The first day fishing with nymphs had been quite good, with several fish caught. Among them one Marmorata landed, which had been the overall goal on this trip. Being quite satisfied with the nymphing, I was curious to try big streamers in hope of increasing […]
When such an old fish appears from the deep, in a spot which is easily accessable and very frequently fished, it is hard to believe how it was possible to fish past this huge fish for all this time! I have fished this spot many […]
Als bekennendes Land-Ei habe ich das Angeln als Kind natürlich mit dem Regenwurm im Dorfbach begonnen. Und schon damals haben mich die wunderschönen und oft erstaunlich großen Fische in diesen kleinen Bächen fasziniert. Diese Faszination hat bis heute nicht abgenommen…. Am letzten Wochenende ergab es […]
It has become warm, school is out and the kids playing out on the streets. In the evenings it smells like BBQ on every corner…. summer! The sun is only a mere hand above the horizon when I grab my fly fishing stuff and head […]
Now, in early June, i keep a constant eye on the weather forecast. If a thunderstorm is predicted for late afternoon, I try to take a day off at work and go fishing, because thunderstorms can cause massive hatches of mayflies. And among all the […]
My brother and I had long dreamed of fishing the Red Sea after so many years, and hoped that it would still be as wonderful as we remembered it from our childhood. After 27 years, my brother and I returned to Saudi Arabia in feburary […]
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 […]
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!
Mayflies are truely magical creatures. They are connected to big trouts and dryflies, but there is more about them…
The “mohican mayfly” developped by Oliver Edwards is one of my favorites. This fly catches very well, it is almost unsinkable and holds up very well even after many hooked fish.