new video on mayflies and big trout
My new video is ready – this time I managed to capture a good hatch of mayflies (Ephemera danica) and some absolutely stunning fish here in Southern Germany! Hope you enjoy the video.
trouts in the french jura: a new hope
Last year I had already spent my family vacations in the “franche-comte”-region of France, a region famous for its endemic brown trout. The search for these trout led me far up the Loue River, to its very source. This year, I hoped for a second […]
mayfly. always.
This year, everything is different – I have repeatedly said and written this during the past months. And concerning the mayflies, I would say the same! Whereas… not EVERYTHING is different, the mayflies hatch sooner or later. Always! And always there is the rare chance […]
pike opening with a new PB
I had been looking forward to the opening of pike season (16th may) for quite some time. Trout are beautiful and I love ’em, but a pike on fly tackle is special… Many evenings had I spent in anticipation tying and refining streamers patterns and […]
Blue brown
When you are making your reservation to fish the famous river Blue (Blau), no one knows how the season will develop. And so it happens, that you pick precisely the day, when the water is up and not blue at all, but murky and brown. […]
dry
Finally dry fly season is on! I had spent the weekend participating in a course on insects, with renown expert Walter Reisinger. We talked so much about flies and flyfishing that I had to make a few casts this afternoon. And I was lucky, as […]
…the good lies close at hand
Just had to realize again, how blessed with trout waters we are in Southern Germany. My brother stopped by on his way back from Slovenia a few days ago. I must admit that I was a little bit jealous as he recounted his holidays, the […]
yin and yang and the care bears
Trout are still not really biting, although we are already far into april. Around that time of the years, fishing should be absolutely on! But it is not… although the trees are sprouting, everything is in bloom, spring is here, but fishing is not! Some […]
snow bow
Here, without many words, are some pictures from a recent stay in Austria. I had not realized that there is still that much snow in the mountains. It was cold, but beautiful. And I was rewarded with many beautiful rainbows.
sometime in spring
Every year, sometime in spring, the trout seem to finally wake up and start a first great feast. When that is, can hardly be predicted… it probably depends on water flow, temperature, hours of sunlight and the general course of the past winter. This feast […]