Vistula (Wisła) - Queen of Polish rivers

Wisła is biggest Polish river, but now it is in very low level. The level at Czernichów is 129 cm, flow 11 m3/s.  At this stretch, Wisła carries only half of water, because part of the river diverted to artifical channel Lączany for powerplant cooling and other technical needs.

It sounds like blasphemy in the fly fishing blog, but I took only ultralight spinning gear with me. I didn't use spinning for a long time, being so excited with fly fishing.  But, trout streams are out of rich till 31th of January due to spawning protection. And on lowland rivers, fly fishing is not so good in winter. So I packed a box with new shiny wobblers and small jig heads.

I came to the area, where island divides river to left and right arm. Left side is deeper and carries more water. The water in the right arm was so low, so I easily crossed it to the island.

Left arm has some deepest pools in this area. Good for jigging. Don't know what fish can be there, possibly zander, perch, chub, and barbel.  I worked through whole arm along the island. No fish found. I lost two jigheads when snagged. 

I turned around the island, and started to fish through shallower and slowly moving right arm.

Here is the water for wobblers.  I tried floating and sinking ones.  When I crawled along the bank, covered with tall grass, I spotted a decent fish just under the bank, in 30 cm deep water. I think it was a big chub. The fish scared and escaped to the deeper water. 

If they hiding under the bank, the best tactic would be to pull floating wobbler along the banks.  Particularly Rapala and Salmo minnow models worked good.
I fished the whole stretch, no fish found. 

The dusk arrived early, so it was a time to go home. At least, I've seen a fish! That's a good sign. 
I think it would be great place in the mid-summer to hunt for chubs.