Posted: Sun 04/29/07 3:05 pm Post subject: Flyfishing Germany April 29th.
Today I went to the upper section of the river I visited yesterday for some semi-urban fishing.
It was always odd that most fish seemed to be present in the build up area instead of the open field.
Maybe all those trees around the stream in the village where an effective barrier for predators that would have a field day on the open sections of the river.
I came across fish in the surface and determined that they where dace.
Dace are always eager for dries so I tied on a klinkhamer and targeted a nice size fish.
Dace on the Klinkhamer.
After the distubance the school was gone so I moved upstream for the deeper pools in search of stray trout and roach.
I found a school of roach downstream from some obstacles in the water and tied on a gold bead pheasant tail with indicator.
Casting was tricky but finally the nymph landed neatly between the debris in the water.
Roach.
I could see a Roach going for the nymph and so the indicator went down and I struck.
The other Roach wised up and ignored my offerings so it was on to the next spot.
I knew trout where stocked recently but the lack of signs showed me that most of these fish had been cleaned out already.
In one deeper pool hordes of Roach where standing in the current and I figured that a trout might be mixed in with them.
I tied on a streamer and to my surprise a nice perch came from the depths following the fly.
It did not take the fly though and after several fruitless attempts I decided I would get the perch later in the day.
Next stop the weir at the mill, a few casts in the current and a brook trout was on.
Unfortunately the picture of the brook trout turned out bad so no picture this time.
I tried some other sections of the river but there was not much going on there so I took a small break and fixed some leaders and reorganized my tackle bag.
Then it was back to the pool for the perch.
After a few casts it was fish on, the perch had actually struck a small white streamer.
Perch.
Like yesterday the wind was blowing very strong and most of the stream was covered by blossoms and other tree debris.
Some of the Dace or Roach where rising to insects but it was impossible to make a decent presentation with the dry fly.
Blossoms on the water.
On April the 30 th. it is the birthday of the queen, a public holiday here in the Netherlands.
So I have an extra day of fishing tomorrow, I will once again go to Germany and maybe I will come across anonther brook trout.
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