Summer is here, and it is unusally hot and dry… no rain for weeks, the water is low and warm in many places. Some famous salmon rivers, as the Norwegian Gaula, have closed their fishery (for good reason!). Our region is lucky to have large […]
My dad recently noted that I hadn’t yet caught a pike this year… hadn’t I? NO INDEED, I had not! Somehow I had rather gone fishing for barbel, trout or whatever came along. But I had recently tied supernice streamers (Gunnar Brammer’s “MegaJerk”), which moved […]
There are numerous wonderful streams in the Black Forest and day permits can be aquired for several of them. Recently I had the chance to fish the “Gutach” within the city boundaries of Titisee-Neustadt. I was a little sceptical and expected a very urban fishing […]
Barbels are really on fire at the moment! Recently I managed to catch my biggest one so far in the Danube River on a tiny nymph. The fish was 75cm in length and fought extremely well! Besides this fish, I caught the occasional chub which […]
While most of Germany was watching the first match of the Soccer Worldcup against Mexico, I decided to go fishing and enjoy the silence and the solitude in a usually busy stretch of the Danube. After some wonderful weeks with the mayfly, I was excited […]
There are still mayflies around, but the trouts do not seem to care much any longer. I am stalking the streambanks and hardly see any rising fish. Throughout the day, there are some short intervals in which trout are rising, and I am able to […]
Mayflies have been hatching extensively for roughly ten days now. In general, mayflies start to hatch relatively late in our area, usually for about three weeks between mid-May and mid-June. If everything happens as usual, we are halfway through the mayflies, and I feel it […]
Besides the wonderful trout fishing, I also enjoy fishing for other species. So when me and my family decided to spend our holidays camping at a lake in Bavaria (“Gruentensee”), it was clear that I would try to catch perch with little streamers. Perch are […]
The Blau River is famous for its enormous hatch of mayflies. For some years already I had this river on my “bucket list”, but only this year I eventually managed to give it a try. The Blau can be tricky, as the fish have seen […]
With the weather getting warmer, the days longer and the vegetation in full bloom, it is starting to crawl everywhere near the water! Fish haven’t yet fully noticed this new food source, but insects are swarming everywhere. Only few rings from rising fish are seen […]