How to catch Danube Salmon with a #10 nymph / Huchen auf Nymphe.

Believe it or not: you can catch Huchen on a #10 jighead nymph. As long as it is the The Glöckner. Then it is in fact possible to catch Danube Salmon under the full sun, right in the heart of a town, with people walking by and having their beer in the beergarden next to the fish.

All this happened in Freising, a little town just 45 minutes away from Munich. The river, called

Huchen fischen an der Sava Bohinjka - Fishing Danube Salmon at river Sava Bohinjka / Slovenia

This winter, beautiful Sava in Slovenia was generous again. Fishing for three days gave me three times Hucho Hucho action.

Day 1: watch the video, just amazing, after two hours of fishing. Together with my guide Emil Pintar we spotted six! 1m+ Huchen on a stretch of 300 meters. And another 5 upstream at the bridge (what I call "Huchen Bar"), ... speechless... Look at pictures of this pristine river