Bosnia - grayling eldorado. Day 2

 On Tuesday our guides decided to take us to the Ribnik headwaters. We loaded into the van, and drove few kilometers upstream, to the area near the trout hatchery. 

The very beginning of the river section set me into uplifting mood. There's booth called "Tenkara Ribnik". Funny, isn't?  I though I'm the only tenkara fisherman there, but looks like i'm not alone. 

There's restaurant "Komuna" near the river . Above the restaurant, the river split into 2 arms with island between. In the junction, there's rapids and deep plunge pool. The best would be fishing it with contact nymphing (aka euro nymphing) method. But I didn't have proper gear for that. 

Pawel suggested me that I'd go left arm from the island, moving upstream all the way. So I did. I rigged my rod for the long nymphing method for fishing micronymph upstream.

I walked all this channel up to the point, where two flows merge into one river again. Ribnik is very wide and shallow there. Near the banks, there are some good lies .

I found nice hole near the left bank. After few drifts in it, I got a grayling.

Not big grayling, but good start for the day.  

The trout hatchery takes almost half of the water from Ribnik. Below the hatchery, this flow goes back to the main river.  There's very powerful current, and in this place rainbow trout escaped from hatchery, often hangs.

I didn't have gear for contact nymphing, so I avoided such water, despite it looks attractive.  300-400 m above there's road bridge.  The stretch near the bridge is good for dry fly. I caught few fish on dry fly there, but it mostly was small rainbow trout, escaped from hatchery.  Good action, but no fun with such sized fish. 

Later I returned to the Komuna, where we all started.

In the meantime, while I was absent, everybody caught decent size graylings. Everybody, except me :-( 

We had a lunch break in Komuna.  It's cheaper than Aqua, but food assortment is more restricted.  

After the break, I moved further downstream.  I tried to catch something on dry fly.

The guys suggested that I would go with them.  My bad, I didn't listen , I decided to go on my own.

I walked downstream by the river all way to the Aqua restaurant, where we were yesterday with Alek. I didn't catch anything in second half of day.  Only 1 grayling and few tiny rainbows in the morning.