brownies in love
Trout season is over but I still like to spend time at the water. On sunday I saw the first spawning brown trouts of this season – a wonderful sight. And a great feeling, to know that nature still works in that little creek!
colorful grayling
Aren’t grayling truely colorful? Why is it then, that the name “grayling” has its roots in the color “grey”, the french call it “l’ombre” which is “the shadow”, and the German name “Aesche” has to do with ashes? Winter is approaching and the fins of […]
video: small stream grayling
Hello folks, finally managed to upload a video after a while… I filmed it two weeks ago. The day begann very rainy and windy, but at some point the sun came out and the evening was in fact pretty beautiful – the fall colors look […]
dry fly XXL – stoneflies in the Black Forest
One of the most memorable days this year, was my first encounter with big stoneflies. We don’t have them in the chalk streams of my region, and so far only once have I seen big stonefly nymphs in a river in South Tyrol. Back then […]
heart or mind?
For a long time already I have been taken by the river Mörrum in southern Sweden. And since 2017 I had the opportunity to fish there for salmon and seatrout several times. This year, another trip was planned, and despite all the uncertainties in the […]
a hint of autumn
How did it become september so quickly again? A hint of yellow lies on the forest, and more and more leafs are on the ground… It can hardly be ignored, that autumn is on the doorstep! There were years, when I felt a little tired […]
small dry fly pattern for the summer
On warm summer evenings as we currently have, a lot of different insects swarm an hatch, and the trouts rise to a great variety of things. In probably 95% of the time I am fishing a small around pattern, which does not immitate anything special but just looks somewhat buggy, is naturally colored and rather small. An the trouts seem to like it!
summer evenings with the dry fly
Summerdays with white cloudlets travelling through clear blue skies… the meadows green, the birds singing and insects humming everywhere… it is hot and sometimes thundery. During the days, the youth is fooling around in the little creek in front of my house, a long queue at the ice cream palor…
video: carp on fly
With the days getting hotter, the best time for carp fly fishing is approaching – super exciting sightfishing, clever fish, and lots of power! Here is a short video from last year.
magical mayflies
Mayflies are truely magical creatures. They are connected to big trouts and dryflies, but there is more about them…