Small river - grayling Eldorado.
In Sunday, I met my friend and we planned to visit one small river, which runs through forests and mountains. Water level was low, nearly 48-50 cm, temperature 13,5 - 14 C
We started in the calm pool, which supposed to be a good place for dry fly. And it was! Once we got to the river, I spotted splash.
I attached small caddisfly imitation, and got a fish from first cast. That was a grayling! Small one, but good start.
There was more graylings in this pool. My friend had constant hookups on every cast. But my fly was ignored. Later I switched to smaller fly, and also got more take. The size of the fly does matter.
We walked a bit upsream, and changed to nymphs. River was very shallow and clear, so I attached very light nymphs. 3 mm head as anchor fly, and 2,5 mm on the dropper.
This part of the river is shallow, fast, and the bottom covered with green grass, looks like a carpet.
There's enormous number of graylings in this grass and between rocks. You can see them, only when they runaway, if you wade carelessly.
So, if you stay in the decent run, they they bite on every cast. But also, we lost a lot of flies on trees.
But it didn't stop us from catching more and more graylings.
Also, I hooked few nice brown trouts. Not big, 20-25 cm or so, but very colorful.
The river is like an endless road, which reveals something new with each turn.
And there's fish near every rock, in every riffle. In one particular place, I caught two graylings at the same time - on two flies. Double shot.
Later in the day, we found another good dry fly spot, with calm and glassy water.
There was also big number of fish, and they were taking on dry fly.
Both trouts and graylings.
Surprise was a rainbow trout on dry fly. My friend caught it, and it was a biggest fish of the day.
In the end of the journey, there was part of the river, covered by dense trees. I snagged many times there, quite challenging place to cast.
I didn't count how many fish I hooked. 50 or 100. But it was a lot, kind of grayling Eldorado.
The place is really nice, and fishing pressure is low. We didn't see other fishermen at all.
That's the reason why I decided to keep river name in secret. If somebody will recognize that place from photos - please be quiet :-) don't write in comments.
I'll look for other possibility to fish there.
We started in the calm pool, which supposed to be a good place for dry fly. And it was! Once we got to the river, I spotted splash.
I attached small caddisfly imitation, and got a fish from first cast. That was a grayling! Small one, but good start.
There was more graylings in this pool. My friend had constant hookups on every cast. But my fly was ignored. Later I switched to smaller fly, and also got more take. The size of the fly does matter.
We walked a bit upsream, and changed to nymphs. River was very shallow and clear, so I attached very light nymphs. 3 mm head as anchor fly, and 2,5 mm on the dropper.
This part of the river is shallow, fast, and the bottom covered with green grass, looks like a carpet.
There's enormous number of graylings in this grass and between rocks. You can see them, only when they runaway, if you wade carelessly.
So, if you stay in the decent run, they they bite on every cast. But also, we lost a lot of flies on trees.
But it didn't stop us from catching more and more graylings.
Also, I hooked few nice brown trouts. Not big, 20-25 cm or so, but very colorful.
The river is like an endless road, which reveals something new with each turn.
And there's fish near every rock, in every riffle. In one particular place, I caught two graylings at the same time - on two flies. Double shot.
Later in the day, we found another good dry fly spot, with calm and glassy water.
There was also big number of fish, and they were taking on dry fly.
Both trouts and graylings.
Surprise was a rainbow trout on dry fly. My friend caught it, and it was a biggest fish of the day.
In the end of the journey, there was part of the river, covered by dense trees. I snagged many times there, quite challenging place to cast.
I didn't count how many fish I hooked. 50 or 100. But it was a lot, kind of grayling Eldorado.
The place is really nice, and fishing pressure is low. We didn't see other fishermen at all.
That's the reason why I decided to keep river name in secret. If somebody will recognize that place from photos - please be quiet :-) don't write in comments.
I'll look for other possibility to fish there.
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