Guido Richard: My favorite month
April, April, my favorite month! Nature is slowly becoming green again, the trout are catching mayflies again, the carp are getting into the feeding mood again and are often enjoying the first warm...
Hit the road Jake: A Midsummer Night's Dream
I feel like I've stumbled a bit into summer this year. Stumbled in, so to speak, without knowing exactly where the journey was going and at the same time a little surprised by everything. Yes, ...
Guido Richard: start of the season (2)
At the end of the last blog I reported on the few ice-cold nights where I caught the pretty zeiler, luckily at the end of this week it slowly got warmer, no more frost overnight and even the occasi...
Lucas in Search of Magic: Return to the Red Lands
For this return to the Devil's Banks, I arrive at the end of the afternoon and decide to explore several areas that could potentially hold fish. Always the same strategy, no boat, waders and po...
Hit the road Jake: Sign of the times
16 days of adventure were experienced before the Opel was loaded one last time with a mountain of wet and smelly equipment and soon transported us towards home along country roads, cycle paths and ...
Hit the road Jake: A quick review
Once again, a few weeks have passed since I posted a blog. So let’s jump back a few weeks today. We are in the first week of April and are enjoying the arrival of spring. It is afternoon when I dri...
Lucas in search of magic: Beautiful encounter in the Red Land
After a great few days at work I'm taking two nights off to go back to fishing, as always, it will be in a big lake. The red earth and the devil's lights begin to fail, it is the opportunit...
Guido Richard: Start of the season
At the beginning of November the fishing season ended very abruptly. The second Corona lockdown again brought a ban on movement and fishing. It was hilarious. Then, in mid-December, the restriction...
Lucas in search of magic: relax and hunt in the barrage
After the friendly meeting with Medhi at the launch of the previous dam, I drive down the kilometers behind the wheel of the van to join Nico in Aveyron. After a few nights alone, a little socializ...
Hit the road Jake: Long way out
Clutched with an icy fistThe horizon sealedNo breeze that will carry to meThe birds' lonely song It's the end of March, I'm sitting in the warm living room with a coffee and looking los...
Lucas in Search of Magic: Return to the Dam
Several days have passed since the start of the cold snap, the wind does not let up, swirls up the water and cools it down quickly, the few degree increases since the beginning of the year are bein...
Lucas in Search of Magic: The Recovery
After a winter focused more on sports and evenings out, it's time to get active again. We also have a weekend free together with Rems, not for a second, we're joining in! We want to move ar...
Vantastic Lukas: The perfect ending
In the right place at the right time I wasn't the only one who really liked the consistently beautiful weather in inland Spain. It got the fish in the mood to spawn despite the still low water ...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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: 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...
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: 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...