Fly Fishing

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

Yesterday we where attending our first annual meeting at the German fishingclub we are members of. We picked up our new licenses for the upcoming season that starts March 15th.

We sat through the meeting listening to all the items on the agenda when the announcement was made that a local farmer had spilled sewage in the upper reaches of our stream and a unspecified number of fish had been killed. That upper stretch was the part that had been extensively stocked with small brown trout and for the first time grayling.

So today we ditched our plans to go pikefishing back home in the Netherlands and went instead on a "dead fish count" exercise in Germany.
We found no dead fish but did see signs of the sewage because of foam in the upper reaches. Let's hope the spill has not wiped out all the fish.

There was one positive thing about our diverted plans this morning. We found some nice new spots in one of the feeder streams to our river. A very small ditch that contained some surprisingly deep holes. That will be our location for close combat jungle warfare this summer. Below some pics of the stream as it looks right now in the dead of winter.

One of hour honey holes

Same place viewed downstream

Another "fishy" spot

The place where our river gets it's name, the junction of two feeder streams.

Joop pointing out a hole in the feeder stream

Feeder stream

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

That STINKS

Fly99 · Posted: Mon 01/31/05 11:52 am Post subject:

was the farmer fined? I know that many places require permits if close to where it is known to be breeding grounds for fish? Confused

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

The farmer is fined. The bad thing is that most life in the feeder is presumably dead and it will take years before it is back in its old state.
We will have to see how much the damage is downriver.