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 […]
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 […]
Mayflies have been hatching extensively for roughly ten days now. In general, mayflies start to hatch relatively late in our area, usually for about three weeks between mid-May and mid-June. If everything happens as usual, we are halfway through the mayflies, and I feel it […]
The Blau River is famous for its enormous hatch of mayflies. For some years already I had this river on my “bucket list”, but only this year I eventually managed to give it a try. The Blau can be tricky, as the fish have seen […]
With the weather getting warmer, the days longer and the vegetation in full bloom, it is starting to crawl everywhere near the water! Fish haven’t yet fully noticed this new food source, but insects are swarming everywhere. Only few rings from rising fish are seen […]
Today is Ascencion Day, “fathers’ day” in Germany, a holiday. And of course this means a day of fishing for me, no matter what! But that was easier said than done, because a dramatic change in the weather made fishing a little challenging. Rain poured […]
Just like last year, I went to visit my buddy Andreas in Switzerland, to fish with him for the legendary laketrout of Lake Thun. Only a few days or weeks during the year the beautiful silver laketrout come close enough to the shore to catch […]
Someday last winter, two of my friends from Switzerland had come up with the idea to visit and fish Southern Germany in april. At that time of the year, many of the Swiss mountain streams are not yet fishable due to snowmelt… and of course […]
Water is still high and murky, and not only me, but also my friends have difficulties finding trout. Nature is two weeks delayed this year – the month of march was rich in snow and the nights are still really cold. But today it was […]
The Odenwald is a low mountain range in Southern Germany. It rises just a few miles behind wellknown cities such as Heidelberg, where my brother lives. He has discovered a couple of nice small creeks in the Odenwald, where fishing licences are easily available and […]