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Prohibition of fishing

Dear guests, dear friends of the river Savinja,


Fish farm in Ljubno after flooding It is breaking our hearts to inform you that our Savinja valley was devastated by catastrophic flooding 4.8.2023. The river destroyed the whole valley, many houses are gone forever. Roads in the valley are destroyed, as well as most of other infrastructure. Several thousands of people have barely escaped and several hundreds have fought for their lives and were rescued by helicopters, some of them after one or even two days.

The flooding destroyed our fish farm in Podvolovljek, it destroyed our fish farm in Ljubno as well as most of our equipment, damaged our vehicles etc. Our hearts are truly broken. All the work from the past decades was gone in several hours. Most of our local members have their houses flooded or affected by landslides. Others are helping in search and rescue missions or are helping to restore minimum infrastructure. The whole area is without drinking water, electricity and other goods.

Rescue services are helping people in areas that are cut off and they are delivering them food, water and power generators. At this moment there are no human lives that would be directly endangered and that is a miracle.

You can see the devastation in the valley between Okonina and Luče and from Podvolovljek (Lučnica) to Okonina (Ljubno) on the video that was taken by our president Križnik Gregor in one of the helicopter rescuing missions on 6th of August 2023.

Okonina-Luče
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DSxdYUjG-U&t=2s

Podvolovljek-Ljubno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLLjeJfFeeE&t=41s

Facebook post about flooding
https://www.facebook.com/rdljubno/posts/794558762672831

For all of those who would like to help us please consider the following:

At the moment the club can not use any volunteers, any offers with human power or machinery help will be held aside and you will be contacted later when the situation allows normal access to our area. Our club will need a lot of money resources in order to restore at least minimum capacities in our fish farm that will allow us to produce juveniles for restoring the fish populations to a minimum level. Fishing will not be possible for at least three years.

All of you that would like to donate the Flyfishing club Ljubno any amount of money are truly welcome and we will ensure that it will be used exclusively for rebuilding our fish farm infrastructure and equipment for fisheries management.

Our bank account is open at DBS d.d.:
IBAN: SI56 1966 0500 5329 754
SWIFT/BIC: SZKBSI2X
Reference: Donation

Our address for the transfer:
Ribiška družina Ljubno ob Savinji
Na Peceh 10
3333 Ljubno ob Savinji
Slovenia


You can also DONATE by clicking the foundraiser at:


For any questions please write us an email | info@rd-ljubno.si, we will reply as soon as possible.
In the name of our flyfishing club and in the name of the river Savinja we thank you for your support!

In the name of the head of the Flyfishing club Ljubno ob Savinji:
Gregor Križnik, president