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Hard work, 5 trout in 5 hours

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Recent rain in Dunajec river basin spoiled water clarity. I came early in the morning, to start fishing at 4:00. Water level was medium-low. 158 cm and flow 34,4 m3/s at Gołkowice. But I could barely see the bottom in 1 meter deep runs. I started with quite big (10 cm) streamers, having in mind to catch Huchen (hucho hucho) - king of Polish rivers. Streamers didn't give me any bites. It's really strange, because I'm sure there's a lot of fish in this river. Where they are? Probably, not feeding today? I switched to my Euro nymphing setup.  Soon, I got couple of brown trout. Less than average, 30 cm with something.   But, it was better than zero. Both fish were taken on "Parkinson" - silicone worm nymph. I continued to explore run with nymphs.  Once I got strike from bigger fish. I think 40-45 cm. It fought hard, jumped, and unfortunately came off the hook.  It was a nice fish. The biggest fish of the day is usually the one, which you didn't catch....

Small river, small fish

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On weekend, I traveled to Głucholazy, small town near the border of Poland and Czech republic. There's river in the town, called Biała Głucholaska. It comes from Czech republic, and enters Nysa Kłodzka in Poland.  Fishing was not purpose of this trip. My goal was orienteering competition in Głucholazy. But I took my fly fishing gear, to explore local river in free time. The river is very photogenic. The bottom composed from find gravel, cobblestones and sand. Generally, river is shallow and average water level is beyond the knees. Only in occasional deep holes it is above 1,5 meters. Level at Głucholazy was 54 cm, flow 6 m3/s, temperature 14,5 C. I heard there's a lot of graylings in this river. I rigged my rod with small nymphs, which are very good for them.  Very soon I got 3 graylings , immediatelly at first run I fished. There's definitely many of them. Unfortunately, all fish were small. I found one deeper spot, which looked like a home for bigger fish....