River San, first unlucky attempt

San is the most famous fly fishing river in Poland.
It's about 260 km from me, or 5 hours of driving. So it make sense only for 2-days trip or more.

I went there without prior knowledge. When I arrived to the rver, I found it's very-very shallow. The average depth was 30-50 cm. Also, it was middle of very hot summer, with temperatures up to +36 C.

I got a license and went to the river. It was hard to find approach from road. I parked my car in the pocked, and descended from steep cliff. There was small river enterin San. it's called Hoczewka.

The river was wide and flat. Somewhat similar to Dunajec, but much more shallower, and boring.
I wasn't impressed.


I fished the long riffle, down to Hoczewka mouth. I caught 3 or 4 small trouts there, one rainbow and few browns. Nothing special.


Mostly I used small wooly bugger on floating line, with long mono leader. Just swinging it downstream, no stripping. Also, I tried wet fly.

There's a small island, and nice deep hole near Hoczewka mouth.  Actually, this is the end of fly fishing only, catch and release section of the river. Below the mouth, there was spinningist, beating the water with crankbaits.


I heard so many good about San, and plenty of big fish there. But I didnt catch anything serious, and I was disappointed. Better to stick with Dunajec or Białka, and it is much closer to my home.


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