No easy choice at all! September is the last month of our trout season, and pike are getting into biting mood again. But when our rivers and creeks are clear and low in the late summer and early fall, it is also the best time […]
When I first saw the source of the Loue River, I immediately thought of these words by the famous German poet Hermann Hesse. You have to see it, to believe it… a gigantic cave opens in a naked limestone cliff and out flows a powerful […]
The brown trouts of Eastern France are uniquely colored: their flanks are banded in light and dark shades which gave them their nickname “tigre du Jura” which translates to “tigers of the Jura” (Jura = landscape in Eastern France). The “tigers” are native to rivers […]
Summer is here, and it is unusally hot and dry… no rain for weeks, the water is low and warm in many places. Some famous salmon rivers, as the Norwegian Gaula, have closed their fishery (for good reason!). Our region is lucky to have large […]
My dad recently noted that I hadn’t yet caught a pike this year… hadn’t I? NO INDEED, I had not! Somehow I had rather gone fishing for barbel, trout or whatever came along. But I had recently tied supernice streamers (Gunnar Brammer’s “MegaJerk”), which moved […]
There are numerous wonderful streams in the Black Forest and day permits can be aquired for several of them. Recently I had the chance to fish the “Gutach” within the city boundaries of Titisee-Neustadt. I was a little sceptical and expected a very urban fishing […]
Barbels are really on fire at the moment! Recently I managed to catch my biggest one so far in the Danube River on a tiny nymph. The fish was 75cm in length and fought extremely well! Besides this fish, I caught the occasional chub which […]
While most of Germany was watching the first match of the Soccer Worldcup against Mexico, I decided to go fishing and enjoy the silence and the solitude in a usually busy stretch of the Danube. After some wonderful weeks with the mayfly, I was excited […]
There are still mayflies around, but the trouts do not seem to care much any longer. I am stalking the streambanks and hardly see any rising fish. Throughout the day, there are some short intervals in which trout are rising, and I am able to […]
The RIO Gold is the flyline I fish most during the year. I use it as a WF5F on my Orvis Revon 5wt and as a WF6F…