Adventures of fly angler in Poland

 Chubs chubs chubs. I never caught them on Raba. But this day is an exception. The river level is the same as in previous days, 240-241 cm, flow 9,20-9,53 m3/s. I started from bright pink silicone worm, and got this. Nice fat chub. Fish had some symmetric wounds on the spine, probably otter bite. Not bad start. Unfortunately, other fish were not cooperative. No graylings, no trout. I've seen couple of graylings rising on a caddis hatch. But not too many. Despite of nice weather conditions, I didn't catch anything else.   On the way back, I caught another chub. On small black nymph with hot orange head. I fished until the darkness came.   Fish, where you are?  I don't know.  Raba is not a fishless river. It is stocked regularly with brown trout, also there are rainbows, graylings, chubs, and barbels.  But today only 2 chubs paid attention to my nymphs. 

 Last time on Raba Jaroslav hooked a very nice rainbow trout, which torn off the leader when we tried to net the fish. I was jealous. This time, I came to the river for revanche.  Conditions were almost the same, as on Wednesday. 241 cm, 9,53 m3/s.  I started in a medium-deep run with cobblestone bottom. Ideal for euro nymphing.  In the first 20 minutes or so, I hooked that fish. Woooah, that a torpedo! Rainbows are the most hard-fighting fish in our waters. That's why it's so much sought-after fish for me.  Fish made few runs to the other side, spooling out the reel, but finally ended up in my big landing net. Also, it was the first proper usage of my new euro nymphing rod, Thomas&Thomas Contact II 11'2 3wt. That's the beauty of the water. You never know what on the other end.  Catch and release! That run is really nice for euro nymphing. I believe there's more fish like that. But there was no other bites, so I moved upstream to another spots. I walked...

 Good weather in October is a rarity. I checked the weather report and found that Wednesday is the warmest day before rainy next week. I took a day off on my work and headed to the Raba river. The river level was 242 cm, flow 9,86 m3/s. A bit dropped and cleared after heavy rain, but the water was still turbid. In such conditions, I favor silicone worm nymph ("parkinson") over anything else. We parked the car near the bridge and headed upstream. In the first hole with chest-deep water, I hooked my first fish. That was a nice grayling.  Lovely grayling, not so many of them in Raba, so I was very happy to start my day with this fish.  We hiked 1 km upstream along the river, and found another nice place.  I didn't catch anything from there, except this tiny fish. Don't know what is it, kind of minnow. Our last stop was this fast water with deep eddy near the bank. Quite perspective place, but no bites. I pulled only one small brown trout from there. Then we returned bac...