SEE THE FISH Each time I lost a big fish, I asked myself over and over what were the mistakes that had produced the loss of a great catch. Often singing the “mea culpa” with all sorts of digressions, some of the most demanding and miserable, others blame was not to change the tippet “knowing that there is …
RIVER SEGRE. TOP WATERS. River Segre in Catalonia (Spain), near Andorra and France is the best river in the Pyrenees with big brown trouts and a good population of them. This year the best fly fisherman’s of Spain get the country champion ship in this waters. The sitting is very nice and the people are …
WINNERS This winter started selling some fly rods that for years had not used or sometimes fishing counted. I sold one of those semi-automatic reels that never used because I always use manual large arbour fly reels. One of the buyers of reeds for sale, turned out to be a fisherman in Galicia, the land …
THE CATWALK I went fishing for the first time in my life, at the age of six years old. In 1969 I spent part of the summer in a small village high Urgell. The cart with rubber wheels and pulled by an old mule, carrying four children to a stream near the village. An old …
TEN FOOT RODS AND NYMPH FISHING A few years ago Juanjo Ascaso “Amills” great builder of graphite fly rods, told me that a fly fishing rod 10 foot was the antithesis of fly casting. I’m reluctant to acquire new rods of different lengths to which I’m accustomed, I gave absolutely right. But over time I …
