Let’s start with the conclusion : I’ve just broken twice my PR brown river trout. Magnificent wild fish, and merely made possible by friendship.
Read more “No Johan, the fish is only a good 40 cm…”
As you may have noticed over the last couple of years, we have a special bond with sightfishing the nymph in France, targetting difficult fish at the end of the season. In these conditions, fishing requires lots of precision and discretion if you want to have a chance to catch some trout. Read more “Gold Rush Zebra Trout in France! We’re back!”
We’ve all heard about it over here, but only few went out to give it a try. The reservoir of Meerheuvel – and yes, for once we can call a Belgian reservoir a real lake for fly fishing – opened its doors for our Rodtrip team on a glacial day in January 2017.
Two years have passed since the last time we went to France to fish the gorgeous zebra trouts of the Albarine.
The call of the clear water river was so strong that last Wednesday, we decided, Mathias and me, to go meet her again.
Read more “Gold rush in France, sight fishing for zebra trout and grayling on the Albarine”
Like every year in March, trout fishing starts. We are always very excited to go back to the river and to catch our first fish on the fly.
Read more “The Rodtrip boys tell you their fishing opening !”
We all seem to get lost a little when we tackle a new river, dries ? nymphs ? streamers ? Which technique will make the fish eat our flies ?
Read more “How to approach a new river, when tackling it for the first time ?”
We spent our last weekend in France and it was 100% fly fishing ! We were invited at Coyolles for the Rise festival and we had in mind to try new lakes for pike in the same area.
We hit the road again and head north, up to a river known for good trout fishing.
Red hot sun. Summer is really making it’s name as we leave Dusseldorf airport for a 3 and a half hour flight – final destination: Reykjavik.
The Ambleve is one of the most splendid rivers in Belgium, so in our Rodtrip mindset we wanted to show and share our views and experiences during the 2014 season on this particular riversystem.
She did it again this year, she made us crazy all over again.