Trout Fishing In Germany

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My three boxes are in the mail to Germany. They contain a 4 piece fly rod. One pair of waders.
Three fly boxes full to the brim with flies I bought or had tied. I have research this trip for a couple months and corresponded with numerous German anglers and I had the flies that would do the trick. I also enclosed three boxes of spinners and plugs. Two months of research sent out in the mail to Germany to avoid carrying so much baggage on the plane. I sent the boxes out early to make sure they were there plenty in ahead of time.


The day is here. My wife and I arrive at O'Hara. I have one extra pair of waders in my carry on
and an expandable net for netting that grayling I have been dreaming about for 2 months. We get through easily and we are on the plane. It is an overnight flight and I am pumped so full of expectations I can not sleep the entire way. My wife has been teasing me the entire way. She said : " You will catch nothing and be way disappointed. I kid her and say it will take 20 minutes and I will have a limit.

The plane touched down in Munich at 8:45am. We picked up our rent a car at the airport.
My hotel is in Oberau Germany. That is a 45 minute drive. It seemed eternal due to jet
lag and not sleeping for 20 hours.

Our hotel was The Edel Weise. I was in bed for 45 minutes. There was a loud kick on the door...I said kick not knock. It was my friend Jan. He said get your lazy butt out of bed. Jan said we were going scouting and needed to get dressed and come with him.

had planned this trip for 2 months. I had shipped all my gear ahead of me and had three different kinds of rigs and numerous flies and spinners. We were going to fish the Leinbach River.



We were targeting brown trout and grayling. The Leinbach is a glacier fed stream in the foothills of the Alps.








Jan is an old friend from my days of living in Germany. Almost 6 years. Jan is a member of the Munich Fishing Club and he got me a One Day Pass. ONE meter limit.


The Munich Club is Old School and dose NOT believe in catch and release. Between the 2 of us we were allowed to catch ONE meter worth of trout and MUST stop then. The meter could be numerous 2 inchers or a couple big ones. Because I was a guest of the club I needed NO license and needed to pay no fees.


Jan did NOT plan to scout....He wanted to fish. We got out of his van and he handed me a spinning road and said....Lets fish. He told me the fish were really hard to catch.

The streams were tight and hard to fish. I decided to wet wade. It was really cold.

20 minutes later and I had caught 3 (15) inchers and the 2 months of planning was wasted. I found wider deeper water and the trout were running in to each other trying to hit the spinner Jan gave me. It was some type of tiny Mepps product I had never seen.

Jan & I went to a friend's home in Oberau and then my Germany friends got to see three trout cleaned and grilled for the first time in their lives. A couple of German beers were enjoyed and I finally went back to the room and got some sleep.


The rest of the vacation was spent sight seeing in southern Germany and taking in some of the local flavor and refreshments.

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Great pictures Len and cool report. The stream was a lot smaller that I thought when you talked of Grayling. Thanks for shareing...

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she left after 5 minutes...
we walked upstream and the
waterway became much bigger
deeper but of course my wife was
off taking photos of other important
stuff like mountains and flowers.