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Vantastic Lukas: Frühling in Spanien | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Spring in Spain

Wintering in Portugal It's been over 3 months since I last wrote a blog. A lot has happened during this time and I simply haven't had the motivation to write about the current situation. Ra...

Guido Richard: Der große Traum | Hammer Tackle

Guido Richard: The big dream

The story begins in May 2019. I returned to France from a full year of fly fishing in New Zealand. And I was excited to go carp fishing again! But neither the canal nor the usual small reservoirs i...

Guido Richard: Une première à Saint Cassien (4) | Hammer Tackle

Guido Richard: A premiere in Saint Cassien (4)

Like every morning, well before sunrise we head out onto the water to the famous pointy point mentioned in the previous blog. In the morning we have a very precise routine to load the boats without...

Guido Richard: Une première à Saint Cassien (3) | Hammer Tackle

Guido Richard: A premiere in Saint Cassien (3)

Quite satisfied with the fishing of the last few days, we treated ourselves to a morning of intensive fishing from the bridge parking lot, took the opportunity to shop and reorganize our chaos a bi...

Vantastic Lukas: Weihnachtssession am Megasee | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Christmas session at the Megasee

Unwelcome In mid-December, Bianca and I spent our time on the coast of the Algarve. We looked for places that seemed “safe” to us and where we didn’t have to expect police contact. Of course it was...

Hit the road Jake: Neue Stadt, neues Glück (2) | Hammer Tackle

Hit the road Jake: New city, new luck (2)

A look into the landing net, your knees shake, then a scream of joy across the river. Secretly I was hoping for a fish like that. Of course not a giant for the German quarry lake conditions, but th...

Hit the road Jake: Neue Stadt, neues Glück | Hammer Tackle

Hit the road Jake: New city, new luck

Wind, waves, a slightly salty taste on the tongue. With every step I sink slightly into the fine sand. The brackish water washes coolly around my bare feet. I can't see the ground, even though ...

Vom Inland zum Ozean und zurück | Hammer Tackle

From inland to ocean and back

The dream spot Bianca and I spent a week in a wonderful place far away from any civilization. We were standing directly on a large headland of a several hundred hectare reservoir in the Algarve of ...

Guido Richard: Une première à Saint Cassien (2) | Hammer Tackle

Guido Richard: A premiere in Saint Cassien (2)

The wind didn't stop blowing during the night, the clouds in the sky darkened and gave hope of rain during the day. It must be 10am when I open my eyes, slumped on the flat chair, a little disa...

Angekommen in Portugal | Hammer Tackle

Arrived in Portugal

Spain in fast forward Bianca and I have covered a few kilometers since the last blog post. As quickly as we arrived in Asturias, a region in northern Spain on the Atlantic side, we left again just ...

Guido Richard: Une première à Saint Cassien (1) | Hammer Tackle

Guido Richard: A premiere in Saint Cassien (1)

At dawn on the third day, only a few rays of sunlight manage to break through the fog and reveal the structure of the famous green bridge. We navigate carefully on our small inflatable boats, scann...

Vantastic Lukas: Treiben lassen Richtung Portugal | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Let yourself drift towards Portugal

Atlantic here we come The few cold days in the Pyrenees were enough for us to want to move on to the warmer areas as quickly as possible. But I couldn't really say goodbye to France yet, so we ...

Vantastic Lukas: Neue Wege | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: New paths

The time has come When I finished my session at Teufelssee almost a week and a half ago, it was already clear what was coming next. For over 2 months I had been in contact with a lovely young woman...

Les aventures de Franck: BRAKASS, une autre vision | Hammer Tackle

The Adventures of Franck: BRAKASS, another vision

The story begins 6 years ago, when Soel Briche's video series were very successful in France. Unfortunately, the other side of the coin torments him and deprives him of the joy and desire to sh...

Vantastic Lukas: Durchwachsenes Angeljahr | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Mixed fishing year

First of all, arrive... When I arrived at “Lac du Diable” almost 2 weeks ago and met up with my buddy Aurelien and his buddy Guilhem, I didn't really feel like fishing. The weather didn't s...

Ein Tag Karpfenangeln am schönen Bleder See | Hammer Tackle

A day of carp fishing on beautiful Lake Bled

It's the same almost every year. At the end of August, the really hot weather goes away for the first time – at least for a few days. And it's exactly these days that the carp are really hi...

Vantastic Lukas: Spätsommer in Südfrankreich | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Late summer in southern France

Waiting time - fishing time Together with my friend Sébastien we went to the doctor he trusted at the beginning of last week. The reason for my symptoms was then to be examined in a laboratory. So ...

Vantastic Lukas: Good times - bad times | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Good times - bad times

The last night at the “feel-good spot” When I wrote the last blog at my “feel-good spot” right on the lake in a fantastic location, I had already stayed there for 9 days. Not really successful with...

Lucas à la recherche de la magie: Les carpes des la vallée oubliée pt.1 | Hammer Tackle

Lucas in Search of Magic: The Carp from the Forgotten Valley Part 1

Last year, during my summer trip, I decided to spend a few days in a valley to escape the high temperatures in the south of France. Always the same topo, an endless check of Google Maps with the re...

Vantastic Lukas: Entschleunigen | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Slow down

By-catches upon by-catches Christian and I thought ideal conditions for this lake near the Pyrenees as we looked at the lake in the wind and even occasionally saw a fish jumping out of the water fa...

Vantastic Lukas: Ständige Gewässerwechsel | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Constant changes of water

Bathers and campers everywhere There was just too much going on at the waters in the region at my friend Sebastien's place at the moment... I didn't feel like mingling with the crowd of bat...

Shutdown Fishing: Ein spontaner Roadtrip durch Deutschland | Hammer Tackle

Shutdown Fishing: A spontaneous road trip through Germany

Brisk wind shakes me awake early in the morning. The stretched tarp gradually comes loose because the short pegs can hardly find a hold in the fine sediment of the sand bank. Through sleepy eyes, y...

Vantastic Lukas: Es kommt immer anders | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: Things always turn out differently

Unexpected water level After about two hours of driving, I reached the lake in the Pyrenees. It showed itself in a picture that I had never seen before: the water level was very high at this time o...

Vantastic Lukas: Die zweite Heimat | Hammer Tackle

Vantastic Lukas: The second home

Arrived... On Friday July 31st, the hottest day of my tour so far, I reached the most familiar corner of southern France where my good friend Sebastien lives. I had arranged to go fishing with him ...