White Traun River, Bavaria, Germany By J.S. Arndt In my spare time, I enjoy reading about the fly fishing adventures of our elders, and I find myself frequently inspired by their accounts. One of the people who had this effect on me was Ernest Hemingway. After reading his essays on fly fishing in Germany’s Black …...

“The real trout fishing of Europe,” Ernest Hemingway explained in 1923, “is in Spain, Germany and Switzerland. Spain has probably the best fishing of all in Galicia. But the Germans and the Swiss are right behind.”1 With regard to Germany, Hemingway referred to the Black Forest region where he fly-fished in the early 1920s. In...