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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]