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, […]
“Schatz, lass uns rein gehen, die Mücken kommen!“… spätestens um 8 Uhr abends sitzt Deutschland vor der Tagesschau, dem Herdfeuer der Nation. Nur bei uns Fliegenfischern ist so manches anders und mit Tatort und Sportschau kann man die wenigsten von uns locken. Und zu Insekten […]
Ducks are swimming in the fields, the streams are high, nature is breathing in. The rain of the last two weeks was more than necessary. At least Central Europe can relax, but still Italy and Southern Scandinavia needs a lot of water! It almost feels […]
Nachdem ich von meiner Grippe wieder vollständig genesen war, ging es endlich wieder einen Tag ans Wasser – diesmal an den Oberlauf des Neckars bei Starzach-Börstingen/Sulzau. Diese etwa 10km lange Strecke am Oberen Neckar liegt grob gesagt zwischen Horb und Rottenburg, inmitten eines wunderschönen Tals […]
Seit einigen Wochen schleppe ich eine Erkältung mit mir herum, und zuletzt war ich tatsächlich einige Tage außer Gefecht. Die Lebensgeister erwachen aber langsam wieder, und was wäre besser als ein wenig frische Luft und Entspannung? …also ab ans Wasser! Seit vielen Jahren sehe ich […]
A while ago I had heard good things about this part of the Danube, but I hadn’t fished here before. I intended to mainly practice for my trip to Sweden in summer, so I took my 8wt rod and reel, some streamers and heavy nymphs. […]
Every mayfly season there comes a time, when the trouts are so fed up with mayflies, that they ignore even a good evening hatch… other insects become more interesting to the fish… for whatever reason, maybe they simply want some else to taste. Time to […]
The “Halblech” is a small, rather unknown, mountain stream in Southern Bavaria, close to the famous castle of “Neuschwanstein”. Last week I had the opportunity to fish this stream during a family holiday in the area. Here is my report: The license can be bought […]
Four years ago I caught my first and only Marble trout so far on a spinning rod. It was 67cm long, and it was clear that this would be hard to beat! But would I be able, to catch one of these legendary marble trouts […]