One species of Tilapia Cichlid fish can be found in one lake near Brežice town in Slovenia. Lake has thermal source of warm water, and temperature is always over 20 degrees even in winter time. Somebody put some Tilapia inside and now they are spawning and dominating in the lake... Nice for fishing with fly rod, even with dry file, or with light spinning techniques. You can fish also on match technique. They will took many types of food. Really beautiful exotic fish that is beloved among Cichlid aquarium enthusiasts (like me - I have Malawi Cichlids in my aquarium). I don't know if you can fish them anywhere in Europe except here! So if you want some exotic fishing adventure come to Brežice, and you will enjoy like we did... Just to add that all fish we caught are released back to water.
Croatian readers of fishing magazine "Praktični ribolov" will have exclusive report from this lake in next issue. Written by Dalien :)
Here is a short video clip Dalien made today.
Cheers and happy New Year with this tropical fishing report, from our last fishing day of this year :)
