Fishing In A Secret Bulgarian Lake Location

Fishing In A Secret Bulgarian Lake LocationFishing in Bulgaria is enjoyed by millions, but as a hunt for food not just sport. Many use nets and devious ways to gather fish from lakes and rivers and although a blind eye is turned to this, most decent Bulgarians, including Galia’s family and friend here look down on that as an unfair way of hunting for food. Both Galia and I love fishing, but we just never have the time to go and practice it. It must be about a year ago since we last went and that was only because her son who is a keen angler insisted we take a break from farming at the weekend.

Well this weekend her son was with us again and the plan was to go fishing early in the morning before it gets too hot. The alarm was set for 5:30 and all three for us were off by 6:00. We knew there was lots of work to do with harvesting and preparing food gathered for winter this weekend so we planned to get back by 11:00 giving us time enough to complete the chores when we got back.

Now the place we visited was not know by many people here, not even local people and I am not going to give the place away now, but only to say that it is some 3-4 kilometres off road to get there and only accessible by Lada in the dry season due to the state of the track. We found it by accident one day after getting lost and kept the location in mind. It is the most beautiful and unspoilt spot of crystal clear water and the wildlife is everywhere you look in every direction. We were the only people there and apart from a hiker who passed up remain the only anglers there all morning.

Galia’s son had boiled some wheat the evening before and this was both the ground bait and bait on the hooks on our lines, he said we were guaranteed fish with this. No sooner were our lines cast and the fish just came rolling in one after another. There was no relaxing here as we were kept active for a full three hours with fish being caught every minute or so. The fish we landed were all carp, they weren’t that big, but totally edible as the buckets we brought with us filled up. By 10:30 they were to the brim with fish.

Fishing In A Secret Bulgarian Lake LocationWe brought home well over 150 fish as some were given to our neighbour, some prepared for frying for this evening’s meal and the rest prepared for the freezer both here in the farmhouse and back in the town home. It took some two hours to de-scale, gut and de-head the fish, no problem with the future meals in mind when doing it.

The fish was cooked simply by dowsing the finish in flour and lightly frying in a shallow pan of oil. The flesh fell off the bone as we feasted on these fish that had such a clean pallet unlike many freshwater fish I have eaten in the UK with a muddy taste. It was a feast we all enjoyed from out labours and that made a major difference as well. Buying fish and eating it just isn’t the same. We knew where these came from and the environment was a clean as anything you can imagine and local. Food always tastes better when local in any case.

Fishing In A Secret Bulgarian Lake LocationWe talked now about getting me a fishing license so Galia and I can go other times when her son is not there. Before you ask, yes you do need one and Galia and I were fishing illegally, but this is what goes on in isolated areas in these parts.

The best thing of all is having a female partner (Galia) who absolutely loves fishing as well. It has always been a fight to get permission to go fishing before now and fishing with guilt has always been the case, no longer!

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10 comments:

  1. Martin, Fishing is one of the greatest joys and my favorite way to just get away and relax (if you can call it that ) I have always loved fishing and took my boy's when they were growing up fishing every chance we got , they loved it . We were not catch and release fisherman , we were catch and eat sort of folks and always brought home a cooler full of fish.We just like you enjoyed many a fish fry and we always kept the freezer full, .Now that I am married to Ciejay and live in Thailand , it is a fishermans paradise and said to have the greatest fresh water fishing in the world . Ciejay loves to fish just k like Galia and that makes it so much more fun . Keep the place a secert , I know from experience that once you start to share location with friends ,the next time you go the banks will be full.. Take care and as we say in the good ole USA when we catch one " FISH ON". Malcolm

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  2. Wow - 150 fish. Quite a few meals out of that lot. One of the best meals in the world is fresh fish, cooked really simply (with a crisp white wine).

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  3. Martin you need to make more time for your fishing so you can turn it into a bit of a sideline and a few bob with it. Wilai is like Galia and enjoys fishing but it really doesn't rock my boat too much, not enough to capsize it anyway. Love eating the stuff though.

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  5. Martin in Bulgaria13 September 2009 at 20:38

    Hi Malcom,
    The place is so isolated and hard to get to that there is no fear of crowds turning up. Glad you have the fishing passion Malcom, it helps to add good food to your diet.
    Warmest regards to you and Ciejay from Bulgaria

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  6. Martin in Bulgaria13 September 2009 at 20:39

    I couldn't agree more, freshly cooked fish from a cystal clear lake, but rakia not wine was the choice on the evening.

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  7. Martin in Bulgaria13 September 2009 at 20:41

    Hi Martyn,
    Hope you are keeping well.
    Fish stocks int he freezer suppliment our food bill and eating them ourselves is actually fat more cost effective than trying to sell or barter.
    Take care

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  8. Great blog - just came upon it through the expat community! Sounds like you're having a great time - and to find a partner who likes to do what you like to do??? Sounds like a perfect recipe :)

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    I'm a Canadian who lives in Ghana West Africa - blogging about the trials and tribulations of life on the African continent :)

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  9. You lucky man you! Not for the catch of 150, but for having a partner who also loves your sport. A also loves to fish and has his "private" place. It too is so out of the way that permits only take up space. Hunting season just started up here which leads to a lot of sharing and full fridges and freezers.

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