Freestone · Limestone · Friuli Venezia Giulia / Carnia-Alto Friuli, IT

Tagliamento

Tagliamento panoramica sul greto al tramonto

Friuli's great braided river and, by wide agreement, the last one in the Alps that still behaves like a gravel-bed river should — spreading, splitting, and cutting new channels after every flood rather than being confined behind embankments.

Poor · Grayling
Pheasant Tail Jig · 14–18
Closed season
Out of season. Try elsewhere.
Closed — confidence not applicable today.
What moved it
  • Flow99.3 m³/sLast reading 3h ago
  • Water temp10.8°C
  • ClarityClear
Today's fly
Pheasant Tail Jig
Pheasant Tail Jig14–18
in season · all-rounder · regional default
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Flow
Steady
99.3 m³/s
Last reading 3h ago
Water temp10.8°C
ClarityClear
Weather16°C
WindS 5 km/h
Pressure1021 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm
Rain · ahead0.0 mm

The nearest gauge doesn't record temperatures, so we've estimated it — defer to the river keeper's advice.

Water temperature for Grayling
Ideal
11°C est.ideal 4–14°C
0°14°28°
How to fish it · for Grayling
When
June through the last Sunday of September, when the closed season for temolo lifts. Only one grayling per angler may be retained per year, so treat this as an incidental fish rather than a target.
Where
Faster gravel runs and riffle heads in the more stable middle reaches, away from the most actively shifting braids.
Method
Euro-nymph the faster water; small dries when naturals show on calmer afternoons.
Kit
10 ft #3 nymphing rod, 4 to 5 lb fluoro; 9 ft #4 for dries. 12 ft leader.
Likely species
Hatch timeline · todayPeak at 11am

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey(1)

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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalHigh confidence

Backed by regional invertebrate surveys; no sampling on this exact reach yet.

Through the year
0–3 scale · October highlighted
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Alpine RhithrogenaHatch
2
3
3
2
Sculpin / Baitfish (Rivers)Hatch
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
March BrownHatch
2
3
2
Late March BrownHatch
2
3
2

Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Grayling fly box

A fuller Italian trout and grayling box for the southern Alps and northern limestone/alpine systems. It keeps the marble-trout streamer accent, but adds proper grayling dries and bugs, competition nymphs, caddis/olive work, terrestrials, pocket-water dries and alpine lake patterns.

Permits & access
Permit required — see local rules.
  • ETPI (Ente Tutela Patrimonio Ittico) regional licence required — course-based, roughly €46 for residents
  • FVG Zone B season (2026 Calendario Pesca Sportiva): trout open 07:00 on 29 March to 27 September, with a catch-and-release-only extension to 31 October
  • Marble trout minimum size 35cm on this reach (Collegi 9/10), one fish a day
  • Grayling minimum size 60cm, and FVG limits every angler to ONE retained grayling per calendar year across the whole region
  • Single barbless hook mandatory on No-Kill and RPS water.
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Fishing better nearby · 5
Gallery · 2
  1. Tagliamento panoramica sul greto al tramonto
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

Friuli's great braided river and, by wide agreement, the last one in the Alps that still behaves like a gravel-bed river should — spreading, splitting, and cutting new channels after every flood rather than being confined behind embankments. The middle reaches through Carnia and past Venzone hold marble trout and grayling in clear, cold water over pale limestone gravel. Read the braid rather than a single channel; a good lie this season may be a dry bar the next.

  • Limestone
The full read · show the working · for Grayling · confidence 90%
How the 0 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature100 × 28%28.0
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity85 × 18%15.3
Feeding Time90 × 13%11.7
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity69 × 12%8.3
Conditions total= 87
Can you trust it?
Water temperatureair-to-water estimateestimated
Level / flowon-river gaugeobserved
Prey activitysurvey-backed invertebrate datasurvey
Directions
Seasons & zones
  • Trout 2026-03-29 → 2026-09-27
  • Grayling 2026-06-01 → 2026-09-27

    Rules are set at province or association level — check locally.

  • Marble trout 2026-03-29 → 2026-09-27
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