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…

Abramis brama The bream’s body is laterally flattened. Younger specimens have lighter color (their scales are silver), whereas the older ones are yellowish and bronze. The bream prefers slower rivers, lakes, and backwaters. In Hungary, it can be found in the Danube, the Tisza River, and the Körös rivers. Large bream stock lives in Lake…