After the ice has melted and the first rays of the sun start warming up the water, life comes back under the surface. Slowly, the fish are starting to take longer routes and feed intensively. In this period, the carp mostly search for food sources that are easily digestible and gives them a lot of…

This time we tried our luck on the “old” Danube, where we were feeder fishing for barbel. We found an excellent peg with gravel and we thought that we’d catch fish here for sure. The water level seemed suitable, but we were a bit worried about the flood that had been predicted to come. The…

I’d been planning to go eel fishing on Lake Balaton for years when I met Zsolt Bakonyi at the fishing show last autumn. Zsolt drew my attention to the canals flowing into the lake. In the spring when the temperature of Lake Balaton reaches 8 Celsius, the eels gather into groups and start their migration…