Magazine Confluenze | fly fishing experience Number 8 Year 2 | Page 50

You will surely ask yourselves if such an ancient way of fishing may be efficient still today since, apart from using monofilament for the tippets and modern made hooks, it is practically the same used in the sixteenth century. Well, you will be interested to know that it may not only be defined ‘modern’ but, as 50 Confluenze Report you will be able to see if you come visit me in Valsesia, we should really be grateful to the fishers that have handed down to us this technique because, in the right hands, it is really enjoyable and profitable. You can take this for granted. Also, with a little pride, may I add that it is an entirely Italian invention.