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26. December Trout Season Opening Lake Zürich

Soon we let you know !!

18.-25.October 2008 Mittersill Austria

Once more we where visting mittersill,

October is the perfect time to catch big graylings and trouts, the water gets gin clear and runs on low level . The weather was on our side as we had 1 week of pure sunshine.

Our friend Dani joined us for his first flyfishing trip and he rocked the rivers big time as he caught nice graylings and trouts on dryflies.

The biggest fish of the week went to Pascal , a solid grayling of 52 cm.

We're about to plan a guided week in May 09 so stay tuned for further information.

 

 

9.October 08 keep on fishing in paradise

Thanks for everything you have done for our beautiful sport!

9.10.2008  R.I.P Mel Krieger

 

12.-14. Sept.08 Grayling stalking Engadin

The weatherforecast for the weekend looked very bad, good thing was that the river Inn runs out of a few lakes so the water didnt got any coloured.

We took our new fishing van for a first test over  the alps and it worked very well. It took us about 4 h to reach Surlej where we stayed at the hollyday flat of Andreas Grandparents.

On fridays we where only allowed to fish the lakes and so we did, we where able to land a few small brownies on dryfly but nothing big enough to cook for dinner.

On fryday evening the rest of the troutstalkers gang arrived in Zuoz and Röbi+Petra made some awsome dinner for us.

Saturday and sunday we finally could fish the river Inn. It poored down cats and dogs but the graylings kept on rising.

The only fly that seems to work good where super small ants and bugs, all in colour black and hook size 18-22#.

Even when you pulled the fly under water and draged em into a wetfly swing, brought some nice fish to rise.

Even the weather was crap we still had a good time fishing for grayling and trout. Its a bit sad that the season up there is already over but we looking forward to be there again next summer.

 

6.8.08 Lake Zürich Pike

 

1.-3. Aug. 2008 Bellyboat Flyfishing at Lac de Brenet

Finally 1. of August and 3 Days off Work, time to hit the Road and fish the Lakes in the Valley de Joux. For 10.- Bucks we got the Daylicense at the local Bakery wich allows us to fish all 3 Lakes from Shore or Boat.

We brought our Bellyboats with us wich seems to be the perfect solution for the Lac Brenet.

This Lake is about 2 km Long and 400 m wide and got heaps of weedbanks around. We installed our Basecamp right at the Lake, it was cloudy and still a bit raining that Day but suposed to clear up for the Weekend.

After we set up our Gear wich took us about 1 hour we where ready to hit the Water, it doesnt took long till Tom gets his first Pike hooked on a Pooper in shallow Water. A solid fish just shortly under 1 m wich we released again in hope to get a bigger one.

The water in the Lake was about 24 °C and perfect for Boardshorts fishing and Sun tanning.

We invaded  the Local Tearoom every morning for Coffe and Toilet business. The local folks where all very friendly and mellow so we got  a kind in the same mood wich resulted in that we never made it before 10:00 in to the water.

The pike seemed a bit lazy at saturday but we still could catch some decent ones to chuck on the grill for dinner.

3 Days went by in no time and the time seems to be flying by while you are fishing. I could  have stayed easy for a whole week and fish my ass off. We come back for sure...sooner or later.

 

 

12.-25. Mai 2008 Mittersill Austria

Brookie

Just came back from the trip to Austria. 2 weeks of fishing seems long enough but i could have stayed easy another 2 weeks.

The hotel Braurup in Mittersill owns the biggest privat fishingwaters in whole Austria, wich means over a 130km of rivers and creeks, 4 cristal clear mountain lakes and 3 stillwater reservoirs.

Even i have been there for many times now i still havent seen all the waters yet, its just too big and offers many options to fish.

The first week was great, we hit the first summerdays and the fish started to be more active.

It wasnt pure dryfly time so the nymph fishing was the thing to do. We where able to witness the Grayling spawning in  some of the higher regions like the Krimmleraache wich was awsome to watch.

The main River in the region , the Salzach contains a lot of wild big trouts and grayling and as soon the Summer hits in it brings a lot of water and gets milky.

No matter of the water colour the fish are eating but it needed heavy nymphs or streamer to reach the ground in fast running water.

The 2nd week we had some bad luck with the weather, it cooled down to almost 5°C  and the fish didnt liked it. We still where able to land some nice fish mainly on nymphs but not the big ones as we hoped.

Two weeks went by in no time, nice fish have been catched and funny stories been told, im sure ill be back as soon as possible...

cya in mittersill

 

 

 

1. Mai 08 Pike Season Opening

 

The pike seem to be hungry after the long winter, first day of the season im always out on the bellyboat, its the easyest way to cast along the shallow shore.

It took me only 5 casts to get the first pike hooked, not a biggie with his 55 cm but i still got the whole day to come.

After 2 hours casting it was time to chuck a meat on the grill and warm up my ass on the fire. 5 pike landed 3 lost and several hits was ok for halftime.

In the afternoon i checked out the tree covered shore where a lot of brocken trees hang into the water, i get hit after hit but all in the 40 to 60 cm range.

By the end of the day i was able to land 16 pike, lost 5 in drill and countles hits on the streamer and popper.

It seems to be a good pike season to come up and im be back the next day with Ivan to get some more pike action.

 

26. April 08 Glarnerland CH

Today i wanna check out some of Glarnerland's springcreeks and my buddy Joseph from Wisconsin joins me.

First stop its the upper Linth close to the Klausen Pass, Slilghtly milky colored water as you can see on the pics above makes the stalking a bit more easy, the water is still bloody cold and the level still above normal.

The heavy rainfalls the days before makes the fish stay in there holes, we able to get some but its not big feeding time.

We move on to flick a few casts at the Sernf, a nother creek with some nice pools, it gets fished a lot and for that reason, it holds only small trout.

After a quick munchie stop at Mickey D's we go for a dusk patrol along the Löntsch.

This creek runs out of the Klöntaler lake and the water is crystalclear. The Sun sets and the fish starting to feed, a Flashback Pheasant Tail Nymph seems to be the best fly and even some Rainbows get on the hook but they're all small fish too.

I think creeks like those we fished today can't hold all the fishing pressure, every trout who reaches the min. lengh gets taken out and whats left is not able to spawn,

its a bit sad but true.

Anyway we had a nice and sunny day and enjoyed to be outdoors, i hope more days like this are about to come up...

I'll let you know !!

 

 

20.April 08 Gadmerwasser Berner Oberland CH

                           

Beautyful day for springcreek fishing, the trout are  fit like little Ben Jonson's on dope.

Small hare's ear nymph's  on black bead heads do a great job, its nice to stalk along the big boulders in this narow gore.

Some big pools up to 4 meters deep hold some trout around the 2 pound mark but the bastards are spooky as hell today, no wonder the water is gin clear , one wrong move and they are gone for good.

We able to land some decent fish but not the real big buggers...maybe next time.

A lot of climbing is included to reach some of the remote pools in this valley, the good thing is, not a lot of the older local guys come here.

6 hours of rock hopping and sneaking around get us all pumped out, we'll be back for some more, soon.....