05-09-2014, 04:46 AM
We thought the same tng about the Brooke's. The Austrians call them char.
The license.... In Germany you need to take a 36 hour class and than a test. You basically get educated in aquatic biology and some entomology. You have to be able to identify diseases and strains of fish, disease being the big one. You have to know the name, and cause of the disease. After your 36 hour class you have a practical test you must take. You have like an hour to catch and kill a fish with a fly rod. The practical takes all of 10 minutes to do if you have ever fly fished at least once in your life. You can do it with spinning gear, but it's sort of looked down on. The class price is subsidized on base and costs us 40 Euro, or about 60 bucks. Once you pass the written and practical test the game warden gives you a card to take down to the German Rathaus, or government building. That card along with a passport photo and 50 Euro, or 75 bucks is needed for a 5 year license, I'll take and post a picture of my license tonig after work. Once you have your massively sized license, you can now buy day cards if the season is open. The price of a day card varies depending on where you want to fish. Remember there is no such thing as public land in Europe, someone owns the river and all of the fish in the river as well.
We usually pay around 10 bucks a day to fish our "home" river, and have found access to a few more sections, one costing as much as 40 bucks a day to fish, and I also found one that costs about 125 bucks a day to fish.
Where we went in Austria, the hotel has access to 90 or so miles of river and creeks and multiple lakes. They carge roughly 40 bucks a day to fish if you stay at the hotel, and some where around 90 bucks a day to fish if you just come for the day.
All in all getting the
Incense was not difficult by any means, but it was not easy. I had to take a day off of work to go to the government building to actually get it, and getting it took about 3 hours in order for the German folks to verify all of my info and such
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The license.... In Germany you need to take a 36 hour class and than a test. You basically get educated in aquatic biology and some entomology. You have to be able to identify diseases and strains of fish, disease being the big one. You have to know the name, and cause of the disease. After your 36 hour class you have a practical test you must take. You have like an hour to catch and kill a fish with a fly rod. The practical takes all of 10 minutes to do if you have ever fly fished at least once in your life. You can do it with spinning gear, but it's sort of looked down on. The class price is subsidized on base and costs us 40 Euro, or about 60 bucks. Once you pass the written and practical test the game warden gives you a card to take down to the German Rathaus, or government building. That card along with a passport photo and 50 Euro, or 75 bucks is needed for a 5 year license, I'll take and post a picture of my license tonig after work. Once you have your massively sized license, you can now buy day cards if the season is open. The price of a day card varies depending on where you want to fish. Remember there is no such thing as public land in Europe, someone owns the river and all of the fish in the river as well.
We usually pay around 10 bucks a day to fish our "home" river, and have found access to a few more sections, one costing as much as 40 bucks a day to fish, and I also found one that costs about 125 bucks a day to fish.
Where we went in Austria, the hotel has access to 90 or so miles of river and creeks and multiple lakes. They carge roughly 40 bucks a day to fish if you stay at the hotel, and some where around 90 bucks a day to fish if you just come for the day.
All in all getting the
Incense was not difficult by any means, but it was not easy. I had to take a day off of work to go to the government building to actually get it, and getting it took about 3 hours in order for the German folks to verify all of my info and such
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