Today I went to Germany and visited my trout stream.
In recent days the river was flooding but water flows had returned almost to normal.

There where some mayflies on the water but most where intercepted mid air by the local bird population.
Now and then you could see a rising fish but nothing consistent.
Even the normally abundant roach seemed to be absent.
The usual trout hideouts still contained fish and soon I had a trout racing after the black streamer I was fishing.

I fished the outflow of the watermill to see if there where perch around but only got one strike which I missed.
Since fish where still rising I tied on a dry fly and went on the lookout for active fish.
The first specimen I saw was a good sized trout that was rising a couple of times close to the opposite bank.
I managed to get my fly in the right spot and the trout jumped clear out of the water to nail the fly.
These acrobatics where in vain though because the fly was missed.
The second fish I spotted was more accurate and nailed the dry fly right away.

As I walked back to the train station I located the missing roach,
all the fish where massed near the outflow of the local sewage treatment plant.
That part of the river was lined with shrubs on both banks so casting was Impossible.
I managed to make a shot with the camera though of a school of smaller roach behind a submerged willow tree.

So the action was slow but I was more than happy with the two brown trout.
I know there a prettier rivers with bigger fish in them but when you live in a trout-less country like the Netherlands this is sheer paradise.