Hello all!
my name is Andrea and I am from Italy. I registered on the forum as I was looking for suggestions about a Catskill region trip and a friend of fine suggested me to look at the forum. I have been here before but mainly for reading topics and now it's time to introduce myself properly!
I own 3 fiberglass rods, blanks assempled by friends. I enjoy fishing with them all the time.
Hope this is the right area of the forum to introduce myself, apologize if it's not!

Welcome, chewbacca!

thanks for welcoming me!
our trip would be from Sept. 19th to Sept. 28th - hopefully it would a good moment for fly fishing?
will definitely check the Museum, thanks!

grazie!

Welcome from Holland

thanks!
I am fairly new to fly fishing, I started 5 years ago with a training with a Fly Fishing Club and I got infected pretty quickly
What always fascinated me about fly fishing is the tying, and of course being able to catch a fish using my own fly, matching a hatch is something incredible every time it happens.
I am not sure I know about that technique you are referring to, for sure I am using long leader (14ft or 15ft) and tip (6x up to 2 meters) when fishing picky fish like graylings, even if the casting needs to be adapted to the leader length.
It’s fun to adapt the technique to the fish we are trying to trick, and of course is always challenging (at least for a newbie like me)

Welcome. Nice fish!

thank you all!
by the way, i booked the flight, from Sept 19th to 28th I will be in Monroe to explore Catskill rivers!

any suggestion is welcome!

Welcome. These are indeed some chunky fish and on dries that early in the year. Well done. What is the rough area where you fish?

here are some more from last 2 weekends.
i usually fish in my region (Piemonte) or in the river Brenta (Veneto region)
I have to say the Brenta offers more variety of fishes than the rivers i have close to my home. Piemonte region rivers are suffering a bit, due to low water level and uncontrolled catches.

these are trouts from Brenta:




this is one from my region (river Gesso)

and big, too

Hello guys, the wait is finally - almost - over! next week i will be in the Catskill Mountains area. if anyone is from there, happy to get in touch and maybe share some fishing!