Rudolf Sack

This article is about the angler Rudolf Sack. For the mechanical engineering company, see Rudolph Sack .

Rudolf Sack is a German angler and author.

Act

He has modernized fishing technology in Germany since the 1970s. Following the Anglo-Saxon model, he introduced specimen hunting in Germany. To this end, he developed techniques to target specific fish species and even specific age groups (e.g. only large, heavy specimens of a specific species) instead of catching all species using random methods. In this context he was a pioneer of boilie fishing for carp in German-speaking countries .

He also introduced new fishing tackle from English-speaking countries to Germany. For example, the swing tip, which has been propagated by the English author Fred Foster since 1976 . Because such rods were not yet commercially available in Germany at the time, Rudolf Sack adapted the swinging tip in a modified form as a lead-weighted brass pin, which was hooked into the tip ring with a carabiner or snap ring, so that it was compatible with the ones available in Germany at the time Rods could be combined.

Sack also made a reputation for himself as an educator against unreflected fishing Latin and belief in miracle recipes. He was happy to subject circulating prejudices to systematic empirical testing. The best known in this context are his experiments and public demonstrations on his house waters of the Ems , in which he showed, for example, using pure window putty as bait or fishing dough with mixed tobacco, that even with such baits large catches can be achieved if only the bait shape and fishing technique are targeted can be used. In this way he vividly removed the basis of existing prejudices. He lives in Meppen .

Publications

• Memories ... fishing days on the Ems. Autobiographical essay. In: Yearbook of the Emsland Heimatbund. Volume 19/1972.
• With my grandfather on the Ems. Autobiographical essay. In: Yearbook of the Emsland Heimatbund. Volume 20/1973
• Big catches: fishing successes in lake, river and sea. Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-490-11514-7 .
• Bite by bite: Success with my fishing methods. Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-490-12114-7 .
• Carp fishing. Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-490-11314-4 .
• Deep sea fishing: A catch book for large and small sea fish. Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-490-10514-1 .
• with Dieter Schicker: fishing for zander. Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-490-42614-2 .

Web links

• Adaptation of the swing tip from England as a brass needle on fischundfang.de
• Article about Sacks bait demonstrations with nicotine batter on fischundfang.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table of Contents
2. ↑ Table of Contents