March and April is not the time to catch large numbers, but some perseverance involved, you will catch large trout! Friday started foggy and cold – again I struggeled with ice in the rings, but the sun had decided to fight for spring, and so […]
The opening day for trout on the Danube River has never been this cold! For several days already the temperature had been below -10°C and I had feared that the river would be frozen… After five months since I fished the last time for trout, […]
Fishing streamers in spring often produces the biggest trouts of the season. But fishing can be difficult under the high water conditions after snowmelt and you need a pattern that dives easily and draws some attention with a strong motion and some flash/glitter. This pattern […]
Preparations We had been looking forward to this trip for weeks: our first fishing-trip to (sub)tropic shores, with warm weather, strong fish and turquoise water… we were heading to the province Dhofar in Southern Oman. Somehow, this trip felt like a long-awaited return, as we […]
The first fish I catch in the new year always feels special to me – it feels like a reward, for enduring the cold and windy days without a single fin, and the “unfishable” days during which you just stare out of the window, dreaming […]
It’s been awhile since I captured this pike on video… but only now did I have time to edit the clip and show it to you! I hope you all like it! It is so far the only pike I have on video, but it […]
Colors are really important! More than once was I able to observe, that a change in lure/fly color had tremendous influence on bite frequency! Not only the color itself, but also the contrast that derives from the interplay of several colors…
Fishing is not always easy… and it wasn’t so in the last few weeks. Since brown trout (my favorite) is closed in winter, I targeted other species such as pike and hucho, in waters that I had not previously fished. Both species take some confidence […]
Never have I experienced such a day! Although I knew that there were nice graylings in that stream, it wasn’t always too easy to lure them into a bite. For years I struggled to catch one beyond that magic 50cm… and this day, the first […]
An der Donau kann man nach der Forellensaison immer einen guten Tag erleben. Die Fischvielfalt ist grandios, und wenn man flexibel bleibt ist ein Schneidertag eigentlich ausgeschlossen. Die Hechte wollten gestern nicht, aber Äschen und Döbel boten eine spannende Fischerei auf kleine Nymphen. Eine wirklich […]