Renken records and level breaks: fishing on Lake Starnberg takes stock
Created: 09/27/2022, 08:58
By: Tobias Gmach
Fisherman's anniversary in Midgardstadl: Andreas Gastl-Pischetsrieder, chairman of the Würmsee fishing cooperative (right), informed district administrator Stefan Frey, Tutzing's mayor Marlene Greinwald and around 80 other guests about the occurrence of pike, bream, barbel, whitefish and other fish in Lake Starnberg.
© Dagmar Rutt
The Starnberger See fishermen can look back on a mediocre fishing year with quite decent whitefish yields.
However, some of them were left dry for a while during the dry summer.
Tutzing – Andreas Gastl-Pischetsrieder has been chairman of the Würmsee Fishing Cooperative for nine years.
At the beginning of the new year, the fisherman from Leoni resigned.
He announced this on Monday morning at the fisherman's anniversary in Tutzing's Midgardstadl.
It's been a long time - and now it's time for a change, Gastl-Pischetsrieder said when asked by Merkur.
It has not yet been officially decided who will apply for the new election in October.
The outgoing chairman was allowed to open the traditional meeting of Lake Starnberg fishermen for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic in the usual setting.
Around 80 fishermen, relatives and guests of honor came to the new Tutzinger Saal am See in traditional costume.
Gastl-Pischetsrieder, who summed up a "mediocre year's catch", not only had some good news to report - for example when looking back at the whitefish spawning fishery in December 2021. "For many years we have been able to achieve our target of 500 liters of whitefish spawn again. Not only did the breeding in winter go well, the fishermen were also generally quite satisfied with their most important catch, the whitefish.
"They are well fed," said Gastl-Pischetsrieder.
The average weight of the fish caught in the summer was "finally a bit better" and reached 200 grams.
Another brand that the 30 or so professional fishermen had longed for.
The most common catch of fishermen in Lake Starnberg: whitefish.
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After a dry spell of whitefish until May, they then celebrated top catches – albeit locally limited.
15 fishermen have laid out their large nets between the lake areas of Garatshausen and Kustermannpark in the lake at the same time.
"It was tight," the chairman recalled.
Because of the low water level, some fishermen found it increasingly cramped - until they had to temporarily stop their activities in August.
"Even digging out the boat huts didn't help.
A few colleagues were left stranded,” said Gastl-Pischetsrieder.
Those in particular should be happy that in autumn 2023 (like every seven years) ports around the lake and especially in Starnberg will be dredged.
The soil material is removed so that the boats do not run aground and dumped again somewhere else in Lake Starnberg.
In his speech, the chairman of the cooperative touched on all the fish species that are of interest to fisheries.
He regretted, for example, that there were quite a few bream catches this year.
"It also remains a mystery where they hide during the spawning season." In the case of the tench, on the other hand, a good, self-sustaining population has developed.
Arctic char are still only caught sporadically, as are zander and lake trout.
The pike yields were average - and slightly better in the south than in the north.
According to Gastl-Pischetsrieder, Rutten are not as common as they were a few years ago, but they are still regular bycatch in bottom nets.
A seasonal phenomenon emerged with the eel: average catches in spring, almost none in summer.
The balance is also mediocre for carp,
in October the fishermen hope for a few perch.
As far as the professional fishermen know, nobody landed an extremely large catfish this year, but a few larger ones did, and overall the catch was good.
Caught more frequently in the southern than in the northern Starnberger See: the pike.
© Wolfram Steinberg/dpa
Last year, Gastl-Pischetsrieder reported on the silver crucian (also gable), which had recently established itself in the lake.
This year he and his colleagues kept catching barbel.
The chairman: "It remains to be seen whether this river fish is staying with us all the time or just passing through."
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Like the animals in the lake, the fishermen also have their natural enemies.
Cormorants, for example, “who specifically steal fish from our nets and damage the nets in the process” (Gastl-Pischetsrieder).
Or the many goosanders, gray and great egrets chasing the juvenile fish in the shallow water.
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