{"id":3660,"date":"2018-08-23T01:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/troutfishing-germany.com\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2018-08-23T01:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T23:39:26","slug":"jura-teil-1-auf-der-suche-nach-dem-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/troutfishing-germany.com\/en\/2018\/08\/jura-teil-1-auf-der-suche-nach-dem-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Jura part 1: searching for tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The brown trouts of Eastern France are uniquely colored: their flanks are banded in light and dark shades which gave them their nickname \u201ctigre du Jura\u201d which translates to \u201ctigers of the Jura\u201d (Jura = landscape in Eastern France). The \u201ctigers\u201d are native to rivers like the Doubs and the Loue, in which flyfishing-legends such as Charles Ritz loved to fish.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So when the decision fell to spend the summer holidays in the Jura, I was excited to be able to dare these legendary browns.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>But my hopes quickly faded when I arrived: In the lower Jura where we had set up our camp, the Loue was still a beautiful river with gravel banks and deep riffles, overhanging bushes and large rocks, but my feelings were, that this was no trout water. \"\"<\/a>There were chubs and barbels and nases everywhere but I highly doubted that in this stretch of the Loue, a stable trout population existed. So during the first few days of my holidays, I enjoyed all the other nice things France has to offer, especially good food and an occasional glass of wine.<\/p>\n

My wife was deeply worried<\/strong> as she had never seen me NOT fishing while we stayed near a river, and so one day she said words I had never heard before from her lips: \u201cDon\u2019t you want to go fishing this evening, honey?<\/em>\u201d\u2026. erm, pardon madame? Did you really say that? \u2026so of course, off I went, chasing chubs here and there, and faintly hoping that I had been mistaken, and a \u201ctiger\u201d might find the way to my nymph or streamer. The chubs were massive, and were good sport.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Also, I managed to catch my first nase ever, a very nice fish with exactly 50cm. At the distance I had mistaken it for a chub and cast for it with my favorite chub-and-perch-streamer. The nase smashed the streamer like a predator, and I was really surprised when I saw what kind of fish it was!<\/p>\n

But trouts did not show up, I guess there really were none. I also tried to go into the tributaries, like the Cuissance<\/em>. This creek was colder but still I saw only nases and chubs, and rumors say that it once was a nice trout water, but that agriculture now pollutes it and draws way too much water from it.<\/p>\n

I crawled through the jungle on its banks, trying to find secrets spots which probably hardly anyone fishes, and where I hoped to find a trout. This vegetati\"\"<\/a>on was a stingy mix of blackberries, hawthorn and burdock. A sentence came into my mind, which some athlete had one said in an interview:<\/p>\n

‘Sport’ means going to where it hurts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, fishing was definitely sport then! Who would endure this kind torture just for fun? Minutes later I was still fighting my way through the vegetation, when suddenly there was no more ground below my feet. I fell, and two meters deeper some blackberry vines buried their thorns deep into my arms, but at least slowing down my fall and avoiding me hitting the rocks below. I was entangled, almost enchained. Somehow I managed to drop my rod slowly to the ground, then winding myself out of the blackberries, and down I went the remaining meter, ouch! The bank of the Cuissance had here been washed away some time ago, leaving a cliff-like slope which had been hidden in the vegetation. At least I was down at the water\u2019s edge again. But trout I did not find here either.<\/p>\n

When I decided to return to the car, I suddenly noted that my camera was missing\u2026 I must have lost it somewhere in the \u201cjungle\u201d\u2026 so I turned again, going step by step all the way through the bushes again, even crawling the blackberry-slope again\u2026 I did finally find my camera again, but I had to admit that sometimes, it is better to stay home.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I finally concluded that here and now, in the lower Jura, I could not expect to catch one of the famous trouts. This summer was too warm, too dry\u2026 and maybe for some waters, there best years already lay behind them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Where would you have to go to find cold, fast water where a healthy trout population could thrive? UPRIVER for sure, and as far as possible\u2026. to the source!<\/p>\n

Read how the story continued in the second part, which will follow soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The brown trouts of Eastern France are uniquely colored: their flanks are banded in light and dark shades which gave them their nickname \u201ctigre du Jura\u201d which translates to \u201ctigers of the Jura\u201d (Jura = landscape in Eastern France). 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