Family fishing

My daughter asked a few times when I will take her fishing.  I usually go to mountain rivers, which require waders' boots, and some serious skills.  But there's the other type of fishing - family-oriented commercial fisheries. One of them is popular Dolina Będkowska near Kraków.  It has few ponds, stocked with various fish, a restaurant, a playground, and a store.

After skating lesson with my daughter, we headed to the Dolina Będkowska. 


My fault was that I took only one fishing gear set.   I thought that only I will be fishing, and my family will be watching it. How wrong I was!

My wife asked me to give her a rod. There was a lot of rainbow trout in small pond. You can see in polarized glasses, how they trying to attack a lure. My wife eventually got very excited about it, and refused to give me rod back!


Once they left me for 10 minutes to play with cats near restaurant. There are many cats living in this place, and my daughter loves kitties very much.  While my family was distracted, I took the rod and caught 2 trout in 2 minutes!

I found the key to them.  They ignore the monotonous movement but react to the lure with provoking stop-and-go action. Particularly effective was small banana-shaped wobbler.

Then my wife returned and demanded rod back. She learned effective fishing tactic from me, and soon caught her first trout.


Soon, there were 4 fish in my net.  I kept them alive in the water, then we took them home for dinner.


Dolina Będkowska is very nice place for family weekend. Fishing is quite easy even for kids, and there's beautiful nature around.


This was my most successful wobbler.




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