Eddie on Raba

 On the Saturday evening I headed to Raba river in Gdow. The ares is popular beaching place. The river above splits to 3 separate channels, with gravel islands between them. 

Where two flows join together, there's deep hole with backwater eddie.  I was suspected that there should be a trout waiting just under the inlet of the main current flow.

I made a cast into the spot, and the fish took immediately. First cast, first fish, what a luck! 

Due to weekend, there were quite a lot of recreational kayakers. But they didn't interrupt my fishing.

I fished this eddie from different sides, from upstream and from downstream. It looks like fishy spot. 

I caught few graylings in it. Which is good for Raba. Graylings are not so common there, compared to brown trout in numbers.

The place was very productive. I caught many graylings. Later in the evening, I hooked a bigger fish. It was a rainbow trout. The fish made few speedy runs up and down , and jumped few times. Very strong. I attempted to catch it with the landing net, but missed and fish tore off the tippet and gone with the fly. What a disaster.

This was one of my best outings on Raba so far. But not very happy ended.