This was our first day fishing at the “Untere Argen”.
The destination was picked out due to a rather positive description from a German website.
We left the Netherlands on Thursday afternoon and after a 7 hours plus drive we arrived in the town of Isny-Neutrauchburg.
This town was located on the borderline of the federal states of Baden-Württemberg / Bavaria and not for far from the Austrian and Swiss borders.
In the distance the mountain ranges of the Alps where visible with their snow covered slopes.
The fishing rights for the river where owned by the hotel we stayed in.
We had booked their special flyfishing package that covered the fishing license, three nights stay and breakfast.
Only guests of the hotel where allowed to fish the river, flyfishing with barbless hooks only.
The river was divided into 5 beats, we where allowed to fish the main river and a feeder stream called the Ach.
We could also fish a separate small stream up in the mountains by the name of “Eschach”.
After a breakfast at the hotel it was time to inspect the river, we stopped at a small bridge over the river and took a good look at the water.
The uniform pebble river bed with very clear water looked pretty intimidating to me.
Untere Argen.
We could not spot any fish from high above and saw no activity of any rising fish
further along the river.
I somehow got the feeling that I might get skunked or that it would be at least very difficult for me to hook any fish.
We drove further upstream and picked out a spot where we would start to fish.
I entered the river and started fishing the deeper outside of the river bend.
I was fishing a heavy nymph and was convinced the deeper trench would hold some fish.
The Czech nymph pattern yielded two fish for me on the way up so I was as happy as I could be, no skunk on this day.
Untere Argen.
Further upstream two anglers stepped in the river and proceeded to the deep pool I was headed for.
I had to change my plans and decided to wade downstream and probe the banks and deeper pools with a the streamer.
Casts along the bank yielded more brown trout for me.
Brown trout.
The deep trench I passed on the way upstream was holding more trout than I
had suspected.
One after the other trout raced after the streamer to nail it.
Fish from the trench.
The most common fish species was the brown trout but rainbow trout where also present.
There where some insects in the air but fish where not feeding on top.
All the fish I caught where lying deep and close to bank.
When I came to the bridge I saw one of my companions fishing the bank.
He had also caught his first couple of fish in the “Untere Argen” as did number three of our party.
In the afternoon we had a coffee break and made plans for the rest of the day.
The rest of the party had been successful and from their reports it sounded as if they had found a honey hole in the river.
Although fishing was good we had to explore other parts of the river.
Hopefully the other parts would be as pretty as the one we fished
in the morning.
Untere Argen June 9th. – Morning session
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