dry
Finally dry fly season is on! I had spent the weekend participating in a course on insects, with renown expert Walter Reisinger. We talked so much about flies and flyfishing that I had to make a few casts this afternoon. And I was lucky, as […]
…the good lies close at hand
Just had to realize again, how blessed with trout waters we are in Southern Germany. My brother stopped by on his way back from Slovenia a few days ago. I must admit that I was a little bit jealous as he recounted his holidays, the […]
yin and yang and the care bears
Trout are still not really biting, although we are already far into april. Around that time of the years, fishing should be absolutely on! But it is not… although the trees are sprouting, everything is in bloom, spring is here, but fishing is not! Some […]
snow bow
Here, without many words, are some pictures from a recent stay in Austria. I had not realized that there is still that much snow in the mountains. It was cold, but beautiful. And I was rewarded with many beautiful rainbows.
sometime in spring
Every year, sometime in spring, the trout seem to finally wake up and start a first great feast. When that is, can hardly be predicted… it probably depends on water flow, temperature, hours of sunlight and the general course of the past winter. This feast […]
redemption trout
It has probably been the worst winter of my life… several times I was close to the point when hope and perseverance almost snapped to become frustration or desparation… In november, usually a good month to target grayling and pike, I was so busy at […]
high mountain waters – flyfishing in the Swiss Alps
Switzerland has so many mountain streams and lakes, that no fisherman can ever hope to fish them all in his entire life! The region Graubunden is especially rich in these high mountain waters, and therefore has been on my bucket list for a long time […]
early end of the season?
The end of our trout season is near, the nights are cold already and the trees are wearing their coloful autumn clothes. Only few days remain, in which I can fish for my beloved browns… One spot especially, I had planned to fish again this […]
Jura part 2: a magic dwells in each beginning
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 […]
still fishable
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 […]