Dry or die
Skawa river has very good hatches now. The weather was sunny, but windy. Air + 12 C.
Water was low and clear, level 125 cm, flow 11,2 m3/s, temperature +6 C.
When I arrived to the Jaroszowice, the place near the bridge was busy, as usually.
I walked upstream to more solitary place. There's a pool , more suitable for streamer and nymph.
I fished with SA Skagit 210 intermediate line and streamer through this pool. No result.
I returned to the bridge, and watched few big trout under the bridge. One of them raised to eat insects.
It was a hint, that I must use dry fly here.
I re-rigged my rod with floating line and 12' tapered leader, attached CDC dun.
The rod I used was Epic 580 5wt, and line - Royal Wulff TT 4wt. Interesting, that this rod worked pretty nice with underlined line.
The fish was still there, rising from time to time. I carefully descended to the river, and on third cast I got it! Nice rainbow, on dry fly.
I moved upstream, then down, around the holding water. Fish were rising, but not very often.
Then I noticed more fish activity under the bridge.
I positioned myself downstream from the feeding area, to present fly upstream. It was very windy, so I often changed my position.
After many unsuccessful attacks, I got another rainbow.
They are so fast, like a rocket. This one jumped few times.
Another fish took my fly, then jumped 1 meter above the water, and fell off the hook in the air. It was so spectacular.
There's shallow flats on the river, which is like a hatching factory. Many insects hatching there, and fish feeding on the whole width of the river.
These flats are easy to wade in low water conditions, as it is now.
I prefer left side of the run, because there was high bank, covering me from the wind, and it was easier to cast from this position.
After may unsuccessful attempts, I got bigger fish. It was a very strong brown trout, I even picked up my line to the reel .
Water was low and clear, level 125 cm, flow 11,2 m3/s, temperature +6 C.
When I arrived to the Jaroszowice, the place near the bridge was busy, as usually.
I walked upstream to more solitary place. There's a pool , more suitable for streamer and nymph.
I fished with SA Skagit 210 intermediate line and streamer through this pool. No result.
I returned to the bridge, and watched few big trout under the bridge. One of them raised to eat insects.
It was a hint, that I must use dry fly here.
I re-rigged my rod with floating line and 12' tapered leader, attached CDC dun.
The rod I used was Epic 580 5wt, and line - Royal Wulff TT 4wt. Interesting, that this rod worked pretty nice with underlined line.
The fish was still there, rising from time to time. I carefully descended to the river, and on third cast I got it! Nice rainbow, on dry fly.
I moved upstream, then down, around the holding water. Fish were rising, but not very often.
Then I noticed more fish activity under the bridge.
I positioned myself downstream from the feeding area, to present fly upstream. It was very windy, so I often changed my position.
After many unsuccessful attacks, I got another rainbow.
They are so fast, like a rocket. This one jumped few times.
Another fish took my fly, then jumped 1 meter above the water, and fell off the hook in the air. It was so spectacular.
There's shallow flats on the river, which is like a hatching factory. Many insects hatching there, and fish feeding on the whole width of the river.
These flats are easy to wade in low water conditions, as it is now.
I prefer left side of the run, because there was high bank, covering me from the wind, and it was easier to cast from this position.
After may unsuccessful attempts, I got bigger fish. It was a very strong brown trout, I even picked up my line to the reel .
I returned to the spot under the bridge, because there was very productive spot.
I changed fly to small emerger (hook 16), and there was a lot of empty takes.
Dry fly fishing is very exciting, and highly visual. But percent of hooked and landed fish is very low.
From another point of view, I do not care much about numbers. This is not competition.
I enjoy every moment, when fish hits my fly. Even if it's not hooked.
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