He is a member and regional trustee of SIM and a member of IFTA (Italian Fly Tiers Association). In November 2015, he was the SIM representative at Galway’s Irish Fly Fair.
For the past four years, he has been a regular guest at the Vallesina fly fishing club’s fly- making workshop.He likes making all types of flies, from ephemerals to trichopteras, Plecopteras, terrestrials, bullheads and artificial flies for squid, but recently he has focused on making streamers for predators.