Missing lure

After a long time I went to short fishing at the river Sava, and it was good. In three hours of fishing I had 2 chub, 2 pike perch and I was quite surprised when I saw that lure (Duo Vibration 68) completely disappeared in the throat of this decent asp.

Dani Savagear pribora u Topfishing-u

Ribolovna trgovina Topfishing u 2013. god uz mnogobrojne inovativnosti, akcije, sniženja, kupovine 3+1, 4+1, nagradne igre, tombole, te širenje asortimana i prostora, ponovo sprema veliki jesenski Savagear show pod nazivom: «Samo je u Topfishingu Savagear tjedan, a dobitnik nagrade od 100 SG varalica je samo jedan»! Naime, Topfishing sprema veliku jesensku Savagear akciju u razdoblju od 14.-19.10.2013. gdje će sav Savagear asortiman biti na 20% akciji!

Uz to što će ljubitelji ovog svjetski poznatog brenda uštediti prilikom kupnje, sudjelovati će u najvećoj varaličarskoj nagradnoj igri zabilježenoj u našoj zemlji. Naime, svaki kupac koji kupi Savagear vobler ili paket silikonaca dobiti će kupon kojeg će ispuniti te baciti u nagradnu kutiju, a ako kupi 5 varalica dobiti će 5 kupona - znači koliko voblera ili paketa varalica toliko kupona.  A dan 21. listopad je za nekoga naaaaajsretniji dan jer će se u Topfishingu u 18.00h održati službeno izvlačenje dobitnika 100 Savagear najprodavanijih varalica u ukupnoj vrijednosti od cca 7000,00 kn.

 Više informacija možete pronaći na sljedećem linku http://www.ribolov.net/aktualno/akcije-ducana/topfishing/273-svi-savagear-artikli-na-20 ili direktno u trgovini u Rudešu.

Searching for seabass

Night catfish sessions

Duo Realis Crank M65 8A is a definitely my new catfish favorite lure. Originally made for bass, but is excellent for European catfish too. Especially during my night sessions on a local river. After just a few fishing with this lure, it forced me to have complete confidence in him. Holding and slowly retrieving it in the river, you can feel wobbling action and vibration at any time. His floating abilities are perfect for summer time, because it will not grab weed so much from the bottom, like other sinking lures do, and you can control the depth of the dive. And catfish like it so much. Just give it at least 15 minutes of chance to bite it at one good spot, and than change spot for another. If catfish is swimming around, it will be attracted by sound and vibrations of this lure. During night while hunting the prey, catfish are swimming close to the surface. Once they meet this lure, attack will follow, and do not be surprised if lure will be found deeply in catfish throat. 

C&R

Taka is on Euro tour 2013

Remember Taka?
http://fishingincroatia.blogspot.com/2011/07/from-japan-land-of-giant-bass.html
Takatoshi Murase Taka or T is on Euro tour, fishing in Germany, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Spain and Croatia this summer. We meet at Hungary at Belavar lakes and full story about Taka you will be reading in a new issue of Prakticni Ribolov magazine, here in Croatia. Taka received a small gift form Topfishing store from Zagreb, a nice t-shirt and a package of Sakura silicone lures, as a support for the tour.

Golden queen of river rapids

Sava is amazing river. I am sure that in the larger area you can't find other river that offers fishing adventures as you can have it here around Zagreb. Big asp and chub, pike perch, pike and catfish are species you can target with lures, but there is one species that isn't typical carnivore and here is acting like the greatest robber attacking small minnow fish. We do not know what is causing this behavior, probably large amounts of small whitefish that is common food for all fish species here, but in joke we are saying that it may be a nuclear power plant which was built on the river upstream in Slovenia, that makes some fish species here so big and aggressive like barbel.

Barbel, the golden queen of river rapids is commonly fished with different types of minnow like plastic and silicone lures and can be fished with streamers, nymphs and jigs too. There is one lure that is perfect for this type of fishing. Duo Realis Shad 59MR gave me some good chub, but barbel absolutely love it or hate it that much that in some areas of river it is almost sure it will be violently attacked by this beautiful and powerful fish. Some colors works better than other, but Neo Perl is a winner. On river Sava you can even see how barbel attack small fish. You just need to put this lure in area behind large rocks where river rapids are created, hold it in right position where lure vibrates and works at one place. No need to retrieve, just wait for attack, and give some action with the top of the rod, moving your lure few meters left and right, up and down. 

Some barbel are really big here, weight up to 5 kg or more, so you can expect high adrenaline action when you have it at the other side of line. To be honest sometimes it is difficult to get it out of the fast water. Some fish were unhooked after tough fight and some straightened the lure hook in my case. Breaking lines can be avoided by using braided line with the help of reel brakes. I found useful to have unhooking mat for gently removal of hooks, and to rest the fish during photo shooting before releasing it back to the river. So, try your Duo Realis Shad 59MR in rapids of your river and enjoy fishing your barbel and other fish species around the world with DUO lures (among other from your boxes) ;).

Vibration is important

http://duo-inc.co.jp/en/fieldreport/world/2013/07/161017.php

Duo Realis Vibration series of plastic lures are designed to be successful bass catchers, but the largest model Vibration 68 seems to be "a must have lure" for catfish and other river predators. Since last year I have been fishing only few times with this lure, and almost each time I had specimen of this mustached fish on my rood. OK, till now all caught fish are not that big, but I have to admit that the largest catfish broke my braided fishing line and escaped with my lure in it's mustache. I couldn't stop it when it started to swim downstream, and I really think this was a nice trophy catfish, I'm dreaming to have on my photos in the future.

Design of this lure is absolute perfect for fishing in the rivers. Heavy enough with narrow profile looking from above has excellent casting abilities, and it is great for searching the areas in the river. It produces fantastic vibrations with sound effect that is irresistible to catfish. And not only to catfish. I have some chub on this lure, and smaller sized version 52 is great for asp. The main point is in leading this lure trough the river. I always use river currents as the energy without or with slow retrieving, allowing the lure to run along the river and holding my braided line tight. At the end I stop it and let it vibrate in the place on the edge of the river rapids, holding my rod high enough to place lure approximately 1 meter from the bottom of the river. It is important to feel the tiny vibration produced by lure in river current and just to hold the rod without any action waiting for fish to bite. You can let the lure for one minute to work on this way at one place, and than move it upstream slowly and repeat the procedure. Some fish will took lure in free swimming along the river current when you are just holding your braided line tight. The other fish will took lure when vibrates in the place or when lure is slowly retreived near the bank. Sometimes adding the action with the top of the rod helps, but this lure works for you without wasting your energy for any fast retrieving. Of course you can twitch it sometimes and add some moves with feeling to provoke the fish, but generally you need to use lures vibration and keep your energy to fight with the fish. It is well known that catfish is a great fighter, that deserves to be released like other fish back to water after a short photo session.

Asp fly fishing

A chub story

This is a photo story about real game fish - chub, that lives in almost all inland waters in Croatia. You can find it in high mountain streams and rivers, as well as in large lowland rivers and lakes. Usually fishermen catch it with various fishing techniques and types of lures and baits, but it is a shame not to use fly rod and flies made by yourself. Sometimes it will took nymph type of flies or some jig bellow the surface, but the real thing is happening at the surface of the water. You can try with two types of flies. Imitations of large insects (grasshopper or bumblebee for example) or with a floating streamers that imitates small prey fish. This is a real sight fly fishing and your fly has to be thrown right at the fish head, but  fish should not see you at first. Long leader is necessary, but diameter should not be less than 0,18 mm.  Be quiet on the coast, and you can have fly fishing of your life, with a significant number of fish, some of which hits the edge of the 60 cm, and weight 3,5 kg or maybe more. The other fish species that can be simultaneously caught with chub in our large inland rivers is asp, but this is a part of another fishing story.

Dry fly fishing with large flies

Dry fly fishing with large flies is one of my favorite ways of fishing. There is no better view of a few circles on the water, made by trout swallowing insects below and at the surface of the river. Targeting a meters upstream and wait for fly to disappear in a noisy whirlwind, with a happy end is an action that I could repeat endlessly. The only problem is that in the most of the cases trout will precisely ignore the fly and selectively eat the other insects, only a few centimeters away. But that’s the game I like. Not always easy, but sweet when you scored. This is exactly what happened with this beautiful brow trout at river Gacka. Swarming files is a daily ritual at this river. Mostly small Beathis Rhodani files are swallowed by trout below the surface, but at the evening you can see large sedge flies dancing at the surface. Fishing with the large sedge imitations is pretty cool, cause I like to see my fly well. Ok, maybe trout can see fraud easily, and it took me almost 10 minutes to persuade this brown, but it finally grabbed the offered fly. This was one of the prettiest brown trout I have caught on river Gacka in last few years, and excellent model to be photographed.

Seabass fishing in Laguna di Grado

Story and photo: Denis Savretic - Cekin

During one conversation about seabass fishing with Stefano Pisu from Seaspin company, he mentioned that there will be a seabass anglers meeting and competition in city of Grado in Italy, and that he would be glad if I came there. That’s an invitation that no one could refuse, so almost 5 months later I finally met Stefano in person on the entrance of Tenuta Primero camping site. 4 of us came from Croatia, Danijel from Predator fishing shop, my good friend Edo from Senj, Igor Virag known as Cedevita, and of course, me – Cekin.

Unfortunately for us, the weather was terrible. Long lasting winter and snowy water from nearby mountains was bad news, fish were still In deep water, and shallow terrain of Laguna di Grado was almost empty. But during the first day there was some action – Italian angler Paolo Nane, who was on the boat with me, caught a beautiful seabass weighting around 4kg on Duo Tide Minnow Slim, and my friend Edo had a nice seabass from the shore on the entrance of the marina of Tenuta Primero, weighting around 2.5 kilos. He caught it with Trigger X softbait. 

The competition itself was a big fail because there was not a single strike, and there were about 100 people fishing from their boats all over the lagoon. But the meeting itself was great, we met a lot of cool people, and our Danijel managed to win a first prize for the biggest fool of the year, because he fell in a hole like a Hobbit. Although there was very little action considering Seabass, we had a chance to see one of the best fishing terrains in the whole Adriatic sea, and meet some of the best Seabass Anglers from Grado and all around Italy, so it was definitely worth it! And I can’t wait to visit Grado again!

Prikaz veće karte

spineri.com novi web kutak za ljubitelje c&r varaličarenja

Nakon višemjesečne pripreme napokon je krenuo web sajt spineri.com iza kojeg stoje dragi prijatelji Goran i  Robi. Taj novi dijelić web-a namijenjen je ljubiteljima varaličarenja (nadam se i mušičarenja) i pobornicima Catch and Release ribolova, a poznavajući Robija bit će tu materijala i za ljubitelje dobre fotografije outdoor/ribolovne tematike. Za tekstove je primarno zadužen Goran - No Name i to me posebno veseli. Nakon prestanka izlaženja časopisa "Športski Ribolov" njegovo pero je nakratko zatupilo, no sada je tu opet motiviran i oran za pisanje o temama vezanim uz varaličarski ribolov.

Za početak tu je uvodna reportaža sa rijeke Krupe.

http://www.spineri.com/21-skrivena-velebitska-ljepotica 

Forgetful fish

Here is a couple of photos taken on a fishing trip with my friend and the most famous fly fisherman and caster in Croatia - Aleksandar Sasa Puskadija. He's a licensed instructor in EFFA (European Fly Fishing Association), from whom you can always learn something useful, not just about fly casting but overall the fishing and journalism. This rainbow was briefly persuaded to bite his fly, and finally took a small dry fly. Few minutes after fish was released back into the river, it was carelessly grabbed flies from the surface, completely forgetting that it was caught about ten minutes earlier. How long the fish remember? Does anyone know a reliable answer? ;) Although there are prejudices that fish remember only a last few seconds, some studies have shown that fish remember the last 3 months, and at the same time very well distinguish between different shapes, colors and sounds. From this we can conclude that this rainbow was very hungry and it was not impressed with the fact that it was just caught by probably the best fly fisherman in Croatia. :)

video: Aleksandar Puskadija

On the surface

One week after Croatian Bass Spin league has been held at Ivanec lakes, bass were pretty scarred so regular sight-fishing didn't give result as usual. Whatever we trow in area around the fish we saw, only made them scared. It was clear that we need to change the approach, and to target bass hidden in the bush far from the coast. So we got some fish on the silicone lures straight from the branches, but the biggest we caught with  poppers. Two have marked our day. Duo Realis Popper 64 http://www.duo-inc.co.jp/bass/en/realis/popper64/ and new Savage Gear Pop Prey 6.6. 

Pike and Duo Moab 12F

http://duo-inc.co.jp/en/fieldreport/world/2013/06/031003.php

Good choice for trout

Duo Spearhead Ryuki is almost mandatory trout lure in boxes of Croatian spin anglers, especially those who are competitors in Croatian Spinning League. This lure with its large range of colors is great for the most of the predatory fish, and perfect for rainbow and brown trout. Some colors attract trout better than other depending on the clarity of the water, and this pink is proven choice. Here is a nice wild brown trout caught by my friend Ivan and Ryuki size is 50 mm. This was a tough day for fishing because river water was clear like a gin. Trout were very cautious, and even much larger trout can be caught on this part of the river, this one is pretty nice for this conditions.

Gacka video clip

Never enough of Gacka river! This time we are sharing a nice fly fishing video clip, made by good friend Aleksandar Puskadija and his GoPro HERO3 camera ... enjoy :)

“Dalien`s day” video blog - episode 1

Dalien has decided to start a video blog using movies he's making with his action camera.
More details you can find on his blog.
http://dalien-fishing.com/daliens-day-video-blog-episode-1/
... and here is "The Episode 1"

Signs of a good season at Gacka river

Judging by the first few months of fishing, this will be a great season on the Gacka river. There are plenty of fish, the average size 35-40 cm, but daily you can have a few old big trout over 50 cm. In our two days of weekend fishing, Peki and I caught a lot of fish, mainly on some variations of dark colored jigs and streamers, some with nymphs, and one beautiful 50 cm long rainbow trout took my dry fly. There was a plenty of brown trout. The biggest we got is 45 cm long, and the largest fish of our weekend 55 cm long rainbow just slipped out of my hands and swam in the river, before taking a photo. I can not wait warmer period of the year, which is the most productive on the river because of the intense swarming flies. We stayed in nice and sweet apartments Brajan, 200 meters away from the top fishing position, mouth of the river Kostelka. From there you can walk to all the best places on the river. White and black horse in front of the apartments are only addition to the atmosphere of nature you can enjoy here. So if you need accommodation, we can warmly recommend you this one. Booking number +38598501074
 

 This was my first fishing with new Scierra A.n.t #6 rod, and it perfectly suits to all conditions on Gacka river. 

 

SUR fishing new video

... check more on http://sur-fishing.blogspot.com/