fishing season is officially opened. With some exceptions (Unica) all fly fishing rivers and streams are opened for fly fishing. Sava Bohinjka for which expectations for first fly fishing days were the highest, went up significantly and we will have to wait a few days for the levels to calm down. Good news is that prices of fishing permits did not went up and remained on 2009 basis. If someone wants to check, here<< is the 2010 price list, fully updated. A note also for Bled Trophy part fans: since this quality part of Sava Bohinjka has limited number of participants/day, some booking is recommended. Well at least if you want to find a place in at the time of your fly fishing. June is already very booked by now! If someone needs the booking list, send us email and we will reply you with the availability.
MARCH KEEPS ON SHINING!, 23.3.2010   Glad to report, that March 2010 gave us almost no rain and not yet snow melt either. Consequentially, water level of the Sava Radovljica is optimal for early spring time fly fishing! Trout is in a nice feeding mood, especially if the day is sunny and temperatures can climb up to 15 degrees. First catches can be done already with dry flies, mostly some tiny blue duns or stone flies. If going for a larger trout , sure recipe is of course streamer fly fishing . Nymph can be a good choice too, especially for the grayling , which is very aggressive in this period because of the coming spawning time season.. Be faster than a snow melt and take advantage of this optimal fishing conditions while they last!
NICE FLY FISHING ON THE RADOVNA, 17.3.2010   We are already deep in March and fly fishing 2010 saw few very nice and sunny days on the Radovna river. Water is very clear and of course cold, but fish is active if you just offer them a proper nymph. With the low water level, light and slim shape nymph are the best choice right now. River banks are still covered with snow but it will eventually have to go away, since the sun is hotter every day. Nevertheless morning still have just some degree above zero, day time can see temperature up to 15 degree. Also some dry flies are working already, but they need to be really small. Don`t start to fish too early, show starts with the rising sun and in the valley of the Radovna this happens not before 10:00 AM. For the fishing permit, we open Fauna Bled shop at 08:00 AM
FLY FISHING 2010 KNOCKING ON THE DOOR!, 26.2.2010   Hi back in the fishing news! After conclusion of a hard and cold hucho fishing season, we had a short brake and now we are in front of a new fly fishing season 2010 which will open on Monday, March 1st. First rivers to be opened are Radovna, Sava Radovljica, Krka and few minor less known rivers. Weather is predicted to be very nice with high daily temperatures and sunshine. River banks are still covered with snow but it is getting thinner and thinner every day. Pictures were taken yesterday and are showing Radovna in Krnica dam and Sava Radovljica at the bridge in Lancovo (catch and release section). Krka is still high and will hardly be fishable on Monday, March 1st. There are already prices known for the 2010 fishing permits but not yet for all the rivers.. Check which prices are already out on the folowing link here! . This list will be updated when we receive also the prices for other rivers for which we sell fishing permits.
FINALLY RAIN IS HERE!, 5.2.2010   Wondering why such a long silence? Well, if we would want to write about something all we could wrote about would be beautiful winter time scenery with sun shine and crystal clear water having just some 3°C. Did I mention, that the air had from -10°C to -15°C? In such conditions even spinning for Hucho is hard, not to mention fly fishing. Last time our guide had to blow in the rings to loosen the fly line from the icy grip! But now situations is getting better! Not for the skiers but for the Hucho hunters: it is raining and temperature is around zero. Perfect for some catch. There is also a new group of flies in the FaunaFlyShop which is.. should we say a wallet friendly group ;-)
LESS THAN A MONTH OF HUCHO FINALE, 19.1.2010   Less than a month before closing the Hucho season, show still rolls on and a hunt for the largest beast in 09-10 season is still open! At the moment, Sava Bohinjka is gin-clear and you can count every single Hucho in the river! It is more easy to track them but more demanding to hide on the bank so they don`t see you. Mornings and evenings really kick in now! January is showing morning temperatures -9°C and during the day up to 5 and nice sun shine. Stay tuned, we should land some nice lady Hucho since they got nice appetite before the spawning season! PS: in case your stepfather has his birthday in near future, you might consider to check for some Swiss machinery in FaunaFlyShop ;-)
INTO THE NEW YEAR, 9.1.2010   New years holidays are over and it is time to go back on Hucho huntings! Slovenia is covered with a fresh fallen snow and the scenery is very nice. Also snow weather mixed with some rain helps with Hucho fishing conditions. The season has turned in to the second part and offers new challenges with the fish slowly starting to gather together and preparing for the spawning season. Females Hucho will start to feed more aggressively because of the spawning fast in February. This of course can be a nice advantage if you are a Hucho fisherman! And not to forget, weather in this January has so far been really "user`s friendly" with the temperatures not dropping below -4 degrees. No freezing lines so far! ;-)
BEST WISHES TO ALL FISHERMANS!!!, 30.12.2009   And we are closing yet another fly fishing year 2009. We would like to extend our gratefulness to all of you who had visited us during the season, to all who had contributed images for this news page, to all who were giving us a positive feedback about what we do and the job we carry on for many years now. In the same grasp, we wish you a prosper, healthy and as fishable as possible New Year 2010!! What about Hucho news!? Yes, what about that; probably you heard that nature is getting weird also down here in Slovenia.. instead of white and Hucho fishable Christmas, we had a flood and lots of rain .. Rivers were too high even for spinn fishing, so we are forced to wait for the first days of January when water level will be perfect again. Also the weather is promising, just few degrees below zero! Do not forget to check the news in FaunaFlyShop , maybe there is some thing there you might find useful! We will be back in the office on Monday, January 4th. Cheers!
FREEEEEZING LINES AND REELS, 17.12.2009   While we are waiting for our Fly Fishermans to land some Hucho, we had recieved this image, showing our guide landing a nice sized Hucho in worst to wish weather conditions. This is actually the last rain we saw in 2009! Since than, we had received just minor shipments of the snow, but not enough to spoil the Sava Bohinjka till the optimal opaque color. We were foretelled a really low temperatures for this weekend, dropping down to -13 degrees, preventing any cind of fly fishing activity because of freezing fly lines and reels. We need to wait till the next week, when nice warming is forecasted and larger moon will be shining. Till than, you can browse threw new nymph patterns recently added to our nymph selection of our FaunaFlyShop.
HUCHO FLY FISHING FEELS GOOD!!, 12.12.2009   After some days of bad moon, conditions for Hucho hunt again turned to better! Having done few trips with a fly fishermans was a very nice experience after all the spinning sport we do here lately. Again we realized, that fly fishing for the Hucho is really the nicest but also the hardest job. Casting a long fly line in a narrow, rocky riverbed of Sava Bohinjka puts every Hucho hunter on a serious test. But having that expectation for the Hucho strike with every new cast, makes you wanna cast for ever :-)
FISHING CONDITIONS OK, CHECK A PROOF!, 7.12.2009   Fauna guides are always on stand by once Sava Bohinjka starts to go down from unfishable to fishable level. If you catch just that exact day, when river is on her optimal, semi opaque color, you can really count on a Hucho strike! And who else knows that better than skilled hucho hunter Mr. Gorazd V? His words were, If I would caught one, this might be luck, that`s why I got two.. Teenagers he said, but we can expect their older brothers to strike soon! And news for all room chair fans; some new Slovenian made vices can be found in faunaflyshop!
SNOW MELT IN THE WINTER!?, 28.11.2009   As we predict yesterday, situation with the Sava level went to worst! As you probably remember, we had first snow in the mountains at the beginning of November and the damn thing started to melt now, because of unusually high temperatures we have lately. Yesterday`s rain just spoiled the situation some more.. We suppose river will be ok for Hucho fly fishing in the second half of the next week, for spinning guys maybe a day earlier.
ANOTHER PEARL ON 09/10 HUCHO NECKLACE, 27.11.2009   When we talk about Hucho hunt, every single strike is greatly appreciated. And if that happens in hard, clear water conditions, eaven more! Latest predator was tricked by mr.Zoltan A. in the Bled section of Sava Bohinjka. Ofcourse beautiful copper feemale was released back to the pool after the photo session. At this moment, there is still no trace of some winter cold here in Bled area, weather is mild and rainy. If the rain will not evolved in to a flood, we can see some hucho catches soon again!
HUCHO GUIDE KNOWS HOW!, 24.11.2009   Hucho-hucho fever still lasts on a great pleasure of local and tourist fishermans of course! When finding free time, also hucho guides like to go on the river, to check some new spots, casting technics and all other which might be helping them on hucho hunts. And since Hucho guides are probably one of the most experienced fishermans, many times their trips produce results! This time, our guide mr. Gorazd V. managed to persuade this 96-er to pose for my camera really really close. Few of you will ever come so close to this magnificent animal unfortunately. If you would like to change that, first you need to stand up from the chair you sit on now and make some action! But in case you prefer pc picture and nice warm office or living room, at least put fly tying vise out and tie some flies for next season. You can check few new Tiemco hook models we had just received in our Faunaflyshop!
WARMING UP FOR THE BIG ONE!, 20.11.2009   Our large hucho picture contributor mr. Tadej P., has already started to score hucho points, starting with 84cm which is after his words a youngster on Radovljica fishing club scale. Well, we say that it is a nice fish, don`t we :-) Hey, not to forget, there is still fly fishing season opened on the institute part till 30.11. You can still catch some nice dry fly moments before fly fishing train 09 leaves the station!
107CM HUCHO-HUCHO WILL BE HARD TO BEAT!, 18.11.2009   As promissed, on behalf of Mr. Jani C, we can show you yesterday`s catch of the day which will probably be also catch of the month, 107cm hucho beast, striking the Jani`s bait just before the dark! Weightening around 10kgs, it almost managed to escape down the stream with the help of the strong current of Sava Bohinjka. Still, lucky hucho hunter managed to prevent him of doing that and safely land him on the river bank. I personaly saw the forget triple hooks and both were almost completely opened! I also heard that Shimano stradic reel is also seriously damaged owing to a brutal drag use needed to stop the runing animal. Well, the highest goals are achieved over many bodies.. we have more photo material to publish in next days so stay tuned!
FRIENDLY HUCHO-HUCHO FISHING, 17.11.2009   Mid of November is realy unexpectedly warm and "hucho users friendly". Temperatures are mild and can reach 16 degrees during the day, which makes a snowmelt water - perfect conditions for Hucho-hucho fishing! Almost every day some hard to stop strike or catch happens. This time is show up moment for Mr. Sasa R. geting this 90+ one close to the evening, when the Danube predators most like to catch their prey! More images to come in the next days!
FIRST HUCHO TO SCORE OVER 100CM, 14.11.2009   Season for Hucho fishing has realy started nicely, thanks to Mr. Denis Jelovcan, who lured out of the realy huge pool of the Sava Radovljica river this nice feemale Hucho representative, showing 104cm and 13,5kg once measured. "This is one of the most thrilling moments in my life!" said a bit shocked Denis, once the fish was safe on the banks of Sava. Congratulations and hoping for more! Don`t forget that tomorrow also Hucho fly fishermans open their season on Sava Bohinjka, Bled sector
FAUNA FLY SHOP ON LINE, 13.11.2009   Hi guys.. probably you were already wondering what the hell, no news from them, no reports, maybe Fauna had check out from the planet!? No way! We were just bussy with the new FaunaFlyShop which kicked-in today! And, hey, thanx French friends for the first orders ;-) Hucho season has already started on Sava Radovljica and it started well! News (larger than 1meter) will be reported tomorrow!
NOVEMBER`S FLY FISHING, 02.11.2009   First November`s fly fishing days saw nice, sunny but cold days. Reports from Sava Bohinjka said that every day a hach of a small blue dun needle flies (stone flies) is appearing! Fish is hiting on dries despite morning cold and fog. The rest of the day is usualy nice and sunny, good either for small nymph fishing or dry fly fishing all day. Once the sun goes down, you can pack your rods and go home, because afternoons and evenings offer autumn in these days. Sava Radovljica is now closed for fly fishing, but opened for Hucho-hucho fishing! (just on Sava Radovljica for now). Sava Bohinjka Bled and Bohinj sector are still opened for fly fishing till November 14th, and the middle autumn part is opened for fly fishing all November. Come and check particular and not realy hard November`s dry fly fishing!
AUTUMN FLY FISHING BACK IN THE GAME!, 26.10.2009   As we were hoping for, beautiful autumn weather came back again and with it, nice fly fishing for graylings! Sava Bohinjka is recovering fast from last week`s rain and will be on her optimum fly fishing level in a day or two. In a few days, Radovna and Sava Radovljica close the season, so it is the last and nice oportunity to have a fishig day there.. Not to forget, Sava Bohinjka is open till 30.11 (Institute part).
COLD, BUT SUNNY AND COLOURFUL, 14.10.2009   Is how we could describe the last days.. temperatures drop down to 8 during the day but despite the chilli air, fishing is nice and can be done also with dry fly. grayling is not so hard to catch now and every catch is rewarded with nice runs and jumps as you can see from the pict. Water remains low and clear despite some rain we had last weekend. Some of you are already asking when the season closes; not so soon, on the Bled and Bohinj part last fly fishing day is November 14th and on the middle - Institute part season lasts till November 30th! So much more time to cathc an autumn graylings!!
YET ANOTHER NICE DAY.., 7.10.2009   Recently a very nice group of fly fishermans from Ireland visited our area and we are realy happy they found such a nice autumn weather and realy fine fly fishing .. Sava Bohinjka has shown her best form and hopefuly we haven`t seen all there is ;-)
PLEASURING F.F. AS MUCH AS WE CAN!, 5.10.2009   Long brake since the previouse news but we were out on the river almost every day due to a magnificant weather and water levels we have lately. All the rain from the spring time is forgoten and the beautiful autumn nature render all the bad moments from the spring. Fish is nicely active , plus Bled`s Trophy part looks great and grayling is taking dry flies all day long! Sava Bohinjka is having a level which would hardly be better and spectacular coloures are just a cherry on a fly fishermans fancy cake! What more to say.. whish this would last for ever!
BROWNIES OUT OF THE HOLES!, 24.9.2009   A good day to all! I just had to post some news, since we finaly awaited proper autumn fly fishing! Lately it is all in a sign of brown trout fly fishing , the spawning time for them is coming (brown trout season ends with October 1st) and that makes them feeding more aggressively and also during the day , not only on early mornings and late evenings.. well, it`s fine for us, at least you can sleep longer and go home early! A hint for a nice catch: 80% of brown trout catch you will get on a nymph.. they ignore dry fly food lately. Don`t wayt for some evening hatch, it is week or none at all. It will be October in a week time and dry fly fishing for grayling will kick-in if the weather will show some sun! We expect some nice photos from that period, so stay tuned and BR to all!
MIXED WEATHER AND FEELINGS, 15.9.2009   While we still wait for September to show his best coloures and autumn dry fly fishing for graylings , Sava went high again for few days due to heavy rain we have had here in last few nights. Beside that nothing is realy new and situation is more or less calm. Kids went back to school and cayak and canoe owners went with them, so at least there is peace on the rivers now.. A lot of bookings and interest is shown for the end of the month, so we all cind of hope for a good weather circumstances.. Graylings will become far less careful now in autumn time so we can hope for some nice photos! The one on the main frame is from Mr. Ole Rafn - Unica river!
SEPTEMBER BROUGHT RAIN , 5.9.2009   Sorry to let you know, but the first weekend in September will not be fishable due to a loud storm we had yesterday.. Sava Bohinjka, Radovna and larger part of the Soca area are quite high and will need some 3 days to drop back to normal levels. Unica is OK, the rain missed her this time. Weather forcast for the next 2 weeks could not look better! Sun and warm till 20°C! Start to do some autumn dry fly fishing plans guys!!!
IN REVERENCE TO A GREAT AUGUST.., 29.8.2009   Last fly fishing days in August were in a sign of Sava Radovljica fly fishing sector with a very significant confluence of the two Sava rivers on the top. Having nice, low levels, sector revealed hard to get spots and hard to catch fish! Surely one of them is also this unusualy thickset grayling on the picture. Such a torpedo on the end of a fly line is a "wish come true" of any fly fisherman.. Thank you Spanish hunters for sharing the photo! And for the end, a quick look upstream to Sava Bohinjka: I bet you haven`t fish this part of the river , yet!? Maybe some of Hucho hunters will recognise it eventualy.
MORNINGS ON THE RIVERS ARE THE BEST!, 24.8.2009   Thank`Godnes, the August is still here and so are it`s great fly fishing conditions! Since we are still very bussy at the Fauna shop, I can not realy get some free time to do a lot of fly fishing, so I just toke the camera and went to check how the mornings look like these days.. Starting with the Bled Trophy sector , than moving down towards the last bridge on the Bled part of the Sava Bohinjka - Bodesce bridge , passing the border of Sava Bohinjka Bled and Sava Radovljica - the Cajhen dam , stop for a few minuts at the confluence of the two Sava rivers and turned back to Bled, passing the Lancovo bridge . Hope you will find this report useful, despite the fact I had not caught any fish at this time ;-) Well, mr. Pitteri on the main picture had more luck, I found him below the Boh.Bela bridge, wrestling a nice, fat browny..
BOILING HOT SUMMER DAYS, 18.8.2009   August is a cind of a lazy month (unless you work in a tourism) and consequentialy so are the news. Nothing realy big was caught last week to make it to our news.. Sava Bohinjka is still having ok water level, just fish is geting more and more selective. During the day they tend to stay at the shadow places close to the banks not being realy keen for feeding. Most of the fly fishermans we have arround here lately, tend to fish early mornings and late afternoons when fish is the most active. For your information, SAVA RADOVLJICA (after the confluence of the two Sava rivers) is very good for fly fishing at the moment, due to low levels of Sava Dolinka and Bohinjka. We highly reccommend to take this advantage and go on fly fishing there. You might catch surprisingly large fish! If you do not know the area, do not worry. We will give you a detailed map here in Fauna shop. Seeya!!
A STRANGER TO THE SAVA HABITAT, 11.8.2009   Despite it might look like from the pict. that mr. Koresz has caught a realy trophy grayling, he did not. The catch is still appreciated, since it does not happen every day in Sava Bohinjka river. The fish on the picture is a Barbel (latin barbus barbus ). It likes oxygen reach waters with stony bottom but is a hard to get one on a fly since it is nosing on the ground all the time, with it`s slightly down positioned mouth, searching small crabs or certain water plants. Once hooked, it produces a very decent fight as you can see from the totaly bended 5 weight fly rod. Nice catch, we say!
FLY FISHING IN AUGUST, 5.8.2009   Hello back guys, had a short saltwater break, so this news comes late.. I had heard that the weather up there in Austria and Germany turned to be realy bad and I am sorry to hear that.. And spoiling your fly fishing in A and DE is the smallest problem.. Well, some time it is good to be a small country like we are, because bad weather might miss you, like this time. Beside few showers, all is ok and rivers in general are great for some fly fishing. The August has kicked in and fish has become more cautiouse.. If you fish on the area now, we suggest you to use smaller dry flies and present them on a shadow areas where fish tends to hide during the day.. evening hatch is very week or non so do not rely on this part of the day too much.. early mornings of August are better than late evenings.
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL !!!, 25.7.2009   Take the oportunity of a very nice fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka, Radovna, Unica and Soca, while it lasts! Just concluding a great fly fishing week, with nothing else than sunshine and active fish , we are crossing fingers for the next week too. Rivers on Bled area still have plenty of water since the previouse rainy months and that means nice fishing threw all August! UNLESS :-( - rain comes back again!
LOVELY FLY FISHING CONDITIONS, 21.7.2009   The one who waits, gets! This goes for all of us which were waiting for the Sava Bohinjka to finaly meets her low and fishable level all spring time. And it came just yet, on the front door of August! To summarize momentarily conditions on the river, fishing for trout is realy good if you are a dry fly fan, than go early in the morning and rather catch that hour of sleep during the day.. temperatures can climb till 28°C during the day and the fish moves to the shadow areas.. good time to switch on nymphs or small streamers!
OPTIMAL FLY FISHING CONDITIONS!, 14.7.2009   At last, as long they will last, we could say.. snow melt and rain finaly packed away and Sava Bohinjka finaly has the level we were all waiting for. Trout is still very active, nymphs during the day and dries in the afternoon. For larger fish , we advise you to go on the rivers in the morning, since days can be pretty hot now. See you arround!
THIS IS NO LONGER FUNNY!?, 8.7.2009   Again rain and again high rivers! It is very obviously now that 09 (and hopefuly no other) year will be the winner in a contest "Which was the worst fly fishing year you remember!?" Due to a latest storm, Sava Bohinjka, Idrijca, Soca went up again and the only one which is saving the situation a little is Unica which is just a bit cloudy and reasonably low. In such weather circumstances, steady water level and nice graylings makes it worth paying that 99 eur per day..
FINALY SOME SEASON AT LAST!, 3.7.2009   As we predicted, this year fly fishing season will probably meets it`s peak in the summer time months July and August! Nevertheless temperature has started to climb above 26°C, both Sava rivers have nice and suficient water level and as a result active trout . . Hatches don`t happen every day, true, but fish is taking dries despite that.. so if you haven`t went to the coast with your kids or wifes, go on fly fishing in Slovenia, you might have a great time!
SAVA BOHINJKA HAS NICE LEVEL, 29.6.2009   Finaly, we could say. This year the weather is a pain in the a. all over Europe and despite the fact that Slovenia is just a small dott on Europe`s map, rain finds us too often. At the moment of this update, rivers are not low but they are fishable. And weather feels like first half of May.. It is good to have a rain jacket with, just in case.. If you are heading on a fly fishing in our area, make sure you give us a visit and consult about which parts of Sava (or other rivers in Slovenia) are nicely fishable. We can save you some unplesent surprises!
SAVA BOHINJKA IS OK, WEATHER IS SO-SO.., 24.6.2009   Strange, but in every bad situation there is a piece of good too; cold, rainy and windy weather of this week had prevent the snow to melt and level of Sava Bohinjka went down! Nicely fishable as you will be able to see tomorrow on our water level home page. The only disadvantage of the curent situation is, that because of cold weather dry fly is not realy working well.. fishing is done mostly with nymphs . And it can be good as you can see from Mr. Thiery`s pictures.
RAIN SPOILED THIS WEEKEND, 20.6.2009   Previouse news needs to be revoked because we had just recieved a new delivery of rain (and snow above 1500m). Sava Bohinjka went back to her favourite high level and poor fly fishing is expected at least for some 3-4 days.. Other rivers like Unica, Krka, Idrijca are sofar just a little turbid, but reasonably low.. what to say? Stay tuned for some better news..
SAVA BOHINJKA IS OPTIMAL!, 16.6.2009   Almost no traces of snow in the rivers at last. While the rest of the rivers in Slovenia are almost on their lowest levels, Sava Bohinjka is on optimal fishable level. Suficient water and great warm weather are perfect recipe for some nice dry fly fishing. Everything is working well caddis, small may flies, stone flies, nymphs etc.. like fish would like to compensate the fast they had during the high snow melt water!? Some nice groups from worldwide were here lately and I do not realy need to tell you they had a very nice fishing indeed! Cheers to all, see you soon again!
SAVA TROPHY PART IS BACK IN THE GAME, 12.6.2009   After suffering snow melt water all year long, most of the Trophy part of the Sava Bohinjka was too high to wade in, so fish had a nice and quiet hollidays from the fisherman. But lately situation has changed and Trophy rainbows started to show their bellies again! Brownies will be following soon! Thanks Mr. Hubert for sending the image!
BEHOLD, YOU DO NOT SEE THIS EVERY DAY!, 5.6.2009   An old granny marble trout is usualy a very hard to get fish.. That is why I was quite glad when mr. J. Osolin sent us this great looking photos yesterday. Generously he allowed to public the image also on our news home page so all of you could share some of the thrill connected with such a catch. Where was the marble cought? Hehe... in the river ofcourse! She took a large stone fly nymph, now I say no more.
STONES ARE FLYING ARROUND, 4.6.2009   Not the real ones ofcourse, but stone flies are having a big dance at the Sava Bohinjka in these days, leaving their underwater residents behind. Joined by clouds of ephemeras, sedges , may flies, bats, etc! Finaly some real dry fly fishing. As the oposite to Unica or Idrijca, where your average hook size should be #18, on Sava you can put a #8 dry on and you will catch plenty! Weather is more early May`s looking with showers and clouds, but does not matter, as long as the level is low and fish is active!
ANOTHER PREDATOR OF THE NIGHT, 29.5.2009   Roaming across Slovenia with intention to find a nice and fishable rivers, your path can lead you also to the home rivers of marble trout (salmo trutta marmoratus). Unique specie of trout, only living in some Slovenian rivers with their outflow in the Adriatic sea. And if your intention was to fish for that fish during the day with a dry fly.. well you should look at the hour when the image was taken. I am telling you that mr. Federico V. didn`t have a dry fly at the end of his line :-) I say no more!
WHAT`S NEW WITH FLY FISHING, 26.5.2009   Well, if we are talking about Sava Bohinjka, not much realy.. As you can check on our water level page, still snow melt, realy unbelivably long this year.. If you are not realy keen to fish strong and cold rivers, Slovenian government did you a nice favoure by finishing highway cross in Slovenia and a new tunnel, bypassing the capitol Ljubljana. So now you need no more than 50 minuts of drive from let`s say Bled, to Unica or Krka. Idrijca would take you some 1 hour or so.. I am talking from the first hand, information, just coming back from the fishing with some great guys Tom and Erik, visiting Krka`s trout , hooking some graylings at Unica and strugling with picky marble trout at Idrijca almost the whole Sunday.. Could not realy belive how the levels of those rivers difer from the Sava Bohinjka in this days.. Almost too low already towards massive snow melt in the Sava Boh.. nature seems to be realy freaky this year ;-)
FIRST MAY FLY HATCHES YET NOW!, 16.5.2009   Hi guys.. I said to my self that I will not be writing any more of streamer and lead heads conected fishing news and will wait for some dry fly event to happen. Well, I missed one yesterday on the Sava Bohinjka where was a realy massive hatch of some may flies and ephemeras.. we had few guys on fishing that time and they told me, the water was boiling! No images were taken, so I need to post a few scenery from the Unica which is also in perfect condition at this time. Nice graylings , keen to take some may fly imitations. We also have fly fishing permits for Unica in our Fauna fly shop in Bled and you are near, pop in, we can reveal you some hot spots down there in Unica ;-)
NO MORE WAITING GUYS!, 9.5.2009   After speaking with with some 10 or twenty fishermans in last days regarding how they fished the Sava Bohinjka, I found out that they were all very content! After their own words, yes the water is still high, but the fish is very active despite that. So no more wating for the better times, if you feel like fly fishing, than you have GO! for it.
ROLLING THE FINGERS OR CASTING THE LEAD?, 5.5.2009   This is the bigest dilema we have around here. If you are a fly fisherman wanting to go to fish on the Sava Bohinjka or Soca or Radovna or some other mountain springed slovenian river like Sava Dolinka . The truth is that situation is getting better day by day but is still far from perfect. Snow melt and often rain keeps the level up. A little better is on the Radovna which is smaller river by definiton. Rumours are that Unica is nice for fishing and water level is ok. Also Krka, which is on the eastern part of Slovenia is already ok to go. If you happen to be on our area, pop in the Fauna store in Bled, we have some maps and advises of how to go there and lots of useful flies for all occasions. Surprisingly, best seller these days is lead headed streamer :-) But dry fly guys, have patiente - your time is coming too! Maybe sooner than you think!
WINDOW OF OPORTUNITY, 28.4.2009   Is what we could say for previouse fly fishing weekend on Sava Bohinjka. Great combination of sunny but cold weather prevented the snow to melt up there in the mountains and river became low and clear as we could only wish for! Few lucky guys who happen to be on the river that day, had a very good fly fising, catching wild rainbows and graylings on a nymph and eaven dries! Fairy tale went back to thriller again yesterday when we recieved a new package of rain. So, thanks Jure to send the image (caught on the Institute part of Sava) and make our day a little nicer!
DISPROVING THE RADOVNA FACTS, 17.4.2009   Due to strong, snow melting levels of Sava Bohinjka, a lot of fly fishermans decided to go on the Radovna , which is a smaller and user`s friendlyer type of river. And since the general opinion is, that the Radovna is a home of small, native brown trout , we were glad that mr. Roman K. send us the photo from his last fishing on the Radovna. With a little effort and accurate information, you can track and catch also wild rainbow of decent size or eaven a oversized one , which would fit more in Sava`s Trophy section than in the tiny Radovna ;-)
COUNTER STRIKE AGAINST SNOW WATER, 14.4.2009   Accepted little more demanding conditions of fishing in a snow melting water, fishermans are well revarded with a very nice weather and also active fish. In fact, situation is not so difficoult as it might be seen, all you need to do is find a nice shallow parts of the river and fish there. The truth is that also fish does not want to fight with the curent all the time, so it stays closer to the banks. Like the XXL browny on the main picture, which was masterfuly caught on the zoom camera by mr.Asly up there on the Institute section of Sava Bohinjka. Well, by the end of the day you are nicely tired from a deep wading but it sure feels good ;-)
RAIN, RAIN AND SOME MORE RAIN!, 2.4.2009   As someone would press the rain button up there, from the opening of fly fishing season on Sava Bohinjka we have not seen anything else than just rain. And it is still raining, so all the hopes for a nice fly fishing weekend went "down the stream" with just too high water level. I will publish some photo later, but you will not be happy about it ;-)
PRICES OF BOHINJ AND BLED FISHING PERMITS, 26.3.2009   They stay the same also in 2009. No increasing in price has been done, so if you still have 2008 price lists for fishing permits of Bohinj and Bled fishing club - they are valid. If you want, you can also check them on this FAUNA 2009 FISHING PERMITS link . Not much new beside that, rivers and weather are nice and main season opens next week so we will have some more to write about. Stay tuned!
INSTITUTE SAVA GOES CATCH AND RELEASE ONLY!, 19.3.2009   Not yet much of a fish-looking news guys for which I know you rather see than a rules looking news like this one but I still think you should know this; a large section of a beautiful Institute part of Sava Bohinjka (middle one) will be turned in to catch and release only district, meaning nobody will be able to kill a fish in this part! A long avaited news, which will for sure substantialy increase the quality of fish population in one or two seasons on this part of Sava Bohinjka. In fact, this is a goal which we would like to see in all Institute waters eventualy. To avoid missunderstandings on the river, here are briefly data about new section: Catch and Release part starts at the Railway bridge in the village Bitnje (just behind this church ) and ends at the road bridge in soteska (where you will see also railway bridge close by). From here till the dam in Soteska is normal part. Also short part of the river starting at road bridge near Bohinjska Bistrica, till the railway bridge in Bitnje is normal part of the river and allows you to keep fish if you have "catch and take" fishing license . In short words, with catch and release licence you can fish all district of Institute Sava B. (- see the map ) and with catch and take licence only 2 normal parts in total lenght of some 2 km. Clear. Stay in touch for furder updates of the coming season.
RIVERS ARE STILL COLD .., 10.3.2009   Despite warm and sunny weather, rivers in Slovenia are still quite cold and there is some more snow to melt up there in the mountains as we speak. If you are heading on fly fishing here in next days, do not be to anxious to get up very early in the morning. Take a late breakfast and hit the river when the sun is already high. The most action (eaven some dry fly fishing) is going on at that time. Right now, your best choice of the fly would be a heavy nymph and fishing close to the bottom where most of the fish are.. water will need another 2-3 degrees before fish will become realy active..
FIRST GLANCES OF 2009 FLY FISHING, 3.3.2009   Went to check on the Radovna river on the 1st as promissed, and found a very nice, spring looking day and a crowd of fly fishermans lounching their first casts in a still freezingly cold Radovna river. Let the main image not mislead you! To be honest, most of the fly fishing crowd was gathered on the banks by the cars, drinking beer and doing more of a bla-bla thing instead of the ff one :-) well, it is always like that on the opening days.. you just need to talk about fly fishing after this long winter ff. fast. This time Radovna trout , was of the second priority. We heard also Krka was fully occupied and Sava Radovljica same like. Great kick-of the season indeed!
COUNT DOWN .., 27.2.2009   It has been about time to post some news by now. To be honest, we didn`t had much to write about lately since all the fishing rested. But now, the time is almost here: Sava Radovljica, Krka and Radovna river opens on Sunday, March 1st. Good news for all who are anxiouse to stretch fly lines out from the winter sleep. Weather is nice, still little cold but dry and mostly sunny. We will be arround with the camera, trying to catch few rush images from the opening day, so stay with us. And find here also PRICE LIST FOR 2009 FISHING PERMITS
FAREWELL DEAR DANUBE, SEE YOU NEXT SEASON!!!, 14.2.2009   Huh, it went in a blink of an eye! The Hucho season 08/09. For all of you who don`t have the eye on a calendar all the time, today is the last fishing day for Hucho-hucho. It was a realy exciting season with a lot of new experieces, happy moments, but also hard and bitter hours.. but those are all spices in a finaly deliciouse Hucho fishing soup. We would like to thank you all guys for fishing with us, trust us your Hucho hopes and support us in our efforts for Hucho fishing spectacle. At last, eaven me, my self managed to slip off the office and being accompanied by our guide Gorazd V., managed to land a 68-er in the Sava Radovljica. This made me realy happy despite the fact that my 68-er is not a big deal for this district. Stay with us and do not forget fly fishing season opens in two weeks time, with Radovna and Sava Radovljica fly fishing 2009!
HUCHO VOTES, FOR WHOM HE WANTS, 7.2.2009   Going into the last week of thrilling hucho season 08-09, again learning lots of new and valuable experiences with the "river king" fishing, again we can almost say that despite all you do and all the skills you have, the fish is the one who decides at the end. And being capriciously tempered, like the weather in February , Hucho fishing will always be a cind of a lottery, leaving the winners very happy and the losers -.- well, they can always try again.. stay with us and see what the last week might bring up!
FEVER CLIMBING UP THE SCALE! , 30.1.2009   With the higher temperature of the water, and just some -3 degrees on the coldest part of the day, we can see some more activity also amongst medium sized Hucho population. Slowly also "geting ready" for the spawning will kick in, meaning fish will start to feed more frequently due to the spawning fast which is coming at the end of February. With not too much of a brain effort, we can see that this might come very handy in weeks to come!
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!, 26.1.2009   Surely we would hear that a lot from Hucho-hucho specie if they would just be able to talk! And it is better they do not, because it is hard enough to endure the hunt some times eaven without fish`s mocking. Mr. Robert Z from Hungary can confirm that, since he had experienced few tiredful days of casting, before finaly famouse reflection announced that the fruit of the hard grind is finaly here! And as usual, the unique feel of holding river king of some 90cm in your hands, erases all troubled memories from previouse days.
NICE ONE FROM SAVA RADOVLJICA!, 22.1.2009   Although with some delay, we are still glad to recieve this image of 98cm Hucho beauty caught on Sunday by mr. Goran from Croatia. Passionate fisherman, guided by well known local guide, Mr. Tadej P. was a lethal combination for a catch. Well, not in fact lethal, because Salmon D. was released back in his pool unharmed. Congratulations guys!
ROME WAS NOT BUILD IN A DAY.., 19.1.2009   And also Hucho isn`t caught in one.. Especialy on a fly rod! But persistence is often regarded and a lucky dice sooner or later hits one. This time it hit Mr. Antonio F. and it hit him well, with a 91cm, perfect looking Hucho, a chief of his pool. Strike came as usualy from the dark and again a fellow fly fisherman helped with the landing of the long expected fish. Honour of releasing of course belongs to the lucky fisherman which did the job more than well. Congratulations to all involved!
HEAVY AGGRESSORS FROM THE DUSK, 15.1.2009   Nice mixed group of spinning and fly fishing guys just left us and leave a very nice trail behind. As also the title tells you, dusk was again our best ally in this Hucho hunt. Scoring nothing the first day of fishing, the second one first raise fewer by a strike of a nice wild rainbow , following by the major event, strike of a 100cm Hucho female. Second crucial moment beside the strike - hucho grasp and landing were successful and lucky fisherman hold his trophy at last! And like this would not be enough, Mr.Zsolt concluded the day with another Danubian representative. Congratulations to all and well done for the guides!
WINTER COLD BRINGS HAMMER DOWN, 10.01.2009   Record low temperatures all over Europe didn`s spare the banks of Sava Bohinjka either.. waking up in some -12° or lower at 5AM in the morning and than walk to the river is an act of heroes it self, not to menitoning hard fly or spinn fishing at all. We can say, that present circumstances are a real sieve for the ordinary and extraordinary (fanatic if I may say) fishermans!
BACK ON HUCHO TRACK!, 5.1.2009   Despite the proper winter cold and icy banks of Sava Bohinjka, hucho show must go on.. Low and clear water is not much of a help in these days, but strikes are quite often, we just must wait for sth. big. Also some unusual reels were tested recently and surprisingly gave some results too! ;-)
CHECK THIS OUT - HEAVY WEIGHTER!, 31.12.2008   Glad to close the 2008 with this news! Our co-worker on well known Hucho part Sava Radovljica , Mr. Tadej P. has proven himselve to be real hucho tracker! If you check our news archive, dated on 14.12.2007, you will see he has also largest Hucho catch of the last season. This time he swing himselve on the top with this nice 100cm 13kg -er for whom we ofcourse congratulate him. The champ was released back to the pool of Sava Radovljica because Tadej thinks it was not big enough to lot him as a trophy!? "There are several biger spoted!" he said. Wow, can`t wait to start new Hucho persecution in 2009!
DANUBE SALMON HYMN ECHOES AGAIN, 28.12.2008   Hello audience, short Christmass pause is over and we are again back in action. This time starting with a nice group of enthusiastic Hucho hunters from USA, having amongst also the youngest predator of the season, 13y. old Alex, struggling with the cold and all the efforts involved like an adult fisherman. Leader of the group, Mr.Chris entitled knowledge from the former seasons and got the Hucho on a fly rod, while the novice, Mr. Jeff got a "joker card" this time, a nice rainbow from the Bled`s trophy part. Stay in touch these days, there are several Hucho hunters on the river and I have a strong feeling there will be some news to publish!
BEST WISHES DEAR FRIENDS!, 24.12.2008   It would be our big pleasure to address each and every one of you personaly but this would take us at least a day, so hopefuly this notice finds you all at one place.. We would realy like to thank you for all your support, praises and remarks in 2008 and a specialy for your positive feedback about our news home page. Merry Christmas and a happy NY 2009! Pa se nekaj besed nasim domacim obiskovalcem: tudi Vam se zahvaljujemo za obisk, vam zelimo vse najboljse v prihajajocem letu 2009 ter vsem skupaj in vsakomur posebej voscimo VESEL BOZIC! PS: sumniki danes ne delajo ;-)
LATEST HUCHO HUCHO CATCH!, 23.12.2008   As old Hucho hunters say, all you need to do is waiting for the right moment! And our latest "happy winner" did exactly that! Our guide Gorazd took him to the perfect pool and surprisingli, in bright winter day - bang!!! Hard contrary strike , strong Hucho strokes and a beautiful silhouette on the river surface.. 100cm of the beast made the best possible Christmass gift to all of us.
A VISIT FROM FAR AWAY, 17.12.2008   Since we are talking about Japan, I think the title is correct. Mr. Masanori came to try the ultimate winter time fly fishing challenge, ofcourse we are talking about Hucho fly fishing! Although we had a good plan of how to get a nice strike, big "Hulk" did not agree with it this time.. twice striked and twice managed to escape from a single hook xxl fly! The only model willing to pose for the guide was the pesky rainbow :-) Nevertheless, we had a great time out there on the river and already did new plans for the next time.
HUCHO HUNT GOES ON! , 10.12.2008   Despite the capricious weather our hucho hunters don`t give up! Beautiful winter dawns find our guys already in action. Last group of our spinning fishermans from Hungary had nice activity of medium sizes Huchos and surprisingly xxl rainbows ! Several attacks of this great fighting fish made fishing realy tense. Due to a very clear water, large Huchos were too difficoult to trick this time but nevertheless, few caughted Danubes and rainbow submarines fulfiled the expectations nicely. Note: since 1.12. also the Institute Hucho fishing part of Sava Bohinjka is already open, we will let you know regarding the rules and fishing conditions asap!
GUIDE KNOWS.., 5.12.2008   What else to say if a Hucho guide catches one, 94er this time. Due to some problems with the camera, image came late and in medium quality which is quite an exception on our news home page, but still, better bad than none. For your information, we have uncommon December weather here, one day it is -14 degrees, another day is +5 and heavy rain etc.. Sava Bohinjka goes up and down like an elevator in a skyscraper :-) Well, some spinning guys are coming for the weekend and later next week and they should not have problems with the water level.. our guides say that no water is too high if you are spinning for the Hucho.. Well, lasts seasons had proven them to be right! Lets wait and see!
HUCHO FINALY LANDED, 29.11.2008   We think we still owe you a hucho image from yesterday`s news, don`t you think so? Well, Mr. Fabrizio M. and our guide Mr. Gorazd V. took care of that. Being very frustrated by loosing a xxl Hucho down there in the canyon of Sava Bohinjka, this one mitigated the stress a little. Image was taken under very difficoult conditions, in hard dark, since the lamps died from the cold.. nevertheless it came our very nice if you ask me.. like they would be fishing out there in the space and not down here on the earth ;-) The Hucho was ofcourse released back into the night.. A hint for the end: weather forcast shows considerable warming in next week, meaning fallen snow will melt causing the best possible conditions for Hucho (Salmon Danube) fishing - snow turbid river! Local fishermans still have -stop- fishing till 15.Dec, so take advantage of the free river!
HUCHO FISHERMANS TRYING HARD, 28.11.2008   Hello dear audience in your comfortable armchairs.. I know you are waiting for some nice new Hucho-Hucho images but this time you ain`t gonna get one :-) Grave cold wave thwarted our plans to get a nice beasts in last few days.. Temperatures droped down to -10°C and made a life of our fly "Huchermans" a living hell. Still, some great images were taken and we had publish them with intention to present you how hard and rough this way of fly fishing is and why the smile on every Hucho fly fishermans face if he gets the beast is so glorious. All of them who are trying on the Sava Bohinjka in these days deserve a decent salute!
FIRST SNOW, FIRST HUCHO ON A FLY ROD!, 25.11.2008   Weather forcast for yesterday was: some snow, but not more than 10cm on the areas with higher altitude.. The reality was: 30-40 cm of snow in all areas! Big surprise for us and for the group of hucho fly fishermans we have here at the moment. Well, no weather can stop a hucho predators, so the guys and the guides went out instead and brought us back this great photo of mr. Hubert who managed to get this 85er and had also another strike which he did not landed unfortunatly. Some new part of Sava Bled is opened this year for hucho fishing but I can not tell you more about this. The shake of a hand for Mr. Hubert`s release and high hopes for the next hucho fishing days! Remember that snow was always good for hucho fishing.
OPTIMAL HUCHEN WATER!, 18.11.2008   Looks like opening of the season was better than we expected! Few other nice huchen was caught, among them also 100cm+ one! We are trying to get some images of him, but no promisses.. Meanwhile take a look at this 94-er, very elegant animal, perfect shapes, he had to be a model down there in a pool of Sava Bohinjka river. I can almost see some likeness there with the happy angler ;-)
HUCHO SEASON IS OPEN !!!, 15.11.2008   I just came back from the Sava Bohinjka, where I was a witness of a premier opening of a hucho-hucho season 08-09 on Sava Bohinjka Bled. The fever amongst fishermans was incredible and it reached the top when our guide, Mr. Dusan P. caught this 95 cm, 8.5kg beast after just some 20 minuts of fishing! Great overture in yet another thrilling hucho-hucho winter fishing season!
NOT ALL DONE YET WITH FLY FISHING!, 5.11.2008   Patiently suffering this rain and high water, we still don`t give up hopes for a nice conclusion of a fly fishing season with the last day of November. True, Bled and Bohinj sector will "close the door" in 10 days, but anything can happen during this time. Rain has stop and sun is shining again. Nice and mild temperatures will make dry fly fishing possible again for sure. Despite the fact, that brown trout is closed for fishing, it looks like she is the most active right now! Nice brown trout were caught some week ago and if you will be doing some fly fishing yourselve in this period, do not get scared if some XL Hucho - Hucho swims a meter away from your feet! Smart bastard knows that season for catching him is still closed now... But not for long! >:)
RAIN AND HUCHO PREVIEW, 30.10.2008   Water hammer from the sky hit us on our heads again, so no news about some fly fishing at the moment. Eaven the guys with rafting boats concider the river to be too high for any activities. .. The meaning of this notice is about THE START OF THE HUCHO FISHING SEASON on Sava Radovljica river. Attention: not on Sava Bohinjka but only in the big Sava river. Fly fishing season on the S.Bohinjka is still opened till 14. November (Bled, Bohinj) and 30.November (middle - Institute) sector. For now, all the images of the fish are still from the last season, new ones will hopefuly come soon. Main image shows some of many interesting sections of the Sava Radovljica fishing district. For fishing rules, please visit our Hucho Radovljica home page.
LET GOOD FISHING TIMES ROLL!, 24.10.2008   Supreme autumn weather almos made us forget for all the headaches we had in the spring time, struggling with the high water and rain all the time.. But within last few weeks, I think nobody left Sava Bohinjka or some other river nearby unsatisfied. Well, those who had the largest smile on their faces were for sure guys from the Bled Trophy section, catching XXL-s easily than in any other time of the season. "Beautiful sun and awsome fish, what more could a man ask for?" were the words of the man from the picture, Mr. Thomas D. Well, I have nothing to add to those thoughts. Maybe a cold beer and topless chick on the other side of the river? :-D
ANOTHER GREAT WEEKEND AND TROPHY, 20.10.2008   We had just survived another unforgetable saturday and sunday out there on the Sava Bohinjka river. Warm temperatures and variouse insects in flight, persuaded graylings to rise again, on our great joy of course. And like he would be waiting for the last moments to show him selve to the world: 50+ grayling! caught in the Trophy part of Bled fishing club! Largest catch of the season succeeded to Mr. Diego P. who also contributed the nice rainbow from the main picture. He said that those few fly fishing days were unforgettable and after looking to the pictures, I actualy belive him!
INDIAN SUMMER CONTINUING, 15.10.2008   I do not know if the expresion from the title is used world wide, but in Slovenia this means a very nice autumn time, , just like it is now! Another question is if the hatches which are happening in last days (sedges, ants, ephemeras .. ) are normal for this time of the year or are consequence of some global warming too? Well, it doesn`t realy matter. As long as fly fishermans are benefiting from it, I wote for! And belive me, they benefit indeed. I haven`t seen so much happy faces in Fauna store during all spring time. One of lucky ones was also Mr. Max B., who had cindly contributed the main photo of xxl rainbow from Bled Trophy part. Grazie in behalf of Fauna news audience!
UNFORGETABLE FLY FISHING DAYS!, 13.10.2008   We had just left an unforgetable fly fishing weekend behind and it needs to be reported to you while the memory is still fresh! Beautiful Sunday with some 19 degrees, enticed out everybody, ephemeropteras, fishermans and ofcourse - big fish! How could I describe the situation on the Sava in this days.. hm.. Fish is crazy for dry fly again, not selective at all, paterns on #12 are working again! Everything is feeding from the surface, graylings, brownies, large rainbows all residents of Sava! As I said so many times, second spring, or eaven better!? I am also happy alongside "bamboo" guys Mr. Migliorini and Millani which realy chose a good day for the Trophy section fly fishing, easily catching sub-rainbows and nice brown trout. Fantastic job guys, thanks for sharing it with us. A note for all the rest: with great weather forcast till Friday, fairy tail goes on also in this days!
THE BEST CONDITIONS YOU CAN GET!, 10.10.2008   C O L O U R E S of this week are realy awsome. (See the difference of the nature from previouse news!) If you had a chance to be on Sava during this week, you will know what am I talking about. The banks and canyon of Sava Bohinjka are glowing in warm palete of autumn coloures and this is the one time of the year when you actualy don`t mind catching big or any fish at all. Not because the fishing would be bad, but because is more relaxing to sink the mind in the coloured nature. Still, no news with no fish photo, so at least one browny needs to be caught. Do not forget, now is very good time for dry fly fishing of graylings!
COLD OCTOBER`S SHOWER, 4.10.2008   Great miracle would happen if this year`s autumn would leave us without some rain.. Latest rain has pushed Sava Bohinjka up and made this weekend lets say, grounded from the fly fishing. One more reason to thanks Mr. Martin F. from CZ for this picture which was taken just a day before the pesty rain leaved the sky and jumped down in the magiority of Slovenian rivers. Handsome browny caught in the Institute part of Sava B. can realy be a balsam for the eyes. Agree??
OCTOBER STARTING TO SHOW IT`S COLOURES, 26.9.2008   When some of the fly fishermans had already put their fly fishing rods in the closet, the rest of us have just started our second "autumn" march on graylings. Despite the fact, that this nice time of the season usualy produces finical trout , graylings on the other hand are far less careful than they were in the summer time. This is the fact, that we have to make use of, what say you!?
MIXED MARRIAGE PRODUCES MOST HANDSOME "KIDS", 22.9.2008   What else to say regarding this great looking marble trout crossbreed!? Our guide, Jure R. from the Soca basin has realy make our day nicer with sending this image which he took on the last fly fishing on the Idrijca river. Despite the fact, that fishing was very demanding, because river is low and very clear, the fish just couldn`t reject the tiny baetis, attached on the 7X fluorocarbon leader. Great job man, too bad I could not join you this time..
CONFLUENCE, HOST OF A BIG FISH, 13.9.2008   It is realy a shame that this, almost 3 weeks long period of sun has ended with today`s rain. We hope it will be just harmless, short lasting one and that water levels will stay the same. Latest very positive report we have from Radovljica fishing club, which benefits the most of the low level of Sava Bohinjka and Sava Dolinka. Best places are all accessible now and are offering great fishing for wild rainbows and large graylings. Nymph works best in this time of year, but if you like to do streamer fishing, this is the place to go too. Dry fly fishermans will find the area a little demanding, since it is more hard to control nice dry fly float on a larger distances. We recommend you to check the area and experience some of the delights yourself!
SEPTEMBER IS HERE, 6.9.2008   Second spring is what we call this very interesting fly fishing month. Not because of a blooming nature, but because of a active fish, especialy graylings going for a dry fly again. Very tolerant temperatures and great water level makes fly fishing a pure joy. The weather is stable and forcast for all the autumn looks nice, how else should look if we got all the rain already in June and May :/ In short words, sharpen your flies and go on fly fishing as long as the weather still allows you.
MISTY MORNINGS, THE BEST THERE IS!, 28.8.2008   Some time ago we were talking about how nice it is if you are able to wake up early and hit the river before the sunrise. And to prove that fact, I realy woke up early and go to fish on the Radovljica district of Sava at 06AM! To tell you the truth, I was a little sceptic about the strikes, since sleepy as I was, would probably miss them all. But just before 7AM, the sun rised and gave me a spectacular, misty view on the river I like to fish very much. And like someone would ring a underwater bell, strikes came one after another. All of them belonged to the nice, river born rainbows which offered great, handache fights. I concluded my fishing day already at 11AM with 42+ grayling . If I would know how to cast with my left hand, I would stay some more, but my right one was hurting me already, so I just went home, happy to skip that few hours of sleep. Dreams can not be nicer than early morning fly fishings!
I TRY TO DO MY BEST, 19.8.2008   In the previouse article I said that it is going to be hard to beat the size of the rainbow which Mr. Paul contributed for our news home page and so it was. I went to fish on a misteriouse waters of Radovljica fly fishing club with a goal of catching some large size rainbow or big, fat grayling which I could put in our news. But nothing like that happened. A lot of fish, but all average size, 20-35 cm. Than on the very last half an hour of the day, my bug suddenly stoped on the end of a large pool. Ola, I said, this is not a baby rainbow. I try to persuade fish to jump out and introduce herselve, but no success. Just shaking the head and pulling deeper and deeper.. clear sign for a brown trout. And finaly, the golden reflection out of the murky water of Sava Radovljica confirmed that. Nice female browny of some 43-45cm. I just had to set my tripod this time to catch that golden reflection which moved from the fish to my face . I love fly fishing!!!
FLY FISHING IN FULL SWING!, 13.8.2008   As August was always concidered as a holliday month, the best for swinming in the rivers and lakes or catching the sun in some of the world`s beaches, this year August in Slovenia is the best fly fishing month! We have a nice crowd of fly fishermans in the area, mostly guys from Italy who had just started their "feragosta" and they are all very content with the situation on the rivers. True, water level is sufficient and the fish is active for all cinds of flies. Just 0.12 or 0.14mm tippet is needed than the fly is not realy so important. Most of the day the fishing is nice, the best are the mornings when the sun is not so hot. Note: at the moment aslo "difficoult" rivers like Sava Dolinka and Sava Radovljica are low and VERY nicely fishable! I am going to do some fly fishing in Radovljica district of Sava in next days and I hope I will be able to bring back some foto stuff for you guys. Cross your fingers! (Not because I would need some luck, but because you must do something while the rest of us will be doing great fly fishing :-)! And thank you Paul for the photos, it is going to be hard to beat you in size!
THE PEAK OF THE FLY FISHING SEASON IS HERE!, 7.8.2008   True, the peak of the season has a delay of 3 months, but who cares! As long as it has arrived. In short words, it is not a problem to get a sub rainbow like you see in the hands of Mr. Timmothy K. on a dry stimulator in the middle of the day! The fish is absolutly eager for dry flies. No need to wait an evenig hatch because it can not compare with the morning activity for dry flies. Especialy graylings are very agressive with their taking of dries, so well smashed barb is very important now. They swallow very deep, so unhooking them can be real nightmare. Beside that, all other fly fishing joys are on the top!
7.6FT, #3 LOVES GRAYLINGS!, 4.8.2008   A very interesting guy, mr. Joe L. from the USA visited us few days ago, expresing his thoughts to do some fly fishing if possible. After few words, we soon realised that grayling which is not very well known fly fishing species back in the States, would be a very nice target! "Does it realy smells like the thyme spice!?" Promptly I grabed my #3 and took him to some of my favorite spots to track down some graylings. And since August 08` is realy dry fly friendly we were fishing all the day with dry flies. And caught nothing else but graylings. Just one or two trout. Not very large in size, but good fighting. I had realy enjoied the day, was more fun for me than a work. The largest we caught in the canyon managed to escape us after this spectacular "salto mortale" which I managed to caught on the cam. Well, next year he will grow biger ;-)
GOOD TIMES ROLLING! , 2.8.2008   Since we are experiencing the second spring now, making a family reunion, on Sava Bohinjka`s fly fishing, makes a good sense indeed! We had to rebook several groups of fly fishermans from the very wet June to August. And that was the best we could do! Perfect water level, very nice weather, active graylings, and dry fly fishing all day long. What more could you ask for!?
CAN YOU WAKE UP AT 05 AM?, 29.7.2008   If the answer is yes, and you are curently fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka, Soča, Unica or any other Slovenian river, than just do it! You will see entirely different world out there on the river. (Fresh air, no people, just birds, no canoests, nothing, just you and the fish). Finaly the weather is at it should be, sunny and very warm, but because of some 29 degrees, fly fishing in the middle of the day is not an easy thing to do and also the fish is not so active. So the best plan you can make in these days is to go on the river very early, take a brake&beer in the noon and return back to hot spots late afternoon. Well, if you are not an early bird, than at least take sun lotion and a lot of water with you.
HOW TO EXPORT RAIN IN AFRICA :-D, 22.7.2008   Another week has past by with no fly fishing, since the rain pushed Sava, Soča and eaven Unica to high levels. Smaller streams were quite fishable, but the weather was rough, cold and windy. Now finaly we have a good weather forcast, promissing us at least a week of nice, reliable weather. But who knows.. good news is that all the lenght of Sava Bohinjka will be nicely fishable within some 2-3 days. We will report the situation on our waterlevel page. I must tell you again, that when the rivers are low, fly fishing is very nice, better than in a regular summer with very low water levels. As a proof, we share this great looking photo which our guide Darko took with his underwater machine. I wonder where he found so high underwater grass?
NOT AS IT LOOKS LIKE, 17.7.2008   This image would scared every one, who had just purchased a daily fishing permit to fish on the Bled part of Sava Bohinjka - river, jam packed with other fly fishermans. In fact, the situation just now is the very opposite; enough space for a comfortable fly fishing, since July is a family vacation month and most of the fly fishing dadys had to go to the coast instead on a nice grayling dry fly fishing, which in fact is realy good now. Often showers feed the river with suficient water level and are scaring away spoiled, "sunny" fly fishermans. Some rain forcasted again for the weekend, but we stop to worry regarding that.. as long as the fish are active, we do not mind getting wet a little ;-)
MR. JASPER ASTONISHED FLY F. AUDIENCE ON SAVA BOH., 9.7.2008   With what you may ask. With this 50er!, Coming just the second time to fly fish in Slovenia, he managed to acchieve what most of us, locals are still trying to do; get a 50 or +cm grayling, out from the pools of the Sava Bohinjka river. Well, I take just a little bit of the credit for this catch, since I told Mr. Jasper from Denmark, where a good place might be.. And as I would like to tell you so much, where this log was caught, I can`t do that. Maybe just a hint: in Bled sector of Sava Boh. ;-)
CHECK THE AFFLUENTS OF LARGER RIVERS!, 7.7.2008   Hi guys.. weekly report from the Sava Bohinjka is a little bit lazy, since the fly fishermans are catching more or less sunshine and cold beer instead of some large fish. It was a boiling hot week indeed. If you happen to be on our area, or planing to come shortly, we suggest you to fish smaller affluents of larger rivers, which are usualy more protected from the sun and that how friendlyer for fly fishing. Radovna, Lepena, Tolminka, Trebuscica are very nice during the summer, offering a catch of nice graylings, , marble trout , or great looking rainbows . We just recieved few images from our guide Jure R. who was doing some fly fishing on Tolminka last days. Very nice catch in very nice invironment. What more could we asked for!?
SUMMER FLY FISHING LIKE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, 30.6.2008   Full riverbed of Sava Bohinjka, crystal clear deep pools, active fish and 30 degrees are the data which we are not used to have in July. Usualy river is very low at this time of year and fish less active because of the low oxygen in the water. But not this year! 3 months of rain were good investment for the summer time fly fishing indeed. Dry fly working all day long, but there is not much of a hatch in the evening to be honest. The best part of the day is early morning, scenery is realy spectacular at that hours and fish is much more active than in a heat of the day. Concider that!
BIG FISH COME OUT LATE, 24.6.2008   Great fly fishing times on the Sava Bohinjka are here. We hosted hundreds of fly fishermans in last week and every single one made it`s own story of nice catch, great hatch, escape of realy big fish etc.. In general, season is realy nice and rivers in perfect condition. Thanks to the guys from the photo to contribute the photo material for all of you who still sitting back home.
LET THE GOOD FLY FISHING TIMES ROLL!!!, 19.6.2008   After frustrating weeks of the rain, cold and high rivers, we finaly recieved great weather forcast for the end of June! Rivers all over Slovenia are rapidly going down to their normal levels and due to almost 28 degrees, flies had begin to hatch massivly! Looks like, that long expected peak of the season is getting closer! Last rainy days still saw some good fly fishermans, which went to Sava Bohinjka despite rough conditions and cold rain. Mr. Claus surely did not regret that day, nailing down this nice submarine rainbow below the Institute ex Trophy part in Soteska. Nice trick and additional thanks for the photo!
FINALY FISHABLE , 13.6.2008   As we are almost in second half of June, this is a looong expected news indeed. Sava Bohinjka is lets say on her normal fishable level and fishing can be done normaly. Weather is still unusual, with periods of rain and sun. Bled Trophy section has suffered high water many days this year, so every picture from it is more than welcome. Thanks to Sander, Dinus and Edwin from NL, we can publish the browny on the picture, so thank you guys. NOTE! Sector 1 of Bled fishing club will be turbid for the next 2-3 days because they are doing some construction work on the Soteska dam. Other sectors and Trophy part are OK.
SAVA UP, SAVA DOWN, SAVA UP, SAVA ... DOWN?, 3.6.2008   Haha, unusual header, but it best describes present situation with the rivers on our side of the Alps; hardly recovered from snow melt, rivers already recieved a few local storms, which pushed them up again. Not much, but enough to scare "dry fly" fishing population. This realy is a nice time to determine who the real fly fisherman is. As one, you need to adapt fast to any cind of river condition , regardless if yesterday was nice and low and today is high and white. One of such guys were for sure mr. Mike and his friends who invited him on fly fishing in Bled Trophy part from the far Hawaii`s islands. Dirk, Mike and others adapted fast to high water, catchig graylings on dries and large rainbows eaven on bone fish?? patterns. For fun, they said :-) So for the end, most common question these days: Is Sava Ok for fly fishing? YES, if you are not one of the spoiled fly fishermans ;-)
HARD WORK ON THE RIVERS THESE DAYS.., 27.5.2008   Hi back guys. Would like to report more often but Fauna store is jam-packed with fishermans and I have almost no time to jump on a nice fly fishing. But we had a few USA fellows who did find time to do it. John M and his group had a privilege to meet snow water in the end of May. And they find it .. hm.. demanding to fish. Eaven that June is coming if few days, Sava Boh. Soča, Savinja still have snow water and less active fish in. You are asking us all the time how long that will last? Hard to tell.. Sava might be ok in a week, but Soča will need at least 2-3 weeks to melt out :-/ Extraordinary year, and circumstances indeed. We promisse, that the first day in 2008 when Sava Bohinjka will have NORMAL water conditions, we will make a big news on our home page. Till than, keep on using nymps and small streamers. Leech imitations works well!
PLEASE RAIN, LEAVE US!, 21.5.2008   Nothing else to be said.. I would love to write you about spring time massive hatches of May flies, but all I can write about is rain and high water of almost all Slovene rivers. I do not belive I remember so bad spring time fishing in my whole 15 years career at Fauna comp! Slowly we will forget how to fish with a dry fly :-) Streamer and heavy nymph is the only solution. And there is a fish in the river who loves to go for such flies - hucho ofcours! Maksimum size of 5cm for the streamer is no problem for him.. He took the one from Mr. G.Vitalini while they were fishing close to Bohinjska Bela last week and made him a nice, unexpected surprise.
STREAMERING & NYMPHING, 16.5.2008   Is what you need to know if you want to catch a nice sized fish on Alpine rivers these days.. with the rising temperatures snow which is up in Alps has started to melt away and consecutivly makes rivers very cold. I can tell you from the experience I have in our fly store, that 90% of proper fly fishing is still going on with heavy flies. No real sign of May fly or stone fly hatch yet. This year that main event of a fly fishing season is well deleted indeed! And in such cases, when the hatch appears it is unbeliveably massive! Lucky those, who will be able to pinch-point the timing of 08` hatch period!!! Our friends, under the lead of Mr. Hubert A. didn`t caught the hatch, but yet they were not empty handed afterall ;-)
AWAKENING OF THE RIVER, 13.5.2008   Old fly fishing proverb says, that snow on the peaks converts the fish in to a stones. Why? Well, if you would be doing some fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka, Soča, Sava Dolinka, you would know what that means; since water is very cold from melting snow, digestion of larger fish turns to be much more slow than in normal water temperature. That cause fish eats less than normal and is also less active in general. Sits on the bottom and ignores everything you cast to her. Quite frustrating some times :-) Fortunatly they can not resist a nice nymph if it is presented infront of their nose! The key of a success which well learned also mr. Robin G. who was fly fishing on Sava with his friends few days ago.
FINALY, SEASON IS HERE.. , 6.5.2008   Almost a week, with no hearing from us, sorry guys, but we were up to the neck in work. Good yes, but not much time left for fly fishing and photo gathering :-( Still, finaly we can say that real fly fishing season is here. After realy bad April, May has proven to be much more sunny and warm. The report from our guide is, that Sava Bohinjka is still suffering from snow melt, but not regarding the coloure (is crystal clear) but from more pore activity of larger fish. So at this moment we are still fishing with heavy nymphs and streamers. Dry fly fishing gives poor results on larger population of trout or graylings because the bugs have not started to hatch massivly due to the cold water. Dry fly situation should be better next week if the weather stays so nice and sunny. Stay tuned, more news to come!
KRKA, BROWN TROUT HOT SPOT, 29.4.2008   While fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka is in a nice swing, we got the news, that also Krka is offering a great spring fly fishing opportunities. Never affected by snow melt, she has optimal water level and fish in good feeding mood. Aiming to catch first spring hatching nymphs, fish is far more careless than it will be later in the season, so every one who take decidion to fish now, has decided good! One of such was also our photo contributor Jure R. who got this nice browny on a #10 dry cdc patern, while fishing Krka last Sunday.
BLED LAKE TROPHY LACUSTRIS, 26.4.2008   Good news are streaming in! Weather is finaly nice, Sava Bohinjka is finaly low and finaly we had recieved the nice catch from the 1st of April, which mr. Giugliano B. had while he was fishing on lake Bled! In just an hour or so, he caught this beautiful lake trout of 71 cm and 4,100 Kg! Another strike they have later, but despite the fact, that the second one second one had nice 51cm, it still looks small towards the big one!
FLY FISHING IS BACK!, 24.4.2008   Finaly, after weeks of waiting, the sun has come back again and the rivers are going back to their normal, "fly fishing friendly" levels. Radovna is perfectly fishable, while Sava Bohinjka (except the upper Bohinj part) will need a day or two to be very low again. For now, this is all the news and we think it is a good one.
RAIN LEAVE US PLEASE!, 19.4.2008   If you are reading our news, that is nice indeed, but it probably also means that you are experience the same as we are here in Slovenia - rain. It is not a flood making rain, but more likely "pain in the a." rain, which is drizzling down on us for almost 2 weeks now. Rivers are high and mostly fishable only with streamer or not fishable at all. When the rain will stop, they will go down fast, since they are not terribly high, but rain is forcasted also for next days :-/ So in the meantime we extend thanks to our friend Mr. Jure R. who managed to find a peace of nice weater and level on Soča and get this photo for us. If someone knows the anti rain spell, send it to our email pls :-)
LUCK LOVES THE BRAVE ONES!, 15.4.2008   Despite unstable April weather which reigns in Slovenia this year, a group of young fly fishing enthusiasts from Finland, still decided to take a chance and fly down here to try the spring fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka, Soča and Idrijca rivers. And while the majority of fly fishing public waited at home, observing the rainy weather reports, Ville, Nikolai, Saku and Ari enjoyed uncrowded and virgine spring areas of Sava, Soča and Idrijca. Starting their journey on Sava, with some 300 strikes in 2 days, they thought Soca and Idrijca can`t surprise them with nothing new. Still, nice surprises were waiting there, having the shape of grayling, marble trout or wild rainbow trout. We also had chance to meet guys in person, while they were at our Fauna Lodge and we all think they had realy earn this trip well! Looking forward to their next visit! Check gallery vista here!
TRUE APRIL WEATHER, 12.4.2008   Unfortunatly we have to inform you that this April realy deserves its name - rainy month. Sava is high again and will need at least 2-3 days to be fishable again.. During this time, you are welcome to check few of our hiper realistic fly models , which are very good for fishing and spectacular for the eye!
BREAKING NEWS - UNOFFICIAL, 9.4.2008   We were doing some great fly fishing this season on Sava Radovljica and were always wondering how it can be that we always had nice and constant water level?? It has been known from the past that level of the big Sava is oscillating up and down, due to the power station dam Moste furder up stream of Sava Dolinka. This was bad for fly fishing because the oscillation always made fish to stop feeding for some time. And it was also dangerouse because water rise could prevent you to return to the bank if you had been standing in the middle of the stream. Well, we had heard the rumours, that power station have a refit of turbines, which will last at least a year if not more and during that time the dam will work on a constant water level! You know what does that mean!? That our area has got a 30+ km of a very exciting fishing district with wild and powerful fish. This is strictly unofficial ofcourse and our source might be wrong, but still, level is constant for 2 weeks now and our hopes are high!
GRAYLINGS FROM LAKE BOHINJ, 5.4.2008   With the summer opening time of Fauna store in Bled, when all fly fishing for us must stop at 8:00 AM, Bohinj lake offers a great solution; with the very first day light or eaven a minute before, around 5:00 AM, we are doing very nice fly fishing for graylings in the outflow of a small river Savica on the upper section of lake Bohinj. Surprisingly every year we catch more graylings there.. But that is happening only during April month, later fish goes back to Sava Bohinjka or Mostnica, we do not know.. Very interesting is, that feeding mode of grayling changes while he is in the lake? You can easily catch him with a small streamer! Fishing permit to fish from shore is cheap, so it is worth to try eaven for just few hours. Why not trying to explore every single fly fishing option our area has to offer!?
FINALY, FLY F. IN THE SUN AND SPRING ATMOSPHERE!, 1.4.2008   We have been waiting for 2 weeks for the weather to get better and finaly, here it is! First opening day on Sava Boh. Bled and Bohinj sector saw some 15 degrees and lots of sun. Water is still little white from snow melt, but this is normal for April. We need to mention also unforgetable day we had on Sava Radovljica last week! Because Sava Dolinka is low, also Sava Radovljica is on her optimal level, offering realy great fly fishing. From the main picture you can see it looks almost like Sava Bohinjka! In less than 2 hours of fly fishing we caught lots lots of natural trout and eaven graylings! Especialy they were fighting very well, with several jumps, realy spectacular. Looks like Sava Radovljica has improved during last few years in the means of fish quantity/km. We strongly recommend, to try it out. You can be very surprised what you can get for 30,00 Eur. Also price list for 2008 fishing permits which can be purchased in our Fauna store is updated with some 3day licences, check it if you are interested in several day fishing.. We will be back soon, hopefuly with a photo of 75cm lake trout which was caught just before we published this. We wait for a photo stuff to come.
SUN IS BACK, COLD STAYS, 26.3.2008   With the morbid atmosphere we had last week, this sun which you see on the picture is more than welcome. If we ignore the cold (-5° in the morning) conditions for fly fishing are lovely :-) low, clear water, sun, lots of fish.. joly good indeed.. well, if we can belive the weather man on TV, we should have real spring coming in next week with temperatures till 14 degrees, in +°C ofcourse! Big thanks to mr. Massimo and Stefano for the submarine photo from last Friday, great catch!
WHITE EASTERN FLY FISHING!?, 24.3.2008   Looks like old proverb "green Christmas, white Eastern" has turned to be very true this year. After just some snow flakes on Friday, weekend has delivered more snow and curent situation looks like you see on the picture which was taken on Log in these days. Not to say, fishing is bad, just it looks much more like hucho fishing in winter (regarding the environment ofcourse). Stay with us, more will be reported in next days!
LATEST REPORTS FROM SAVA BOHINJKA, 21.3.2008   Picture was taken few hours ago, so you can see water level is very nice despite shity weather we will have on a opening day tomorrow. Lots of fishermans were calling today if all Sava opens tomorrow. So again: ONLY ONE PART OF SAVA BOHINJKA will be opened tomorrow; INSTITUTE part. (see news 8.3.) Do not fish in Bled or Bohinj part, because you will pay penalty. Tight lines for a first fly fishing day on Sava B. !
WE FISH `N` ROLL IN 2 DAYS!!!, 20.3.2008   Hi back! Sorry for the short absence from the news, we were overthehead with the opening of 08 fly fishing season, which will happen this Saturday, 22nd of March on the Institute part of Sava Bohinjka. If you will manage to come for the opening, you can get a fly fishing license in our Fauna store in Bled at 8:00 AM. No sense to go earlyer, because mornings are still cold and you need some sun to persuade fish in activity. No other magior news, just that district is longer as we had already mention and there is no more trophy part. We had published also the price list for all the fishing permits which we are selling in our store in Bled and another useful stuff, graphic tutorial of the local fishing area with prices of fishing licences. This will help you roughly orientate area of a certain fishing permit. For more informations, you know how to find us ;-)
THE INSTITUTE PART OF SAVA BOHINJKA GETS LONGER, 8.3.2008   Interesting news from headquarters of Fisherei research Institute of Slovenia, a.k.a. Zavod za ribistvo; after negotiations with Bohinj fishing club, they had made an agreament, that their district of Sava Bohinjka extends on the upper part. Meaning, the sector of "state" part of Sava Bohinjka now ends at the road bridge infront of the petrol station near town Bohinjska Bistrica. In the past it has end near the railway bridge at settlement Bitnje. Nice gain for the Institute, because they get few houndred meters of very nice grayling rapids and pools. See a map of the new district , extracted from our Slovenian Guide software. Have you notice, that Institute`s trophy part has been canceled for 2008? Check also latest 08 price list for all Institute waters in Slovenia.
WINTER STRIKES BACK!, 5.3.2008   While the beginning of a fly fishing season was very promising, with sun and nice spring temperatures, continuation is far from that; we had just recieved some 15cm of fresh fallen snow and cold breeze of some 2-3 degrees.. this is in fact the forcast we are seeing for all the week, so Radovna and Sava Radovljica will have to wait a little. Still the March`s sun is already very strong and will melt this away as soon as it peeps threw the clouds. Use this short brake useful and maybe check your fishing lines and tippets in case they had expired during the winter time ;-)
A POST CARD FROM RADOVNA, 1.3.2008   Soon after closing down our fly store in Bled, I just had to jump to the close area of Radovna, to check how our guys are doing there on a maiden opening of a fly fishing season 2008!? And they were doing well! Sourish weather forcast turned out to be a nice, little windy but sunny fly fishing day. Small crowd of mostly Slovenian fly f. enthusiasts were trying their best to be one of the first ones in 08, scoring a strike of a trout or two. Still, to be honest, the biger ones were not too active, supposedly of (still) cold water. Well, some eaven tryed to merge with the bushes of the riverbank, just to come closer to a larger trout, but that was more like a Sizif`s job than a key to success. There was also a small squad of a fishermans from the eastern parts of Slovenia, (the area will not be named :-), who attacked already at 05 o`clock in the morning, saying that this is a secret key for a successful fishing on the Radovna river!? Well, you be the judge..
WELCOME FOR A NEW FLY FISHING SEASON, 26.2.2008   Impatient as we are, we finaly see 09 fly fishing season knocking on the doors! Saturday, March 1st will see opening of the season on Radovna, Sava Radovljica and Krka, if we mention just a few of the most known ones. With great weather forcast we have for coming weekend and temperatures up to 13 degrees, we will definitly see also some dry fly fishing, if nowhere else, on Radovna for sure! Price for a Catch and Release fly fishing permit for Radovna river is this year set to 39.00 Eur, Krka with Trophy part 69.00 Eur and Sava Radovljica 30.00 Eur. All permits will be available in our Fauna fly store in Bled. On March 1st (this saturday) we will be opened at 7:30 AM , so you will not lose eaven a minute of your fly fishing day. For all of you who still don`t know Radovna well, check this extract from our virtual Slo. Fly Fishing guide, offering you the most important data you need for a successful fly fishing day. Feel free to chek demo version here. We will be in touch from the opening to show you all the fly fishing crowd from Radovna!
BLED TROPHY PART STAYS!!!, 21.2.2008   Probably no one of you knew, that the most successful fly fishing projects of last few years - Bled Trophy section, was in seriouse danger few days ago! On annual miting of Bled fishing club, a considerable part of local fisherman tryed to outvote Trophy section from it`s existance; saying that is not fair because local fishermans can`t fish there. After long and hard debate, the new management of the club persuade members that in benefit of the club, should vote for the Trophy part. So all of you who already have bookings for this section, can be relief. Rod breaking submarines are still there and are waiting for the 1st of April. It is going to be a belter season again! With the right streamers of course ;-)
, 15.02.2008   Dear visitors and fishing friends. Not few times have you ask us, how would you be able to get or order fly fishing products, flies and other things we usualy have on stock in our Fauna store in Bled. Well, we took your concern seriously and here is our Fauna online store, just for you! We have started with our well known brands like Tiemco, Patagonia, C&F programm, Fauna streamers, Fauna Virtual Guide software, etc and will in time expand our offer also to wider brand names. All products we offer are carefuly selected, to avoid bulk junk fishing products, which are torture for your eyes and useless when fishing. Since this are the first steps, all your suggestions regarding offer, design, use, shipping etc, are very welcome. ENTER and enjoy browsing and shopping!
HUCHO FINALE!, 15.2.2008   The fourteenth of February is the day, when hucho fishing season on the area of Sava closes it`s doors. I hardly find words to describe this great period of winter hucho fishing and hucho fly fishing , which we successfuly brought to an end yesterday.. Nevertheless we haven`t caught any large hucho in the last few days of the season, this doesn`t matter. The rest of the season was so jam-packed with catches, fever and hucho adrenaline that the time was flying too fast! For the ones who prefer numbers: More than 230 fishing permits was sold only for tourist fishermans on all the lenght of Sava Bohinjka. The number excludes local fishermans of Bled club who finished their season with 8 taken huchos in 9 days! Furthermore, over 170 huchos of all sizes were caught and released back to the river. Largest caught by a tourist fisherman was 101 cm long and largest caught by a fly fisherman was 98cm long. Every year more and more people wants to catch hucho with a fly rods and that is realy great. Because it realy is a unique feeling if you hold such a beast on a fly rod! After knowing a lot of new faces this year and meet also a lot of old acquaintances from the fly fishig times, I realy must accent, that Hucho hunters are the most interesting people of all! All enthusiastic and fearless fishing maniacs , with absolutly no fear for the rough weather conditions and some times brutal cold out there on the river. Nothing can`t stop those guys! We realy admire them all! And for me personaly, taking care for this hucho blog during the season was more a joy than a work :-) Do not run away from our news, we still have some aces in the sleeve and maybe we will reveal also some hucho fishing secrets for the next year, anyway you will forget them till next November 15th! Stay with us! Do not forget , with the first of March, jewel No.1 - Radovna river opens for fly fishing! Also - so called, the "big Sava" from confluence down opens with March 1st. This district has become more and more place to go for native rainbow trout fly fishing! All other informations regarding openings, prices etc., will be published in addition. If you are too impatiente to wait, than send us Email
COUNT DOWN & LAST TROPHIES, 11.2.2008   We had a minor pause on our news site for a few days, since there were not much nice huchos caught. There was a lot of fishing, but just smaller huchos were striking. We thought that this was because of sunny weather, but -wrong. After consulting with local hucho experts, the problem seemed to be in very low water temperature (only 3°C) which slowed down huchos digestion. But all was not that black! One of our visitors, mr. Belo from Hungary did very well on his first hucho persecution. Landing and releasing this nice 88-er, and losing one very nice 60+ rainbow just infrom of his feet, he was nicely rewarded for his 2 days hucho expedition. Since there are only 3 more days till the end of 07/08 hucho season, we are realy waiting for the last "danube" reports.
CAPRICIOUSE HUCHO BRAINS, 5.2.2008   Last weekend we had a very nice group of fly fishrmans on hucho hunting, but the day looks like acccursed.. With optimal level of Sava, nice murky day and good guide, still there was something missing.. All huchos were showing poor interest for the streamers and were not willing to attack them. Some times eaven the best calculation is crossed by capriciouse hucho behavior! We are ready for a new challenge which will happen in next days, when new fishing groups will arrive. Stay tuned, there might be something nice to see!
CATCHING THE LAST DANUBE TRAIN, 1.2.2008   Could not titled this news better, since the hulk-hucho which you see on the picture was caught by Mr. Robert M. in the last 15 minuts of the last, second day of hucho hunting! We are not saying for nothing: you can give up your hopes when you start to walk away from the river and not eaven a minute before! And one more important fact: the spawning time for hucho is getting closer, meaning all adoult hucho-huchos (specially females), will start to feed increasingly to prepare themselve to spawning fast. This fact and optimal, dark and snowy weather is the best combination hucho hunters can have!
IN WAITING FOR SOME LARGE LUCK!, 30.1.2008   Looks like change of weather from sunny to misty isn`t quite what would make hucho to feed intensely.. we have a good group on the water these days, but so far larger fish havent make any seriouse attack at all. Some average strikes were all they had. Still, show must go one and we think, the change of weather to more winter-looking is a great forecast for the new groups which are arriving in a few days time. Stay in touch!
HUCHO LUCK LOVES THE GENEROUSE ONES, 29.1.2008   Latest success of the fly fishing hucho team was very nicely supplemented with a catch of Mr. Guido R. who was with his spinning rod let`s say, a "black sheep" amongst the rest of fly fishing hucho hunters. Once he realised he has some advantage regarding casting, he generously leaved best spots to his fellow fly fishing friends and himselve struggled on more difficoult places. But fishing fortune well regarded him because of that. In the latest hour of the day, something heavy stoped his lure and it was not a rock. After the adrenaline filled fight, the fish was out and her name was 99 cm!
YESTERDAY`S CATCH REVEALED!, 26.1.2008   As we were too late yesterday to publish extensive report about beautiful catch or Mr. Marco S. today we add few more photos to redempt ourselve. The day started normaly, with high spirit march to some secret hucho hot spots. Usualy first session of the first day doesn`t bring some good results, as fishermans have to adapt to heavy casting, difficoult rocky river banks of Sava Bohinjka and frozen fingers. The same happened with our guys. And I saw also some depression on the faces when they return from morning expedition. Ofcourse all this feelings broke into a thousand pieces when Mr. Marco shouted strike! And what a strike he had! 95 cm of a realy broad-shouldered hucho beast! One of the bigest caught on a fly rod this season! Great photos were done and senior danube was generously released back released back to his kingdom.
VERY NICE STRIKE ON A FLY ROD!!!, 25.1.2008   Just got feedback from our guys which started to fish today! Mr. Marco S. has got a very nice hucho strike on a fly rod and also manage to successfuly land it! We already wanted to publish all the details, but than we changed our minds and decided to keep you in little expectation till ... tomorrow morning!
ENDURANCE AND OPTIMISM BEAR GOOD FRUITS!, 25.1.2008   The heading of this news belongs to yesterday`s fishing of our good friend mr. Angelo M. who was visiting us for old times sake. By the way and as an enthusiastic fisherman, he decided to try his luck also on hucho fishing. At least to rest his mind if nothing else. At first, the day looked so-so, with few minor strikes and low fish activity. But! In the last 15 minuts of allowed fishing timing, when he almost wanted to reel back the line and accept the day as it was, BIG-BANG! Out of the dark, attack of the proper, 3 figure hucho! Hard fight in the deaf night and hucho was defeated. Strict measure of our guide stoped at 101 cm! We could say, save the best for the last ;-)
END OF SPINNING ODYSSEY, 24.1.2008   With departure of Mr. Robert, our long period of hucho spinning has come to a short break, because tomorrow we start to persecute hucho with a fly rods! New group of fly fishermans is coming this evening and we are impatient to see how will they score. Water level is perfect weather the same, so we hope for the best!
SUPERABUNDANCE OF STRIKES!, 22.1.2008   Looks like mr. Robert Z. has decided, to nurse all huchos from Sava Bohinjka, as we can conclude from all the pictures we got from the river. Very good average of strikes is a logical result of very good fishing conditions and growing skills, each hucho hunter gets after longer period of hucho fishing, or should we say hunting, with all the stealthily sneaking arround the rocks of Sava Bohinjka`s river bed. Encouraging fact for all the fishermans which are coming to fish this weekend. This time, the majority will be fly fishing and we will see if they will be able to score equally high as recent spinning group??
WAITING FOR A JACKPOT!, 19.1.2008   With great results, which our hucho hunters have in last days, our hopes to get the bigest hucho caught by tourists (or owerall) is growing! Opaque water has many advantages and gives perfect results, but on a hucho population 100 - cm. Fot the real hucho JackPot, 100+ cm, you need to know exactly in which rocky chair it sits so you can nail him down with just a few precise casts. If the beast is in his feeding mode ofcourse and luck is your best friend. With murky water this is difficoult to achieve, because you only have luck to relie on and previsions of your guide..
PERSISTENCE IS ALWAYS REGARDED!, 18.1.2008   The rain has finaly stop and Sava Bohinjka is going back to normal level fast. First results were obviouse already yesterday, when hucho strikes started to drop like flies! Several smaller huchos were caught and also one for the gallery with approx 90 cm lenght. Persistence of Mr. Robert Z. was well regarded and he finaly taste unique adrenaline of hucho fishing after long periode of cold rainy days. After predictions of our guides, the best hucho fishing time is coming now, when water is going down and we can expect rain will stop for some time. Take advantage of turbit and milky water and come for a fish of your life time now! Remember, only 27 more days till conclusion of Hucho fishing season!
RAIN STILL POURS DOWN.., 17.1.2008   We have already forgoten how sun looks like, with all this rain we have here in Bled for the last 10 days almost.. Hats down to our Hungaryan team which we have on fishing now. Every day they go with our guide and fight with dark waves, which Sava Bohinjka is full of now. I have heard that they did well regarding the fishing conditions, but we must wait for more reports from our soaken guide.
CONDITIONS HARD AGAIN! , 15.1.2008   With some local rain showers in the upper part of Sava Bohinjka, levels have gone up again and conditions for hucho fishing turned to worst.. soil is frozen and all the rain that falls, goes directly to the streams and in Sava Bohinjka.. So for optimal fishing conditions we will have to wait few more days.
FINALY OPTIMAL HUCHO FISHING CONDITIONS!, 14.1.2008   All sadness regarding last days high water was forgoten this morning, when mr. Robert Z. and our guide saw level of Sava Bohinjka; perfect for hucho fishing - high and half clear. And their feeling was wright. 4 strikes in 3 hours of fishing! Largest one was this one on the picture, 88 cm. This is very promissing news, especialy because mr. Robert has 6 more days to fish! We are realy looking forward to some great catches hopefuly. Stay tuned!
SAVA IS RISING, CONDITIONS CHANGED!, 12.1.2008   Conditions for hucho fishing had changed indeed! Last week all were fishing in small, crystal clear pools, today hucho hunters have to fight with high and murky level of Sava Bohinjka. Not so bad afterall, because all bigest huchos were caught in similar conditions, when water was not clear and huchos are not so cautiouse. But finding a spot where you can access to the good fishing spots.. well, that`s guide`s job ;-)
FLY ROD IS HARD, BUT BEAUTIFUL! , 9.1.2008   Before the rain which we experienced few days ago, Sava was realy clear and hard to fish with a fly rod. But there were some, who thought that this is not a big deal. Our guest, mr. Gianluigi Z. came for the second time this year, because the first time problems with a fly line prevent him to catch a decent huco. This time all ran smoothly and consequently also the result was nice: 70+ cm. For a fly rod, a nice catch indeed..
SAVA RADOVLJICA, NICELY DONE!, 7.1.2008   Local fishing club of Radovljica knows no rest when we speak about hucho fishing. Latest catch happened on the second of January, when Mr. Rok W. tricked this nice hucho representative, measuring 97 cm. Nice catch and thanks for the picture!
PREDICTIONS WERE ALL WRIGHT!, 6.1.2008   If there was any doubt, that this weekend will be a success, with latest reports from our guides, doubts are gone! All three groups which we have on the water scored larger hucho strikes! All the groups are fly fishing so this is realy encouraging for next groups of hucho fly fishermans. And for a dessert; the fisherman on the picture, Mr. Peter B. from hungary had the largest hucho of the season on a fly rod, but after some 10 seconds of fight the beast manage to tear apart the tippet and on a big frustration of our guide, escaped. Now we have to publish his second catch, still a nice one - 88 cm.
PROMISING DAYS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR!, 5.1.2008   Despite low and clear water we have in last month or more, now all other conditions for hucho fishing are on top! First snow flakes and temperatures arround zero are the best you can have for hucho fly fishing! All hot spots easily accessible and hucho in a nice feeding mood. Our guides had predicted, that this might be a good time, that fishermans with fly rods reach or exceed magical limit of 100 cm large hucho catch!? Very exciting announcmend indeed! And a brave one, I would say. But still not so brave as this young man on the picture. Alex K. has only 12 years but he bravely volunteered to accompany his father mr. Chris on one of the coldest hucho persecution we had this year! And with a fly rod. I seriously doubted he is going to survive this coooold experience but... he did, both days with no groaning at all. He eaven scored a strike, but was not fast enough and hucho escaped.. still, thumbs up, Alex!
FIRST TOURIST HUCHO VICTIM FALLEN!!!, 31.12.2007   With a good fishing conditions in last days and under experienced guiding of our guides, catches or at least hucho strikes were expected. We proven ourselve wright, because a catch of 87cm was reported in first hours of yesterday`s morning. Unfortunatly this time fish didn`t survived because mr.Potsch desided otherwise. Now there are only 2 more huchos to be taken, before season closes eaven for the tourists hucho hunters!!!
IN VERY LAST MINUTS!, 30.12.2007   As we have told you previously, situation for hucho fly fising was quite demanding in last days. Clear water made fishing very difficoult, but despite cold weather our guys persisted till the end. And as it would be send from the heaven, in the last 10 minuts of fishing, on the last, second day, STRIKE! Mr. Stefano G. was the chosen one this time and the beast he caught on a fly rod had exactly 90cm! Well deserved indeed!
STEALTH TECHNOLOGY WANTED!, 28.12.2007   Why? Because it would help us a lot with hucho fishing in last days! Water of Sava Bohinjka is so clear, that is very difficoult to approach to hucho pools without fish would notice us.. especialy with a fly rods. We have some very nice hucho hunters on the river in these days, but so far luck was more on the "danube" side than on ours. They had scored few strikes, but mostly of medium sized huchos. Those big ones are already so experienced, that eaven the fishermans shadow it`s self, glues them to the bottom of the pool where they just sit and laugh :-/ well, this won`t last for long, snow is forcasted for weekend and with snow, also white water will come. And bye bye hucho`s advantage of spoting fishermans!
GOOD OLD COLD TIMES ARE BACK!, 26.12.2007   New groups of brave hucho hunters are coming to try their luck in the next days. A welcome refreshment for our news home page, which was little sleepy during the X-mas hollidays. For your information and as a reminding to all fishermans who are still to come for fishing: prepare yourselve for looow temperatures which are forcasted for the next days. Warm clothing, caps, fine gloves, jackets, bring all that can keep you warm. Except bright colored winter fur-lined skiing jackets which are much too noticable for hucho fishing. If you come with a jacket like that, you will have to leave it at the Lodge :-) Sava is low and very clear at the moment so you must make as less apearance as you can to surprise the hucho.
GOOD WISHES FOR XMASS!, 24.12.2007   Merry Christmass and all the best in 2008! Thank you for being with us and let all your Trophy dreams for `08 come true! Rok, Matej
DO WE NEED A NET WHEN FISHING FOR HUCHO?, 22.12.2007   This question is often asked by our clients when we make arrangments for hucho fishing. The answer is NO. No net is needed, because guide does her job. A net suitable for holding large hucho should have a minimum diameter of 70 cm and you can just imagine how difficoult job is to handle such a lifting crane amongst big rocks of Sava Bohinjka. A fast, skilled grip from a hucho guide is all you need. Too many times it happened already that big huchos were escaping just infront of fishermans feet, because of poor handling of fishing companions. Well, in fact belive me, it is not an easy job to bring under control a 8, 10, or eaven 20+ kg of resisting and slippery muscles with your fingers frozen. And if you faile? Fisherman will blame you till the end of his life ;-)
ANOTHER 99ER FROM RADOVLJICA, 20.12.2007   Enjoying beautiful December scenery and ignoring breath taking cold, local fishermans from Radovljica fishing club still persuit the bigest hucho of the season. This time mr. Ales H. scored highest, with 99er on the photo. Ofcourse he released him back to the pool because his scale for trophy is set much higher! We hope he will reach it and we thanks for the picture.
NOTHING TOO BIG FOR HIM, 18.12.2007   Short brake before new hucho fly fishing enterprises is a great time for highlightning some of the best "hucho in action" photos, our guides took recently. This one clearly shows philosophy of danube salmon, which could in short words be: nothing is too big for me to eat!
SHOW MUST GO ONE!, 16.12.2007   Hardly arriving to hucho fly fishing, our guest mr. Paolo D. has already reached for the highest hucho honours by catching second larger "fly fishing" hucho in the seasone - 94 cm! Paying good attention for advises of our guides, he was well rewarded with a great feeling of big animal fighting on the end of his fly line. And as a real fly fishermans do, fish swam unharmed back to the river.
BACK TO THE FLY FISHING FIGHT, 15.12.2007   Time to focuse back to our main fishing love, fly fishing hucho persuit! While big hucho bang from Radovljica is slowly echoing out, our guests we have at the Lodge at the moment are still trying to score strikes on xxl streamers they brought with in hucho battle. Being already quite waisted out from 3 days of cold and heavy casting on Sava Bohinjka, they are still persisting on the river at the moment of this update. Fingers crossed for last few hours of their fishing and "well done" to mr. Paolo P. who is looking us from the picture.
HEAVY WEIGHTER FROM RADOVLJICA II. , 14.12.2007   While yesterday`s fly fishing achievment still echoes, we were lucky enough to found also a nicer photo of the heavyest hucho caught on Sava Radovljica this year. News was published already 11.12. but at that time with provisional picture. So, to refresh the memory: 106 cm and 16 kg! And don`t forget to close your mouth after checking photo, I know I did when I first saw it :-))
FLY FISHING HUCHO RECORD!!!, 13.12.2007   As promissed, this needed to be published asap!! Congratulations to mr. Roberto D. and our guide Gorazd, who few hours ago managed to acchieve something realy remarkable: Catching this magnificant hucho of 98 cm and 10 kg on a fly rod! This is OFFICIAL fly fishing record for Sava Bohinjka and we extend our sincere congratulations!!! Concidering, that conditions on the river tody were hard, very strong wind blowing all day, a real fly fishing nightmare.. but still, 98 cm!!! Some thing to concider for all who think big huchos can`t be caught on a fly rod! And it is hardly the first one of 3 fishing days our guys have! Despite the fact, that tomorrow, December will put his hammer down and temperatures will drop far down to -8°C, we are still looking forward to some new surprises!
SAVA RADOVLJICA AGAIN!?, 12.12.2007   Looks like the moon had to change in some way, because big huchos are starting to bite much more often. And you know what big hucho means for Sava Radovljica ! This one on the photo was catched and releaseb back to the river just few days ago without eaven measuring it. Mr Saso, who got him said that this is not a real trophy and he will catch biger one for sure!? Well, I would estimate fish to be close to 1 m, so you can imagine what cind of trophy Mr. Saso has in his mind! I can just hope he will contribute the trophy photo for our news site!
NOW WE ARE TALKING SIZES!, 11.12.2007   We knew we can count on Radovljica fishing club to produce some very nice hucho catches. And finaly we got one; mr. Tadej P. managed to get a nice hucho of 106 cm and 16 kg! Pale coloures of hucho always apeares just few minuts after animal goes to "eternal sleep" but later after few hours fish gains back her normal skin coloure. We will get also those photos and will ofcourse publish them on our news page tomorrow.. such animal deservs to be mentioned more than one time!
DRILL FOR THE SKILL, 10.12.2007   A few days pause before we start new hucho persuit in a couple of days time. Some good fly fishermans are coming again to try the ultimate river fly fishing challenge - hucho fishing with large streamers! Beside very good casting skills, also quality gear is needed, stiff rods and good drags on fly reels. It is not that you could not get a hucho strike on a crapy fly rod and 20Eur reel.. but in such case, strike is all you are going to get. Without a very hard contrary strike, you will never set a hook in hard hucho mouth and after few strong shakes with the big head, bye bye trophy. Once seting a hook well, fish still have a good chance to escape. If hucho of 7+ kg decides to go down with the current, you will need a realy good drag on a fly reel to prevent him such escape. So, good fly fishing gear you see on pictures is more of a need than a show-up thing.
BACKGROUND OF THE HUCHO STORY, 7.12.2007   While we had almost spoiled you with all those nice hucho photos, it is right that you know who stands in between wild fish hidden in 3-5 meters deep pool and it`s picture displayed on the monitor of your PC. Those are all brave fishermans and fly fishermans who had decided to change the comfort of their PC chairs for the cold and some times cruel witner fishing reality. A lot of efforts, equipment and skills invested in this beautiful type of fishing deserves to be mentioned with praise, eaven if no hucho picture attached. To all the guys who were already here or are comming in next weeks, hey, it is great to cooperate with you on this project!!!!
CATCHING BREATH!, 6.12.2007   Hardly we finished last unforgetable hucho fishing weekend, the new one is knocking on the door! We are sorry that one group had to cancel their hucho hunting this weekend, for sure there would be some nice catches to publish! But that also means that this weekend is still free for hucho bookings. (next one almost completly full). In the meantime we have still some nice catches to publish, one of them for sure hucho of our "old" predator, mr. Stefano T, who is coming for fishing every season and always get nice catches. Just keep on going, hope you get 100+ soon!
THE BIGEST ONE WITH A FLY ROD!, 5.12.2007   We have been waiting for some time for this news to come. While until now, 90+cm huchos were mostly caught with spinn rods, few days ago, Mr. Stefano M. managed to get this wonderful 93cm large animal with most difficoult hucho fishing technique: fly fishing with xxl streamer! Eaven with few degrees below zero, he sweated a lot before the beast was prepared to pose for the camera :-)
VERY NICE WEEKEND IT WAS!, 3.12.2007   As mentioned on Friday, we had 6 very good fly fishermans here on hucho hunting last weekend. They made a very decent hucho fishing fight, but as always in hucho hunting world, eaven the best some times stay empty handed. We have some more photos to publish, so stay with us!
LADIES RULE!, 1.12.2007   With all the manhood company we have on hucho fishing this weekend, we though that some nice picture of more rare lady hucho fisher, would be a welcome change. Ms. Vesna T. cindly grant us this photo for our news. She caughted and released back this hucho while locals were still fishing on Sava Bohinjka. Great job, we wish to see more of that in the future :-) PS: there is a few of very good guys fishing here this weekend, so stay tuned on monday, we might have some nice "results" to publish!
YOUNGEST HUCHO HUNTER, 30.11.2007   While we wait for a new group of adult hucho fishermans, coming to our lodge tonight, we thought it would be a fair deal to mention also the youngest hucho fisherman we host this year. That is with 17 years Soma H. from Hungary, who was fishing here last week with his very successful father, mr. Szabolcs H. Soma managed to catch this 70cm hucho in a difficoult - bright day conditions and he deserves all the compliments.
VIV LA FRANCE FISHERMANS! 101 CM!!!, 28.11.2007   We have a pleasure to host a very good french fisherman, who is also a repotrer for fishing magazine "TRUITE". Mr. Marc Ponsot came here in Slovenia with a modest wish, to catch at least a small representative of the specie, he heard so much about it - danube salmon. And o boy, what a surprise he had!! Yesterday he landed the bigest "tourist" one this season - 101 cm, 10.50kg! He was righteously thrilled! After taking great pictures, king hucho was released unharmed back to his home pool.
GOT THE 8TH HUCHO, LOCALS - GAME OVER! , 27.11.2007   After just 10 unbelievable fishing days, local Bled club members had managed to fulfil allowed quota of 8 taken hucho and thathow closed the season in record short timing. Meaning Sava Bohinjka Bled sector is now open only for tourist hucho fishing. Interesting fact is, that hucho fever amongst local hucho fishermans is still so high, that a lot of them will probably buy tourist fishing permits, just to be able to go back again trying to catch those ones 110+ cm. We also get this photo of the largest hucho of mr. Franc H. caught near Selo, measuring 105cm, 12.10kg! So from now on river is less pressured and the real cold hucho season is just coming!
GOT HIM!!! 104 CM!!!, 24.11.2007   With the feverish run local hucho fishermans had since the season has opened, we didn`t know if we will see some king sized hucho before quota of 8 taken huchos/season will be full. But last two days were a big-bang days: on thursday first one of 105 cm was caught near Selo, but we mised the photo of that one. And yesterday eve another big news came! Mr. Tadej P. and his 17 years old son managed to catch this beautiful animal of 104 cm and 9,2 kg! Now, only 1 more hucho can be taken, than season for local Bled club members will be closed. With the fever on Sava today, this should happen shortly!
FOR HUCHO FISHING , 23.11.2007   While whole fishing focuse and attention in these days belong to hucho, there are few guys which bravely insist with fly fishing. One of them, mr. Daniele G. cindly sended us this great photo his girlfriend took few days ago, while fly fishing on the Institute part of Sava Bohinjka, close to Log. As usual for this time of year, this submarine sized rainbow took smallest nymph possible. Ofcourse during this fight, also backing saw a daylight! 77cm, 4-5kg.
RADOVLJICA GAVE ANOTHER ONE, 21.11.2007   As planed, we are trying to get realy big danube salmon in Sava Radovljica fishing sector this year. We went with our guide and some of best clients few days ago to try our luck. Well, we didn` get the jackpot but also didn`t come back empty handed!
REALY GOOD SUNDAY WE HAD!, 20.11.2007   Final day of hucho fishing for our friends from Hungary has conclude with few nice catches in the latest hours of the day. Again mr. Szabolcs H. scored best, with 82cm hucho on the picture. That was not all, but we still wait photos from our Fauna guides. Stay with us!
FISHING FOR HUCHO, CAUGHT..., 19.11.2007   Surprising catch had mr. Luca M. when he was fishing for hucho in district Sava Radovljica. Despite the efort local clubs are investing in rules, to prevent damage on trout population during hucho season, there is just no limits for a savage rainbow male like this one. Eaven if limited size of streamer would be 20cm, he would still attack.. Great fish indeed. Haven`t seen none likely during all fly fishing season!
FIRST SNOWFLAKES AND ANOTHER GREAT CATCH!, 18.11.2007   Despite low temperetures and some minor snow, hucho fever doesn`t want to stop! Alongside local hucho fishermans, we also have a group of good fishermans from Hungary in action on last 3 days. One of them, our good acquaintance from last years, mr. Szabolcs H. again proved his skills by this very nice hucho catch. Measure stoped at 92cm. Another praiseworthy action from happy fisherman: the great fish swimed back to her pool unharmed. Well done!
HUCHO FLY FISHING IS THE BEST FISHING!, 17.11.2007   Hucho fishing day has started promissing and we felt this might happen! We envy that supreme feeling mr. Stefano F. had, when his fly suddenly stoped in the middle of the pool! From that moment one, pay day for all the invested efforts, cold, early rising, has come! After good fight on his 8class fly rod, hucho of some 88cm was successfuly landed. Our Fauna guide was equaly happy as lucky Stefano F. and took this photo for all of you who are still hesitating back home.
FINALY DANUBE SALMON ALSO ON A FLY!, 17.11.2007   We were expecting this news sooner or latter, because we have pleasure to guide two very good fly fishermans who are trying their skills on hucho fishing these days. Mr. Stefano was the first who had a strike in early morning hours and sucessfuly landed this 60cm hucho. True, it is not the bigest one, but with fly rod, every one counts! This news could be biger if his companion mr. Luca M. would manage to hold on big hucho strike he had. But after few angry shakes with the head, hucho senior managed to unhook himselve, leaving unlucky fisherman dissapointed behind.. well, more luck tomorrow!
HUCHO FISHING RULES SAVA BOHINJKA - BLED, 16.11.2007   This hucho season has started so fast and so good, that we had to publish trophy catches before we eaven had time to translate fishing rules in english :-) well, here they are now. I know you would prefer some nice hucho catch, but also rules can be useful staff. ~~~~~~ Hucho-Hucho fishing regime on Sava Bohinjka, Bled fishing club Season 15.11.2007 – 14.02.2008 1. Fishing for hucho-hucho (salmon danube) is allowed from 15th of November, till 14th February, on entire district of Sava Bohinjka Bled fishing club, except in TROPHY SECTION (from the bridge in Selo, downstream till the bridge in Ribno). 2. Hucho-hucho fishing is allowed only by purchasing daily fishing permit. Fishing permit costs 40,00 EUR. 3. Fishing is allowed by following schedule: ˇ November: 06:00 – 18:00 hours * December: 06:30 – 17:30 hours *January: 06:30 – 18:00 hours * February: 06:00 – 18:30 hours 4. Fishing for hucho-hucho can be done only with an escort of a fishing guide or other companion, member of Bled fishing club. * During escort, guide or companion is NOT ALLOWED TO FISH. * Guide or companion can escort maximum of 3 (three) fishermans per day. § Distance between participants (guide and his clients) should not be larger than 80 meters. 5. Two fishing systems are allowed; FLY FISHING AND SPINNING: § FLY FISHING: fly fishing rod rank 7 or more with suitable fly reel and line. Tippet should not be thiner than 0,30 mm. Size (lenght) of a streamer fly must be at least 12 cm or larger. § SPINNING: spinning rod with suitable reel. Diameter of fishing line should be at least 0,35 mm or more. Allowed baits are artificial lures with minimum lenght of 10 cm, measuring without hooks or triplet hooks. 6. Hucho-hucho can be taken under following terms: § Fishing guide or companion must in less than 3 (three) hours after capturing, report hucho-hucho taking to authorized persons: - river guard Mr. Franc Veber, phone 041-666-558 or - club secretary Mr. Marjan Fon, phone 051-308-985. § Minimum lenght of taken hucho-hucho must be at least 80cm. § Till evaluation and measuring by authorised persons stated above, taken hucho-hucho must remain uncleaned and in one piece. § Compensation for taken hucho-hucho must be done by following price list: LENGHT (cm) PRICE (Sit) PRICE (Eur) 80-90 110,00 Eur 90-100 150,00 Eur 100+ 300,00 Eur Tight lines! Fishing club Bled
WITH A NEW DAY, ANOTHER HUCHO GOES AWAY!, 16.11.2007   Within first hours of today`s morning, another nice hucho was caught again! One of our best hucho guides, mr. Gorazd V., knew exactly where to search. Second cast, strike, brutal fight of 92 cm large fish and it was all done. Professional job indeed. From total quota of allowed 8 taken huchos for local fishermans, only 6 more remains.. and season is opened hardly 2 days!?
BIG HUCHO BANG ON SAVA BOHINJKA BLED!!!, 15.11.2007   First hucho fishing day on Sava Bohinjka has finished and o boy, what a day it was! Almost every local hucho fisherman who concider himself a "hucho predator" took a day off work, like it would be christmass or something big. Bled district was shivering from hucho fever, despite cold wind and low temperatures. Lots of undersized huchos were caught and released back. And there was also first one taken. Yes, that is the one on the picture! 93cm long and 8,5kg hucho was a trophy of a year for our good friend mr. Rok V. who is already well known by trophy catches in vicinity of Bled (see news archive from day 15.12.2006). There was also second 90+ hucho caughted and released back, because lucky fisherman is expecting eaven biger catch this season. Unfortunatly we were unable to get photo of that one.. We get reports from reliable fishermans, that this year we can expect also catches till 120cm, because last years bigest hucho had gain nicely during summer time.. Fever is raising with every new day, so we are realy looking forward to next days. Especialy because we have some very good fishermans coming to fly fish for hucho in next 4 days! Stay with us!
FIRST ONE CAPTURED!!!, 14.11.2007   Great news reported: with first low November temperatures also first big huchos started to show their cards! Yesterday we witnes the first nice catch in 07/08 season on district Sava Radovljica! Mr. Sergej P. managed to get this beautiful hucho of 96cm and 8,7kg. He was spinning, but the bait remains top secret unfortunatly ;-) We congratulate!
HUCHO RULES AND SECTOR, SAVA - INSTITUTE PART, 13.11.2007   Just recieved from Fisherei Research Institute of Slovenia office: Fishing sector for Hucho-Hucho in season 07/08 as follows: from the road bridge before settlement Bohinjska Bistrica, till the dam in Soteska. Fishing season: 1.12.2007 - 14.2.2008. Price for a fishing permit: 59,00 Eur. Where can you buy fishing permit: Fauna fly fishing store in Bled ( click here for the location) or Fisherei Research Institute office in Ljubljana. Allowed fishing methods: fly fishing or spinning, minimum size of bait or fly 10cm, SINGLE hooks only! Other fishing rules: fishing in a pair only. After finished fishing, permits must be returned back to the dealer. (Fauna store or Institute office). If licenses are not returned within next day, holder will be next time restricted from fishing. Every taken Hucho must be physicaly reported to the dealer of fishing permit (or river guard) for measuring purposes only.
GRAYLINGS RISING HIGH, 7.11.2007   While beautiful weather still holds back big hucho catches in Sava Radovljica river, Sava Bohinjka on the other hand shows her best catches of the season. We had few unforgetable fishing days recently with great grayling dry fly fishing. At this time of year it is very important that you fish for big graylings.. it can happen that you will get none, but if you will be careful, using long leaders, exact casting and wright fly, you might be lucky and go home with a picture like this. I think photo needs no furder comment.
FIRST HUCHO FISHING DAY IN 2007/08 SEASON!, 1.11.2007   First hucho fishing day has began with nice sun and big fever on hotest hucho spots on area of Sava Radovjica. Despite not the best weather for hucho fishing (too much of sun) we hope first day will give some results already! For all of you who want to know more about hucho fishing on this new and exciting area, we had opened a dedicated home page with fishing rules and fishing offers. Enter HUCHO FISHING in SAVA RADOVLJICA and check yourselve! Also some pictures will be uploaded, but first we need to catch them ;-) PS: fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka is great in this cind of weather! Sava B. is still opened for fly fishing till 30.11.!
HUCHO SEASON, SAVA RADOVLJICA IN 2 DAYS!!!!, 30.10.2007   Dear all faithful visitors! Late news, we had a lot of work in last days with preparing some material for this years HUCHO fishing season. While on Sava Bohinjka we still have fly fishing season, on the big Sava Radovljica, (from confluence down), already Hucho fishing season will be opened on 1.11.2007!! Also for us, this is new this year! We had made an agreament with Radovljica fishing association and this year we can guide our clients also on their waters! How exciting, especialy because we know how big hucho can be there! Also local fishermans are very nervouse, because last years hucho "counting" (if I may say so) was very good which means promissing 07/08 season! We will be with you shortly with some more details regarding this so do not go away. And remember, fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka is still in full action!
MOSTNICA IN COUNTDOWN!, 23.10.2007   While murky weather stoped a chain of 14 very nice and sunny fishing days on our area, we thought it might be useful to remind you that there are only few more fishing licenses left for MOSTNICA river! Small, but very nice and protected stream close to Bohinj lake. Remember, only 50 per year and quota is almost full! Despite bad forcast for next few days, we are still expecting nice fishing days, specialy for graylings..
THE REAL FLY FISHING IS BACK!, 17.10.2007   Hi to all! Nice to be back with you and to be able to publish a good news. While listening good news from fishermans during recent weekend, a lot of us, including Bled fishing club officials, went on fly fishing too. Results were great, we all caught plenty. I was testing some new fly paterns for Fauna store and some Patagonia gear, so I wasn`t too focused on fishing, but still caught some 10 average sized fish in an hour or so.. guys from Bled club scored better, biggest fish was wild rainbow of 56cm. They were all fishing in sector II. of Bled district. "It`s like fishing a new river" they said, because the bottom is completly reshaped after the last rain we had. Cool! I also get good news from our Italian fishing friends, who were fishing in upper sections of Sava (Institute) for graylings with a dry fly mostly - very good activitie of all sized graylings on big, not October looking flies! For conclusion just this: if you had any intentions to do some fly fishing on Sava or Radovna this year, don`t hesitate, just GO!!!
PERSISTENCE WAS WELL REGARDED, 10.10.2007   At first let we inform you, that both, Sava Bohinjka and Radovna have their normal water levels again and fishing is very good! Dry fly is working wery well as fish feeds mostly on the surface. But also in last few days, when levels were still high, we had a few cool fishermans, which went to fish despite that. One of them was for sure mr. Oscar B. from Spain, who fished first on Radovna and later on also on Sava. Both time very successful as you can see from the pictures which he cindly gave us for our fishing news.
SAVA BOHINJKA IN HER BEST FORM AGAIN!, 5.10.2007   Finaly we see Sava Bohinjka on a normal fishable level after almost 14 days again! We were little pesimistic about how high water which lasted almost 14 days will afect fishing, but first fishermans which went on the river brought back great news! Fishing is absolutly great and is the best with dry fly!! We think that is because flood washed away good part of bottom fauna and fish are much more concentrated on surface food (flies) as they would be in normal circumstances. And with a great weather forcast for this weekend, what better news could I write to you!?? Can`t wait to close Fauna store and go to stretch my #3 on some Sava`s grayling again! See you!!!
ALMOST FISHABLE AGAIN!, 1.10.2007   Who? Sava Bohinjka ofcourse. After almost 12 days of fly fishing starving, water level is almost ok for first October casts for graylings. But till I get some news from Sava, let us focuse on Radovna a little. I would like to solve a very common question once for good: WHERE SHOULD I GO FOR BR. TROUT FISHING? SAVA BOHINJKA OR RADOVNA?? The answer is, it depends WHAT CIND of brown trout would you like to catch? I play a little with the picture and put brown trout from Sava on the left and from Radovna on the right. Surely you see the difference. Sava has bigger, but commoner trout, Radovna smaller and jewely looking ones. You pick! Oh, sorry, You can`t!! Brown trout season has closed yesterday! ;-)
LIGHTNING UP THE MOODS, 26.9.2007   While we still wait Sava Bohinjka to to go down and sun shines again, we recieved a nice photo which was taken just before this rainy period we experience now. We had a cool group of young swiss fishermans at our Lodge last week and they spend some nice moments on fly fishing arround the lodge at that time. Unfortunatly bad weather send them back home before scheduled time, so their story will have to see her end in next season! Already looking forward too! While writing this, sava is still high, because she is feeding from lake Bohinj, completly full of water from last XXL storm in recent week.
RECOVERING , 22.9.2007   Hi to all! We havent been writing much fly fishing news lately because of a simple reason; there havent been much fly fishing. You probably hear for well... quite heavy storm we had on tuesday which pushed almost all the rivers in Slovenia to unfishable level. Good news is that rivers are going down fast and we expect first districts to be fishable already on monday. Local authorities are working hard to repair local road damages, so everything should be back to normal in a couple of days. See you soon on autumn grayling dry fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka! Best regards to all
GUIDE STRIKES AGAIN, 18.9.2007   Despite bad weather we have here this days, fishing we had in last week was excelente! Low water, no cayak and canoes makes big fish less spooky and thathow more easy to catch.. still fishing with a guide makes much difference. This time our guide Dare helped mr. Surtees and his soons who were fishing with us last week. After a request, this time he took the big guy to take this photo, because hands of mr. Surteese were little shaky :-) ofcourse all this happened in Bled Trophy section of Sava Bohinjka
DRY FLY AND SUN PROTECTION, 14.9.2007   Is the best description you can get for present situation on Bled fishing local area. We have few groups from France, Belgium and Italy here and they all claim dry fly fishing now is almost as good as it was in April. And it is going on during the day, when the sun is at his peak. Evenings have poore or no hatch at all. We also get a nice second visit this year from our fly fishing friend mr. Jimmy G. Remember him from previouse news? Check archive.. Well he was fishing again with our guide Gorazd last week and again scored high! Unforgetable fly fishing week indeed! I will upload photo asap, we have some server jam now but it should be gone soon.
SEPTEMBER WELCOMES US!, 8.9.2007   Hello dear fly fishing friends! Short silence from us, because all I could write you about in recent week, were tropical fish of Red sea where I spend a short time-off. Just coming back, I see great water levels and nice warm autumn weather. Also fly fishing is nice as I was informed from our guides. Will check situation myselve in next days.. Few recent images belonging to this article, will be uploaded later, so stay tuned. Nice to be back with you!
WHAT THE F. I HOOKED NOW!?, 29.8.2007   That is the first thought you have when you hook this guy. At first it feels like hooking a big browny, shaking the head and golden shine threw the water. But after just few minuts the fake reveals: Chub! Bitter-sweet result. Bitter because it is not trophy brown trout, sweet because fish is big. With warm August waters, also chubs are moving down stream from lake Bohinj. It is very hard to get him on a fly, that fish has great sight and is selective as hell! So if you see them in the pools of upper Sava Bohinjka or arround Selo and Ribno, ignore them. Once hooked, they fight like a sick small trout. No pleasure at all. Well, there is a funny saying in fly fishing public, that the catch of a nice chub, makes you a "chub-club" member :-) well.. no comment.
WHO IS THE REAL TIGER OF THE RIVER?, 25.8.2007   No doubt, this guy on the picture! Brook trout. Less and less presented in Sava Bohinjka and Radovna river unfortunatly. Local clubs and Research Institute from Ljubljana had stop stocking them, because they are not autohtone specie. But if you know the wright place (especialy in Radovna) you can still catch this agressive and good fighting trout. Best fly? No doubt - streamer!
RADOVNA CAN PRODUCE BIG TROUT!, 21.8.2007   As you might notice if reading our Sava fly fishing news, general fly fishing public opinion means a lot to us at Fauna Bled comp. But maybe you also notice, that we like to prove general public opinion to be wrong! :-) Since we wrote a few articles about Radovna, a lot of fishermans went there to try it. And general opinion was: beautiful brown trout, great river, lots of strikes, but no big fish? Well, I asked Dare, our guide to go there and prove you wrong. Wasn`t to difficoult for him to do that, knowing radovna like his pocket.. 48cm rainbow, NATURAL! On T&T #2 fly rod. Where? Above the dam in Krnica. And than everything was quiet.............
LONG SLEEP - NO FISH!, 16.8.2007   Classic scenario with tourist fly fishermans these days: I wake up at 8:00, finish breakfast till 9:00, go to Fauna store for fishing license arround 10:00, arrive to the river at 11:00 and ..... catch just small fish :-)). One tip from our guiding service: If you want to catch nice fish during month of Avgust, you should come back from fly fishing before your wife wakes up! Meaning you are at the river with first day light! Try one time. It is hard to get up, but you will be surprised! Dry fly is working much better than in the evening. And we didn`t eaven charged you for this info ;-)
RADOVNA IS CHARMING!, 10.8.2007   Were the first words of mr. Tim H. from Australia, when he finished his several days guiding expedition with our guide Dare. They fish all the lenght of Sava Bohinjka, but Radovna impressed him the most. In fact, he fired me so much, I took my #3 weight fly rod and myselve and went on Radovna for few hours. And behold! Brown trout behind almost every second rock! And each different skin patern!? Not big, but looking like small jewels. It is almost impossible to catch such brownies in Sava.. And all you need is a nice good swimming deer hair caddis. You realy must try one time.
BIG FISH DOESN`T MOVE?, 7.8.2007   Hot Avgust days and consequentialy warmer water of Sava Bohinjka, feeding out from 19°C Bohinj lake, has made fish less active than we are used to. So "bigger fish are glued to the bottom" or "fish does not move" are common words I hear every day in our fly store. But fish is sometimes like human; if it is hot, we become lazy. But that doesn`t mean we do not eat any more! Try to cast the wright nymph exactly in front of the fish which you have spoted and you will see she will take it! But it will not take it if you will miss her for 30+ cm. That is main trick you need to know for August f.f. on Sava B.
HOW TO AVOID THE CROWD?, 1.8.2007   First August days are here and so are the tourists.. Meaning you can expect more swimmers, sun-catchers, canoes and other pesty elements in your fly fishing area. (Hm, topless lady sunseekers are welcome ofcourse). We would suggest you to fish more remote and hard to come places during weekends when Sava Bohinjka and Radovna are the most bussy. One of them is for sure the canyon of Sava Bohinjka under Bohinjska Bela village, Bled fishing district. Very wild and peaceful place, one of my favorits. Fishes are smaller than in trophy sections and more hard to catch but they are all natural and in a great fighting condition. Some precaution there is needed ofcourse because mobile signal is week or gone and there are also some other animals there, which like peace too. I took the bottom "SS" picture on the high bridge in sector 2 at the entrance of the Canyon.
WHY I CAN`T CATCH BIG GRAYLING!?, 27.7.2007   A question I hear just too many times in Fauna store these days.. Usualy from less experienced fly fishermans, but that doesn`t mean issue can`t be disscuised here. A tip from us: It is almost August month and time has come when you need to stop using your 0.16mm tipets if you want to catch a descent sized fish. No more gold beeded nymphs on hook size 10 or less and no more big dry flies in the middle of the day. Fluorocarbon for smaller nymphs is almost obligatory. Nymphs on size 18-20 should not be missing in your fly box either. Do not count on evening hatch to bring you some big fish. Eaven small rainbows are difficoult to catch sometimes. Hope you get some idea from this few lines because I can`t be too long with this, or some proffies might get bored ;-)
SPOOKY FISH, WATCH YOUR SHADOW!, 24.7.2007   Last report from our guide, fishing with mr. Roland V. who is also on the picture, could help you with your summer fly fishing; biger (smarter) fishes in Trophy sections, have become far more careful than they were at the begining of the season. Thing that frightens them most, is your shadow "walking" infront of you. Especialy on calm areas, try to fish towards the sun. It is more demanding, but you have adventage of fish not knowing you are there.
RADOVNA IS A PLACE TO GO THESE DAYS!, 20.7.2007   When sun is hammering down with 35+degrees, a nice refreshing valley of Radovna river is more welcome than a cold beer in the bar! With suficient water level and active brown trout, 35 eur for C&R license couldn`t be better invested if you are a fly fisherman seeking pure unspoiled places to fish. Sava ofcourse is not bad, but can`t offer such refreshment. At the upper part of Radovna you can actually drink water from the river. Where else in Europe would you still dare to do that? But dont blame me if by chance you get diarea. Maybe you are alergic to blue duns or midges :-)
UNICA, GRAYLING PARADISE, 16.7.2007   During last week, when almost all alpine springed rivers were too high for fly fishing, lots of fishermans went to fish on well known chalk stream Unica, close to famouse Postojna cave. Being one of the most expensive, but also one of the best grayling rivers in Slovenia, fly fishing there is always a memorable event. Ofcourse also our guide Darko had to be there and he took this very nice underwater photos of caught graylings. On 3/4 of Unica, only dry fly fishing is allowed, so getting grayling of this size in the middle of July on a dry fly isn`t so easy. But also Dare isn`t one of the best guides for nothing..
REALISTIC = CATCH!, 13.7.2007   When seeing a very realistic fly imitation, first idea is that it is made for fly fishermans, not to realy catch fish. But our friends from Spain had proven this idea wrong. When realistic patern is well presentet and at the wright moment on the wright place, fish will not be able to reist it for sure. But is up to you to decide either is worth investing hour or more in one fly and than leave it on a tree after few casts? I say YES!
MAKE MY DAY!!!, 9.7.2007   It`s all you need to say to your guide, when he takes you to a place with a fish like that! 74cm, 6.4 kg! Totaly wild, non-stocked animal. Another great job from our guide Gorazd R., realy spiced up this weekend here at our Fauna guiding office. Sometimes I also wish I would be a client too! ;-)
SELECTIVE FISH, 2.7.2007   With proper summer weather we have in last days, fly fishing situation on Sava Bohinjka has changed a little. Unfortunatly in benefit of a fish! Meaning they have become much more selective than they were in May or June. A lot of informations we recieved from guys fishing in last few days regarding that. This is not so bad if you are experienced fly fisherman. Just switch flies down to size 18-22 and leaders to 6-7X. If this is a problem to do, than you still have the option of a streamer or your own luck to catch a big trout on a big fly in the middle of hot July day..
THE LATER, THE BETTER!, 26.6.2007   Back with you after a short "independence hollidays" we had this weekend. Seems like, the time has come, when we have to wait for bigest fish almost till hard night. Living proof for that are our friends mr. Sander, Dinus and Edwin, who cindly granted us this evening photo of a trophy sized rainbow, being caught and released back in Bled Trophy section of Sava Bohinjka. I must ask them what did she took.. Big dry fly or tiny midge.. or streamer? Maybe she just came in their hands alone, because they were so friendly! joking.. ;-)
NON TROPHY REPORTS, 19.6.2007   With days getting hotter, also big rainbows are getting less active, meaning less photo material for our news. But we should mention here, that regular parts of Sava Bohinjka, especialy border areas of Trophy section Selo up or Ribno down are ofering very nice fly fishing too. But you have to go early morning and late afternoon. There is not much activity during the day. Just in a very fast sections with rapids, you might get a big grayling also in mid day. Yes, on a dry fly.
BEAUTIFUL RADOVNA RIVER, 15.6.2007   Mid June has started to shown high temperatures which can go up to 28 degrees during the day. And with quite open and sunny area of Sava Bohinjka, Radovna river is a very nice alternative to concider. True, that there is no graylings in Radovna, but there is plenty of brook and brown trout, plus awsome scenery with nice, refreshing temperatures also on the hotest days. Radovna river has only 6-8 degrees all year!
BIG GRAYLING TIME, 11.6.2007   Almost every day a shower of rain cools down the banks of Sava Bohinjka river. And usualy, there is no fish rising till the temperature doesn`t go up a little. But.. big smart graylings are not ordinary small trout minded. They feed when others don`t. And our good friend mr. Robert Z. knew that. Just one splash was heard on all Institute Trophy lenght! And it was for his fly! See the big guy yourselve. Pro. job!
FOR THE FAMILY ALBUM, 8.6.2007   Not few times it happens, that the whole manhood part of the family is coming to fly fish in Slovenia. No better way of tightening family connections than do a nice fly fishing adventure in Trophy parts of Sava Bohinjka river. And in last few days, mr. Herman, Jelle and Wiebie did exactly that. And they did it very well as you can see from the main picture. Our guide Dare did a nice job asisting them on the river, adding to their knowledge just those few local tricks, which at the end, made their trip a memorable event.
THE BIGEST OF THE BIG ONES, 6.6.2007   You are already use to watch big trophy fish from Bled Trophy section, but this one might surprise you. When we thought we had already seen bigest rainbow, having 72cm, this brave Scotchman mr. Jimmy G., under close supervision of our guide Gorazd, nail down this 78 cm long rainbow submarine! Having quite some troubles with handling such monster, at the end everything was ok and pictures came out great! Congratulations from all our team Jimmy!
COOL WEATHER FOR MONTH JUNE, 4.6.2007   Quite some calls we had in last days from guys which were scared of weather forcast published on a weather link at our water level home page. That`s why we would like to let you know the storms forcasted for this week are short and do not afect water conditions. They eaven help to make perfect fly fishing conditions, because after each storm, massive dry fly hach follows! Some very nice moments we have experienced in last week.. This awsome photo with rainbow on the sky surely deserved to make it to the news.
IS IT REALY JUNE ALREADY??, 1.6.2007   1st of June has surprised us with not quite June-looking temperatures of some 18 degrees.. Despite that, fly fishing still contines to be very nice. Water level of Sava and Radovna went down and is completly clear at the moment. The only complains we hear are those which mention that smaller fish are crazy for dry flies at this period and they take every fly before eaven fals on the surface. Well, you know your youngsters at home. It`s the same on the river :-) By the way, mr. John and mr. Boby didn`t complain much in Bled Trophy section!
GUIDE MAKES A DIFFERENCE!, 28.5.2007   Eaven most of us think we are quite good on our own and fly fishing guide realy can`t teach us nothing new, dr. A.Bondia would probably disagree. We had a pleasure to guide him in last 5 days and each day with a guide his fly fishing was better and better, till finaly in last 2 days he put this 2 cherryes on his fly fishing cake. We were all very happy with his catch and wish him all the best in his fly fishing cariere. BR, Doc!
FLY FISHING ALL DAY LONG.., 25.5.2007   We still have a week or two till the real peak of fly fishing season on Sava Bohinjka, but after this week it looked like we can`t experience nothing more! Every single day was a fly fishing paradise, just one or two times cold afternoon shower had prevent massive sedge and may fly hach. If you are not bodered by mid day temperatures, fishing can roll on all day! If dry fly isn`t working for some time, you just switch to some smaller (special :-) nymph and you have strikes again! Ask our special Spanish guest mr. Antonio B. if you do not belive. He eaven manage to hook a very nice hucho under the power station in Soteska, but he had lost that fight after some 10 minuts.. hook was just to small to hold such animal for a longer time. But the feeling was there ;-)
UPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN!, 22.5.2007   As promissed, also second trophy from last fishing days in Trophy section. Not bad ha!? Eaven if you are used to catch biger fish, your hands will shake a little after fithing and finaly holding a fish of such size.. To bad for all of you, who hasitate with booking for begining of June, because first week is already jam-packed. No tears in my eyes, because WE LOCALS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FISH IN THIS TROPHY PART aniway :-/ shit happens...
FLY FISHING HIGH SEASON!, 19.5.2007   Hard to say at the moment which part of Sava Bohinjka is best for fly fishing, but if choosing one for this news, I have decided to pick Bled Trophy section again, because those great guys from the picture cindly grant me some photos for our news site. Fishing after their words was outstanding, with few xxl submarine rainbows being hooked on our stone fly imitation nymph. Also evening hach of variouse insects was awsome and I belive mr. Graham`s group realy had some fun out there on that great part of the river. Well done guys, thanks for all! We are expecting another picture tomorrow, so stay tuned!
CRAZY HATCH ON SAVA BOHINJKA!, 15.5.2007   Last few days, we had first massive haches of May and Stone flies! If you were not on the river, you have miss awsome event of literary millions of insects coming out of the water and flying away. If not being caught by deliriouse trout or grayling ofcourse. In last half hour of the day every single fish in the river comes to feed from the surface, eaven the bigest ones. If you are a true dry fly fisherman, this should be sweeter than anything else. This paradise will last another few weeks and later become less intensive. Do not miss it while it lasts.
BLED TROPHY PART RULES! , 11.5.2007   Whit great weather conditions we have this week and start of may fly and stone fly hatch, Bled Trophy section has started to show it`s ases! Big rainbows, browns and also graylings started to feed from the surface, so if you want to experience uniq feeling of XXL fish taking your dry fly, now is the time to book your place in Bled Trophy section of Sava Bohinjka!
VERY GOOD BLED SECTION, 3.5.2007   We send our scouts out there to try the lower part of Sava Bohinjka for coming weekend and they came back with very positive oppinion. They scored lots of strikes in just few hours, got some 4 very nice graylings and trout and after their words, realy enjoying their time. Not bad forcast for coming fly fishing weekend ha!? Just in case take some rain jackets it might be some shower
IN MEMORY.., 2.5.2007   Was a nice surprise when I meet mr. Roberto up in the Institute Sava waters when I was doing some guiding few days ago. If you remember, he was one of the most successful hucho fishermans in last hucho season.. After his happy face, I knew something has happened. He cindly send me the cause of his good mood. Well, looks like old love dies hard!? Very nice.
WHY NOT FISHING ON BIG SAVA??, 28.4.2007   Always, when Sava Bohinjka and other famouse rivers are very occupied by fishermans, I like to escape somewhere else to find my peace in fly fishing. This time I went to check Sava Radovljica (a.k.a. Big Sava) which is union of S. Bohinjka and S. Dolinka. Not much tourists are fishing there, since once 1st class grayling water was destroyed by cormorans some 8 years ago. But fishing was surprisingly good, got some 15 fish in 1,5 hours. But not eaven 1 grayling.. Maybe I was using wrong nymph, because place was good for graylings back in old days. Also found cormoran damage on few fish, looks like they are still messing arround. If you find an extra day when fishing in Slo. go and try that river, it`s sure worth that 20 Eur for fishing permit. I will go back again and try to find some graylings, once pride and honour of that wild river.
BLED TROPHY SECTION 2007, 25.4.2007   First photo from Sava Bohinjka Bled Trophy part in 2007. As you can see, season started well, with double catch of mr. Conners and Sparrowgrove, who had been fishing there yesterday. Despite catching plenty of fish, the big ones were not quite in a moode to strike. We expect them to become more active in this days, because snow water is almost gone. We have good reports from upper parts of Sava, where dry fly activities are progressing every day. Concider, that we already have 20+ degrees during the day!? Wonder how August will look like this year..
SEASON PROGRESSING!, 17.4.2007   Water level of Sava Bohinjka is almost normal, still some 5cm above average, but fishable. And looks like also beauty Soca has started to show her hidden Ases as we can see from the photo which was cindly send to us from mr. Gino S, who was fishing there last week. Very nice, we want to see more soon!
RADOVNA WILL SURELY BECOME C&R ONLY!, 13.4.2007   We have been speaking today with mr. Ivanc from fishing research institute of Slovenia today regarding future plans they have with this pearl river - Radovna. After his words, in a year or two, Radovna will become main water for native local brown trout with fishing regime C&R only! Already this year they will stop putting in rainbow trout. This will probably cause some surprise, because river will look more fish-less, but that is normal when speaking about brown trout rivers or streams. That specie adapts very well to the bottom patern and is almost invisible when watching from afar. Comparing with rainbows, which stand in the middle of the pools, browny is realy "ghost fish". Well, one more reason to buy yourself a good polaroised fishing glasses.. PS: Sava is ok for fly fishing, temperatures up to 25 degrees during this weekend!
GOLDEN WEEK FOR FLY FISHING, 10.4.2007   Easter hollidays are gone, hope you all had a great and profound time. If we should trust weather reports, we will have very nice weather for fly fishing all week long! After 14 days of murky cold weather this will realy be a blessing! Water levels are all low and clear, NO SNOW MELT and nice trout activity. Grayling is still closed, but that fact doesn`t prevent him to take your dry fly haha.. Very positive feedback from first fishermans in Bled Trophy section, hopefuly we get some pictures too.. just this morning one Italyan fly fisherman told me, that he caught 70 cm hucho on pupa nymph in the trophy section yesterday! 40 minuts to land him with 0,12mm tippet! And Bled fishing club thought they will prevent such events by limiting size of streamer on 5cm!? Looks like hucho wants to be caught afteral ;-)
SAVA BOHINJKA WATER LEVEL, 4.4.2007   While Eastern weekend is getting closer, more and more fishermans are calling each day regarding water level of Sava Bohinjka. This is information from first hand: 5-10 cm above average water level, clear but fast curent. Poore dry fly hatch because weather is cold and windy. Nymphing and streamer fishing gives best results. Fish activity: medium. Weather forcast continues to be unstable. Call us for more informations. By the way, Radovna ok, similar situation.
MURKY OPENING OF FLY FISHING SEASON 07, 31.3.2007   While we already had 18°C in February, end of March and beginning of April shows completly different story: 3degrees and snow above 800m. Went to check Bled district which was open this morning and found only few local enthusiast fishing. (Probably they have to, being kick-out of their houses by pesty wifes :) Nevertheles, water level of Sava is nice, all we have to do is wait for few degrees more.
ALL DATA FOR SAVA BOHINJKA KNOWN, 27.3.2007   With a small deley, sorry. We were waiting for latest news from Bohinj fishing club. Situation is as follows: Bled fishing club will open Sava Bohinjka on Saturday, 31st as you already know, Institute part of Sava Bohinjka is opened for almost a week and the last one will be opened upper, Bohinj part of Sava on April 1st, Sunday. On more interesting news is, that local fishing clubs, together with Institute from Ljubljana, will try to achive at local authorities, that kayak and canu sports would be limited for just some hours in day, like it is on Soča river. We strongly hope they will success. Kayaks, canoes and all cinds of strange boats can drive for free all day, but we are paying for each minute we stand in water, so we should have at least some advantages towards them. Anybody agrees?
SAVA BOHINJKA AT BRIDGE LOG, JUST BEFORE OPENING, 23.3.2007   As you can see from the picture, water level of Sava is ok, quite low and clear. Weather windy, with some light rain forcasted for tomorrow, maybe nothing.. I saw plenty of trout in the river, some feeding on small nymphs. We will open Fauna shop 8:00 Am on tomorrows for fishing licenses. Plenty of very good "deadly weapon" on stock!
SPRING, OR WINTER OPENING!!? , 21.3.2007   Looks like we will still have to use warm clothing on premium opening of Institute part of Sava Bohinjka in 3 days time. We have experienced 15-20cm of fresh fallen snow on Monday 19th, which has significantly spoiled clear water from last week. Situation is getting back to normal as you can see from the picture, so at least we will have normal water level if not 18 degrees and dry fly fishing on Saturday 24th. If you have intentions to come on Saturday`s opening, give us a call on Friday for latest informations regarding water level. We will publish them also on this page, so stay tuned.
LIMIT FOR STREAMERS AT BLED AREA OF SAVA BOHINJKA, 17.3.2007   Bled fishing club has decided, with best intention to protect younger hucho-hucho population during fly fishing season, that streamers used on their part of Sava Bohinjka must not be longer than 5cm. This regulation will surely not save all young danubes from hands of careles "fish takers", but on average it should help. Check your streamers before using them on Bled district. I already hear some smart heads, saying "Ha, they said streamers, I will use my xxl 6cm nymphs instead!" Well, try this on river guard and surely your license will go bye-bye and few $$$ along with it. :-)
OPENING OF SAVA BOHINJKA BLED ZONE, 14.3.2007   Will happen on Saturday, 31st of March! Do not forget, that Bled Trophy part accept only 5 fishermans per day and most interesting dates are quite booked already! So if you want to be the first one to hook 2007 XXL trout at Bled Trophy part, do not hesitate sending us quiery regarding bookings.
FIRST GENERATION OF `07 SEDGES ALREADY IN FLIGHT, 12.3.2007   As we were watching beautiful Radovna during this weekend, we just could not miss this nice insects, Hidropsyche, a.k.a. Sedges, whose first representatives were already making some hatch, being draged out of their cases by a strong spring sun. And like we could not resist taken that photo, trout won`t be able to resist grabing him of the surface if you will make a nice cast ofcourse. So browse your boxes for them, they are like salt`n`pepper of every good fly collection.
SAVA BOHINJKA OPENS 24TH OF MARCH, 9.3.2007   As you probably know, Fishing research Institute will open their part of Sava Bohinjka 1 week before others. We were told today, that opening day will be Saturday, 24th of March. For all who still don`t know, which part of Sava Bohinjka will be opened, check on picture. At the moment Sava Bohinjka is still relatively high, but it should go down in 2 weeks time. With a nice weather on opening day, we can again expect proper fly fishing circus at the Log bridge. Make sure you won`t be missing!
DO NOT FORGET ON BOHINJ LAKE, 7.3.2006   While we are still waiting for grand opening of fly fishing season on Sava Bohinjka, let us just remind you that with 1st of April, also Bohinj lake which feeds Sava Boh., opens too. Maybe not being main fly fishing target, but since some carefree fisherman threw few perches in it and they multipied in thousands, it`s fun to go with fly rod and white woolybugger and kick them out a few, just for fun. Bohinj fishing club wants to exterminate them out, so if you would like to take a thousand of them out, please do so. Unlimited perch catch/day for 12 eur ;-)
READING NEWSPAPERS ON FLY FISHING!?, 5.3.2007   Unfortunately no. But it would be better to stay at home and read that newspaper, than wraping freshly killed Radovna brown trout in it. Despite all efforts we invest in C&R fly fishing awearnes, such things are still happening too many times. We can`t wait for Institute to make Radovna strictly C&R in next years! By the way, water conditions on Radovna are ok, but there is some rain forcasted for next days..
RADOVNA READY FOR ROCK `N ROLL, 28.2.2007   We made a short trip to the Radovna river as promissed and took those few pictures for you. As you can see, water level is optimal for tomorrow`s opening. With polarized glasses on, several trout can be seen active, feeding with nymphs. We will open Fauna store at 8.00 AM, licenses awailible (check for prices in previouse news), also flies and fly fishing accessories. Looking forward to meet you all!
NICE WEATHER FORCAST FOR OPENING, 28.2.2007   As you can see from the picture, quite nice weather will see tomorrow`s opening of fly fishing season 2007 on Radovna, Sava Radovljica and Krka rivers. Mild, south winds with sun and some clouds. On opening day - tomorrow, our Fauna fly shop will be open 8.00 in the morning, Radovna and big Sava fly fishing licenses on stock! Stay with us, we will publish fresh pictures of Radovna river latter this day!
MORE RIVERS OPEN ON THURSDAY, 1ST!, 26.2.2007   As a surprise, news came yesterday, that also Radovljica fishing family will open their district on thursday, 1st of March. Most common name for the Sava river they have is "big Sava". District goes down from confluence of Sava Bohinjka and Sava Dolinka. First section (including short part of Sava Bohinjka) is also very interesting for dry fly fishing if water level is on normal ofcourse. And price for fishing license? 20.00 Eur C&R, 25.00 Eur C&T.
5 MORE DAYS UNTILL FLY FISHING SEASON 2007!, 24.2.2007   With almost May looking weather, we all hardly expect opening of fly fishing season on Radovna and Krka on Thursday, March 1st. Comparing with last year`s March, when Radovna had still 30 cm of snow on her banks, this year will be completely different! With some sune, you can expect very nice dry fly fishing for native Radovna brown trout. Prepare your March brown`s dry flies!
SAVA BOHINJKA F.R.I.S. PRICE LIST 2007, 22.2.2007   New price list for middle part of Sava Bohinjka, runed by Fishing Research Institute of Slovenia (a.k.a. Zavod) for season 2007. As you can see, fear that prices will go sky high, when slovenia accepts euro currency, was false. Prices went eaven few % down or remain the same as they were in 2006. We think that is a good news!
REVISION OF HUCHO SEASON 06/07 PART III., 20.2.2007   To close this hucho chapter for this year, let us just reveal you few goals for next season: we will extend our guiding service also to the Radovljica, a.k.a. "big Sava" zone, where you can expect realy trophy sized hucho-huchos. Bigest one this year was 17 kg 116cm. Not so elegant as huchos from Sava Bohinjka, but biiiig! Second goal is to catch 100+cm big beast with a streamer on a fly rod! Now we know it can be done, all we need is a new season on Sava Bohinjka. And the last goal is to eaven improve the service and lodge offer. Thank you all who were fishing with us in this inicial year, reading fishing news and sending us good thoughts. With this we close our hucho chapter for this season. Stay with us, fly fishing season starts in less than 10 days! We will be back with news prompt!
REVISION OF HUCHO SEASON 06/07 PART II., 19.2.2007   Refering to the article below, hucho statistic also tell us, that there was (in percentage) 85% chance for 1 hucho/1permit owerall on Sava Bohinjka (together with Institute part) and 113% chance for Bled part of Sava Bohinjka ( 1,13 hucho/1fishing license!). Every hucho or marble trout specialist will tell you that this is a very good %. It would be eaven better if fishermans from begining of season who were fishing on Institute part of Sava Bohinjka, would had a good guides. Those were probably the most important in all our hucho story, so we want to thank them all. And, we should mention on this place that we had also 1 LADY fly fisherman, in shape of ms. Eliana G. who didn`t quite manage to get a hucho, but will surely get one next season! We will conclude this chapter tomorrow with part III. Thank you for reading us.
REVISION OF HUCHO SEASON 06/07 PART I., 17.2.2007   As the season has finished few days ago, we thought you might be interesting for some statistic regarding this the most successful Sava Bohinjka danube fishing season in years; Overall, approx. 90+ hucho was caught in sizes 45-104 cm, 8 taken out by locals, 1 by a tourists. (Bled fishing club data). Bigest was caught by a local, mr. Toni S. measuring 104cm, 11kg (pict.attached). In a tourist group won mr. Rony G. with 99cm 11kg (news 28.1.07). In recent season 112 hucho fishing permits has been sold, including Institute part of Sava Bohinjka. Stay in touch with us, second part of this news will be published on monday!
COUNTDOWN, 2,1.., 13.2.2007   With just 2 more hucho fishing days for the season 06/07, looks like mr. Stefano T. will be the last "hucho model" on our fishing news. Nevertheless, stay tuned, we might get some more news on last day, or at least some very interesting statistic regarding this very successful season.
SECOND FROM YESTERDAY, AS PROMISSED, 12.2.2007   Caught by the same guy, mr. Roberto A. on late yesterday`s afternoon. 83cm, xxl streamer! Great job indeed! Well, looks like marmorata fishermans are having some advantage at hucho fly fishing, this is the second time, that marble trout fisherman scored very well on Sava Bohinjka, fishing for hucho! Remember news from 28.1.07?
LATE, BUT VERY GOOD NEWS!, 11.2.2007   Despite recieving a good news already early this morning, we had to wait for the finish of today`s very good endurance full day hucho fly fishing of mr. Roberto and ms. Eliana. And waiting payed of with this great picture of 75 cm long river king caught today at 8:05 with a STREAMER. That is information which we always accent and respect! There was also second caught later this day, but photo will be available tomorrow, so stay tuned, it`s gonna be a cracker!
FIXED HUCHO FISHING HOURS, 9.2.2007   There is a well known rule on Sava Bohinjka during fly fishing season which says that fishing must stop with nightfall. But at hucho-hucho fishing, best time starts with dusk, so the rule above could be compromised. To prevent rule overcrossings and fals reports from locals, claiming tourists are fishing in the dark, Bled fishing club had announced official "stop-fishing" hours during danube winter season. Time table varies regarding the day lenght of month: 15.11-30.11 06:00-18.00, ``` 1.12.-31.12. 06:30-17:30, ``` 01.01.-31.01. 06:30-18:00, ``` 01.02.-14.02. 06:00-18:30
GAINING WEIGHT, FEVER RISING!, 7.2.2006   We were talking with Bled`s fishing club hucho breeding expert today, asking him for some informations regarding hucho`s spawning time which is going to start at Sava Bohinjka in few weeks time. Mr. Gorazd V. who is successfuly breeding danube species for some 10 years, emphasized the fact, that feemale huchos will gain up to 10% of their weight in less than 3 weeks, because of spawning circumstances (making eggs). Meaning much more feeding action! For example, the beast which was released by mr. Ronny G. 2 weeks ago will soon have some 12-13 kg! Imagine that on your fly rod :-) Can`t wait for weekend to come!
GRAND FINALE, 6.2.2007   Dear hucho fishing fans. In this few days break while we are waiting for new danube fly fishing teams, we would like to inform you, that best hucho fishing week is starting in few days time. End of fishing season (14.2.2007) is getting closer and so does hucho spawning time. That means much more feeding action especialy among biger females and much more aggression from bigest hucho males, fighting for the teritory. All that, united with optimal weather conditions (cloudy and little rainy weather) is a great recipe for the trophyes 100cm+! So if you had some plans for hucho fishing during the season, NOW is the right time to make them happen!
HARD WORK BRINGS RESULTS, 4.2.2007   Variouse fly fishing technices and streamers had been tested for hucho fishing on Sava Bohinjka this introductory hucho fishing year. And when season is getting closer to the end, we can conclude, that catch of a hucho is not so much depending of the gear and coloure of a streamer, than of the good tracking and proper movement of the streamer, when once it is in hucho sight zone. Successfuly united those two skills, mr. Daniele Z. scored two hucho during this weekend, measuring 56 and 60cm.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, 3.2.2007   Hucho fishing story rolls on, with new fly fishermans and Roko`s guidance. This saturday was hiding her preciouse gift almost till the end, when finaly at 17:55 mr. Fabrizio M. had his long waited strike: 81cm, 5,5kg. Ha, looks like proverb "save the best for the last" is sometime true. Good job guys!
HUCHO`S DAWN AT FAUNA LODGE, 2.2.2007   While most of population is still in beds, our guys are usualy already on the water, geting up at 6 o`clock to catch the first morning dawn which usually brings the most hucho strikes. Such a sacrifise of sleep is well regarded with awsome winter scenery and more and more hucho strikes, as their spawning time is geting closer. New group is coming this afternoon and with nice weather forcast for this weekend, we all expect great fishing again!
TROUT LOOKING JUNIOR, 1.2.2007   Unfortunately there is still a lot of fly fishermans who can`t tell the difference between trout and smaller hucho during fly fishing season. To prevent damage on younger hucho population during f.f. season, Bled fishing club will probably have to inform all guests with special informative brochure. All suggestions welcome. (On picture 40cm junior of mr. Angelo P.)
UNEXPECTED VISITOR, 31.1.2007   While we are waiting for new hucho enterprises, we thought you might be interested also for this nice "Sava born" rainbow of 80cm, which was caught by mr. Alberto G. at one of our last hucho persecutes. Hm.. where was she during fly fishing season!?
HIGH SCORE AT THE END OF 1ST DAY!, 30.1.2007   As we predicted earlyer this morning, mr. angelo P. didn`t stop with the first catch! At the end of the day, his result was 86, 77, 50! In cm ofcourse. Very good result indeed. And it is hardly the first day!? Do not close your web browsers, we might publish some more danube pictures tomorrow.
TEMPERATURE IS RISING!!, 30.1.2007   The closer the end is, the better the season is!? To prove that, check latest news, especialy this one with a splendid catch of well known Pipam forum editor mr. Angelo P. who caught this beautiful 86cm danube on a xxl streamer early this morning! Conditions on the Sava B. are optimal for hucho fishing and both guys are very skilled, so we can expect more news during the day! Stay tuned!
99 CM!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!, 28.1.2007   Just 1 cm was missing and we would had open a bottle of champagne today at the lodge; the same mr. Ronny from yesterday`s news, managed to get this 99cm 11kg hucho in early morning hours this day! Guys from Trevisio are skilled marmorata fishermans and looks like such skills are very useful for hucho fishing! This was their first time for hucho fishing but already managed to climb at the top of the tourist trophy scale with today`s catch. Thumbs up, to each of them! Sorry for not clear picture, lenses can be difficoult at -7°.
WE COUNT EVERY ONE, 27.1.2007   Also second Italian spinning group adapted very well to tough winter conditions on Sava Bohinjka and already caught their first hucho ever! Not the bigest one, but big enough to satisfied mr. Ronny G. who had caught it. After guide`s words, guys are very good casters, so we can expect more in days to come!
CAUGHT IN THE ACT, 27.1.2007   Photo from this morning hucho persecut. 79cm, caught by mr. Mauro M. Data from the river: water temperature 3°, air -7°, spiced with nice nord wind. Some minor problems with freezing rod rings, but have been solved with liquid silicon oil. By the end of the day, guys are still mourning after loss of the big one early this morning. After mr. Mauro`s words it was felt like hooking a bottom. (Estimated weight of lost hucho approx 12-15 kg!)
STILL FRESH FROM SAVA, 27.1.2007   First photo from this weekend hucho fishing expeditions belongs to our two well known guests, mr. Stefano G and mr. Mauro M., a.k.a Terrible two. I caught them early this morning, just passing soteska bridge with Roko and heading towards canyon pools. Already caught one of 79cm! And LOST the big one (check news from 18.1.) after some 20 sec. of fight when "the king" started to roll-ower which is the most crusual moment of hucho fight. Stay tuned for more news and salmon danube pictures during the weekend!
MORE SNOW AND HUCHO THRILS, 25.1.2007   Last report from Sava Bohinjka; a little of fresh fallen snow on the riverbanks and active hucho! Looking forward to all new groups coming for this hucho-weekend and beginning of next week! This is the proper hucho-hucho fishing season! Snow and healthy dry cold.
FINALY SNOOOOW!, 23.1.2007   With temperatures few degrees below zero and humid south winds, this morning we have got the first snow in this winter. Although causing some traffic problems, we are happy with it, making Sava Bohinjka little higher and dimy which are perfect conditions for catching also biger danube salmons - huchos.
HUCHO WEEKEND CONCLUDED WITH A GREAT FINALE, 22.1.2007   As it was forcasted, monday morning saw first fallen snow in this winter. And curious how this change of weather will affect hucho`s moode, Rok and guys from Hungary went straight to the Sava Bohinjka again and they didn`t went for nothing; fish was in a VERY nice feeding moode and fisherman mr. Tibor C. on the picture, actualy scored best number of strikes this year, all together 7 in less than 1 hour! Landed 3 huchos of 78, 60 and 50cm, 1 lost at his feet and 3 during the fight! Surprisable result also for Rok who guided them!
FLY FISHING TEAM FROM ITALY STRIKES BACK, 21.1.2007   To prove, fly fishing can also bring you nice hucho result, mr. Stefano M. from Italy tricked this 67er with a fly rod and xxl streamer fly. And after 10 minuts another one of 64 cm, at the same pool. But the bigest unlucky man was mr. Stefano T. at the top left corner, who lost bigest fish of the week, arround 80cm just infront of his feet. Make my day event, but still we congratulate!
SPINNING TEAM LEADS, 20.1.2007   Both groups hit an early morning with their guides and scored some strikes straight away. But at the end of first day morning season, mr. Robert from Hungary managed to land the bigest one. Tape measure stoped at 76cm. His fellow fisherman mr. Tibor who went to fish for hucho the first time, got 5 strikes, but lost all before he manage to landed them. Just some more practice needed and pictures will come too.
SHOW MUST GO ONE, 20.1.2007   All our Fauna fly fishing team and our hucho interested guests started a new hucho fishing day full of fresh elan! And despite of hard circumstances with extreme clear water, and one lost "close to 80cm" one, we have managed to cam-captured this 50 cm guy, caught by mr. Stefano, just to prove you, big campains start with a small steps ;-)
NEW DAY WITH A NEW HUCHO DAWN, 19.1.2007   Early morning with a new hucho-fan fishermans! It is nice to see well known cars infront of the fishing lodge, announcening new danube persecution at the earlyiest morning hours! By the time you are still in beds, those brave fly fishermans already made some dozent casts with XXL streamers! Those are situations which harden fly fishing steel!
WHO WILL GET THE POOL CHIEF??, 18.1.2006   Chasing away all smaller huchos from his best position on a sandy bottom of this 5m deep pool of Sava Bohinjka, this one (estimeted size 100cm+) is no doubt the bigest danube salmon in this hot-spot area. Constantly holding his position for a week now, he has become real attraction for spectators from the bridge. Who knows if guys coming for this weekend will manage to trick this very smart adoult animal? If yes, you will know first!
C&R IS THE WAY TO GO!, 17.1.2006   We think, that this nice catch&release photo needs no furder comment.
GREAT SECOND DAY FOR HUNGARYAN TEAM, 16.1.2007   Despite very windy and cold morning we had today, (-4°C, but feeling was -14°!) our Hungaryan team under Rok`s supervision, succeeded the third time in 2 days! This time danube salmon had 80cm. Regarding the fact, that they almost don`t have any fly fishing water back home, they both deserve our full compliments for casting technick, streamers and other fly fishing atributes.
1 DOWN, ONLY 2 MORE LEFT!, 15.1.2007   As you saw in previous news, this morning was very promising and so was the rest of the day indeed; mr. Akos S. from Hungary and his friend mr. Peter, both leaded by lodge owner Rok M., managed to catch this very nice hucho on the picture (85cm, 6kg) surprisingly in the middle of the day! And under pressure of strong "hucho" emotions, lucky "danube" fisherman has decided to take the river king back home. Meaning, there are only 2 more left for this season. Remember, when 3rd hucho will be taken, fishing stops for ALL! And with all the groups coming at the end of the week, season could be ended soon!?
FOR DANUBE SALMON, SIZE DOESN`T MATTER, 15.1.2007   Fresh picture from todays morning hucho fishing. Check the size of mr. Peter B.`s streamer. Much biger than 12 cm, but was not a problem for this junior hucho to attack!
HOT-SPOT FOR DANUBE SALMON, 13.1.2007   Speaking of hucho ofcourse. Only this time we mention also his second name, Danube salmon. It got that name after being found in european rivers with Danube basin. Hot fishing spot on the picture has produced several nice danube salmons this year. Surrounded with big rocks which are perfect hiding place, spot is well fishable also during the day. Fly fishermans with longer status of fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka probably know where picture was taken, if not, our guiding service is at your full disposal ;-)
AUSTRIA JOINED SAVA HUCHO CLUB, 11.1.2007   With not the bigest, but still big enough to bring a large smile on mr. Fritz H.`s face. With demanding and unique winter fishing conditions and not a lot of strikes, every successfuly landed hucho is a joy, regardles the size. A note to all of you who are asking us for hucho fly fishing: try to come during the week, because next three weekends are full!
KING SIZED HUCHO, 10.1.2007   After short "technical" absent from our slovenian fishing news, we are back again. And while waiting for 3 new groups coming to fish and fly fish for hucho on Sava at the end of the week, all of you who are tying streamers for hucho, check the beast on the picture. And suddenly your streamers will seem to be smaller than emergers. Hucho on the picture was caught in 2005 in Sava near Ljubljana. Weighted 26 kg was one of the bigest ever caught in Slovenia. We are not expecting such on Sava Bohinjka, but still, guys add a few cm to your hucho streamers..
WHILE WE WAIT FOR HUCHOS, 8.1.2007   Despite moving into the second half of hucho season 2006/2007, fishing fever is not coming down. New expeditions are coming in second half of the week and weekend. Rok will be again in action, guiding fishermans close to 1m+sized sava huchos. Remember, bottle of champagne is still on ice at the lodge, waiting for the first tourist fisherman, who will get hucho biger than 100cm! And for the eyes: very nice pike being caught in last fishing days of 2006 on Bled lake. 104cm, 9.5kg.
TERRIBLE TWO STRIKED AGAIN!, 5.1.2007   After yesterday`s disappointment when he lost a very nice hucho, mr. Stefano G. scored a second strike and this time successfuly landed this 70 cm long hucho from Sava Bohinjka. Content as you can be after catching hucho with a fly rod and full of new elan, guys already went back to the canyon where are few fish close, or over 1m lenght. Good luck, bottle of champagne is already on ice! ;-)
FLY ROD RULES!, 4.1.2007   As we mentioned in our previouse news, we have 2 great guys on hucho fly fishing at the moment and after this morning`s bad luck of mr. Stefano G., his fellow companion mr. Mauro M. caught this nice, 81 cm long animal in a deep current of Sava, just under Fauna fly fishing lodge. Was a strong fight, but skilled mr. Mauro managed to get him out and made this nice photo for you. Thanks and well done!
HUCHO`S 1ST LUCK IN 2007 , 4.1.2007   Dear all. We are happy to be back again with some fresh hucho fishing news from slovenia. We were already fishing this morning and mr. Stefano G. lost a nice one. Hucho managed to break the line and escaped before Rok who is guiding them made some photos. Hopefuly this will be a good school for all of us, to realy check knotes and lines twice, before going for hucho. If you have a strike of a 10kg heavy fish, there are some serious forces going threw few mm large knot! (Photo is still from our last guiding in 2006).
THE SOONER, THE BETTER, 30.12.2006   Advises of our best guide Rok from Fauna, were not for nothing. Mr. Robert Z. from Hungary listened and went on hucho fishing very early on today`s morning. Result was this nice hucho of 75cm and a delighted fisherman!
VERY GOOD MORNING INDEED, 29.12.2006   As we told you yesterday, new fishing groups came for hucho fishing on Sava bohinjka. Experienced group from Austria, leaded by mr. Chris N. and guided by Rok and Dare from Fauna, managed to catch this nice one from the picture with a streamer fly! And a second member of the group lost one, close to 1m big! They are heading back on fishing this afternoon and with experience they have and great guides, we can expect more!
HUNGARY LEADS!, 28.12.2006   We had a few groups of brave fishermans from Italy trying all their skills and knowledge to get a hucho on the upper part of Sava Bohinjka. But except few missed strikes and some brook trouts luck was not quite on their side. Conditions were realy tough. If someone from flyage.it forum is reading this, I can tell you, that your webmaster Mr. F.Moglia is realy doing his best to provide you some nice hucho photo. But today, luck was with Mr. S. Laszlo from Hungary who managed to hook a junior 50cm hucho when fishing at Bled Sava with Rok from Fauna. He get him with rapala, but still.. every one counts!
COMPARING HUCHO SEASON 2005 AND 2006, 27.12.2006   Difficult conditions for hucho fishing on Sava Bohinjka, because water is low and very clear. Also temperatures had fallen far below zero in the mornings, so fly lines and their respected owners were all frozen today. Some of them bravely started early AM with dark at -8°. But despite hard circumstances, 2006 is still a fairy tale in comparison with 2005, when fishermans had to struggle with all that and 65cm of fresh snow.
PIKE IN HER ELEMENT, 26.12.2006   This is how your worst nightmare looks like if you are a small perch or a white fish :) Nice picture of Mr. F. Moglia with underwater camera. There are few groups of fishermans coming to fish on Sava Bohinjka for hucho at the end of the week, I hope we will be able to publish some nice new hucho pictures soonest!
MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!, 24.12.2006   To all of you who are reading our slovenian fly fishing news! Thank you for being with us threw the year and help us with all the nice fly fishing photos and informations. ALL THE BEST!
ELEGANT AS IT CAN BE, 21.12.2006   Meaning this nice young hucho being caught in Fishing Institute part of Sava Bohinjka with an XXL streamer ofcourse. Water level of Sava Bohinjka went down, so hucho fly fishing is little more demanding because of very clear and low water. In general, Slovenia is experiencing almost the second autumn, with nice sun, no snow and temperatures around 0°.
WHY IS CORMORAN CALLED "BLACK DEATH" IN SLOVENIA?, 19.12.2006   Because they would empty Sava Bohinjka (as they have some other fly fishing rivers in Europe) in a week if there would not be a bird patrol present at the river every day during winter time. We won`t mention how much money is being spend each year for that service. So if you calculate all the work, fishing clubs have with Sava Bohinjka, 38.00 Eur for the fishing license realy isn`t that much money..
BLED LAKE TROUT, 18.12.2006   Because hucho in slovenia isn`t caught every day, this time we present nice lake trout from Bled lake. Hard work of Bled fishing club with inputing them in the lake, did finaly payed off. This extreme fighter and predator is much more interesting for fly fishing than pike. Once caught on a fly rod it offers long runs and spectacular jumps! We can`t wait season to be opened again in April!
VERY NICE PIKE FROM BLED LAKE, 15.12.2006   When all attention of fly fishing public in slovenia is focused on hucho fishing, some fishermans gets also very nice results on the lakes. Todays picture is from Bled lake where our friend manage to caught a pike of 121 cm, 10 kg! Unfortunately not on a streamer and fly fishing, but it still counts! Compliments!
OUR GUIDES REPORT, 13.12.2006   After last weeks flood, our guides went out today to check hucho fishing conditions on Sava Bohinjka. Feedback: perfect water level, active fish, don`t wait for -15 degrees, come to fish now!
SAVA BOHINJKA OPTIMAL FOR HUCHO FISHING!, 13.12.2006   Water level went down and conditions at the moment are perfect for hucho fishing! Today we also have -3 degrees in the morning, proper conditions for action!
BRAVE OR CRAZY?, 09.12.2006   All of you who were thinking to come for hucho fly fishing on Sava Bohinjka this weekend, would realy have to be very brave or very crazy, Sava went 3+ m high and is carrying big logs. Although some smart locals are saying that is not so bad for hucho fishing, because fish is close to the bank!? Well, I didnt saw them much on a fishing today :)
SAVA BOHINJKA STOPED HUCHO FISHING, 08.12.2006   Heavy rain in last day has pushed much of Slovenia rivers on very high levels. Also Sava was not exception. Level is 2m higher than normal, if you were planing to come, better no, it is scary to eaven approach! No fishing 3-4 days!
FISHING OVER FOR BLED CLUB MEMBERS !! , 07.12.2006   The man on the picture buryed hopes of Bled Slovenia fishing club members that they will try their hucho luck this weeken. Gregor Stojan caught eight and LAST hucho-hucho in the season. A lot of happi faces and long noses we had on that day :) Information should be good for tourist hucho fishermans, because now they have all Sava Bohinjka for themselwe! GO!!
7TH DOWN, ONE MORE TO GO!, 06.12.2006   Looks like this year is special, hucho season should just started, but is already close to the end. For Bled club members ofcourse :) Nice animal, 90cm, slim 7,5kg. Caught by mr. Jože Vrhunc
THIS HAPPENS ONCE IN 10 YEARS!, 05.12.2006   That adoult sized hucho would taken a small glo-bug. But it did happen to a local controler while fishing in Institute part of Sava Bohinjka while season for trout was still open. We just manage to get pictures now. He need 30 minuts to get him out on 0,14mm tippet :()
STOOOP FOR BLED CLUB MEMBERS!, 06.12.2006   This morning, eight Hucho has been taken by some local Bled club member, which means, quota for 2006 season is full. No more fishing is allowed for Bled club members. This should be great news for you, because it means, if you come to fish hucho now, you will have all Sava Bled whith her best pools all for yourselve! Persecute from locals has stop, so hucho will slowly become less careful and consequencely more easy to catch.
5:0 FOR LOCAL BLED FISHING CLUB!!, 04.12.2006   While tourist fishermans are still in persecute for 1st hucho, which would be taken, locals have already caught the fifth one! (we are still waiting for the pictures, this one is the 4th). Only 3 more to go with the season opened hardly 20 days ago! Hold your horses guys, what will you do in January!?
WEBMASTER GOES ON FISHING.., 1.12.2006   Asking me all the time if I ever go for hucho or do I only sit at Fauna and write you newsletters? Answer is I go! And if, I dont go for nothing :) This time was not so big, 60 cm maybe, but I got him on a fly rod, which also counts!?
NEW HUCHO CAUGHT IN BLED DISTRICT OF SAVA!, 30.11.2006   Club lawyer, Saso R. caught this elegant one in last hours of the day, just before dark. Best time for a hucho strike!
TOURIST 1ST IN 2006, 29.11.2006   Couple of days ago, Stefano, Mauro and Massimiliano, our friends from italy bravely tryed their luck for hucho-hucho with fly rods and XXL streamers. It was a hard work, but still they manage to catch 2 nice fish and had some strong strikes. Actualy they were the first in history of Bled fishing club, who were fishing for hucho with a fly and were not members of Bled club. Great guys, we are looking forward to next visit maybe later this year.
THIRD ONE CAME FROM THE CANYON!, 28.11.2006   Nice catch from the depths of Sava canyon under military barracks in Bohinjska Bela. Good few hours of walk was not for nothing.. Companion of this time lucky Tadej, lost eaven biger just befor the dark. Well, they were heading down there again today, we will inform you if there will be some luck!
WE HAVE EXCEED 1 METER!, 27.11.2006   And 1 centimeter! 101 cm was a number shown on tape measure which has brought smile on a face of Gorazd Varl, administrator of Bled fishing club. No wonder, that is really huge fish for relatively small and clear river like Sava Bohinjka. As we have predicted, Sava Bohinjka is starting to show her aces! Senior on the picture was tricked by rapala F18, brown trout patern. Gorazd said hucho did good fight, with few spectacular jumps and downstream escapes. Finaly he gave up and left his earthly kingdom to his successors.
CURENT HUCHO LEADER ON SAVA BOHINJKA, 23.11.2006   Leading in a race for bigest hucho-hucho on Sava Bohinjka 2006/2007 is on our joy - our boss! Being very good hucho fisherman years ago, (124cm year 1979) again he proven himselve this year with 92cm 7,5kg which is already very nice size for Sava. But Rok says Sava is hiding few peaces biger than 1m! Well, he will have to wait for them untill next season..
HUCHO STRIKED ON A STREAMER, 20.11.2006   On a big surprise of Mr. Migliorini, his streamer was interesting for this nice sized hucho-hucho. Strike happened in one of biger pools of middle Sava Bohinjka, few days ago. This indicates to a good fly fishing hucho season which will be opened in a week time. In lower, Bled district, hucho season is already in progress.
SHALLOW WATER PRODUCE BIG FISH!, 18.11.2006   Not very well known to most fly fishermans, upper Institute part of Sava usually hides some very nice fish. This time lucky guy was our friend Michele, which manage to hook this nice rainbow just on a border with Bohinj fishing society. Careful look at fish mouth will reveal, that she striked on a saltwater shrimp fly imitation? Is global warming affecting also feeding habits of Sava`s rainbows!? :-)
NO. 1 IN 2006/2007, 16.11.2006   1st Hucho-hucho caught in this season has fallen in hands of a local member Rok M. in early morning hours. With his lenght of 70cm was a nice start of a day. 2 more were caught during the day, bigest had 82cm. All were released back. while Sava Bohinjka didn`t show all her cards yet, downstream Sava, near Radovljica 1st big one was already caught; 120cm, 19kg! Waiting for photos!
MEANWHILE FATHERS ARE RUNING FOR HUCHO..., 15.11.2006   Juniors are catching nice graylings on Institute part of Sava, which is still open for fly fishing till the end of November. So all of you who prefer light tackle instead of heavy hucho sticks, welcome!
HUCHO-HUCHO FISHING RULES ON SAVA BOHINJKA BLED , 13.11.2006   1. Fishing for hucho-hucho (salmon danube) is allowed from 15th of November, till 14th February, on entire district of Sava Bohinjka Bled fishing club, except in TROPHY SECTION (from the bridge in Selo, downstream till the bridge in Ribno). 2. Hucho-hucho fishing is allowed only by purchasing daily fishing permit. Cost of a daily fishing permit is 7.189,00 SIT (Slovenian tolars) or 30,00 EUR. 3. Fishing is allowed from morning dawn untill evening dusk. 4. Fishing for hucho-hucho can be done only with an escort of a fishing guide or other companion, member of Bled fishing club. * During escort, guide or companion is NOT ALLOWED TO FISH. * Guide or companion can escort maximum of 3 (three) fishermans per day. * Distance between participants (guide and his clients) should not be larger than 80 meters. 5. Two fishing systems are allowed; FLY FISHING AND SPINNING: * FLY FISHING: fly fishing rod rank 7 or more with suitable fly reel and line. Tippet should not be thiner than 0,30 mm. Size (lenght) of a streamer fly must be at least 12 cm or larger. * SPINNING: spinning rod with suitable reel. Diameter of fishing line should be at least 0,35 mm or more. Allowed baits are artificial lures with minimum lenght of 10 cm, measuring without hooks or triplet hooks. 6. Hucho-hucho can be taken under following terms: * Fishing guide or companion must in less than 3 (three) hours after capturing, report hucho-hucho taking to authorized persons: see enclosure of fishing license! * Minimum lenght of taken hucho-hucho must be at least 80cm. * Till evaluation and measuring by authorised persons stated above, taken hucho-hucho must remain uncleaned and in one piece. * Compensation for taken hucho-hucho must be done by following price list: 80-90 cm 26.360,00 Sit 110,00 Eur, 90-100 cm 35.946,00 Sit 150,00 Eur, 100+ cm 71.892,00 Sit 300,00 Eur. For more informations contact us on our emai: fauna@faunabled.com or phone: 00386 45 742 631 (8-12, 16-19) Tight lines!
HUCHO-HUCHO FISHING ON SAVA BOHINJKA!!!, 11.11.2006   After yesterdays council, Bled fishing club has decided, that in Hucho-Hucho fishing season 2006 also tourist fisherman will be allowed to fish for that river king fish. (Salmon danube). Fishing which starts 15.11.2006 will be possibille with spinning or new this year: FLY FISHING! Fishing license will cost aprox. 30,00 Eur but fisherman will have to go with a local guides. In last few years population of hucho-hucho has rapidly grown and we expect very nice fishing season! ALL DETAILS REGARDING HUCHO-HUCHO FISHING RULES ON SAVA BOHINJKA WILL BE PUBLISHED IN OUR NEWS HOME PAGE EARLY NEXT WEEK. STAY TUNED!
ANOTHER OCTOBER`S TROPHY, 7.11.2006   When November`s fly fishing days get shorter and shorter, we still remember nice fly fishing days from sunny October 2006. For sure mr. A. De Carli has something to remember as you can see from the photo!
NOVEMBER`S SUNSETS ON BLED LAKE, 05.11.2006   We have been witnessing to some astonishing sunsets at lake Bled in last days. Eaven if you are accustomed to nice Bled scenery, nature can still surprise you from time to time!
LAST OCTOBER`S GRAYLING, 31.10.2006   Beautifull, warm 31st of October on Sava Bohinjka at Log, with very active fish, picking up mostly dry flies. Being in optimal fly fishing conditions, with one of our guides, eaven Mr. M. Golec managed to caught nicely on his first time fly fishing. Well done!
BURNING BLED LAKE, 27.10.2006   Nice scenery, when Bled lake wakes up in mist of cold, last October mornings, which will eventualy became a nice sunny days with temperatures above 18 degrees!
RADOVNA ALREADY FISHABLE!, 26.10.2006   After storming waters we have had in last days, our guide Dare already manage to catch few brown trout on the uper part of Radovna river. We expect good fly fishing again in next 2-3 days.
SAVA WENT SKY HIGH!, 24.10.2006   In only 1 night so much rain has fallen on the uper part of Bohinj lake, that Sava Bohinjka which feeds out of it, raised her water level for almost 2m! Few fly f. guys were VERY surprised when they came to the river in the morning :-)
YOUNGEST FLY FISHERMAN IN 2006, 16.10.2006   Bravely joining our Sunday expedition, Cubi from CZ with only 10 years, manage to equivalently competite with his father and grandfather, catching his own rainbow and consequencely became our youngest fly fisherman in 2006. We congratulate!
BROWN TROUT EXPEDITION, 15.10.2006   Our dear friends from Czeck republic and their USA companions occupied Sava Bohinjka on a very nice Sunday morning. First time with a fly fishing rod, they score high, each one catching more than one fish!
AUTUMN VERY GENEROUS WITH GRAYLINGS, 12.10.2006   Nice and warm October days convinced also biger graylings to go for tiny b.w.o and plecoteries. Mr. Franco Ganora manage to persuade this nice piece on the flats of middle Sava Bohinjka. Thanks for the photo.
VERY NICE RAINBOWS FROM BLED TROPHY , 10.10.2006   Mr. Cistellini and Agnelotti manage to trick this submarine sized rainbows last week on the lower part of Sava Bled Trophy section. We congratulate! More pictures of those guys in our photogallery.
EXPERTS GO OUT IN RAIN.., 10.10.2006   When last week`s rain scared away almost all fly fishermans, some of them still went out on Sava trophy. Results were even better than in sunshine. Check yourselve.. Thanks Stefano for the photo.
BEAUTIFULL INDIAN SUMMER, 09.10.2006   Looks like we will have much more nice autumn than in 2005, so far already second beautifull week is pleasing lots of very content fly fishermans from all over the world. Fishing conditions are ok and also dry fly is working well few hours a day, when sun is at its peak. Our photo gallery will be updated with some nice autumn scenery shortly. Stay tuned!
WATERS HIGH, 04.10.2006   Last nights storm over all Slovenia has pushed rivers sky-high! Except Unica more or less ewerything is high and white. Sava will need 2 days to go back to normall. Stay tuned! Picture was taken today!
WEBMASTER CHECKING THE MOANINGS, 01.10.2006   After listening some complains for 2 days in a row about brown trout not beeing active enough, I pick up my #3 fly rod myself, went down to the canyon, caught 45cm brown and few smaller ones in 15 minuts, packed my bags, went home and the next day warmly advised those uncapable guys to take our guyding service before making new complains :))
HUCHO-HUCHO FOR TOURISTS!, 30.09.2006   Local Bled fishing club has announced, that in season 2006/2007 also tourist fly fishermans will be allowed to fish for that king-sized fish in Sava Bohinjka Bled and Institute sectors. Fly fishing only. We are already looking forward to it!
INDIAN SUMMER STILL LASTS!, 25.09.2006   Great weather in last week deserves to be mentioned here. Fishing is actually better than it was in August! Sun and warm temperatures together with active fish are really making great fly fishing days.
FANTASTIC GUIDING DAY!, 22.09.2006   We just had a great day on a guiding tour with James from NZ! We have been fishing middle institute part of Sava and caught approx. 20 fish in 1 morning, quite a few of them on a tiny dry fly! A tip for you: fish work best from 9AM to 2PM.
SEPTEMBER, SEASON FOR EXPERTS.., 13.09.2006   Month september has started here in Slovenia with beautiful weather and warm temperatures. Water level of Sava Bohinjka is little low, but crystal clear. Fish is quite selective, 0.10mm tippets are almost necesery! Stay tuned!
GREAT FLY FISHING IN AUGUST, 25.08.2006   Suficient waterlevel in Sava Bohinjka, Radovna and also other rivers in Slovenia ensures optimal fly fishing conditions for this time of year. For current updates see our "waterlevel" page.
NEW WEBSITE, 22.08.2005   After our short absent from internet, we are back with refreshed image of our i.e. page. We hope that informations on this pages will help you to decide for soonest visit of our beautifull country. For any other informations, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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