big surprise
Our pike season starts on May 16, and if somehow possible, I try to spend a few hours fishing. The day was cold and windy, pretty much the same as the entire spring so far… the water high and murky. To fish for pike in […]
new beginning
So langsam zehrt die Pandemie an meinen Kräften… seit November war ich nicht mehr fischen, und so richtig Lust hatte ich bislang auch gar nicht. Die Highlights, auf die ich eigentlich hin gefiebert hatte, konnten nicht stattfinden, bzw. fanden ohne mich statt… Huchenfischen in Slowenien, […]
video: last pikesession of the year
For a last time this year, I went fishing on saturday… and the pike played along surprisingly well! Apart from that, I really needed the holidays to recover from a long and work-intense year, and I enjoyed spending time with my family. I wish you […]
birthday pike
Saturday was my birthday… but since my job involves a lot of interaction with people, I was not in the mood for a big party, I was longing for a full day of fishing: Just fishing, no hurrying to get home, no phonecalls to do, […]
video: pike-session in the danube river
I love fishing for river pike! They are strong and beautiful, and casting a streamer into a river is so much more fun than casting into a lake. This video records a short pike session on the river Danube. The weather was pretty ugly, the […]
pike opening with a new PB
I had been looking forward to the opening of pike season (16th may) for quite some time. Trout are beautiful and I love ’em, but a pike on fly tackle is special… Many evenings had I spent in anticipation tying and refining streamers patterns and […]
enraged or offended?
My dad recently noted that I hadn’t yet caught a pike this year… hadn’t I? NO INDEED, I had not! Somehow I had rather gone fishing for barbel, trout or whatever came along. But I had recently tied supernice streamers (Gunnar Brammer’s “MegaJerk”), which moved […]
first catch
The first fish I catch in the new year always feels special to me – it feels like a reward, for enduring the cold and windy days without a single fin, and the “unfishable” days during which you just stare out of the window, dreaming […]
short pikevideo
It’s been awhile since I captured this pike on video… but only now did I have time to edit the clip and show it to you! I hope you all like it! It is so far the only pike I have on video, but it […]
Kleiner Köder, großer Hecht!
Die Donau ist für manche Überraschung gut, aber der Samstag war einfach LEGENDÄR! Beim morgendlichen Spaziergang mit meinen Kindern an der Donau entlang musste ich natürlich immer wieder einen Blick ins Wasser werfen. Und das war herrlich! Der Regen der letzten Tage hatte den Schlamm […]