Country: Belgium
River: Ourthe
Nearest city/town: Nadrin
Fish: Trout, Grayling, Chub
Technique: flyfishing
Gear: 6-weight rod, floating line, 9-foot 4x leader, 5x tippet, dry fly (mayfly, super pupa, caddisfly) & nymph
Today we left early for a +2 hour-drive to the province of Luxembourg in the South of Belgium. We went to a stretch of the river Ourthe that is completely isolated, so we had a nice walk to the river in the morning cold.
We walked down-stream for about an hour before we started fishing up-stream.
Fishing in this overwhelming nature without coming across any fishermen or even other people was amazing.
When the sun got higher and temperatures raised, the number of insects above the water increased. It started with some small sedge flies but in the afternoon there were, much to our surprise, beautiful blue and dark red mayflies on the water.
We didn't catch many fish today but quite a variety: trout, grayling and chub. Again we saw a group of big barbels lying in a pool but we couldn't seduce them to take our nymphs.
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