Valerio Brachini

I love fly fishing in every aspect. From the river to the sea, from the shoal to the streamer through nymph and submerged, I adapt to situations. I have only one fixed point, the lures I am going to use must be built by me.

I had my first fishing experiences at the sea, as a child with my father during our summer holidays, armed with a Bolognese. However, that handful of releases spread over many years were not enough to arouse particular interest in me.

On the threshold of 20 years, for no specific reason, I began to hear the "call of the water" and thus began my wandering around lakes and small country canals near my village in Tuscany, always in search of new prey and new stimuli, until a friend told me about a strange peach. The rest of the story everyone can imagine.

I have always tried to give my contribution to the whole movement, founding our own club with other friends, ASD LA MOSCA, with which we also organized an online contest with exceptional judges (Dave McPhail, Barry Ord Clarke and Pat Cohen) which has been very successful, and to be an ambassador for Tiemco in Italy.

I am always looking for new stimuli, new approaches, new prey. For many people the essence of fly fishing is all contained in the casting technique, for others in the clamp construction. I love to fish, so everything I do depends solely on when I am on the water. I believe that fish are much less troubled than fishermen, then, of course, the eye also wants its part.