Blog

Whether entertaining stories from our authors, interesting HowTos or news about Hammer Tackle: We wish you the best of entertainment on the following pages!

Zwölf Monate Karpfenangeln: Dranbleiben im November

Twelve months of carp fishing: Keeping at it in November

I've made it easy for myself with this column for November. Due to a lack of time, I only wrote it afterwards, at the beginning of December, and can therefore incorporate the experiences of the la...

Guido Richard: 1. Advent Blog - Spätherbstangeln am Szene-Baggersee

Guido Richard: 1. Advent Blog - Spätherbstangeln am Szene-Baggersee

In den meisten Jahren beende ich meine Karpfenangelsaison um Mitte November, wenn die Wassertemperatur einstellig wird und die ersten Hochwasserwellen den Fluss runterrollen. In die Karten spielte ...

Hit the road Jake: Organisation ist alles – 10 Wochen Roadtrip im Twingo

Hit the road Jake: Organisation is everything - 10 weeks road trip in the Twingo

If there's one place I'm longing for, it's probably the Atlantic coast in the north of Spain at the moment. Few landscapes in Europe impress me so much and unite all my passions in one place. The ...

Zwölf Monate Karpfenangeln: Magischer Oktober

Twelve months of carp fishing: Magical October

The initially hot September, with temperatures of over 30 degrees, turned in southern Germany in the second week of September, becoming wet and windy and giving us the finest fishing weather inste...

Hit the road Jake: Drei Jahre im Revue

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 ...

Zwölf Monate Karpfenangeln: Action im September

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...

Zwölf Monate Karpfenangeln: Sommerpause Juli?

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...

Pascal Bouillon: Frühling heißt Wachwerden

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...

Zwölf Monate Karpfenangeln: Juni, die große Ernüchterung (oder doch nicht?)

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...

Zwölf Monate Karpfenangeln: der Mai

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: In der Ferne werden Erinnerungen wieder lebendig (3)

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: In der Ferne werden Erinnerungen wieder lebendig (2)

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: In der Ferne werden Erinnerungen wieder lebendig (1)

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: La grosse… Fève | Hammer Tackle

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! Bonne année !!!! | Hammer Tackle

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: Abenteuer Karpfenangeln in Griechenland | Hammer Tackle

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...

Vantastic Lukas: Regnerischer Reisebeginn Richtung Griechenland | Hammer Tackle

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: Ein zäher Sommer an der Elbe | Hammer Tackle

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: Du Wild Fishing au Street Fishing | Hammer Tackle

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: Kleines Paradies mit türkisfarbenem Wasser | Hammer Tackle

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: Petit paradis aux eaux turquoises  | Hammer Tackle

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: Auftakt an der Elbe | Hammer Tackle

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 ...

Vantastic Lukas: Zurück in Frankreich (2) | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Back in France (2)

The next horror action Further chub action on the rigs that were still in the water finally forced me to haul in two more rods, until in the end I only had one rod left on the spot. Towards the aft...

Vantastic Lukas: Zurück in Frankreich | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Back in France

A spontaneous meeting I spent three days at a lake at the foot of the Spanish Pyrenees. The area was unique, right behind my parking space was an old abandoned village. According to research, the l...