Adventures of fly angler in Poland

I was in fly fishing competition on river Warta (Poland). It's annual event near city Częstochowa, sponsored by local fly shops and businesses. Warta is one of the longest Polish rivers but in the upper section it's typical overgrown small stream. It's tough for fly fishing, very few places with good access to water and space for overhead cast. Organizers made it even more difficult, and banned wading, so you can fish only from the bank. Exceptions are for crossing river to the other side or dealing with snags. Weather was cloudy with chance of rain. River was at low level, 71 cm and flow 2,2 m3/s. I arrived to my beat early and waited for the start time. Registration of catches electronic - you need to send photo of the fish to the organizers by phone. Photo shows the fish against the measurement tape. Only fish caught in the timeframe 9.15-13.15 is counted, if the length is more than 30 cm. I got nothing except small perch (doesn't qualify). The winner got 48 cm brown...

River San in Poland is quite famous destination, and it's popular site for fly fishing competitions. During 8-12.08.2018 there was 17th Cortland World Youth Fly fishing championship. You can check competition sectiors here: http://www.wyffc2018.com/sectors/sector-ii On 11.08 Ukrainians held it's own event - training and competition for Ukrainian fly fishing team, in preparation to World championship in Italy. I was invited as special guest to take part in it. The sectors was in special part ("OS") of river San in Zwierzyń, from power station, to so-called Eldorado site near village Nowa Wieś. Early in the morning we had training on Eldorado. I crossed the river to the far bank (left side of the river). There were small browns taking on dry fly. I caught 3 fish and there were more empty takes. Then we returned to the site "Vision Fishing hut" (Vision wiata) , built and maintained by Vision Polska. We had a breakfast and draw, to select pools and zone...