European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Captain using a split Bamboo Fly flips a Royal Coachman into a hoping to tempt a Brook Trout Novice displays a speckled Trout which ignored Kochs Royal Coachman but was finally hooked with an Ordinary said the be taken too Seri its a great but you have to keep it under what i mean is a couple of weeks ago i was up on the near Fine fishing up artificial Lake behind a a couple of hours from but Well Worth the it seemed to me the Only Way to fish in that Lake that Day was from a another fellow was with and we didst Leel like chopping any canoes out of and there want a boat to be but we saw a belly tank from a just big enough to get with the of it floated we poled our Way along with improvised and began to haul in the i hooked a big big to lift the boat with my Fly and i didst have a net of course Haven seen a net in so i pulled the fish and reached out to grab him by the Gills and lift him that the approved Way to do not from the belly tank of a i leaned Over too and the next thing i knew we were right in there with the i landed but that Day i was taking it too now if i cant a i fish Froid the Captain Koch of Section knows Hes been at it since he was a and in and around Cali his Hes tried his hand at both Inland sea the things he Learned Back there apply pretty Well to the big is that German streams and lakes Are rather depleted one contributing Factor is that hungry american soldiers during the War and in the Early Days of the in military a hand they got a lot of fish that hungry Ger mans got a lot of and even though game preservation Laws Are now in effect again and the Lender rat is busily restocking some of the lakes and Rivers Are pretty Well out of fish big enough to eat there Are still Many places where the fishing int too though places like the the streams and lakes of Bavaria and the Rivers and streams Northwest of and the larger Rivers have Pike and Carp while not too Are big enough to put up a fair fight the Trout is the games the Captain and is found mostly in Rivers and the most fish Koch caught Over Here in one Day was with the help of another Fisher but Twentyfive to thirty to a Day is
