New huchen photos from Tadej

Nice to hear Tadej again :) Traditionally every year he sends me photos of capital huchen caught by his father and him. This season they had a few "decent" fish between 80 - 107 cm. Pity that the quality of photos is not better, but these are too nice fish that they wouldn't been posted on this blog. Thanks Tadej!

Just not hungry?

What is happening with pike at Ontario lake? If someone knows the answer please tell me. Information from lake are that it is really hard to have at least one bite per day. Maybe this cold weather will force them to start to feed. Till this I can only look at my photo archive to check how decent pike looks like ;)

Cuttlefish and squid from the Adriatic!

The season of Cephalopods fishing has just begun at the Adriatic. Even this is not a "real" fishing technique, squid fishing with lures is really popular here. We like to do it from kayak, what gives you indescribable feeling, but you can catch squid from regular boat or from the coast. All you need is a certain type of squid lures, spinning rod, line and reel. With same type of lures you can catch cuttlefish too. Both are delicious!

DUO lure Contest #2

"To win a set of lures and some promotional items, all you need to do is let us know which is your favorite lure from our range. It may a lure you have tried and use regularly or a lure which you would like to try. Leave that up to you. Three of you lucky contestants will win a set of lures and some more promotional items."

The rules are staying the same as before – you have to be a fan of DUO at Facebook (www.facebook.com/DUOJPN) to apply. Send your answers to duocontest@gmail.com and put My favorite DUO Lure in the subject.
The deadline for the contest is 25th November, 5PM.

http://duo-inc.co.jp/en/staffblog/2011/10/311436.php

Pike from lake Joca

Photo and story: Robert Terbovc and Vladimir Cep

Robert Terbovc and Vladimir Cep are sharing their impressions from lake Joca (Republic of Serbia, near Zrenjanin town).
http://www.jezerojoca.com/

"EEEEEE what to say ..... Phenomenal nature, good people, great food ... Lake has 500 acres, you can easy to get lost! There are many branches in the water, water depths is between 1 and 2 meters. Pike are fished from a boat on the spoon and Monarch jerk voblers (Original model, Piker, and Hecht Killer). Pike like to attack on the water surface, and almost every bite can be seen. Each gives you a phenomenal pike drill. Largest were 100 and 103 cm and averaged about 80 cm. Work best when it is raining or the wind blows and the weakest in the sun."

A few photos from lake Sabljaci... new DUO lures arrived

After longer time I had one fishing day. No catch, but I've taken a few photos, some with new DUO lures that arrived few days ago. More impressions about this Japanese lures you can expect soon...

Asp mania!

This is a great Asp season at the river Sava. It is unbelievable experience watching a school of asp feeding at the surface of the river. Sometimes it is enough to throw your streamer or lure at this area and they will took it, but sometimes they successfully avoid all type of lures and that's the charm of this game. We need to protect asp even it is not regulated by law, please handle carefully with fish and release em back to the river.

"DUO 500" Contest: a chance to win a set of lures

Take your chance to win these beautiful Japanese lures!
http://duo-inc.co.jp/en/staffblog/2011/09/291300.php

Fishing buddies

Gacka B-day party!

First Impressions of Duo lures!

This is a long and hot summer in Croatia, without or with less rain that average, so water level of rivers and lakes are extremely low. Fish are less active than normally, and have short time frame of feeding. Some species like asp are especially careful in this conditions, and successfully avoid bigger lures. This is why I love small size and shape of Grace Minnow Elena 70F and Ryuki 50S lures.

First few hours of fishing with DUO lures I was at river Sava near Zagreb, where water is faster and occasionally we are catching asp, barbel, chub, and perch on wide range of artificial lures and flies. Ryuki 50S is ideal lure for faster water, although I prefer floating, this sinking lure is great for fast searching of the river rapids. First catch was a little asp, that was hunting a little pray near the bank and couldn't resist Ryuki. Beside this one I lost one much bigger asp, probably because of the size of the hooks, or just because he missed the lure. Later, I found that Ryuki has one wonderful characteristic. Ability to fish in decay while sinking, in a pause with a little twitching. Two times a barbel attacked it, but they didn't hooked like a few perch that grabbed it before. Chub is another species that likes this little, nervous lure, and I had a few. Generally Ryuki 50S will be adored by those who practice ultra light fishing techniques, and will bring them many trout among other game fish. In my opinion it will be great for our sea bass too, and for some other sea species. The main characteristics are: heavy weight sinking lure, capable to reach long distance with nice nervous, sharp action and reflection fish can't resist.

Second day I went for bass fishing on some local ponds near Karlovac town. Again, desperately low level of water, and hot weather. Fish were lethargic, and less active than last time when we were fishing with crank baits there. This time my plan was to try Grace Minnow Elena 70F and catch some bass. But it was not easy, at the begging. I was crying for DUO crank lures, that didn't arrived now, so I had to use some other crank lures, and a few smaller bass were caught in few hours of fishing. Few hours later I had few bites on Elena, smaller fish and nothing special happened till the end of the day. Elena has been thrown in one small bay, with pull and pause, then twitch and ... bite! Decent bass around 40 cm long was up, and after short fight outside of the water, ready to be photographed under low light conditions. Few shoots, and ready to go back to the lake. At the end Elena gave me a fish of the day, and confirmed my trust that this lure is a great for bass,with his size, shape, colors and twitching abilities.

Next time I was fishing with Ryuki 50S lure at the river Sava for just few hours at the evening. Now with more confidence to this lure and I knew what I have to do. I expected some bigger asp, so I decided to replace last hook with a bigger one. This was good decision, because 7 fish were caught with much better percentage of realization than before. Chub were crazy about Ryuki, and I had 2 asp, the second one at the evening was really nice fish long around 70 cm. The main point is that I didn't retrieve Ryuki a lot, I used speed and power of river with twitching to add life to this great lure, that gave me a dozen of fish in just 2 short fishing at river Sava. Remember this is a "hot and hard to catch fish" period of late summer...