We had long weekend as we have bank holiday on Tuesday 1st May and we spend it at our cottage at Lipno lake  and we were lucky on great sunny warm weather.
I have good friend Bruno, he is Austrian and he has Czech wife Miluška (she is my classmate from grammar school) and they have two children of similar age like my kids. They have apartment house in Lipno close to my cottage a we visit each other almost every weekend in summer. Bruno is specialist on zander and other predatory fish and mainly on Lipno lake, but he also travels for zander across the Europe. He asked me to introduce him to fly-fishing, so I came up with nice family trip. We went to Vltava 29, which is one of my favourite rivers. Wives and kids walked by foot path and we had 3 hours for fishing. This river is university of patience and self control as it is full of boulders and covered by forest, but it is full of wild trouts. I made nymphing rod AFTMA 3 for Bruno with two my best nymphs and presented how to fish, it was good, that I got three trouts in five casts It was visible, that he is generally good angler and he started catching fish after he quickly mastered basic technique, caught a few squirrels and understood trout behaviour. Fish were very active and Bruno caught about 20 trouts and lost or missed the same number and I thing that fly fishing caught him, he asked me to buy a basic tackle for him, so I have to visit Franta Hanák shop
It was apparent, that after the sun hid behind forest, fish were more active and we caught bigger trouts, my last five fish were over 30 cm. I tested more nymphs and the best were jigs with orange or red tag, but I got fish also on PTN and jig versions of March brown. Fish were also rising, but I caught all of them by nymphs.

Bruno had head-camera and made this short  video

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