HUNTING HUCHO - HUCHO Simon Hunter Bunn
Well, where do we start this story? Maybe at the beginning, the first time I showed Warren Bradfield and Andrew Savs a hucho hucho on the Sava River in Slovenia while we were fishing for trout and grayling on their last trip here. At the time, you see, the season for hucho hucho was closed and would only open in the winter six months later. We never took a shot at one. We were walking along the banks early one morning and were checking on fish activity so that we could fish accordingly for the day. Lo and behold there she was, a trophy fish of around 110 cm holding midway down a long run in about 2m of water next to a big boulder. We all just froze and, to be honest, I can't remember exactly what was said, but the look on the guys’ faces seemed to imprint itself in my mind. They were looks of a sort of disbelief, with their jaws dropping and them rubbing their eyes to make sure that they were not dreaming. The guys were impressed, that’s for sure! Knowing Warren's background in big game fishing I wondered how long it would take for him to come back for a hucho hucho hunt. He had a rather distant gaze in his eyes for the rest of the trip. Fast-forward about twelve months and the call came. Warren was keen to get the ball rolling on planning a trip to hunt in the 2019 winter season, so that's what we did. Savs was tied up and couldn't make it so Warren and I were going to fish together.
