August was almost gone and rivers were
extremely low. Summer drought killed many fish. In some rivers over half of
the trout population died. It was the
last weekend of the month and even hopes for a big catch were as low as water level (extremely low), I left after work to meet the others in the
Czech Republic. In a later I arrived in Susice where downtown at a terrace, my
friends were talking about fishing and drinking beer. With Jan's help, we managed
to find a hotel were to sleep during the first night and continued our
discussions till tiredness overwhelmed us.
The next day early in the morning, we went
downstream from the city to try our luck. After we changed some flies during the
morning hours, our reward were only some small grayling. Easily
frustrated, we returned to the hotel where we had breakfast, then we moved to a
hostel recommended by Jan, outside the city.
There followed a pocket water fly fishing
upstream from the city. Dry flies did their duty, each of us managed to capture
some trout. Fish were not particularly large, but beautiful colored. A very
effective fly in this water was 'Mercer's Missing Link'. Liviu supplied us with some
of them some time ago.
We spent the evening with a few bottles of IPA,
cigars and best quality Czech home cooking. Sunday morning, together
with Silviu, we explored some other part of the river and managed to fool some little fish with
our flies. Even fishing was extremely difficult, we had a lot of fun and we'll definitely go back next year hoping to catch more and bigger fish.
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