I was asked for two guiding days by two friends of mine from UK coming to our country for one week fishing holiday. They looked for some smaller river with native fish. Conditions were ideal in Malše river, so the choice was easy, it is not necessary to write more, results you can see at pictures, what a nice two afternoons They have visited your country for several times and they are experienced fishermen and they are also familiar with our Czech-French-style of nymphing, so it was funny guiding.  However, fishing was not so easy as water was relatively warm, nothing was hatching and mainly graylings were lazy and it was necessary to persuade them. In rifles was brownie in every deeper suitable pocket,  under every tree was also one or two. My best fish was brown 37 cm. I was fishing with three small nymphs size 16, best were PTN nymphs with gold and coper head and CDC/peacock thorax. Leader 0,10 mm, rod SAGE XP 9ft size 3.

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We have new project in cooperation with Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters of the University of South Bohemia (FFPW USB) in České Budějovice aimed on the new approach in production and stocking of grayling.  The main goal is to test stocking of fry in the age of only 3 months directly to fisheries. Fish are bred in small carp pond half on artificial prey and half on natural food, so they hopefully can easily adapt to conditions in the real river.  We stocked 700 fish marked by the fluorescent elastomer tag to Malše river and we will observe mortality and growth rate. Similar fish, but in the age of 5 months, will be stocked  to the same place in September to compare both groups.

This is start of one of my life dream and one of my challenges in position of fisheries manager in South Bohemia, which is reintroduction of grayling to my favourite rivers, which were devastated  by cormorants. Nowadays, I plan to stock more that 100 000 fish to Vltava, Malše and Blanice rivers annually during next 4 years and we will intensify faith against cormorants. I hope we  will find money in our budget for this plan. I will write detailed article about this problem during long winter evenings, just now you can keep your fingers crossed small graylings in river.

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