The purists will hate me for this, but I catch my first grayling each year on streamer! And it is not the small ones which behave like a predator, but usually fish beyond 45cm! As long as the water is still cold, high and murky, […]
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 […]
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, […]
Preparations We had been looking forward to this trip for weeks: our first fishing-trip to (sub)tropic shores, with warm weather, strong fish and turquoise water… we were heading to the province Dhofar in Southern Oman. Somehow, this trip felt like a long-awaited return, as we […]
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 […]
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 […]
Never have I experienced such a day! Although I knew that there were nice graylings in that stream, it wasn’t always too easy to lure them into a bite. For years I struggled to catch one beyond that magic 50cm… and this day, the first […]
An der Donau kann man nach der Forellensaison immer einen guten Tag erleben. Die Fischvielfalt ist grandios, und wenn man flexibel bleibt ist ein Schneidertag eigentlich ausgeschlossen. Die Hechte wollten gestern nicht, aber Äschen und Döbel boten eine spannende Fischerei auf kleine Nymphen. Eine wirklich […]
The browntrout-season is over, but still some great flyfishing is on! While the trouts are reducing their food intake with approaching spawning-season and with cooling water, graylings are highly active! You can see them standing in the current as soon as your eyes have adapted. […]