Marcel_Karssies Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 It was a warm and quite windy day with a lot of insect activity . I spotted a lot of grannom and hawthorn flies so I tied on a CDC F-fly and went looking for rising or surface feeding fish. There was a lot of debris on the water and the fish which I spotted where rather picky. I managed to catch a few dace but a lot of offerings where bluntly ignored. There where some larger fish in the slow moving stretch I fished which I believed where trout as they behaved differently than the dace. One of these fish was on stationary near the opposite bank I fished and went for the F-fly as it came into view, unfortunately not a solid hookup. With the arrival of the crowds I choose a more secluded spot and switched to fishing a small nymph. I could spot a lot of fish behind some debris and caught several roach from under the submerged brushes. Again I spotted a trout and got wind from the local anglers that the stretch had been recently stocked. I ended the day in the forrest where surface activity dictated the use of a dry fly. Dace where feeding actively in one spot but I missed almost every take because these fish where so fast in taking the fly and rejecting it. At one spot I missed the take of a larger trout but when I returned a while later and had a second go I got a good hookup. The warm weather has been good for the fishing and I expect to see more activity in the coming time. skinnywater 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBob Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyrodder44 Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 Marcel: Thanks for the report. I noticed we have those yellow flowers here and the flowers in the next to last pix we actually have in our garden. The world is smaller than we think! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secampb1 Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 is it true that a lot of places in Germany have laws against catch and release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel_Karssies Posted April 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 Eh ... all of them ... exceptions are legal size / slot size or let's say a fish species you did not target but caught anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secampb1 Posted April 24, 2019 Report Share Posted April 24, 2019 9 hours ago, Marcel_Karssies said: Eh ... all of them ... exceptions are legal size / slot size or let's say a fish species you did not target but caught anyway. interesting, sounds like there are some big loop holes with the "target species" definition. Do you find the populations remain strong with a lot of release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel_Karssies Posted April 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2019 Depends on the species, most of the trout are clubbered out of the water as soon as they are stocked so that species will never recover. The once natural reproducing population is lots to the regs, environmental impact and fishing pressure of modern times. Most of the other species are not of interest to meat anglers except maybe eels but those are threatened due to overfishing and not around anymore in the numbers they used to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secampb1 Posted April 25, 2019 Report Share Posted April 25, 2019 23 hours ago, Marcel_Karssies said: Depends on the species, most of the trout are clubbered out of the water as soon as they are stocked so that species will never recover. The once natural reproducing population is lots to the regs, environmental impact and fishing pressure of modern times. Most of the other species are not of interest to meat anglers except maybe eels but those are threatened due to overfishing and not around anymore in the numbers they used to be. interesting, thanks for the first hand info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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