River Vah C&R, August 2022

We have been fishing the C&R section of river Vah (Slovakia, Besenova) over the weekend. Friday was exceptional, gammarus style nymphs were working pretty well, mainly in the morning hours. Evening was dry fly only, with a massive caddis hatch just before sunset (you get only 1/2 hour chance, but it is worth it :). Saturday was slower, we caught a few, fishing was interrupted by rain / storm.

We fished mostly 5X (0.14 mm) Tiemco Akron and 6X (0.12 mm) Stroft FC1 fluorocarbon while nymphing and similar 5-6X diameter of Trouthunter Evo nylon for dry fly.

Fish responded well to the gammarus / scud nymph fly patterns such as pale olive, brown olive and hot spot brown. You can find all of the gammarus patterns here.

As for the dry flies, sedges size 14 - 16 in olive colour worked the best. All sedge / caddis patterns can be found here.

We tie our flies almost exclusively on KYPE barbless hooks. Ideal dry fly hook for larger trout (most of the trout on Vah C&R section is above 50 cm) is model K200BL. For scuds it is classic K620BL and for jig nymphs it is K310BL with a wider gape and forged shank.

And a few pictures from our trip....

Pic1: Nice rainbow caught on brown olive scud, size 16