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The river Gacka Žorž Vranješ, an authority for fishing at the Gacka The river Gacka was a cult for European trout anglers. One would meet at least once a year for festive occasions. When the winter passed, the anglers desperately longed for the opening of the trout fishing season, near the hotel at the river in Ličko Lešće. During the winter, we told stories about the last fishing trips and prepared new flies for the longed for beginning of the season. The very exuberant conditions of life of the Gacka trout brought me during my first trips that I made on my own to this river on the verge of despair. I had been a fan of the school of Krešo Pažur, who almost always caught with dry flies. With them you could be very successful at the waters of Ogulin – Dobra, Vitunjčica and at the lake Sabljaci, as well as on the rivers Krka and Radeščica in Slovenia. Actually, the major strategy was waiting for the night to fall, so that this half an hour of dusk and the hunt for the Silver sedge were the most important adventure of the fishing trip. The trout from the Gacka usually feed in the middle of the day and in the middle of the water or deep down on the riverbed. A real trout dance began around noon, when the big fish of several pounds took the flies directly under the water surface, while I desperately tried to fish on the surface and got only now and then a small fish. Žorž Vranješ showed me the right kind of fishing at this river, so that we mostly used wet and sinking flies. Already the first attempt was successful; Žorž caught a fish of 7 pounds. Our fishing gear for tying the flies was poor; we dealt with the other parts as much as we could and shared the material between each other gladly. The filament factory in Zagreb was our source for the right colours, but there were also the colourful wool pullovers and stockings. We took the feathers from slaughtered roosters; their colourful and grey heads were highly esteemed. I remember very reluctantly the occasion when Pažur and I went fishing for huchen. It was winter in Sanski Most. We saw a beautiful rooster. It had shiny, red feathers, and its neck feathers’ quality was exactly right for grayling flies in August or for the preparation of small flies for the summer season. Hatidža, the friendly woman who owned the rooster – it proudly walked over the farmyard – immediately agreed to Krešo’s request and decapitated the rooster with only one axe blow on the head. We would have been satisfied if she had just plucked a dozen of neck feathers and the animal would not have felt this at all. The scene was dramatic, as the poor rooster scampered and tumbled without its head over the yard, so Hatidža had difficulties catching it and in the end let it vanish in her kitchen. I am not sure whether the reason was this horrible scene, but after this experience I started to use more synthetic material for nymphs and imitations from the asellus and the gammarus for my fishing, so that I was not after the neck feathers of poor roosters any more. Milan Štefanac and engineer Zlatko Bunjevčević
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Gacka Žorž Vranješ, odličan poznavalac ribolova na rijeci Gackoj Rijeka Gacka bila je za europske pastrvaše kultna voda, tako da su se pastrvaši barem jedanput na svečanom, i poslije zime dugoočekivanom otvorenju ribolova na pastrve okupljali oko hotela na Gackoj u Ličkom Lešću. Cijele zime pričalo se o prošlim ulovima i spremale se nove mušice za jedva čekan početak ribolova. Posebno raskošni prehrambeni uvjeti u kojima žive gacke pastrve mene su pri mojim prvim samostalnim izlascima na Gacku dovodili do očajanja. Bio sam u to vrijeme sljedbenik škole Kreše Pažura koji je lovio gotovo isključivo na suhu mušicu. Ta škola suhe muhe bila je osobito uspješna na ogulinskim vodama Dobri, Vitunjčici i na jezeru Sabljacima, baš kao i na slovenskim vodama Krki i Radeščici. Zapravo, glavna je strategija bila čekanje dolasku mraka pa su onih pola sata sutona i lova na srebrnog moljca zvanog «Silver sedge», bili zapravo glavni doživljaj ribolova. Pastrve na Gackoj u pravilu su uzimale hranu u sredini dana i u sredini vode, ili su uzimale hranu pri samom dnu. Pravi pastrvski ples započinjao je oko podne, kada su krupni i brojni komadi od nekoliko kilograma uzimali pod površinom mušice, a ja sam neuspješno lovio na površini ulovivši tek pokoju manju ribu. Pravi način ribolova na toj rijeci otkrio mi je Žorž Vranješ, pa smo uoči odlaska na vodu kod mene vezali uglavnom mokre i tonuće mušice. Već na prvom takvom ribolovu vidjeli su se rezultati jer je Žorž ulovio komada od 3,5 kg. Naši pribori za vezanje mušica bili su tada skromna podrijetla, za ostale dijelove snalazili smo se kako smo znali, i međusobno smo rado podijelili materijale. Tvornica konca u Zagrebu bila je izvor osnovnih boja niti, a o ženskim šarenim vunenim vestama i najlon čarapama da i ne govorim. Perje smo pak skupljali od priklanih pijetlova raznih boja, od kojih su najcjenjeniji bili šareno-sivi skalpovi, no s nelagodom se sjećam kako smo loveći glavatice zimi u Sanskome Mostu, Pažur i ja uočili jednoga krasnog pijetla sjajnocrnog perja čija su vratna pera odskakala kvalitetom baš za lipljanskoga crnog mravca u kolovozu ili za izradu malih midgeva za ljetno razdoblje. Hatidža, ljubazna vlasnica pijetla koji se šepurio po dvorištu, odmah je udovoljila Krešinoj molbi i jednim zamahom sjekire odsjekla pijetlu glavu, iako bismo mi bili zadovoljni i da je iščupala samo nekoliko desetaka vratnih pera, a što kokot ne bi ni osjetio. Prizor je bio dramatičan, jer je jadni bezglavi pijetao skakao i prevrtao se po dvorištu tako da ga je Hatidža, onako bezglavog, jedva uhvatila i odmah strpala u lonac. Ne znam je li zbog toga groznog prizora, ali za ribolov sam počeo upotrebljavati više sintetski materijal za nimfe i imitacije vodenbabura iz roda Azelusa ili rakušaca Gammarusa, pa nisam više trebao vratna pera jadnih pijetlova.Milan Štefanac i ing. Zlatko Bunjevčević