Fly Fishing

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

Flyfishing Germany – Diemel river Sept. 9th.

This weekend I went for the second time to the Diemel river in search of Grayling and Trout.
Last week a sudden release of the reservoir upstream ended our fishing day prematurely although we still managed to catch some fish.
I was on the road with Harry, a fellow member of my Dutch flyfishing club.
This time we took another route through Germany that supposedly was faster, when the Autobahn suddenly ended in a rural village we had to travel further on the local roads meaning snail speed.
I do not know how it happened but somehow we ended in the smack of Bielefeld, a larger town not too far from our final destination.
In the end we still made it to the river but a little later than expected.

The river was clean and the levels had obviously returned to values more suitable for us flyfishermen.
The weather was however not that friendly, rain showers and a strong wind destroyed my hopes of dry fly fishing immediately.
Fishing was tough at the beginning of the day but after 15 minutes I could hook the first fish, a smallish brown trout.
Harry soon had another Grayling at the end of his line.

Even though the weather was miserable there where still some insects hatching and I spotted a few rising fish.
When the showers became more numerous and the wind picked up surface action ended.
I had fished for a while with the dry fly but the lack of success soon had me fishing the nymph again.

In the afternoon we picked up our permits at a local pub and headed out to one of the nearby restaurants for lunch.
In the afternoon we tried another stretch of the river, we spend almost an hour probing the water without any takes.
When we came to a deep pool behind a small weir Harry had success with a deep fished pink nymph.
I deployed one of Harry’s Tungsten depth charge nymphs and hooked a nice fat brown trout that way.

Upstream from the small weir the water yielded more small browns for me.
Harry got yet another Grayling at that spot, somehow those Grayling where avoiding me on this day.
In front of me was the “no fishing” zone that lay behind the large weir in the river.
I bypassed that zone by what I though was a short cut, a miscalculation since I had to crawl through dense vegetation.
The dammed part above the large weir was slow moving and there where hardly any rising fish to be seen on the smooth surface.
Blind casting a copper John yielded another trout though.
It was not very much later when I destroyed my rod.
I struck a tree instead of a fish and the joint of my Trout bum rod split in half.
This happened just a couple of minutes before we headed home so I had no time to deploy my spare rod.

So it was another fine day in the great outdoors despite the rod break.
Maybe we will give the river another try next weekend so I might finally catch some more Grayling before the Trout seasons ends down here.

TroutBone · Location: Bavaria, Germany

love the Pictures....I'm really getting anxious in getting over and do some fishing in the european continent....keep the story and pictures rolling.

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

The season is about to close so there are not so many stories about trouting ahead.

But .... there is still plenty of other stuff to pursuit.
For instance it will still be possible to go for searun browns in the Baltic and off course for Pike in my home waters here in the Netherlands.

I think you will do ok where you will be located when you get your fishing documents.