Blue brown
When you are making your reservation to fish the famous river Blue (Blau), no one knows how the season will develop. And so it happens, that you pick precisely the day, when the water is up and not blue at all, but murky and brown. […]
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 […]
glorious grayling
Yesterday I just wanted to try a few nymphs I had tied “freestyle” during the afternoon… …so I went to the water to make a couple of casts and fish for two hours or so… october is a wonderful month, the forest shines in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
yet another on the mayfly!
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 […]
mayfly half-time
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 […]
Flyfishing the Blau River near Ulm
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 […]