Fly Fishing - Flyfishing Germany

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

I tied some nymphs on Friday to see their effect on the
shiners in the stream.
Tied some bead head nymphs with golden beads, fluo orange beads and
body's of pheasant tail and green / claret / pink dubbing.

First mission was to find any fish to try the nymphs on.
My usual shiner spot was empty, I also noticed that the water
was very low.

Low water.

I found a group of Dace in a faster flowing section while a bunch of Roach where just outside of the main flow behind a brush.
I could spot the fish and soon had the first takers.

Roach

Dace

Some of the Dace where actually surface feeding on the tiny Mayflies, not sure which species of Mayfly they where.
The large Danica Mayflies where still absent, I guess another effect of the cold winter we had.
Since the day started sunny I had the hope of catching something on the dry fly but the weather quickly turned sour.

It is getting green in the great outdoors.

The nymph with the best results was the one with the copper body and the orange bead.
I suspect that the total weight contributed more to the succses than the color combination but I will tie some more of those.
The plain pheasant tail was also a producer, a very good pattern anywhere.
The pink, claret and orange nymphs where a no show, maybe they work in other streams but the shiners did not like them.

My next mission was to check if there where any trout left.
The first good pool was occupied by one of the bait guys so on to the
big pool below the watermill.

Below the mill.

I looked at the pool and could spot not one fish, strange.
A deeply fished streamer yielded no results, I had expected at least a little yellow perch.

In the slow moving section above the watermill I saw some fish feeding in the surface but that fishing in the middle of town was not my cup of tea.
I headed further into the forest and caught some more shiners on the nymph.
At one spot I noticed agressive surface feeding by one fish which could only mean trout.
Since the fish rose not that often I fished with a nymph which was pretty quick intercepted.

Nice fish, crappy picture.

To bad the camera was in a wrong mode, the dial had slipped in my pocket and the result was this picture with focus on the background.
At the other pools in the forest I had no luck, judging by the footsteps on the banks I suspected that the trout had been cleared out.

On the way back to town I fished my shiner spot for a second time with a heavy tungsten glitter nymph.
It yielded a nice Dace - I guess heavy was the trick on this day.

Dace

The trout content in the stream is getting low.
Next week I will head into the Harz Mountains in Eastern Germany hopefully encountering more trout.