Its getting to the point where I have no time to write the blog each day for this trip here in the Czech Republic for the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships – at least not in full detail. Our schedule is sun up to sun down and more and I need to be somewhat rested before the competition starts in four days. So today you get the short short short version.
The rest of Team USA arrived last night, Pete Erickson, Mike Sexton and Brett Bishop. Today David Chlumsky taught them his ways of Czech nymphing the Morava River. Jerry and I have been fishing with his method all week. Its not entirely new to any of us but when you’re here, it’s the real deal. You can’t practice enough!
The guys did well as expected. We fished the Sector 3 of the Morava River (the lower) practice water which will be the most challenging part of the competition.
We caught plenty of fish. I nymphed up the big European chub leading off todays blog. Brett caught the coolest fish. This is a species of barbel. They are sort of the “sucker type fish” of Europe and there are many species. I’m not sure which this is but I’ll look it up when I get home. In the meantime if anyone wants to look it up for me that would be great!