The Sava Bohinjka flowing clear and shallow between gravel banks and trees at Bodešče

Bohinj & Bled

Bohinjska Bistrica and Bled sit under the Julian Alps in Gorenjska.

  • Gorenjska · Slovenia
  • 5 waters
  • 5 guides & lodges nearby
  • 4 shops nearby
Photo credit

The Sava Bohinjka at Bodešče, below Bled, Slovenia (the reach of the ARSO gauge). Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More about Bohinj & Bled

Bohinjska Bistrica and Bled sit under the Julian Alps in Gorenjska; the Sava Bohinjka leaves Lake Bohinj and the Sava Dolinka comes down from Kranjska Gora past the Radovna, the two joining below Bled to make the Sava.

Meet local guides and lodges

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5 guides and lodges within 40 miles (5 fly-focused, 0 lodges). Unclaimed listings, built from each business's own website: confirm licensing, rates and dates directly.

All Gorenjska guides

All Gorenjska guides

The Bohinj & Bled area

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The circle is the 40-mile area this page covers, around Bohinjska Bistrica. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.

Map of the Bohinj & Bled area: its waters, shops and guides

Map of Bohinj & Bled: the 40-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.

Waters around Bohinjska Bistrica

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The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.

Readings are the agency's own, shown with their time and marked when older than a day; a station whose agency publishes only an inventory is shown without a number. Nothing here is estimated.

  • Sava BohinjkaNamed by 3 guides nearbySava Bohinjka - Bodešče: 5.8 m³/s · level 0.73 m · 9.1 °C at 6 Nov, 00:00 · Agencija RS za okolje (ARSO) Station page
  • Bohinjsko jezeroBohinjsko jezero - Sveti Duh: level 0.18 m · 9.9 °C at 6 Nov, 00:00 · Agencija RS za okolje (ARSO) Station page
  • Sava DolinkaNamed by 1 guide nearbySava Dolinka - Blejski most: 4.7 m³/s · level 0.33 m · 7.2 °C at 6 Nov, 00:00 · Agencija RS za okolje (ARSO) Station page
  • RadovnaNamed by 4 guides nearbyRadovna - Podhom: 2.6 m³/s · level 1 m · 6.4 °C at 6 Nov, 00:00 · Agencija RS za okolje (ARSO) Station page
  • Blejsko jezero

Agency data, not estimated

Species guides mention

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5 guide and lodge websites nearby name species of their own; counted below. This is what they advertise, not a promise of what you will catch.

  • Huchen5
  • Marble trout4
  • Grayling3
  • Rainbow trout3
  • Brown trout2
  • Carp2
  • Northern pike2
  • Brook trout1

Licence, regulations and access

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Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.

Nothing here grants or implies access to any water.

5 guide and lodge listings

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Within 40 miles. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.

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4 shop listings nearby

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Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Bohinjska Bistrica. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.

Rates pages (1)

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1 nearby operator publishes a rates page. We never copy rates or estimate a budget for this hub; these links open each operator's own rates page.

Parks and visitor offices

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For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.

Gear checklist

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A practical checklist for fly fishing small mountain trout streams: a short 3–4 weight rod, light line, a few buoyant dries and simple wet-wading gear, with estimated prices and where to buy.

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Small mountain streams

7′6″–8′6″ rod, 3–4 weight, floating line · Brook, cutthroat, rainbow and brown trout

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Watch: fishing small mountain streams

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Short rods, short casts and brushy water.

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Stories from Gorenjska

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly, tagged with a water in Gorenjska, Slovenia.

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Sources for this page

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Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.

Links checked 20 Oct 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.