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Dunajec in the heat of the season

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I rarely fish during the summer heat. First, I usually spend more with family and kids. Second, I don't like to be in waders under the hot sun. But, since trout season in Poland soon to be ended, need to use limited opportunities. Generally, there's hot weather now in Poland. But, early in the morning, there was fog in the river. The level is medium, 169 cm and flow 40,4 m3/s at Gołkowice. I started with Euro nymphing setup: big pink "parkinson" nymph, and smaller brown with chartreuse head. Soon, maybe on second cast, I got a nice brown trout. Then I got second fish, smaller one, in first 5 minutes. It took chartreuse brown nymph. So good start of the day. There were no other takes in this place. I moved down to the Mostki, the deepest pool in the river. I caught 3 trout in this pool, all on nymph. Unfortunately, there were too many pieces of grass swimming down the river. They are very annoying, you need to clean up hooks before every second cast...

Spinning vs fly - a friendly competition

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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 cl...