Three Podhale rivers

 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, my proven and familiar stretch where I always catch something. Unfortunately, today was not my day. I caught only few small brown trout.


Not that it was bad. But in my previous trips, I had better results. 


I didn't spend a lot of time on it.  The river was busy, many fishermen, kayaks, inflatable rafts. 


So, I returned home a bit unsatisfied. No any trout bigger than 30 cm. 

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