video: carp on fly
With the days getting hotter, the best time for carp fly fishing is approaching – super exciting sightfishing, clever fish, and lots of power! Here is a short video from last year.
magical mayflies
Mayflies are truely magical creatures. They are connected to big trouts and dryflies, but there is more about them…
some fish are different…
Some fish haunt me more than others, some are different… and it is not necessarily the size of a fish which makes it so desirable to catch it. Last year, I had already struggled with a trout I had encountered in mayfly season. Fish were […]
meeting point: top secret!
There are probably not many people who know the waters of Southern Germany better than my good friend Patrick. We both share a passion for small, naturally flowing streams and when he invited me to fish such a stream with him, I was immediately hooked! […]
bibio, bibio, bibio
The hawthornfly is here! Fly fishers usually call it by its Latin name “bibio” and you will also find it under this name in most of the flyfishing literature. I mentioned this fly already in my last post, and it came even better than I […]
small fish, big surprise
In the last few weeks, fishing has been good, but not extraordinary. The ressurection of nature after the winter has been the true highlight on my fishing excursions… it is a great wonder to me, year and again: almost every day, the landscape changes. It is becoming greener, the birds louder, the evenings longer.
rites of spring
Finally, the day has come! It is the opening day for trout in our region, and I have been preparing everthing in anticipation for several days now. And although I know that it does not make much sense, I have set my alarm clock early […]
Saudi Arabia. fly fishing and spin fishing in the red sea.
It has been 27 years, since I last set my foot on Saudi Arabian soil… I was almost 13 years when we moved back to Germany (my dad had worked there) and so I spent most of my life here in Germany. But Saudi Arabia […]
video: last pikesession of the year
For a last time this year, I went fishing on saturday… and the pike played along surprisingly well! Apart from that, I really needed the holidays to recover from a long and work-intense year, and I enjoyed spending time with my family. I wish you […]
spawning browntrouts
In fall, fishing for brown trout closes as they begin to spawn – if they find suitable conditions, which has become a rarity. Increasing numbers of power plants and climate change has destroyed many populations, wild browntrout are hardly to be found anymore. Fishermen all […]