Germany 20-04-2019

Germany 20-04-2019

It was a warm and quite windy day with a lot of insect activity .
I spotted a lot of grannom and hawthorn flies so I tied on a CDC F-fly and went looking for rising or surface feeding fish.
There was a lot of debris on the water and the fish which I spotted where
rather picky.
I managed to catch a few dace but a lot of offerings where bluntly ignored.
There where some larger fish in the slow moving stretch I fished which I
believed where trout as they behaved differently than the dace.
One of these fish was on stationary near the opposite bank I fished and
went for the F-fly as it came into view, unfortunately not a solid hookup.

With the arrival of the crowds I choose a more secluded spot and switched to fishing a small nymph.
I could spot a lot of fish behind some debris and caught several roach from under the submerged brushes.
Again I spotted a trout and got wind from the local anglers that the stretch had been recently stocked.
I ended the day in the forrest where surface activity dictated the use
of a dry fly.
Dace where feeding actively in one spot but I missed almost every take because these fish where so fast in taking the fly and rejecting it.
At one spot I missed the take of a larger trout but when I returned a while later and had a second go I got a good hookup.
The warm weather has been good for the fishing and I expect to see more
activity in the coming time.

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