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Germany August 17th. 2014

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Marcel_Karssies

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For this Sunday the weather predictions where pretty miserable so it could have been a reason not to go.

The predictions had recently been pretty of the mark so I went anyway.

The first stop on my route was the stream at its headwater where many small ditches from the surrounding

hills formed the stream.

I had not been there for a long time and the main reason was that most of my honey holes had been filled

with sand.

 

After each season the stream changed its face, deep spots dissappear and new ones are created.

Especially in the shallow upstream waters depth was the keyword for cathing fish.

Two feet was usually enough for sheltering fish.

The only life I spotted was a big fat muskrat that had climbed up the bank to get to the green grass.

 

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Fall like weather.

 

The headwaters where not productive so it was off downstream to other hot spots.

At one particular pool I had caught some fish in the past but now I could not even find the entrance

to the spot as the shrubs and grasses had grown tremendously during the last weeks.

When I finally cut my way through the high nettles I immediately noticed some roach fleeing into

the deep section of the pool - fish where present.

 

Nymphing yielded no fish so I tied on a small zonker streamer to check if any agressive trout would be

present but that approach also failed.

It got me thinking that maybe I was not fishing deep enough as the fish had obviously spotted me

and where hunkering down.

I tied on a very light fluorocarbon tippet and fished the same spots as before with a small beadhead

pheasanttail nymph.

The re-arranged setup worked as my indictor went down and I connected to a fish.

To my surprise it was a brown trout, a very acrobatic one as it went airborne.

I was wondering if I would be able to hold the fish with the light tippet but with some luck and

my forgiving full flex flyrod I could counter all runs of the trout.

The light setup also worked for the resident roach who where holding up beside the main current.

 

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Days end

 

It seems the days of high summer are over and a more fall like weather pattern has set.

Hopefully we can enjoy some more nice days before the season really ends.

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I don't know how the seasons influence the weather in Germany, but here in Rhode Island things seem to heat up for fishing.  Either that or the blustery winds and dropping temperatures weed out the 95% casuals that fish for trout in the state.  The brown trout seem to go into a frenzy as they begin to fight one another for prime spawning grounds in both lakes and rivers.  


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Weather this summer has been ok so far but recently we have had some quite

extreme downpours that caused locally quite some damage.

The remains of TS Bertha have made it to our shores changing the weather pattern

with more rain and cooler temperatures.

 

There might be a small improvement in temperature at the end of the month which

is just in time for my last trouting trip of the year in the Harz mountains.

There the trout season there closes mid September, never been there so late in the season

so it should be interesting to fish there.

 

As I have worked during the summer holidays I still have some vacation time left

so I will make it to your side of the pond this fall.

I was pondering about Rhode Island as I would have loved to fish the surft there but

in the end choose Florida again as they do better work protecting their fisheries.

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Its funny that you say that because I agree. Our fishery is horribly managed.  Half of the times when I head out there to fish, I end up coming home with a complete sense of disgust and loss of hope for humanity as a whole.  We may be the smallest state, but we have the largest scumbag fishing community. 


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