During early spring I usually prefer fishing in lakes as water in rivers is usually high and cold and fish are not active. I always begin trout season at Květoňov lake.
I prepared everything in the evening including leader, but weather forecast was nothing special. I was waked up by heavy rain 5 minutes before alarm clock and I have to say, that If I had not went with David, I would have stayed at home, temperature was about 6°C. But at five we left Česke Budějovice and at half past five we had short breakfast at petrol station in Kaplice, the town close to lake. We reached the lake quarter to six and found free places at our favourite bank, temperature dropped to 3 °C and rain was replaced by snow showers. We greeted our friends which we always meet at the same place in the opening day and my flies fell  to water exactly at six. I used fast glass line and three lures (black, yellow and orange blob) and had three fish in first four casts, simply good start. My friends joined me and we all caught about 20 fish during three hours, later I replaced fast glass by the slow one and I made longer leader and used lighter flies and it also worked well. Opposite bank was not so good and fishermen in boats were also not so successful, but everybody catch some good fish as we stocked fish up to 3 kilos. I caught few fish about one kilo and finally I invited two of them to dinner to my home :-).

At seven we saw one fisherman in boat fighting with big fish and the fish was finally 111 cm long pike, which was caught by 7 cm long black woolly bugger and 0,18 nylon, there were caught another two pikes over 90 cm and few smaller this day. There is a rule in the Czech low, that  no pike can be released in trout fishery, but I thing that in the trout lake full of stocked rainbows could pike improve  fishing, as this lake is flyfishing only and everybody would like to catch a big fish. We stock to this 6 ha reservoir about 25 00 kg of fish every year, so pikes had enough food and they grow very quickly, more over I thing, that they prefer injured or dead fish, so they utilise touts which are for fisherman valueless. Majority of pikes is every year caught by small lures which is for me surprising, as they usually have trout in stomach, the probably like desserts  Or they are irritated by big amount of trout in lake and they attack everything what moves.

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