My buddy Joop and I went to Germany this weekend on our first trip to the local fishing
ground since our successful Southern Germany trip.
After visiting southern Germany and catching ridiculous amounts of trout we knew that fishing
the home waters would be tough.

On the last trip my wading shoes had fallen apart so the first thing to do was to visit the
tackle shop and get new ones.
Since I was due to leave on another grand trip pretty soon it was of utmost importance
to get the new shoes.
If the local guy did not have them on stock I would have to quit my fishing plans and head west
to visit the nearest other flyfishingshop.

Luckily for me our local dealer had the right shoes in the right size so nothing could stop us from going fishing. 
I was pretty quick ready and walked with the new wading shoes down to the pool below the watermill.
There was barely any water flowing over the weir and levels had dropped to an all time low.
At least the fish where concentrated in one spot know, I could see countless small fish and a few
cruising carp in the shallows.

My first bet was on perch or trout so I dragged a streamer through the pool.
To my surprise fishing the streamer did not result in one single hit so it was time to switch over to nymph fishing.


Outflow of the mill.

Joop headed into the shade of the forest pretty soon while I dropped a nymph in front of the weir
where fish where actively rising.
The gold bead nymph pretty turned out to be a good choice since it delivered takes instantly.


Dace


Roach

After a while the sun and the heat where too much for me so I also headed into the forest to cool down. 



In the forest.

The low water levels made it possible to wade through the complete length of the stream so I
could get to spots that where otherwise inaccessible from the shore.
I was somewhat disappointed by the lack of deep holes on the unknown stretches but at least
I had a good idea where to fish once water would return to normal levels.
At least I encountered one deep hole with rising fish it.
A gold bead nymph was soon intercepted by a small brown trout that put up a good fight.

Brown trout

In the mean time Joop was not far located from my position, he called in on the radio to tell me he
was in to his third rainbow trout.
I visited his spot and fished a nymph right along a sunken tree where Joop had seen a rainbow just a
short while before.
The rainbow was still there as it came out from under the tree to intercept my nymph, he just missed it.
While I retrieved the line Joop had already thrown the streamer on the same spot and seconds later his rod
was bowing to the rainbow trout, what an evil man he is.


Joop in action with his custom mini rod.

For a couple of hours fishing in hot sticky weather the results where not that bad.
Joop had four rainbow trout and two perch while I had two dace, to roach, a brown trout
and a mini version of a perch.