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CNFW June 2015

Červen 23, 2015 - 8:46 pm Komentáře nejsou povoleny

cnfw2015 Workshop is over and I can say that it was one of the best event in memory. We had no any problem and we really enjoyed the week, we caught many many fish. After development taking few years we get to the almost ideal schedule, moreover I prepared few improvements for this year.

At first, we worked a little with Chef of the Hotel Růže on the evening menu and it was great. We decided to present local food, and it is definitely not rice, pasta or chicken. In the Czech Republic, we produce beef, pork, potatoes, ducks and some vegetable and we love soups and beer ….  we started with steak from honest beef from Šumava mountains followed by schnitzel on Monday, pork chop on onion sauce on Tuesday, pork steak on mushroom sauce on Wednesday, and the menu was crowned on Friday evening by roast duck with dumplings and red cabbage. cnfw077 For Thursday evening, I prepared small surprise, when we came from fishing, we were awaited by grilled pig. During lunches, we as usually visited Rybářská bašta, Lesanka in Vyšší Brod , Pizzeria in Kaplice, and during whole day trips we simply bought lunch packets. I thing that is enough about meal as introduction.

I also prepared nice present, wooden fly box with logo of workshop and map of warm Vltava in the second side. I brought two kegs of non-filtered lager made by my good friend in his small bravery, which was also very appreciated.

We hosted 15 attendants from Belgium, England, Germany, South Africa and USA, team was composed by Jiří Pejchar, Martin Musil, Roman Heimlich and Karel Křivanec, on Sunday came also Michal to meet old friends and fish one day together. Few people arrived already sooner, but we officially started on Sunday evening by opening of Karel´s  shop and keg of beer. After dinner we had  short introduction lecture and we started with some fly tying and as majority of attendants were our long-term friends we had a lot to talk. I divided people to the two groups (UK + SA and Belg + Ger + USA) always with two guides and we changed groups and guides after two days.

cnfw025 Monday we spent in Rožmberk, for Hendrik and Iwan from South Africa was also interesting experience to help with stocking of rainbows. Fishing was not bad, but fresh fish a little improved catching rate and tested quality of tipped materials. Under weir we caught some marked graylings which had been stocked 3 km downstream one month ago.

On Monday evening came heavy storm and therefore we spent Tuesday in Vyšší Brod and Devil stones, where the water was relatively clear. I thing, that mainly for newcomers was demonstration and practising of nymphing technique very useful, not only casting technique, but also reading of water and movement in water during fishing in different types of river. I was lucky that I got few nice fish during demonstration. Trophy part in Devil stones is annually stocked by nice brook trout and for some people was it the first possibility to meet this interesting fish. This is the only fishery in South Bohemia, where brook trout remains after stocking and moreover is able to reproduce.

From Wednesday, the flow in rivers was gradually decreasing and we visited also Malše and Černá rivers, relatively small streams with wild brown trout and grayling. Nice tactic used Ben and Mark, they were fishing one rod with dry fly and they were changing by every fish. I joined the party with my rod with dry fly/nymph set-up and we were rotating :-) Mark managed fishing and smoking together. In Malše, we make some small competition, Ben was fishing nymphs and I was fishing wets and we found out, that we are not able to catch anything one after another :-) As the water was a little muddy, the wet fly worked well.

We were also fishing during evening hatch in Vyšší Brod and it was superb. There is a lot of small browns, but it was possible to catch fish of about 30 cm. I started with green sedge, next fish preferred Yellow Sally and finally big brown sedge with orange tag.

We also visited Warm Vltava, we were in Horní Vltavice, the water was clear but still red as it flows from peat-bogs in mountains. It was nice day in pure nature and we caught also few nice fish, I found good graylings in the most steep currents, I was fishing with czech nymph on the point and small pheasant tail nymph on dropper. Big surprise was shoal of bleak which migrated from Lipno lake. Thousands and thousands of different cyprinid fish migrating annually from Lipno lake became big problem for pristine salmonid fish stock, I´m leader of a big scientific project aimed on evaluation of this affect.

UK team was leaving on Saturday early morning at 5 a.m., so I also got up to say them goodbye (and to see red lights :-) and Stefan also woke up to go fishing with me. Out of the blue, in front of the hotel stopped Taxi with Martin and Roman returning from a Disco in Vyšší Brod, Martin a little staggering and Roman with a nice black eye :-)  So we were transporting them to beds and went fishing. I promised to our kind house-lady a fish for lunch. I got one chance, as I hooked rainbow of about 1 kg, but I had chance only during first 2 seconds where the fish was surprised, next I was only  spectator, at first the angry fish flew past Stefan and jumped in rifles 20 metres upstream from me, next returned back to the pool and next headed to opposite bank and snapped my leader between stones …

Thanks to all attendants for nice and friendly atmosphere and hope to see you next time.

 

 

 

 

Honza

Říjen 30, 2014 - 6:39 pm Komentáře nejsou povoleny

p1140755 We had planed an afternoon trip to Warm Vltava with Honza Vender for this week to check rising graylings, so I called him yesterday and surprisingly instead of a joke I heard a desperate voice and groaning, he got renal colic and he was on surgery on Monday and they removed from his kidney a stone of diameter 4 mm … But he is recovering quickly and we will catch something together this year. I found some pictures from our trip from early October, good luck my friend !!!

Warm Vltava with Kevin and Grant

Říjen 21, 2014 - 9:19 pm Komentáře nejsou povoleny

p1150208 My friends came again for two weeks of holiday. I had unfortunately no time to join them during the first week of their stay as I organised big seminar aimed on fish migration and fish passes in Prague, but during second week we were fishing together Warm Vltava close to Soumarsky bridge. I came to hotel in Volary at ten o’clock, we were waiting at coffee till the end of rain and next we moved to river. Morning was difficult as fish did not take nymphs, but we caught something, I shoved to Grant different nymphing techniques, how to cast to bank for coarse fish or brownie and also combination of nymph and dry fly on French leader. For lunch we had as usually great crisp sandwiches (my friends always start day by visiting of supermarket :-) , and at about 2pm fish started to rise and we caught nice graylings on dry. I made in the morning for my friends few light gray CDC olives size 18 and they were excellent, but some fish were choosy and I had to try different patterns, olive fly size 20 was the best for these fish. I showed to my friends also “magic rubber” :-)  Great day, thanks, good luck in Grayling festival and see you next year.

Vltava 33 with Jirka and Honza

Březen 5, 2014 - 9:07 pm Komentáře nejsou povoleny

9  I had solid cold turkey after 6 weeks of making of “home points”, working on new projects in my regular work and on preparation of the world and without fishing. I met Jirka during the week and we decided to explore a for us non-known stretch of Vltava river just above the Lipno lake. Jirka picked me up at home, on the way we bought coffee at petrol station in Český Krumlov and we headed to cottage of Honza Vender located at the upper end of Lipno lake. Honza could not go with us as he had to work at cottage, but he was so kind and took us to river as parking is prohibited in the territory of the National Park.
Weather was fantastic, birds were already singing, I saw kingfisher, met wild boars family and we got some nice fish. We finished at about 4 p.m. and Honza picked us up about 3 km downstream from the place, when he had left us. After we changed our fishing clothes, we spend one hour talking at fireplace, Honza served original Hungarian sausages from his friend who is Hungarian champion in making of sausages :-) and Pilsner beer.
Honza started his fishing life there with his father 30 years ago, his cottage is full of old trophies, pictures and memories. Now he also comes with his sons in every free day. What a nice day!!!

Cold Warm Vltava river with Honza

Březen 6, 2013 - 11:22 pm Komentáře nejsou povoleny

p1040972 After almost three months of overcast sky (it was the record period of lowest sun shine in memory in Czech), we had have first few nice sunny days which promised incoming spring. I was skiing with kids during weekend and I watched the blue sky through the windows in my office and through the pictures from weekend fishing from my friends. Yesterday I decided to a little refresh my working enthusiasms and I arranged one day fishing for Wednesday. We met with Honza in Volary at 10am and we headed to the stretch of the Warm Vltava which is open for fishing all year around. The weather and nature were so nice that it would had been a great day without any catch. I also looked forward to test my new rod which I bought from one competitor, the specially extended SAGE SLT 9´00´´ for line  3, which is great for all kinds of fishing and mainly the french-nymph style.


The water was still low and clear although the afternoon temperatures has reached 10°C during last two days as in the night, there is still frost and snow in mountains is still not melting. We started fishing at about 11, I caught couple of grayling in the first pool by almost the very first cast, but beginning of fishing was slow. We were enjoying nice countryside and admired work of beavers and we were trying to localise fish.

The hatch of black stone-fly enhanced activity of fish after lunch and we found, that active fish are not in deep holes but in relatively shallow parts with slowly flowing water, usually in the end of pool above rifles. Best flies were jigs with dark body and pink or coper head, the olive one was also good. We caught over 30 fish between us, fifty fifty grayling and brown trout, I also got two small rainbows. Five graylings were in size 35+ and also few browns was over 30, so it was great day.

Journey back to the car in the warm afternoon sunbath was a little demanding as we had to go through the deep snow. We missed a few military bunkers which were built before the Second World War to face Nazis, finally not any shot was fired from the bunkers and only angling weapons can be seen here nowadays :-)

Two visits of Vltava river above the Lipno Reservoir

Leden 1, 2013 - 6:31 pm Komentáře nejsou povoleny

40+ grayling I had only two opportunities to visit the river of my hearth this Autumn.  First day I was under Dobrá at about 1 p.m. and half hour later, after the run through the saw grass bush, I was staying in the water. Flow was low and water was clear, but cloudy and relatively cold weather promised good fishing, the only drawback was strong wind. Graylings were already rising. I always found a bigger fish, sat down and tried to catch it, if the fish did not like the fly, I changed flies until I got it. I caught about 20 nice graylings size 30 -40 cm in three hours, three of them were over 40, what a beautiful day. At about 4 p.m. fish stopped rising and it was time to go home. The best fly was olive CDC emerger size 18 and palmer with orange tag of the same size. I was fishing with rod SAGE XP size 3 and fluorocarbon tipped 0,10 mm.


camera makes 5 pictures in a second On Friday two weeks later I was invited to a meeting of local fishing club in Lenora. I connected it with the fishing trip, I decided to test stretch close to Lenora to save some time, river flows here close to the road. I left car at the rail-crossing and walked about half of kilometre upstream, I was sitting on the bank at about 2 p.m. Water was low and clear, dark sky portend coming rain. Despite I noticed few olives flitting about the water, I saw no rising fish, but I made directly dry-fly set-up and tested suitable places where I expected fish. First good grayling only rolled up over the fly and I found, that it would be not easy. I went down with the diameter of the tipped to 0,08 mm and with size of fly to 20. After I used the tiny light grey CDC pattern from Karel with body made from stripped peacock quill, the very first fish sat on the hook safely. I got in the small pool 5 fish and moved slowly down. If I saw rising fish, I got it usually on the first cast, I caught also lot of no rising fish, the pattern was simply irresistible that day. After about 1,5 hour came rain and fish stopped rising, I went to car for a short break and peace of cake. I met group of English fishermen at the car and we chatted a little, they had the same experience. After the rain dropped down, I returned back to the river with nymphing set-up. I got another 20 graylings and few trouts, I used three nymphs size 16 and 0,10 mm leader, best fly was PTN with gold bead and hot-orange thorax. Fish started again to sporadically rise in the evening but I caught all of them on the nymphs, it was only necessary to a little lift the flies in front of the rising fish. Fish were not as big as close to Dobrá two weeks ago, I caught only about 5 fish over 35 cm,  but I got all year classes including YOY fish size about 10 cm, one year old fish size +-18 cm and two years old fish size +-25 cm and three years old fish size +- 30 cm.
I found out marks from beaver´s work, they were already preparing for winter and pulling willow branches to the water.

Vltava 33 with Honza Vender

Září 10, 2012 - 10:50 pm Komentáře nejsou povoleny

p1020660 During my holiday I spent one morning at Vltava 33 above Lipno reservoir with Honza Vender, who has cottage close to river and belongs to the local specialists. Water was higher after rains and red as it flows from peat-bogs, simply conditions which are always difficult on this river. However, I remember one competition when one older fishermen  from Lenora won in similar conditions with one secret fly, unfortunately he probably took the fly to the grave. We caught some fish including nice graylings, but it was true persuasion. At about lunchtime I saw few hatching olives and also rising graylings. I caught first few smaller graylings on nymph and after I saw first rising big fish, I changed to dry fly. I got first good rising fish by the really first cast on the olive emerger and I was thinking, that I found recipe for that day. But next three same fish showed me, that I´m only a pupil. Although I tried four different flies and used fluorocarbon tippet 0,10 mm, they did not come even to see the fly :-) I had no time to try something different as we had to go home, so I have challenge for next time. It was really great morning in the pure nature.