Fishing Tales

It was a hot, sunny day in July of 2001 when a friend and I embarked on our first musky fishing adventure on Webster Lake in Indiana. Like many "musky pioneers" before us, we started the day as optimistic as can be. After 9 straight hours of casting and nothing to show for our efforts, my lure choosing skills finally paid off when my first musky appeared from the depths and completely inhaled my Salmo Perch!

Where most of the land does not belong to anybody, where there are practically no roads and the average population density is 1 person per 2 square kilometres (and half of the people live in the capital city). 99% of water is crystal pure and the air is polluted only by periodic fires in the steppes. No wonder this "promised land" is a frequent destination of fishing trips for all those who do not fear the inconvenience of travel and lack of tourist facilities.

It was a windy day in August. I was fishing with fishing friend Sander Paans. We do not often fish together, but if we do we mostly catch big fish. His personal best pike with 125cm long was caught from my boat while we did some zander fishing with a fire-ball set-up.

The plan was to do some trolling and casting to see if we could catch some (big) pike. The day went realy well for me. First pike caught was 105cm long. Not long after I managed to catch a pike from...

Nowadays we can find quite a number of quality lures on the market. Among them a few are especially good for catfish. Already some time ago I heard that some of the Salmo lures are very effective in catching this predator. However, as far as I know, they were not created for this particular purpose. Some time ago I saw the Salmo show at the Hungarian Salmo Cup 2006. The lure that caught most of my attention then was the Salmo Skinner...

Not many species evoke so much emotion as the Danube salmon - Hucho hucho. Beautiful, dignified, reaching impressive size - the real queen of the mountain river. Still mysterious and difficult to catch, for many anglers it is a dream trophy, unreachable for many years.