Hi mac i lived in germany for 6 years and fished in holland every week, it was mainly in the south but i did fish a few festivals in the north. It was staying at de Koerburg and fishing the iejsel river and lakes of it. i also fished the voorne canal. At the time of year we fished worm is banned and all through the year you can't use dye's on your baits including G/B, only natural colours.

It was 6 years ago but i doubt if tactics have changed much, on the river it was heavy groundbait feeder using feeders upto 150grams according to the flow with VDE Turbo Black 2kg bags (get your G/B over there it was 80 pence a bag when it was £2.50 just for a 1 kilo bag here). Line was 8lb maxima to a 6lb hook length and a size 6 hook. If baits not banned i would get through 8 pints of caster and use worm on the hook. Alternatively we used white maggot on the hook. We took bags of mainly bream upto 140lb.

On the canal it was more like UK fishing on the feeder use braid not mono.

On the lakes it is beefed up UK tactics on the feeder once again use braid. On the pole i fished 8lb maxima straight through, using a 10gram float and size6 hook fishing 10 mtrs to hand having balled in two sensas buckets of groundbait laced with 6 pints of casters. I took 250lb on the feeder on one of the days and on the pole i hadn't had a fish until i balled it in half way through the match then took 136lb in 1hour 10 minutes. I was pleased with the pole weight has i was last in section and changed my tactics and came first in section.

If you are pleasure fishing with a few mates you won't need has much bait, however if your in a match you have to draw the fish from those around you to win. If you can use worm at the time you are going you can add another 50lb to the weights.

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Steve Davies