I came back yesterday evening after four days of heavy fishing in Germany's Harz region. Overslept today so I called the boss that I would be later in. For now I can share a pic of one of the many brown trout I caught in the beautifull Harz mountain region.


Brown trout.

I learned a lot on this trip. Like not always sticking to nymph fishing. I had some fabulous time fishing the dry fly. I also learned to watch out while wading through weed patches. I slipped over a large flat hidden rock and went for a brief swim in the river.

Although I had a waterproof camerabag with me I was careless enough to leave it open while wading. So I slipped and fell in the water and the water entered the camera bag where my digital SLR was housing. I was standing upright again in seconds but water had already entered the bag.
A quick drying session on the banks and a functional test of the camera followed. It did still function but some buttons where not operational anymore and the small amounts of water that had gotten into the camera condensed in the lens. It all dried out a day later and thank god the camera is fully functional again. I can assure you it will not happen again, I mean the camera part then

Since I cannot edit messages at this board (hint ...) here a revised message with some more pictures I took.

I came back yesterday evening after four days of heavy fishing in Germany's Harz region.
With four guys from my local flyfishingclub we fished the Bode river in what used to be Eastern
Germany (DDR).


The bode downstream from Altenbrak

The river is a spring fed stream that flows throug a mountain range (1600-3600ft)
Lots of slippery stones and weed patches in the river.


The Bode downstream from Treseburg

Mayflies where hatching and fish where responding well to both dries and nymphs. Stomach contents from some trout destined for dinner contained stonefly- and caddis nymphs.


Stonefly

Overslept today so I called the boss that I would be later in. For now I can share some pics of the many brown trout that roam the beautifull Harz mountain region.


Brown trout.

I learned a lot on this trip. Like not always sticking to nymph fishing. I had some fabulous times fishing the dry fly. It was my first dry fly fishing this season, it was much more effective than nymph fishing. I had a ball casting upstream to rising fish.
I also learned to watch out while wading through weed patches. I slipped over a large flat hidden rock and went for a brief swim in the river.


Slippery when wet

Although I had a waterproof camerabag with me I was careless enough to leave it open while wading. So I slipped and fell in the water and the water entered the camera bag where my digital SLR was housing. I was standing upright again in seconds but water had already entered the bag.
A quick drying session on the banks and a functional test of the camera followed. It did still function but some buttons where not operational anymore and the small amounts of water that had gotten into the camera condensed in the lens. It all dried out a day later and thank god the camera is fully functional again. I can assure you it will not happen again, I mean the camera part then.


Hans with a Bode trout.

The picture above was taken at my "swimming pool". It was in a small town where loads of tourist would pass by. When I was "swimming" it was quiet though (on a working day). In the weekend the place was crowded with people. Only fished there then for five minutes because I got the feeling I was the main attraction in the "Zoo" [grin]


The Bode at Treseburg


A view from the bridge above

Even though some locals said the fish in town where put in by the local tourist / visitors bureau and uncatchable we managed to get quite a few of them. It was fun for a while but we soon moved out to find a more suitable place to fish.


Brown on the dry fly


First trout from the bode

I caught my first Bode trout actually in front of the small house we stayed in. We where a very short distance from the big Bode reservoir. The huge dam was in walking distance of our cabin.


The bridge over the Bode at Wendefurth, just next to our cabin.

Hi Marcel, the best report amd pics yet! what kind of camera do you use? is it special to be able to take those close ups?
Mark

The camera I use nowadays is a Canon Digital Rebel. It's a digital SLR camera with good picture quality and many features. You can take nice closeups with it like the nymphs for example. I used the analog rebel before and was quite contend with it. The many features and the fact that I can use different lenses made me choose for the SLR camera.

Usually I fit a polarizing lens on the camera to remove the glare on the water so I can take pictures of moving fish. It's a fairly new camera so I still have to fiddle some more with it to get to learn it. I am quite happy with the camera so far, it also turned out to be reasonably waterproof

Still have not used the tele lens but gonna try it pretty soon. We have got these beautifull blue colored kingfishers flying around at our local streams and I want to catch one on Digital film.