Renowned for its stunning landscapes, diverse geography, and rich cultural heritage, Austria boasts some of the most picturesque and challenging fishing waters in the world.

Healthy runs of sparkling silver tourists still come cavorting up the island’s plethora of gin-clear rivers every summer and they offer exhilarating fishing with both single and double-handed rods.

Whether you call it a King salmon, Chinook, Tyee, or Springer, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha is the largest, strongest, and for many, most sought after of the world’s salmon species.

There is no better time to reflect upon an experience than while sitting by the fire in a genuine log cabin by the river. It has rained these past days and that benefitted us but then it hammered rain all night and the river has finally succumbed on this, my last day.