As the Harz trip earlier in the year was most enjoyable we decided to go for seconds at the end of August about a week before the season there closed. The weather was not exactly according to the predictions with rather cool mornings and even a full day and night of constant rain. Still fishing was pretty good and I even managed to catch the largest brown trout of the season in this location which is more known for the…
We have come into a weather pattern lately where frequent showers allthough short of duration dump locally a lot of water on the land. Before the weekend came it looked like the water in the stream was going down after those downpours but just before the weekend the whole sequence started a new. So when I checked the river gage last Saturday I noticed that allthough the stream was receeding a lot of water was pushing trough. I took a…
For this Sunday the weather predictions where pretty miserable so it could have been a reason not to go. The predictions had recently been pretty of the mark so I went anyway. The first stop on my route was the stream at its headwater where many small ditches from the surrounding hills formed the stream. I had not been there for a long time and the main reason was that most of my honey holes had been filled with sand….
As my first attempt to catch chub was a failure due to the fact that I could not find any feeding chub I tried again a couple of days later. At one of the new spots I had visited I tried again and since the stream at the new spot was shallow and without any cover I had to find a proper ambush spot. Some scouting on satellite imagery made me conclude that a small weir would be the best…
My intention was to sight fish for chub with dry flies at my chub hotspots but I had not taken into account the flooding that had occurred locally over the border. My hot spots carried a lot of murky water so I could not see any fish and also did not spot rising fish. To make it al worse I did not even manage to catch a tiddler. And it all started so promising when I started the day and…