BWO hatch and little diversity
In the morning Skawa was a bit busy. Water low and clear, 125 cm and 11,2 m3/s.
There were few fishermen, beating water with floating lines.
I checked the river, and didn't see the hatch, neither fish activity on the surface.
No time for dry fly yet. I decided to start from Czech nymphing.
I assembled my nymphing rod, and attached red tag nympg as anchor fly, and small olive no.16 on the dropper.
Soon , I got a decent fish, probably brown trout. But it came off the hook.
Another fish, and another failure.
First succesfully hooked was this nice brownee. On small olive nymph.
I fished deep and fast water near main channel. Another fish, whaat? Grayling!
I should not post these photos, because "ethical fishing police" watching. Graylings are in their spawning protection period till 31th of May. But, quick photo wouldn't hurt in my opinion.
Another fish, and grayling again. After third grayling, I moved to another place. Looks like I found the fly which works for them... but not in a good time.
Another fisherman approached me, and suggested that i should switch to dry fly. There was surface activity starting.
He fished downstream from me, and pulled something really big. It was 48 cm rainbow trout, on dry fly!
I brought my dry fly rod, Epic 580. There was small Baetis hatch (I think it's what called BWO).
I had a hard time to hook the fish. Either they ignored my fly, or there were empty takes.
But I got few fish on dry fly as well. Only brown trout this time.
I tried few flies, this was the most succesfull. Grey CDC wing, rusty brown collar from cock saddle feather.
In the meantime, my neighbor was pulling big fish constantly. Which made me jealoys.
The most thrilling moment:
And finally it is in the net. Big brown trout on dry fly.
I ended up fishing at 15:00, because my wife called me to help.
But it was quite good. Skawa is definitely the best dry fly river close to Krakow.
There were few fishermen, beating water with floating lines.
I checked the river, and didn't see the hatch, neither fish activity on the surface.
No time for dry fly yet. I decided to start from Czech nymphing.
I assembled my nymphing rod, and attached red tag nympg as anchor fly, and small olive no.16 on the dropper.
Soon , I got a decent fish, probably brown trout. But it came off the hook.
Another fish, and another failure.
First succesfully hooked was this nice brownee. On small olive nymph.
I fished deep and fast water near main channel. Another fish, whaat? Grayling!
I should not post these photos, because "ethical fishing police" watching. Graylings are in their spawning protection period till 31th of May. But, quick photo wouldn't hurt in my opinion.
Another fish, and grayling again. After third grayling, I moved to another place. Looks like I found the fly which works for them... but not in a good time.
Another fisherman approached me, and suggested that i should switch to dry fly. There was surface activity starting.
He fished downstream from me, and pulled something really big. It was 48 cm rainbow trout, on dry fly!
I brought my dry fly rod, Epic 580. There was small Baetis hatch (I think it's what called BWO).
I had a hard time to hook the fish. Either they ignored my fly, or there were empty takes.
But I got few fish on dry fly as well. Only brown trout this time.
I tried few flies, this was the most succesfull. Grey CDC wing, rusty brown collar from cock saddle feather.
In the meantime, my neighbor was pulling big fish constantly. Which made me jealoys.
The most thrilling moment:
And finally it is in the net. Big brown trout on dry fly.
I ended up fishing at 15:00, because my wife called me to help.
But it was quite good. Skawa is definitely the best dry fly river close to Krakow.
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