Fresh stockers on dry fly
Brzegi is artifical lake in the city limits of Kraków, actually a sand quarry converted to fishery.
It is regularly stocked with rainbow trout as sports fishery. Recently there was stocking 2 days before, a good sign that trout will be very active.
I arrived to the water at 15:00. There were splashes of trout in the middle, far from the bank.
First I tried to cast a streamer on sinking line, without ay effects.
Then I noticed that trout eating small mayflies. I switched to dry fly line, and attached medium-size CDC mayfly imitation, to match the hatch.
After few hits, I hooked first rainbow trout.
Not bad start. Fish were actively feeding on mayflies. I had few takes, but fish wasnt hooked reliably.
Second one was slightly bigger and nicer.
Stocked fish are all of merely the same size, 35-40 cm. There were also big ones, but they were jumping in the middle of the lake, out of reach of my casting ability.
So, I fished only 1 hour efficiently, then the darkness came and it was barely possible to see my fly on the water. It's a pity I didnt start earlier. Brzegi has a good potential for dry fly fishing for rainbow trout.
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