Hit the road Jake: Three years in review
The rain slowly starts to fall again. The drops patter loudly on the forest, the small river and my tent. It's the first harbinger of autumn, and this is exactly the moment I like to spend by the ...
Twelve months of carp fishing: Action in September
It's here! Probably the most action-packed month of the year. It's time for the big feast! No PVA utensils, preferably the big feeding ladle and pop-ups are used for the snowman at most. You can s...
Twelve months of carp fishing: The big feast starts in August
The title of this column has to be swallowed - especially if you are currently experiencing the summer heat. It's also a pretty tight number, with the start of the big feed in August. But in most ...
Guido Richard: From a folding boat then!
At the beginning of April, the weather finally improved and I suddenly felt the urge to get back on the water. On the evening before the day I was due to start, I first fed 2.5kg of boilies with t...
Guido Richard: Carefree and only when it's worth it
Mid-March 2024: Back from New Zealand. After around two and a half months of fishing and enjoying life on the South Island, it was time to return to Europe. I had spent the last fishing trip deep ...
Twelve months of carp fishing - summer break in July?
I want to start what was barely finished in June 2024; the love game. Unstable weather conditions, barely two days of sunshine in a row followed by torrential rain, resulting floods that barely su...
Guido Richard: Fly Fishing the Great Lakes of New Zealand
New Zealand, mid-January 2024: After two heavy days of rain, with up to 110mm of precipitation, the rivers on most of the South Island are murky and unfortunately too high for fly fishing. The p...
Pascal Bouillon: Spring means waking up
I had only just left autumn behind me, barely celebrated Christmas and New Year's Eve and the new season was already just around the corner. We anglers feel spring earlier than everyone else and l...
Twelve months of carp fishing: June, the big disillusionment
Fading hormones, partially bruised and damaged bodies, sunken bellies and seasonally low weights. The fat months are over! And really anyone can catch a carp. The finesse that was necessary in pre...
Soël "Wild Dream" Briche: Das wässrige Labyrinth
Das Karpfenangeln hat viele Gesichter. Ob es nun um die Art und Weise geht, wie man es betreibt, oder um die Vielfalt der möglichen Spielplätze, Langeweile scheint sich in dieser ebenso umfassenden...
Twelve months of carp fishing: May
The beautiful month of May is here! After the long winter months and the early and unstable spring months of March and April, the ‘real’ spring is now coming to life and you should soak up this sho...
Guido Richard: Memories come alive again in the distance (3)
January 2024, West Coast, New Zealand: This area can receive up to 6 metres of rain per year, the average for almost 250 days of rain. A fantastic area for fly fishing, but one that can very quick...
Guido Richard: Memories come alive again in the distance (2)
January 2024, New Zealand:I landed in Christchurch just under a week ago. Driss was already waiting for me there with my little four-wheel drive campervan, which will be my home for the next two mo...
Guido Richard: Memories come alive again in the distance (1)
January 2024, Dubai Airport:It's been a little less than four years since I left New Zealand just before the corona madness. Every winter since then, I've had to think about my friends there, about...
Soël “Wild Dream” Briche: The big… bean
August 2022, I have been working for some time on board a ship that we like to call “Grande Dame”. These few months in Nantes with “Tonton” have been very full of emotions, but I'm starting to ...
Soël “Wild Dream” Briche: 3,2,1 Hic! Happy New !!!!
On October 23, 2022, little Dylan decides to create a WhatsApp group to offer a small party with friends for the New Year. Even if the group consists of only five poor people, the suggestions are n...
Vantastic Lukas: Carp fishing adventure in Greece
Christmas and New Year's Eve on the Peloponnese Peninsula After the visit to the lake, which I wrote about at the end of the last blog, I put the carp rods aside for the time being. At least fo...
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Vantastic Lukas: Rainy start to the journey towards Greece
Looking back on days gone by on the Elbe A lot of water flowed down the Elbe the last time I hit the keys. This was about summer days in my hometown of Wittenberg on the Elbe. As tough as it was fi...
Vantastic Lukas: A tough summer on the Elbe
Summer project in Germany When Alex brought me his newly purchased van, a Sprinter L3H2, in April, I said: A new project and a lot of work for the summer months. Since I was planning on expanding m...
Rémy Desplace: From wild fishing to street fishing
With the heat still intense in France, the desire and need to return to the mountains is omnipresent! Two of my friends join the adventure... It's 8 a.m., after a good two hours of winding road...
Rémy Desplace: Small paradise with turquoise water
It all started 15 years ago on a traditional family outing... on a visually unique body of water. I caught the first carp in my fishing life! But it shouldn't stay that way. One day I just had ...
Rémy Desplace: Small paradise with turquoise water
It all started 15 years ago on a traditional family walk... A real visual favorite of this place. I was just starting to catch my first carp in my fishing life, but one day when I was more experien...
Vantastic Lukas: Start on the Elbe
Back in Germany After spending the first week in Germany with Alice in her homeland, I was supposed to go back to my hometown after 5 months of “overwintering”. One of the first things I did - how ...