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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!
