• fats prey 1

    Sunday afternoon after Easter, 2014.
    Actually later than usual on the muddy banks of the half-empty reservoir.
    2 trout I have a very short
    Time. Seems like a good place.
    Hmm ... should I go? Well .. a few litters yet!
    I'll get out and push the rod forward towards the lake. Invites you to be and at 11 o'clock I stop the movement. The Sbirolino lure sails through the air. I look after them and just before impact into the water I stop the string with a finger. Bait and Sbirolino clap far apart in the water. This is the meaning of the action described.
    I'll wait and let sbirolino time to sink. About 3 -4 seconds, it reaches about 2 -3 meters. Now I'm starting to crank. 2 or 3 turns
    remain only 4 seconds on. Approximately 2 meters behind the Sbirolino follows the bait. A fat earthworm so mounted on the heel that it rotates about its longitudinal axis at train and wobbles at the stops in the depth.
    The vibrations of the rotary take the Hunter (trout ....) Through the lateral line from a distance and see them (they have good eyes) the apparent weakness by tumbling.
    A sick, helpless little fish that the saving shallow littoral zone is trying to achieve.
    An easy prey. So my plan.

  • fats prey 2

    Suddenly a small jolt. I interrupt. Lower the rod, open the strap roller and wait. The index finger placed on the cord. All my senses turn on 100th
    Trout attack their prey often first only with a sudden impact, in order afterwards to be able to inhale the anesthetized fish easier.
    Hmm ... nothing? But .. first the cord moved only tentatively. I think they now fixed with light pressure between thumb and forefinger. A slight twitch. I close the bracket and span the cord. Then the rod pull high. Stop!
    The cord is clamped and the rod bends under the load.
    But Hello!
    Now the attempts to break the trout are clearly noticeable.
    The violent twitching continues up to the shoulder and despite stronger adjusted brake is the role still cord free.
    I fish with relatively light material
    (0.20 mm mainline and 0.18-he Trace). So too violent tearing is not a good idea. "With that you bring out a 6-kilogram chunk" was explained to me at times Hebeisen.
    but Calms me at all at the moment! Again and again I lift the rod and try to win some string during lowering. Wrong!
    I brace the end of the rod in the hip and pull gradually the brake a little harder on.
    Slowly seem the fish to disappear, the forces and I win string. But still the Browning flexes when pulling. Finally, the fish reported for the first time with a dull bludger at the surface and for a moment is its edge to see.
    Yeaaah! merely not lose your nerve now! Continue!
    Finally, the trout is exhausted by the water where I have drawn them.
    What a beauty! I feel the strength of the animal again while I hold it by the neck to execute the kick. It is finished.
    I kneel in front of the animal and admire those beefy, perfect shape.
    It is not cold, not muddy or anything. The time I forgot!
    Good !