Had some fun with those yesterday.

Typical mouth of a nose carp:



And how it looks:

Hey BlueOne,

Nice shots of those "hucho snacks"!

Do they take a dry or nymphs?

Cheers

Hi Steve,

They can be taken on nymphs, which is a normal method. In one old edition of slovene fishing magazine i have found an article, that they can be taken on a dryfly, but i haven`t been able to do so yet. They do take flies of the surface now and then but so far i have not been able to develop a reliable method for geting them regulary in such manner. Speaking of hucho, one of them had a "souvenier" which just might originated from Mr.Hucho.

Well this Mr.Hucho is huge one

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Not necessary madjoni, that is some 40cm+ nose carp, such fish could be attacked by a hucho of 80cm or even less. Here is one famous picture take by late Miran Svetina, published in his book Sladkovodno ribištvo na Slovenskem. You can see a small hucho feeding with a rather big fish. the specie of the fish is not given, but judging by the tail, body shape, scales etc. is a small nose carp.



I can also give you detailes about that hucho, it was kept in captivity on Faculty for biology, University of Ljubljana, so the picture was taken in aquarium.

BlueOne

Please do
I know that hucho dont live where are no nose carp ...this big predator is dependent on nose carp from the smallest age

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Yes, nose carp fry is the first food of hucho fry, that is the link between the two.

Regarding nose carps on dryfly. I got lucky today and came across a few that were picking flies. Got two, had plenty of missed takes. Timing must be just right with such mouth.

hehehe...one way affection

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