Fly fishing season on Bosnian rivers has started. Snow is melting slowly on mountains, and all the rivers are crystal clear with optimum water level. Fly fishing regime is the same, except of some FF areas where owners made changes in price of daily licenses on rivers Una, Unac and Klokot. Their price for this season is 41 Euro per rod ( last season 34 Euro ). On the rest of the rivers price is same as last year ( 25 Euro ). Reasons for those changes are not quite clear to us, but we hope there will be more fish in those rivers, because prices are raised for domestic fisherman also, and only one fish ( rainbow trout ) is allowed to be taken.

We were on opening day on Ribnik River this Saturday ( February 28th ) with some friends. Beautiful and sunny weekend with air temperature of 15-17ºC and water temperature of 7ºC was a real challenge and joy for nymphing on brown trout and grayling, and from about noon till 3 PM fish were aggressively taking dry fly. There was much action mostly by brown trout about 35 cm and some graylings over 40 cm. We are preparing for opening day on Pliva River, on April 4th. Fly fishing area on this river for this season will be about 6 km ( last year was 2 km ).

This will be a real challenge for all fly fishers, because Pliva River will now be at its best. There is abundance of fish ( grayling about 70%, rest is brown trout ), and regime is “ catch and release “. Spawn of brown trout this season was optimal because climate and weather ( snow and rain ) were ideal. There were not big ups and downs in water level so young trout survived in great percentage. We are hoping that spawn of graylings will also go well this season. We have information that spawn of brown trout was successful also on rivers Sanica, Krusnica and Una. One could see young trouts all over our rivers as well as grayling schools looking for spawning positions.

Unac River has lots of big rainbow trouts as well as brown trout, and same goes for fly fishing area on Klokot River. Rivers and nature in West Bosnia are beautiful as much as people are hospitable there. We should only listen to that magical beat of nature and enjoy in her beauty.