Towards My Blog (1)

I found my passion for fish and fishing long ago. It’s been well over half a century now. Seventeen years ago, as it happened, I also became the president of the Angler’s Association of Tolmin. That was when fish also became my job. I had to learn about many things that I had never thought about before. Our association has over 400 members and thousands of tourist fly-fishermen who visit from all over the world to try their luck on our rivers.

Our crystal Soča. Photo by MihaV (http://flickr.com/photos/34454085@N00/14417374130) cc-by-2.0

Our rivers and our fish are not ordinary. The crystal clear Soča (pronounced Só-cha) with its exceptional colour is — well, there’s no other way to put it — an exceptional river! Almost everyone who comes to visit keeps asking, how can a river have such a wonderful colour?!

The marble trout (which we call the soča trout, or soška postrv — sorry about the tongue twister!) is also a gem. Many years ago this wonderful trout only survived in a tiny region and human ignorance nearly caused its extinction. Many enthusiastic local fishermen and equally enthusiastic scientists managed to research this fish and protect it for future centuries. The marvelous marble trout, seemingly carved from the white rocks of the Julian Alps, is now the pride of the Soča.

I've already prepared my plan for a book on the marble trout. Perhaps its title will be The Marvelous Tale of the Marble Trout, but I'm not certain yet. I'll let the title grow through subsequent posts and let it happen naturally at the end. In between I will also write a few other things. I've experienced too much to avoid a digression here and there. If something beyond fly-fishing and fish catches my pen, so be it.

Finally, I must add; if you write a blog, you also hope for readers. I hope some people will find this reading interesting. Many fly-fishermen come to the Soča from many lands. So that more people can learn of the happenings and mishaps in our land of the Soča I will write in both Slovenian and English (with some translation help from my son).

Mojemu blogu na pot (1)

Z ribami in ribolovom sem se navdušil že daleč nazaj. Minilo je precej več kot pol stoletja. Pred sedemnajstimi leti pa sem slučajno postal tudi predsednik Ribiške družine Tolmin in moje ukvarjanje z ribami je postalo celo profesionalno. Moral sem se naučiti o mnogih stvareh, o katerih prej nisem razmišljal. V naši družini je več kot 400 članov in na tisoče turističnih ribičev, ki prihajajo iz vsega sveta, da lahko preizkusijo ribiško srečo na naših rekah.

Our crystal Soča. Photo by MihaV (http://flickr.com/photos/34454085@N00/14417374130) cc-by-2.0

Naše reke in naše ribe pa niso kar običajne. Kristalno čista Soča z izjemno barvo je – kaj lahko drugega rečem – je izjemna reka! Skoraj vsak, ki pride od drugod, me sprašuje, kako ima lahko reka tako čudovito barvo!

Enak dragulj je tudi soška postrv. Ta čudovita postrv je pred davnimi leti stanovala na zelo majhnem območju in zaradi neznanja ljudi je skoraj izumrla. Veliko navdušenih domačih ribičev in enako navdušenih raziskovalcev je uspelo to izjemno ribo raziskati in zaščititi za naprej. Čudovita soška postrv, ki je bila izbrušena iz belih skal Julijskih Alp, je danes soški ponos.

Napravil sem že svoj načrt za pripravo knjige o soški postrvi. Morda bo njen naslov Čudovita zgodba o soški postrvi, nisem pa še gotov. Med nadaljevanjem v mojem blogu in predvsem na koncu naj se to čisto naravno zgodi. Vmes bom napisal kaj drugega tudi. Preveč dogodkov se mi je zgodilo, da ne bi marsikaj tudi napisal. Če me bo žulilo tudi kaj izven ribištva, bom pač napisal.

Čisto na koncu moram reči še to; če pišeš blog, si želiš, da ga kdo tudi bere. Upam, da bo komu to branje zanimivo. Veliko ribičev prihaja na Sočo iz mnogih dežel, zato bom istočasno pisal v slovenščini in angleščini. Naj tudi oni vidijo, kaj se je dogajalo zgod in nezgod v naši soški deželi.