Fly Fishing

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

Slipped out for a short morning session to Germany to
fish the small feederstreams of our main stream.
The water was low, fish where very active.
Many places where so overgrown that I hardly recognized them
from a few weeks ago.

All the shrubs prevented dry fly fishing - there was simply no room to make a cast. I fished the deeper places first with nymphs to get to the shiners and trout.
Pools where the nymph did not yield takes where probed with streamers.
Got my largest rainbow trout on one of the small feeder streams, unbelievable that fish of that size are in that ditch.

A roach, got several of them on the goldbead pt nymph.

Small rainbow, missed several fish - two stayed connected.

Feederstream nr. 1, it was good for one shiner - hardly any water left in there.

My best rainbow caught in feeder stream nr. 2, a strong fish that put up a hefty battle on the four weight.

ncwatermanpg · Location: Raleigh

I love it! Good fish from small water; always been into that! Thanks for the report

joey · Location: Colorado

Nice fish Marcel. Finding fish in that skinny water must be fun. I always enjoy reading your reports. Keep them coming.

waterwhippa · Location: Upstate, NY

Super healthy Rainbow and another fine Roach. Well done Marcel!

liphooked · Location: Australia

Hi Marcel.
Nice fish for a small stream.
Reminds me,of the streams over here,the vegetation is also similar.
Back in the 60's every small stream held similar size fish,however the stocks were decimated from fishing,properties broken up into smaller blocks,drought etc.