Adventures of fly angler in Poland

 I used to fly fish for pike in Ukraine, but never tried in Poland. I don't have appropriate gear. In this year im trying to join the pike fly fishers team. If all our other fish like trout, grayling, chub, nase, barbel, ide, perch can be caught by using the same fly rod in range 4-6 wt, pike demands for very specific dedicated set.  So, I eventually acquired all necessary components.  Fly Rod - Traper Silence SW 9' 9wt.   Reel - Vision Kust(XLV), size 7-8 , with spare spool Fly lines:   Rio Outbound Short intermediate Rio Outbound Short Intermed/Sink 3 Vision Grand Daddy Intermed/Sink4 Leaders:  Vision Ace 9' 18lb tapered leader Vision Wireline 15lb wire tippet material Vision stripping basket. I never used stripping basket before, but it's very useful for pike or saltwater fishing with streamers and shooting heads, especially if you wading, and use intermediate or sinking running line. Without basket, the fly line falls in the water and sinks, which creates a drag, sh

During my next visit to Moszczanica, weather was better for fishing. No sun, cloudy sky and light wind. Bright sun is good for beaching, but always an enemy for fisherman. I started with spinning rod, and wobbler (jerkbait), the Salmo Minnow 'Hot Perch'. The first fish I caught, was ironically an yellow perch.  Perch on perch imitation! I love that cute fish, I wish they grow bigger. But, fishing with spinning gear didn't give me more results. I switched to my Vision Sisu fly rod. I love this rod more and more. The fish were rising here and there.  I attached big mayfly imitation and soon was rewarded. The problem with that kind of fishing it, that fish can be anywhere. You can throw your fly to the particular place, and wait. Nobody knows how long.  This is a passive approach. But I prefer to search for fish. Instead of passive waiting, I walked around, watched for circles on the water, and vortices from swimming fish fins. Trout feeding on insects a

11th of June was a holiday in Poland - Corpus Christi.  I organized a trip to the fishing lake Moszczanica, with two friends Mark and Oleg. They are skilled spinningists. We decided to make it a friendly competition, what method will take more fish - spinning or fly. Despite the weather forecast, which promised a cloudy day, it was bright sun and quite hot. My interest to spinning recently renewed. Thanks to freshly acquired set: Team Dragon HM-X rod (2,45m length, 2-14 g lure weight) , and Shimano Stradic Ci4 2000S reel. I also fascinated with wobblers (crankbaits, jerkbaits), and started to collect them. In the morning fishing was very slow. We started at 7 AM. Trout were jumping here and there, teasing us. But our lures didn't give much attention.  I had no bites during the first 2 hours. My friends too. I noticed, that there's quite a lot of fish hiding just near the grassy bank of the lake.  I started to pull small Rapala jerkbait along the shoreline, as close to