Fly Fishing

HansF · Location: Enschede / The Netherlands

Hello,

Saturday the 26 march I went to lake Oostvoorne to catch some rainbow trout. I arrived at lake Oostvoorne and I was certainly not the only flyfisher present there (bellyboaters, fyfishermen and scubadivers). It was nice weather and was practically no wind. Tke lake looked like a mirror.

I went alone to Lake Oostvoorne (no flyfishers from Enschede wanted to go on saturday). I met there an englisch speaking guy (born in Oxford GB) from Belgium. This englisch speaking guy from Belgium caught already some seabass at another location in the sea that day.

I arrived at the water at a quay and I looked into the water and I saw some big rainbowtrouts laying in the sun by pairs. But the have no intention to take a fl, they were totally not interested in a fly. They were only interested in eachother.

After taking some pictures of this interesting scenery, I continued fishing.
I walked to a passage between 2 dams. While standing in the water the big rainbow trouts were cruising around me and stayed standing 3 feet in front of me.

Spawning behaviour??

I tried with the englisch speaking Belgium for 2 hours to catch some fish and we tried every fly we had with us streamers, eggflies (the eggfliy hoovered 8 inches in front of the rainbowtrouts nose but he was totally not interested). The had only eye for eachother and they swam like crazy through the water chasing eachother.
It is beautiful all those big fish surrounding you.

At the end of the fishing day a tried my secret weapon.

The secret of todays success.

I threw the fly , I think, 110 times in the front of the rainbowtrouts nose, but not interested...... suddenly he took the fly, because i teased him to much.

after 10 minutes and several run (continously followed bij his buddy), I landed the fish.
Look for the result. A nice rainbowtrout of 55-60 centimeters (20-24 inches).

It was a beautiful and a the end a successfull day

Greetings Hans F.

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

great job marcel - i am glad that your trip to Lake Oostvoorne was successful. I know you have been eager for the trout fishing to start picking up - that was a pretty rainbow you got too. nice colors.

When will things start picking up in the streams of Germany?

HansF · Location: Enschede / The Netherlands

Hello,

It was not Marcel who sent the report with the beautiful pictures, but another guy from the Netherlands. This guy always catch fish and that´s the big difference with Marcel.

Greetings Hans F.

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

A big difference, Hans is another big guy from the Netherlands Smile

Trout fishing should pick up if the darn Germans put trout in the river. Seems pretty empty right now. The snow has gone and the high temps of the last week have put nature in overdrive. It started with midges and moths and now all kinds of insects are taking to the air. The migratory birds are back in the fields so everything is on track again. A couple of weeks warm weather and fishing might pick up.

April 5th is the time when I am going fishing to the Mohne river in Germany's Sauerland region. That is the first serious trout fishing trip of the year. End of my it is off to Eastern Germany to the Harz mountains.

I now have a pair of spy-optics glasses as replacement for the shitty Orvis Patriot. My brother was on a business trip to Bend/Oregon and ordered a pair for me. BTW the frame says "Made in Italy" Confused

I tried them today while fishing at a local stream since I was not sure I got the polarized version. My fishing trip today was a little short though, I had to run from the thunder and lightning. I think I got the polarized ones though.

Hans, BTW he likes to be called "Pikemeister" god knows why Cool

HansF · Location: Enschede / The Netherlands

Hello,

Another "Big" fish.

Greetings Hans F.
The Pikemaster