Vantastic Lukas: Here we go again
It was quiet on my blog. After a gearbox breakdown in the French Alps, I was back home for about 2.5 months. Some appointments and festivities were scheduled. I have also acquired a little companio...
Meeting point Red Land On a Thursday evening two weeks ago, after four days without fishing, I had had enough of the beach and tourists who were slowly gathering in the beautifully situated places ...
Vantastic Lukas: Here today, there tomorrow
Along the Pyrenees After a jump-start that I gave to a local Frenchman in the lake parking lot, I headed east along the Pyrenees. As always, there were a few bodies of water on the way, which I qui...
Vantastic Lukas: Summer fishing
What am I doing? After I had caught a lot of half-strong wild scaly carp in three nights on a natural lake several hundred hectares in size, but my motivation was gradually running out of steam, I ...
Unknown country On Friday afternoon, a day earlier than planned, Bruno and I said goodbye on the side of the road as my friend began the 15-hour journey home and I was about to take a trip to the u...
Vantastic Lukas: The road trip continues
Because of the poor weather forecast, Bruno and I decided to head south in the second week of our “road trip”... Stuck, I drove a little unsteadily up the destroyed forest path, which was in even w...
Vantastic Lukas: Off to the Massif Central
Road trip with unpleasant symptoms Three weeks of fishing together with my friend Bruno, three weeks of road trip through central France, fishing new waters and seeing something different from the ...
Vantastic Lukas: Spell of the Jungle (2)
Under the spell of the jungle I slowly drove my loaded boat and my focused gaze through the polar glasses along the flooded banks to an area of water that I had set as a meeting point with Christ...
Vantastic Lukas: Spell of the Jungle (1)
Location in the jungle Another quick coffee on the side of the road, where I had been fishing directly from the lake last night from the car, and then we went on to a body of water that was at the ...
Familiar areas After a quick shop on Sunday lunchtime to stock up on the necessary food for the coming days, I arrived a short time later at the stretch of water I was already familiar with. I had ...
Vantastic Lukas: Easter with obstacles
Away from the Easter hustle and bustle When Michael and I finished loading our cars after our session together in the afternoon, I wanted to check out two new bodies of water in the area. They shou...
Sim card from the machine After I said goodbye to my friend Starki and my food supplies were replenished at Sebastien's, there was still one question to be answered: How and where do I buy a Fr...
Hammer Tackle presents: Steffen Hambsch
Hammer Tackle presents: Like a clockwork – Steffen Hambsch Daniel Hammer meets his long-time mate Steffen Hambsch for a night at the bankside at the beginning of September and asks him questions ab...
I'm getting less and less comfortable with social media. I'm not at all interested in what Hinz and Kunz do all day and what they spread on the Internet - but I'm still attracted to it....
Winter carpfishing in Spain (II)-en
<p>Emptiness dominated my feelings after another fishless night. Somehow I couldn’t sense the meaning of this trip. Too many rare things had happened in my relationship. Doubts were accumulat...
Winter carpfishing in Spain (I)
It’s three weeks that I left the (actually not so) sunny South and returned to Middle Europe. It feels like ages though. And I really miss freedom and solitude of the Extremadura. Once more the 500...
A term that, in my opinion, has been and continues to be used a little too inflationarily in recent years. However, it is not my place to make judgments or to admonish the actions of other people a...
Good quality, the right color, the right size and above all – a fair price. I had these characteristics in mind the whole time - it seems to be catching on! Thank you for the trust you have placed ...
The Carp Gypsies kindly sent me this picture. PS – busy crossing in Spain, I hope the life jackets were on! 😉
Like his dog Boatswain, HammerDash has been Chris Ackermann's constant companion for several months now...
Some of my customers placed some huge orders! Thanks a lot, lads!
Dear “Kai Ro” has also found Dash on his back…
The “watertight” Uwe in luck! 😉