Being here in Italy I started to go fishing in a few beautiful rivers from Lombardia (Adda, Olio, Serio and Mastallone)
The most efficient flies are bellow:
A variant of GRHE:
Another variant of GRHE emerger:
First fly looks very nice when is wet. The orange hot spot and the UV ribbing material looks very interesting and the CDC feathers gives a hallow effect.
At the second fly the peacock ribbing made of Uni Canada seems to be very attractive and the hen hackle moves very well in water.
I fish these flies as much as possible in an active way ( jigging, playing in up and down, dead drifting, pinching the line in dead drift time ) I use these flies in waters that almost all fishermen prefer to use dry flies.
But I prefer to stimulate and provoke the strike. Is more a hunting type of fishing and for me is very interesting and stimulating. More than the passive rolling nymph.
I love the Italians rivers, are very interesting, beautiful and challenging and I wish to everybody to spend a few days of fishing on these rivers