Fishing zander starts with finding the right spot. Year on year it seems the zander is well caught around the waters of the Moerdijk Bridge: The Hollands Diep and the Dordtse Kill. The Moerdijk Bridge connects the Island of Dordrecht in South Holland to North Brabant over the Hollands Diep.
Fish types: ide, asp, zander and perch.
How to fish: with a small lure, spinner or fly (size 12 to 8), then reel in the line, varying as you go. In the current towards the Moerdijk, reel in firmly, turn.
Types of bait: choose between flies, red tags, pheasant tails, small, 3-4 cm brown/silver streamers (make sure you have enough backing, at least 50 m). Small pike plugs and small spinners. Snoekbaars Boat Rental provides these types of bait free of charge.
Zander
The zander doesn't like light and, during the day, will hide in the darker, deeper parts of a river or lake. Of course, this is very interesting information for the zander fisherman, because it means they can be fished somewhat predictably.
During the day, make sure to always fish under and around the bridges and pillars.
Stizostedion Lucioperca, known as the zander or glass-eye fish, originally came from Eastern and Middle Europe. However, since the end of the 19th century, the zander has also been stocked in the Netherlands, particularly for commercial fishing. They can reach sizes of 1.2 m long, but such large specimens are very rare and also very rarely caught. A zander of 80 or 90 cm would be considered big in our chilly country and are mostly caught in larger rivers, in places like around the pillars of the Moerdijk Bridge. The experienced fishers are capable of catching four to five zanders in the morning around the Moerdijk Bridge. How many fishes will you catch?
Aad's fishing advice
Did you know Aad Lansbergen, the founder of Snoekbaars Bootverhuur is one of the most experienced zander fishers of the Hollands Diep? More than twenty years he goes fishing twice a week (during the season) en catches around five zanders each trip. Would you like to know how he does it? Or do you want to know which bait he uses? During collecting the boat ask for Aad and maybe he’s able to give you the advice you need to reel in nice and mostly big zanders. Will you beat his record?!