The Carpentry Club decided to repeat last year's success and head out to those unnamed lakes. The drive was long and particularly grueling due to tourists in Dacia Duster 'soft-roaders' who navigated the highways with fits and starts. To be honest, I'm not surprised by the uncomfortably frequent news of accidents involving tourists. But enough about that—it's time to turn our attention to the fishing.
Experience from last year taught me that these lakes are next to impossible for fly fishing. We’ve had no luck getting the trout there to take a fly, so it was used less as a result. I suppose these lakes are like any other: the fish gather in specific spots, and success belongs to those who find them. I managed to land three Arctic char and nine brown trout on this trip, ranging from 0.5 kg to 1.2 kg. I don’t recall the exact count for the other members of the Carpentry Club, but by the end of the trip, the group had landed over 50 fish.
"Last year, we discovered some sizeable Arctic char lying in a particular bay. Naturally, we checked to see if they were still there a year later. They were indeed, and in the next bay over, another group was spotted. Of course, we cast our flies to them with zero success on the first day. However, the following day, one member of our group managed to land two of them, followed by another the next morning. They were taken on a fly, proving that fly fishing in these lakes isn't entirely a hopeless cause."
