Magazine Confluenze | fly fishing experience Number 8 Year 2 | Page 43

This makes us understand that, even at
that time, the rules of fly fishing with a
reel-less rod were clearly set, so that they
reached us today unchanged. This should
not surprise, because if such dimensions
are considerably altered, the whole system becomes uncontrollable or at least
hardly manageable. Another point that attracts our attention is that the fish caught
on one of the flies is not a generic fish,
but a grayling instead!

During our conversations about the origins of the “Valsesiana” fly fishing, my
friend Arturo Pugno often considers
grayling fishing as the force that drove
our predecessors to invent this technique.
Such an efficient fishing system, so well
suited to our rivers, seems indeed to be
conceived to catch the magnificent ‘blue
fin strain’ grayling. Trout could also be
caught in different ways and this painting
seems indeed to confirm this supposition.

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