Rex D. Matthews
24 July 2007

Published at: www.anglingreport.com

After vacation travels which took us to Rome, Venice, and Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy, my wife and I recently visited Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she had an academic conference to attend. While she and her colleagues were reading scholarly papers to each other, I enjoyed two memorable days of fly fishing in some of the most beautiful water I’ve ever seen in the company of Rok Luštrik, one of the best guides I’ve ever had anywhere in the world. As we were making plans for the trip, and I started doing research about fly fishing in Slovenia, Rok’s name quickly emerged. The more I read about him and explored his website, the more impressed I grew, so I contacted him and was very pleased that he was available for the two days that I had to fish.

Published at: www.finandfly.com

John Bailey returns from Slovenia with a tale of success.

Oh my God. We’re driving manically through the Slovenia forest in the freezing darkness, jeep slithering down the track like a drunken snake. I’m on the back seat, trying to sort out cameras and flashguns and to settle my beating heart. Deer scatter in front of the headlights. I glimpse a boar in a clearing. The wilderness is everywhere … fitting home to perhaps the rarest fly-catchable target in the northern hemisphere.