Before the rain, fishing is usually really good! And so I catch many beautiful browns this day, but most oft them are rather small. Below almost every overhanging tree or bush comes a bite…. this area of the little streams really looks promising, there must […]
Usually April is the month, when no weather forecast is possible… but this year, we seem to be one month late… The month of May brings us a mix of hailstorms and thunder, massive rain and occasionally sunny moments which show us that summer is […]
Today one of the trouts I caught had a beautiful red dot on the adipose fin. Wonderfully red, perfectly round, and probably without any “use” (in a biological sense)… just being pretty! Brown trouts shown an astonishing variety of patterns: I looked through my pictures […]
In the past, an approaching high-water has often produced some very good fishing. But today it was different: Attacks to the streamer were aggressive but often missed, fish were not in a feeding mode… I changed spots to a more gentle flowing part of the […]
Spring is here: Everything is dripping wet, from the rain, from the morning fog… the sky hangs low, clouds dark. The rivers are high and the water has a foggy blue color… hardly can you ever see the ground. Under the dry brown gras of […]
Lake Thun in Switzerland is one of the few stillwaters with a considerable hatch of mayflies. For years, I have read stories on beautiful silver caught on the dryfly and I always hoped to fish there one day. And so it happend… From the beginning, […]
Flyfishing with a streamer is very productive, but to be honest – nymphing is much more fun! …a nymph is dropping much more elegantly onto the water than a streamer, and you can cast it artfully. The takes are more subtle and you have to […]
Ja, Feiertage sind was Schönes. Familie, Verwandtschaft, jede Menge Kuchen und geselliges Beisammensein. Draußen pfeift der Wind, es ist kalt und garstig und ob das nun dicker Regen oder schon Schnee ist, lässt sich nicht so genau sagen. Im Ofen knistern das Holz und es […]
Am Montag ging ich etwas früher aus dem Büro, weil ich am Sonntag hatte arbeiten müssen. Die Sonne schien, es war mild, ich schnappte mir die Angel und ab gings ans Wasser. Es biss immer mal wieder was Kleines, aber so richtig übermütig waren die […]
Wie in jedem Frühjahr kann es bei den kalten Wassertemperaturen noch zäh sein! Anders als im Sommer, kann man nun auch mal stundenlang auf einen Biss warten. Aber wenn es beisst, dann sind es durchaus mal die Großen: Eine schöne 50er nahm einen “Stickleback”-Streamer den […]