Cold Water, Big Lures

In the dead of winter, I like to go for big lures. In my experience, the strikes on what seems like oversized prey are especially decisive. With cold water temperatures, I’ve honestly had nothing but good experiences so far.

The successful lure in this case was the 19 cm Hechtgummi (HG19).

Nice double trouble

Two decent zander in one evening — that actually happens quite rarely in my waters. Still, it’s always great to see that they’re still around.

The lure of the day was the ZG17 in gold glitter.

Pike Likes Perch

During the cold days, I came up with a few new designs and sprayed various models with them. In fact, so many that I can hardly keep up with actually fishing them all :-D 

Short, cold days don’t exactly make it any easier to get off the couch either.

Here being tested: the HG15 — the 15 cm version of the “Hechtgummi”.

Fat Winter Pike

Sometimes you just need a bit of luck. After the temperatures became a little more pleasant again over the last few days, I had to head out and pull a few soft plastics through the water. I was quite surprised when, at dusk, the rod suddenly bent over hard.

The fat pike couldn’t resist a prototype HG13.

The Mandatory Christmas Zander

As almost every year, the mission was to catch a Christmas zander. The additional challenge was my personal harvest window, which is unfortunately very narrow and lies between 62 cm and 68 cm. But it worked out ;-)

The successful lure, as so often, was my ZG13 in the original gold/brown glitter color.

A striped Dutchman

I was able to catch this great winter perch during a short trip to Holland. The weather conditions were anything but great. Wind from the northeast and temperatures below zero degrees. That's exactly why I was extremely happy about this catch.

Once again, my successful lure was the BG06.

Garage time

Especially in sub-zero temperatures, like we've had in recent weeks, I find it particularly easy to spend time in my workshop and try out new things. Most of the time, these are ideas I've been carrying around for a long time, but the time spent on the water has prevented me from putting them into practice.

If there are a few warm days before the closed season, I will try to catch a big winter pike.

Great Winter Perch on BG06

A short visit to the Danube paid off despite cold temperatures and resulted in a great winter perch. Once you find the fish, small lures can be very effective even in winter.

In this case, I used an old prototype that I happened to find in my tackle box 😄

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