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San River, South-East Poland
Please see our Pioneer Flyfishing website, dedicated to the ultimate fly fishing holiday on the San River. We organise visits for individuals, families or groups to the San and have available the best fly fishing guides, all orchestrated by our top guide, Wojtek Gibinski, who looks after absolutely everything, finally delivering our guests to the river, allowing you to fish without concern for what happens after. Because on the San, you need to realise that whatever has happened before, nothing is likely to measure up to this. It is where you have dreamt about, why you took up fly fishing, where you have journeyed towards and never really believed you would arrive. Well, here is journey's end. You cannot go beyond, not in this life...
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The wild brown trout fishing, particularly in the upper river, gives unforgettable sport, but it is without doubt the European grayling that takes the breath away here. It is not possible, we feel, for a river to be so perfect for this species as the San. The population of grayling is simply awesome.
The country is beautiful, being heavily
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The ultimate fly fishing destination
for trout and grayling throughout Europe: San River, flowing out of
the Bieszczady
National Park in the Carpathian mountains of South East Poland. This is paradise
for the trout and grayling fly-fisher. The population of grayling over
many miles of this vast river system is probably unsurpassed anywhere in the
World, while numbers of wild brown trout are also enormous. Many parts
of the river are also populated by the legendary huchen (taimen); big,
powerful predatory salmonids which feed on the plentiful coarse fish species
as well as small trout and grayling.
The San flows through heavily-wooded
country, damned where it flows out of the National Park at two large lakes (Solina
and Mycskowce) and then drops in a powerful, 100m-wide swathe through forest
and meadowland, and through the historic, market towns of Lesko, Zagorz,
Sanok and Dobra. You can wade this fabulous water, from bank to bank,
among colossal shoals of grayling and blizzard hatches of ephemerids that
simply take the breath away. Of all the fishing we have experienced in
Europe and beyond there has been nothing to compare with the San during an
ephemerid emergence.
forested hills and mountains, while
the river valley itself is either forested or worked with sustainable,
small scale agriculture, reminiscent
of much of Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, before the destructive force of
the Common Agricultural Policy took hold. Except during times of heavy
flood, the water flows very clear, indicative of the pristine nature of the
country which the San drains. The abundance and diversity of
invertebrates is astonishing, thus healthily supporting the vast fish
population.