SPIN FISHING IN SERBIA

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So, where do we fish?

Rivers, just to mention a few...
Danube Sava Tisa Velika Morava Dunav Tisa Dunav
…588 km of the International River Danube makes our lives easier and helps us land big fish :-)   If you have seen Danube in Wien (Austria), well... it's not even close... it's huge, it's muddy, and we love it! … 207 km of it... comes from the west (Slovenia, Croatia) and ends in Danube, right at the heart of Belgrade! Runs trough Serbia with moderate pace... Still can surprise with big fish! … 164 km of it. Enters from the North (Hungary), and ends it's journey in Danube. At springtime tends to be huge, fast and muddy, but later on, it's gentle and lazy... Used to give more fish long time ago... West (308km) and South Morava (295km) meet and form Velika (GREAT) Morava (185km)... ends in Danube. Used to have more fish... Still very nice... can't resist to cast into... ... network of around 900 km of channels... located at North of Serbia. Built for river transport and melioration... but of course, serves us well for fishing...
From it's entance to Serbia Danube grows bigger and bigger Under the bridge... Sava runs trough Sremska Mitrovica Boat fishing... late autumn fishing on Tisa A view at Great Morava DTD channel... where you find rocks, you find pike-perch...

Would not be fair not to mention rivers like:         Drina (220km), Timok (202km), Ibar (272km), Nisava (151km), Tamis (118km), Begej (75km), Tara, Lim etc.

 

Lakes, not too many of them, but still enough to enjoy lake fishing...
Bovan Zavoj Vlasinsko Borsko Srebrno
BEAUTIFUL! 500 ha of clear water. Lovely nature. Camping destination for many... Around 7 km long, and very deep as well. Fishing? Yes!... European catfish, pike-perch, chub, perch... Zavoj lake is an artificial lake. A few little villages are resting at the bottom of it since 1963! It's nearby the town of Pirot. Great fishing destination... Formed in 1949. 12 km long and from 1 to 3 km wide. Biggest and highest (1213m). Surrounded by three mountins. Visited whole year long. Fishing and hunting... no complaints!  Formed in 1959. at 438m altitude... 15 km away from miner's town Bor. Turist destination, with lots of weekend houses and two hotels. Good spot for fishing of course.  Relatively close to Belgrade (129 km)... very popular amongst campers and fishermen. Danube is only minutes away! 14 km long and in average 300m wide. Rich with fish... big fish!
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... and just to mention a few more: Celije, Knicko, Garasi, Perucac, Palic, Djerdapsko, Belocrkvanska jezera...    eng. "Lake" = "JEZERO" on Serbian

 

Nearest saltwater is Adriatic Sea (Montenegro)... only 45 min flight away from Belgrade!

 

What do we fish?

When it comes to spinfishing, we do like to fish for PIKE (Esox lucius), WALLEYE/PIKE-PERCH/ZANDER (Stizostedion lucioperca), CHUBB (Leuciscus cephalus), EUROPEAN CATFISH (Silurus glanis), ASP (Aspius aspius), LARGEMOUTH BASS (Micropterus salmoides), PERCH (Perca fluviatilis), RIVER CHAR (Hucho hucho), BROWN TROUT (Salmo trutta morpha fario) & RAINBOW TROUT (Oncorhynchus mykiss), BARBEL (Barbus barbus) etc. 

PIKE (Esox lucius) PIKE-PERCH (Stizostedion lucioperca) EUROPEAN CATFISH (Silurus glanis) CHUB (Leuciscus cephalus) ASP (Aspius aspius)
Toothy pikes over ten kilos are reported each year... biggest caught was around 18 kg... "someone" has seen over 20 kg... :-) 10 and more kg are something we read about form time to time. 14 +  is maybe the biggest (reports are that we can expect bigger ones..) We're all dreaming of hundred kilos catfish! In 2006. there were nice ones spinned out from Danube... around 90 kg! We do love CHUB! Proud on our record  ... 5,2 kg and 88 cm in lenght... Average is maybe         300 - 400 g How to resist spinning for ASP when he is in the hunt chasing pray fish... Lucky if we catch 3-5 kg Asp... but there are bigger ones...
LARGEMOUTH BASS (Micropterus salmoides) PERCH (Perca fluviatilis) HUCHEN (Hucho hucho) BROWN TROUT (Salmo trutta) BARBEL (Barbus barbus)
Not as big ones like we can see on tapes and DVDs, but still good enough to enjoy fishing them. The biggest was around 4 kg Unfortunately, it does not grow big in our waters, but still it's fun to catch... great fighter! 300-500g are good ones  :-( Used to be a lot of them... now we sadly talk about it... biggest one caught spinning was round 30 kg! Top fighter! Beautiful fish... Brown trout... whether you're flyfishing or spinning,  gives you lots of pleasure! In still water grows much, much bigger then in our rivers and creeks, where they are 2-3 kg max... (more then 20 kg in lakes!) Barbel, "the torpedo". If you catch a bigger one, you'll know what we mean! Regular is 1 to 3kg... over five is a line breaker!

 

 

What do we read?

Specialized magazine for spinfishing, started this October...

 Fishing newspapers and magazines that are available are domestic RIBOLOV (bi-weekly fishing newspaper), RIBOLOVACKI MAGAZIN (monthly fishing magazine), RIBOLOVACKI TROFEJ (bi-weekly fishing magazine), RIBOLOVACKA REVIJA, TOPFISHING and MUŠIČAR (specialized for fly fishing).

As you can see, word RIBA means FISH on Serbian  :-)

 

 

 

 

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Basic facts about Serbia

This is where we are...

Borders? Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; Albania and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west...

 

official name -   The Republic of Serbia

This is our flag 

Capital?  Belgrade

Population?  8 million

History? former Yugoslavia...

Language?  Serbian

Official Currency?   Dinar

Politics? Noup, wrong place...

Economy? hehe... growing!

Territory?  88,361 square km

 

How to say ....... in Serbian?

Hello  -  ZDRAVO

What's up? - Shta ima?

Any fish? - Ima li ribe?

How big it is? - Koliko je velika?

Reduce it dude! - Smanji malo :-)

Fishing lure - Varalica

Bad day - Losh dan

Again - Opet

See you! - Vidimo se!

Fish bites another fishes tail! - RIBA RIBI GRIZE REP! (speech excersise...)

not easy to pronounce, but it's worth/fun practicing... 

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