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Urban fishing for big rainbow trout

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 Porpad river in Slovak town Svit is a small stream, with riverbed altered so it looks like artificial channel. The river originates in Tatra mountains, and this part is close to the headwaters , so it is very cold. The urban part of the stream has chain of artificial waterfalls, and plunge pools.  There's many fish in these pools, particularly big rainbows. Also some brown trout too.  When I started fishing with nymphs, fish was not cooperating. They willingly took bread thrown into the water, but ignored my flies.  I tried to animate my "parkinson" nymph , moving it with short strips, like streamer. This movement triggered fish attack, and I got my first rainbow.  The tactic of stripping worm imitation proven to be successful. I caught few fish like that, but there were bigger ones. I moved upstream to the next waterfall. After few attempts, and few fish unreliably hooked, I landed my first big rainbow. This fish was very strong and beautiful. I moved to the n...

Sunrise in Dobczyce

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I got up very early to fish at the sunrise on Raba.  When I arrived to Dobczyce, it was 4:40 and still dark. I waited a little bit when the sun gets higher. The fish wasn't cooperative. I only got one small/medium brown trout.  Still better than zero. Morning hours are spectacular.  Fishing wasn't very good, but I like the atmosphere. 

Three Podhale rivers

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 This trip was rather unproductive. I started from Białka Tatrzanska. I came to the river early in the morning. Something changed on the river, after big water the lovely pools I used to fish just disappeared. New pools formed on new places. Białka is freestone stream, and it changes it's shape quite often. But it needs time to fish to accomodate to changed environment. I didn't catch anything on Białka, and decided to move closely located river in the Podhale region, Biały Dunajec. i arrived to the popular spot. Snagged couple of times, and decided to move upstream. When I returned, I found that another man is fishing the spot which I left 5 minutes ago. And he fighting a big fish. It was a 45 cm brown trout.  I was jealous, I can catch this trout myself if I spent more time on this spot. Frustrated, I drove to another river. In fishing, I don't like rivalry. It's a big frustration when someone else is catching, but you are not. So, I arrived to Dunajec in Krościenko, ...