It has been quite a while since I last fished this little stream. The opportunity came when three friends from Switzerland came to visit: through whatsapp I suggested to go fishing together, but was a bit reluctant to suggest these waters. “It is a mountain […]
Recently, our family had the chance to spend a few days in the Jura region of France – we absolutely love this area, the landscape is beautiful…. neat little towns and villages, the wine and cheese tastes great…. and you can fish! But we had […]
Almost I had started this blog entry with the sentence that “everything turned out very differently than last year, and differently than I expected”… but then I realized that I had written this sentence several times before. Essentially, almost every year the fishing turns out […]
Mayfly season began for me on Ascension Day… this day is in Germany also celebrated as “Father’s Day” (I know it is a different date in other countries), and so it is one of the few days when no lengthy discussions with my wife are […]
The weather has not yet decided if it is spring yet… At home, a fire is still burning in the woodstove. Wind, rain and sun are constantly taking turns, and the nights are chilly still. In one moment you get a sunburn and in the […]
After an unusually warm and sunny month of March, snow and cold came just in time for the trout opening. The first few days of April brought more snow and lower temperatures than the entire winter… not really a good thing for nature, with all […]
The month of October is the best time for grayling in our stream. The gin clear water in fall makes it possible to spot them – very often it is the light-colored edge of the huge backfin that betrays the presence of a big grayling […]
When the end of the trout season approaches, my thoughts are slowly circling around the question what remains to be fished, and how and where I want to spend the last days of the season… and this somehow coincides with the nights getting colder and […]
And the last day went in the best possible way… looking back, I still shake my head and wonder who wrote the script for this 4-day-drama… whoever did, thankfully included a happy end. After three days fishing with various techniques, in various water and with […]
My family had granted me another day of fishing in the Soča Valley, which gave me more time to experiment in pursuit of the legendary marble trout. Back in Germany, while preparing for this trip, I had studied the map meticulously. And the tributaries of […]