Surface Madness

Bluefish surface spinning is pretty similar to asp fishing with the similar type of lures. “Walk the dog” lures, streamers, metal spoon lures, unweighted silicone lures or poppers can do the work for you. Both fish are very aggressive when they feed on the surface, and they are making a lot of noise when chasing schools of small fish. The biggest difference between this two fish, except the fact that they are living in different type of water media, are teeth. Asp must live his life and feed the fish toothless, while bluefish is armed whit sharp teeth that will bite victim with surgical precision thereby not sparing your fluorocarbon leader. Talking about advisable top water lure for bluefish (and asp) we come to long cast ballistic perfection called Duo Bay Ruf Manic 115. Quiet and long flight, and an ability to be led on the surface in different ways, often will produce results. Otherwise it is recommended to lead it with tight rolling without wobbling or wide action, but for bluefish you can put in a higher speed splashing the surface of the sea and imitating a pray in a panic run. Believe me, this can trigger a school of bluefish to attack your surface lure.  

Refresh yourself

This was very rainy year and the water level of rivers and lakes often went high, even now in the middle of summer. If you went fishing and the lake is flooded, you have no choice but to step in water with or without your waders. Be careful while walking and stalking fish, because bass often went out on flooded roads and meadows, where you can catch it. In this case, the effort paid off. Although the water was cloudy and colder than normal, and the bass was generally not-active, Zlatko had a few fish. At the end of this refreshing fishing he just squeezed the water out of his shoes, dried his feet and put on dry socks and another shoes.

Unforgettable vacation

Two weeks at the Adriatic, and many memorable moments from Peljesac peninsula and Korcula island. Of course the most important event was catch of 6 kg sea bass, what is my new personal best. Detailed story will probably follow in the future, but for now here are just some photos from the holidays.

Kit for sea monsters

Okuma rods and reels are very popular at the Adriatic, and many large fish are caught with them. Amberjack, Dentex and Leerfish are the common capital Adriatic fish who are seeking a strong and reliable supplies. Okuma Andros A-S-602MH (170-320g) rod and Salina 2 SAS2 16000 High Speed reel will meet all your expectations, especially in this price range. Finlay I got one kit, reel is filled with high quality Japanese Gosen 65lb braid and  I'm ready to fight with a sea monsters from my kayak this summer.

 

Sweet Showcase

Cranks, Spinbaits, Jerkbaits, Popers, Pencils, Shads, Minows, Rozante and Vibration DUO lures... all sweets at one place in new colors. New DUO Realis catalog have to be checked. Enjoy!

Adriatic Adrenaline Fishing Trips

Croatia is a popular tourist destination mainly because of the Adriatic. Of course most of the tourists are there for leisure, entertainment and swimming in the sea, but some are familiar with the fishing opportunities offered by the sea. So if you're the kind of tourist who prefers fishing adventures, it is best to take a professional guide.

Zadar Boat company (Tredecim d.o.o.) iz organizing adrenaline fishing trips! You can rent a boat & equipment for fishing with very skilled skipper experienced in fishing and best fishing hot spots in the area, or without him. Food, drinks, baits and fishing licenses for guests included, and if necessary tips and tricks about fishing in the area.

It is possible to perform all kind of fishing techniques, with several most common like:
Dentex & Amberjack Live Bait Trolling

Experience the fishing of most popular Adriatic predators (Dentex & Amberjack) with live bait trolling technique in the cleanest waters among offshore islands and reefs. Fight with those big, strong and very delicious fish brings unforgettable experience!

Fishing A Various Delicious Adriatic Fish From The Rocky Bottom

Try out fishing sea bream, Adriatic grooper (scorpion fish), gilthead sea bream, john dory (zeus faber), two bended sea bream and many more other interesting and very delicious fish on offshore reefs and cliffs. Relaxing and very dynamic fishing where fish is biting all the time.

Fishing With Vertical Jigging, Inchiku & Kabura Tehnique

Fishing Adriatic predators (dentex, amberjack, john dory, scoriponfish, red porgy, sting-fish, sea bass, grouper etc.) with vertical jigging, inchiku & kabura tehnique. Very dynamic fishing on hot spot or in motion, which could cause many surprises and capital fish – catch of life!

Big Game Fishing Tuna And Swordfish – C & R

Experience the adrenaline fishing of biggest fish predators of the world – tuna & swordfish, using principle of Catch & Release. It is possible to fight with the biggest fish on the world - fish larger than a man!

Seabass And Leerfish Trolling

Try adrenaline fishing on popular predators from the muddy shallows along the coast - sea bass and leerfish. Find out how aggressive and big fish without fear are visiting the shallow water and beach. Leerfish can grow over 60 pounds (30 kg) and seabass over 30 pounds (15 kg). It is possible to hunt them with either artificial or live baits with trolling technique.

Catching Calamari (Squid) & Cuttlefish

Hunting on adriatic most exciting and delicious cephalopods - calamari (squid) & cuttlefish with various tehniques in motion and on hot spot. Possible hunting during the day and night, with best and most exciting period around sunset when the squid are most active.

The offer itself is not limited on the mentioned above, a lot of different fishing techniques requested from the guests or fishing guide as well as change of entertainment during fishing trip for dinamics, entertainment in order to achieve the best possible results. We can also arrange a visit to one of many restaurants or taverns that can offer you a national domestic food in a lot of hidden bays of Zadar county and beyond.There is a huge variety of services that can be arranged during trips, and one of them includes preparing catch-catering in beautiful and friendly island ports organized by Zadar Boat Company.

Contact info:
+385 98 95 65 306
http://zadar-boat.com
https://www.facebook.com/zadarboat

Adapt to the situation

The same place on the river at different levels of water, requires a different approach when fishing with lures.

One day your shallow diving lure will perfectly stay and work in the water, causing the fish to attack. But the other day, after hard rain if water level is higher for 30 cm, you need different approach and lure to fish with. This situation requires medium or deep diving version, that will go deeper and will not be thrown out at the surface by the river, but will stay in the rapids and produce right lure action. DUO Realis Shad 59 is great bass lure, but will give you a lot of pleasure when fishing in the river rapids, like I’m using it for big barbel. Realis Shad 59 is produced in 2 versions SR (shallow) and MR (medium), and there is DR (deep) diving version that is 3 mm longer, so it has name Realis Shad 62 DR. With the different sizes and types of lure beak these lures will give you ability to lead them through different depths of water. Also, they are suspending and will give you chance to keep them in the place for a while, waiting for the fish bite.  At each potential place at the river you can try all 3 lures to see which one fits the best for this situation. Mostly, these lures will cover a wide range of situations you are facing every day in bass or other type of fishing, and they will react to the rod work you are doing. Recommended ways of giving the action to these lures are twitching with pauses, slow and fast retrieving, and keeping them in the one place at the river using the river speed to make them live. 

Fly Fishing Croatia - Small Stream Video

Wonderful video made by: Sasa Puskadija

Kayak bass fishing

Last Sunday I spent a nice day fishing at Crkveni Bok lake near Sisak town. While I was fishing from kayak, Dalien and our host Alija were fishing from the boat. The day was sunny and the most of fish I saw in the shallows and in the weed. They were feeding on the edge of grass not missing the chance for good food eating mostly small fish and frogs. The best approach was to fish with unweighted silicone lures mounted on worm hook (mostly I used Sakura Slit Shad 7,5 cm), even I had nice fishing on top water lures like Duo Realis Popper 64. The most of bass were aggressive and they attacked lures that I ran quite aggressively and fast for bass fishing. Mainly fish were smaller size, up to 35 cm, and rarely we have some around 40, but the quantity of caught bass was quite impressive. At the end I have to say thank to our hospitable host Alija, who was guiding us on the lake and prevent hunger and thirst in the tired anglers. Thanks a lot, and I'll be back with my kayak! Just to mention that this weekend Croatian Bass League will be held on this lake.

Lokvarsko lake

Lokvarsko lake is artificial lake placed in Gorski Kotar region in Croatia. Lake is up to 40m deep and size of about 2.5 km2, and is nice place to visit and take a kayak or boat fishing tour, like we did. Our guide Daniel showed us the best positions on the lake, and we spent time fishing the perch and trout. Trout is quite rare in this lake, so we were lucky when Daniel caught small one with Awaruna silicone lure on trolling technique. Later at the evening we heard about one bigger caught at the lake, also with Awaruna 2" silicone lure, (color 206). Lucky fisherman is Zdenko Vidakovic, who was fishing for carp at the lake with his friends, and occasionally they knew to trow their spinning lures in the bay where their camp was located. Congratulations on a great catch!

Zdenko Vidakovic and the catch of the day

Trout trolling at the evening

Lunch break!

Fishing rules at the lake are managed by SRK Lokvarka, and you can buy a daily license on a few locations near the lake. Beside trout, perch and carp, lake has good population of big pike and chub. More info about this lake that is famous by the trout world record from 1968 you can find on page http://srk-lokvarka-lokve-english.weebly.com/

Ready for the new catfish season?

Gacka season update

This part of the season at trout rivers in Croatia was marked by unstable weather and the fact that fish are cautious and suspicious of the offered flies - most like because they have probably been caught several times since the beginning of the season. (In the meantime weather become stable and hot like in the summer)

Frequent changes in air temperature, rains, variations in the water level of the river and presence of many anglers, affect the mood and behavior of trout. In this part of the year trout activity should move to the surface, but cold days (like this Saturday two weeks ago) and temperatures of 13 degrees nailed the fish to the bottom.

My plan to fish with small nymphs and dry flies quickly fell through. Although I had a few fish, and one big rainbow trout, my total catch of the day was much worse than my friends Sasa and Ivica, who were using "heavy weapons" strategies and were persistent in fishing with streamers near the bottom. Of course a sinking fly line was instrumental to their success, especially for Sasa who had some really beautiful trout.

 

The most successful moment of the day in outsmarting with this big rainbow trout occurred when after changing all possible nymph imitations, I took a red imitation of a bloodworm from my fly box. This "fly" is a little unusual for trout, but this year it gave me some nice fish, probably because other anglers rarely use blood worm imitations.

 

Hotel Gacka video clip

made by: Aleksandar Puskadija

Oresje Pike Masters 10.05.2014.

Jezero Orešje je u posljednje dvije godine doživjelo transformaciju u jednu od ponajboljih destinacija za ribolov štuke u Zagrebu i okolici. Povratak starog sjaja ove vode pokrenut je uvođenjem uhvati i pusti režima za ribolov štuke početkom 2013. Prosjek uhvaćenih riba već u jesenskoj sezoni je bio 70-85 cm. Kako bi u najboljem svjetlu predstavili ovo jezero, organizirat će se Team spin kup iz čamaca. Ribolovci će moći uživati u istraživanju mnogobrojnih oreških otočića, udaljenih sprudova i podvodnih platoa lopoča koji su odlično staniše štuke na jezeru. Obzirom na komforan ribički dom na samoj obali jezera, napraviti će se presedan u organizaciji ribolovnih turnira u Hrvatskoj i od proglašenja napraviti spektakl uz vaganje ulova natjecatelja u sklopu samog proglašenja. Organizator će prenijeti svu uhvaćenu ribu u toku natjecanja neozlijeđenu u čuvaricama pred dom i vaganje ćemo obaviti pred svima uz „vruću stolicu“ na kojoj će sjediti ekipa sa trenutno najtežim ulovom! Ne propustite ovo zanimljivo natjecanje, a prijatelje pozivamo da u što većem broju prisustvuju vaganju koje će početi oko 17:00h. 

 - Lovi se timski iz čamaca, ekipe donose svoje čamce 
- Pobjeđuje najveća ukupna težina uhvaćenih štuka dužih od 40 cm 
- Kotizacija od 300 kuna po teamu uključuje doručak i ručak poslije natjecanja.... 
- Dozvoljen je ribolov iz kajaka ili belly boata uz plaćanje pola kotizacije 
- Dozvoljena je upotreba elektromotora, sonara i ostalih uređaja koji olakšavaju navigaciju 
- Obavezne su dvije mreže čuvarice po teamu, uz ostalu opremu za sigurno manipuliranje (Lip grip je zabranjen!) 

Nagrade za prva tri mjesta osigurava T&T trgovina: 
1. mjesto: Savage gear Buschwacker 8’15-50g+Okuma Cedros CJ40S rola - X 2kom; 
2 mjesto OKUMA OCTANA SPIN 9’ 10-35g - X 2 kom; 
3. mjesto OKUMA TRIO 40S ROLA - X 2 kom 

 Satnica: 
- 07:00-08-00h prijave,doručak, priprema čamaca 
- 08:15h početak natjecanja 
- 16:00h završetak natjecanja 
- 16:30 ručak 
- 17:00 vaganje i proglašenje pobjednika 

 Prijave za kup na mejl adresu danacbananac@gmail.com, a ostale informacije na 098/824 966 Daniel.

 Iskoristite dane Savage Geara 20.4-10.05. u trgovini „T&T“ Strmec Samoborski -20% do - 30% na cjelokupan asortiman Savage Geara i dio Okuma asortimana

DUO`s "There Is Only One" triology

DUO lures have started a series of videos under the title “There Is Only One”, with which they want to introduce what actually goes on "behind the scenes", before the lures hit the shelves in stores. Interesting scenes from the production cycles that show a commitment to the highest quality standards.