It has probably been the worst winter of my life… several times I was close to the point when hope and perseverance almost snapped to become frustration or desparation… In november, usually a good month to target grayling and pike, I was so busy at […]
Sometimes you can be just lucky, sometimes the stars align, sometimes it all works out… and you catch the fish of a lifetime without warning! Like this grayling, which cracked my PB for the second time this year! I did not have time to go […]
My alarm clock wakes me at 5am. Still three hours until they serve breakfast in my hotel, and I intend to fish for perch during that time! The channels just outside my hotel here in Malmö hold a good population of perch, and to me […]
Yesterday I just wanted to try a few nymphs I had tied “freestyle” during the afternoon… …so I went to the water to make a couple of casts and fish for two hours or so… october is a wonderful month, the forest shines in the […]
What triggers a take? Is is the size of the fly, the depth, the speed? Is it the weather or the time of day? Is my leader too short or too long, am I too loud near the water? Lost in thought, I stand again […]
Switzerland has so many mountain streams and lakes, that no fisherman can ever hope to fish them all in his entire life! The region Graubunden is especially rich in these high mountain waters, and therefore has been on my bucket list for a long time […]
The end of our trout season is near, the nights are cold already and the trees are wearing their coloful autumn clothes. Only few days remain, in which I can fish for my beloved browns… One spot especially, I had planned to fish again this […]
No easy choice at all! September is the last month of our trout season, and pike are getting into biting mood again. But when our rivers and creeks are clear and low in the late summer and early fall, it is also the best time […]
When I first saw the source of the Loue River, I immediately thought of these words by the famous German poet Hermann Hesse. You have to see it, to believe it… a gigantic cave opens in a naked limestone cliff and out flows a powerful […]
The brown trouts of Eastern France are uniquely colored: their flanks are banded in light and dark shades which gave them their nickname “tigre du Jura” which translates to “tigers of the Jura” (Jura = landscape in Eastern France). The “tigers” are native to rivers […]