I chiodi per scarponi da pesca sono un accessorio “must-have” per i pescatori. Se

desiderate la migliore stabilità al momento della pesca quando entrate nell’acqua, le suole

in feltro o le suole VIBRAM non bastano, nella mia opinione. Io non faccio una passeggiata

nel fiume, ma guado e vado nelle zone profonde e pericolose dei fiumi. Mi serve stabilità,

quindi per me i chiodi sono molto importanti! Ho ricercato a lungo per trovare degli scarponi

con chiodi di qualità e li ho finalmente trovati da Simms, i quali sono abbastanza forti per le

mie necessità. Amo i scarponi Freestone perché non sono cari e sono molto ben fatti.

Purtroppo i chiodi originali non mi piacevano. I chiodi hard bite non mi ispiravano molta

fiducia, ma li ho presi perché i scarponi erano ben fatti. Dopo una stagione di pesca, al

massimo 60 giorni, i chiodi iniziarono a presentare dei problemi.

I scarponi resistettero senza problemi (vecchio modello Freestone di Simms.)

Voglio essere chiaro, pescare è la mia passione e il mio equipaggiamento è per la pesca,

non è una Ferrari da lavare e di cui prendermi cura come un maniaco. Dopo una giornata di

pesca butto semplicemente in una borsa gli scarponi ed i wader. Non lucido gli scarponi, i

mulinelli e le canne. Li uso solo per pescare e basta. Ho degli amici che amano più

l’equipaggiamento che pescare, ma io non sono come loro. Vi faccio quindi vedere delle

foto con i miei scarponi dopo una stagione di pesca. È difficile trovare questi scarponi

perché sono fuori mercato da oltre 5 anni, se non ricordo male. Però mi piacciono e sono

stato molto contento quando li ho trovati in un negozio locale.

Adesso ho trovato dei chiodi che sembrano durevoli e cambierò quegli hard bites con dei

chiodi con punta in tungsteno. Il tungsteno è molto resistente, sulla scala dei materiali ha

la posizione 74 e per quelli che non sanno, nella tabella di Mendeleev il tungsteno è

chiamato wolframio.

Il tungsteno ha il simbolo W ed è un metallo bianco-argento in stato puro. La forma del

tungsteno cristallino è cubica, non è friabile ed è molto forte. Ha una densità di 19,3 gr./cm 3 .

Il tungsteno ha la più alta temperatura di fusione ed è per questo che viene utilizzato come

filamento per lampadine. Inoltre, ha una bassa reattività rispetto ad altri metalli e materiali

ed è molto stabile. Alcune leghe basate su tungsteno, quali W2C, WC e W2C3 sono simili

ai diamanti in materia di durezza.

Inoltre, è molto importante sapere che il tungsteno non è tossico, invece il piombo è molto

tossico!

Dunque, amici, se desiderate comprare dei chiodi per i vostri scarponi, vi consiglio di

comprare quelli con punta in tungsteno! Sono lieto di dirvi che www.troutline.ro li vende qui:

http://www.troutline.ro/troutline-classic- tungsten-studs- for-wading- boots

I love to fish trout, is a fantastic fish, smart, a a great fighter and difficult to catch if is picky. I like to tie all the time “fresh” nymphs for starting season. Unfortunately I leaved Italy for Romania and here the fishing season starts on first may. So I have to go in Poland, a very nice country with fantastic rivers and great people. On first April I will go on Dunajec and San for a few days and I have to fill my fishing box with my nymphs for Dunajec and San rivers.

I tied them on barbless hooks all the time and the sizes are bigger than the rest of them used in Summer and Autumn. For example for fast flowing parts of the river I use flies tied even on size #10 but normally I tie on #12 and #14.
Bellow you can see a part of my flies:

If the water will be very clear I will use a few more skinny flies like these bellow:

For jigging I like very much these flies because they have a lot of “life” :

Soon will complete with other models
cheers,
Lucian

Perdigon nymphs were for a few good year the secret flies for Spanish fishermen competitors. They had fantastic results with these flies. Now perdigon flies are not a secret anymore. At first look these flies are quite disappointing, very simple, overloaded with a big tungsten bead, slim body coated with resin. No dubbing, just a body thread and a strange black spot made of black marker in the wing case part. Everything has the logic here: slim body to let the fly sink fast, big bead to let the fly to go fast in the feeding area, black spot imitate the the torax and works like a hot spot. These flies are tied on small and very small hooks and are used only in fast flowing rivers.
I like more to play the nymphs, to move them in the feeding area to induce the strike of the fish. But sometimes seems that perdigon flies works fantastic. For this reason I tied a few models some time ago, aprox 4-5years. These flies had a special place in my fly tying box and sometimes make my day!

Bellow are a few nice spots where these flies works excellent! :

And one grayling and one trout on perdigon:

if you are looking to buy a few good and tested perdigon flies you should check here.

I received today 2 beautiful fishing calendars from my friend Rob.I ordered a week ago and I received them very fast , in one week shipping time. I was impressed by the quality of these calendars. The quality of the paper is fantastic, photos from each page are perfect. It was a delight for me to check them . One calendar is dedicated for trout and other for salmon. I really like them a lot and I can’t wait to hang in front of my tying desk.

For those who don’t know Rob Denson, I can say that he is a fantastic photographer and tier. He is active on www.flyforums.co.uk and other wbesites. His website is http://www.robdenson.co.uk/, here you can check his flies and photos.

Wading studs for fishing boots are a must have accessories for a fisherman. If you want to have the best stability in fishing time when you go in waters then only felt sole or only vibram sole are not enough – in my opinion. I don’t take a walk in river, I wade in and I really go in deep and dangerous parts in rivers. I need stability so , for me, o studs are very important! For this reason I searched a lot to find some good boots with studs. Finally I found at Simms, strong enough for my needs. I love old Freestone boots because are not expensive and are very well made. Unfortunately for me the genuine studs was not on my taste. I didn’t had so much confidence in hard bite studs buy what a heck, I took them because the boots was very well made.
After a fishing season , no more than 60 fishing days the studs started to have problems.

My boots resisted without any problems ( old model Freestone from Simms. )

Let me be clear, fishing is my passion my equipment is for fishing, is not a Ferrari to wash him and take care of him like a maniac. My boots and my waders are simply trow in fishing bag after a fishing day. I don’t polish my boots , my reels and my rods. I only use them for fishing and that’s it. I have friends who love equipment more than fishing but I’m not like them So I put pictures of my boots like they are after a fishing season. These boots are difficult to find because they are out from market for more than 5 years if I don’t make a mistake. But I like them and I was very happy when I founded in a local shop.

Now I saw some studs that look nice and durable and I will change those “hard bites” with these studs with tungsten heads. Tungsten is very resistant, on material scale had 74 position, and for those who don’t know tungsten is wolfram in Mendeleev table.

Tungsten has W simbol and is a white-silver metal when is pure.The crystal tungsten shape is cubic, is not brittle and very strong. The density is 19,3grams/cmc. Tungsten has the highest melting temperature and for this reason is used as filament for bulbs. Also is known that is very low reactive compared with other metals and materials and is very stable. Some alloys based on tungsten like W2C,WC and W2C3 can be compared in hardness with diamonds
Also is very important to know that tungsten is non-toxic instead lead is very toxic!
So my friends, if you want to buy studs for your boots buy those with tungsten and nothing else! If you are looking for them I’m happy to tell you that www.troutline.ro sells them here : http://www.troutline.ro/troutline-classic-tungsten-studs-for-wading-boots

cheers
Lucian

I like to share with you guys a few photos and crops of fish caught in my years of fishing. I will update these photos all the time.
I noticed that colors of fish from deep lakes and from water with dark bottom are more intense and more nicely colored.
I hope you like them

Grayling colors from side part:

Because I’l living in Italy from more than half year I had to make a fishing licence like other fishermen from Italy. The bureaucracy is like in all countries, nobody know exactly what you have to do to obtain a regular licence but in the end with the help from a very nice fishing shop owner I obtain one. Costs 102eur/year – first year and will cost in the future no more than 60eur/year so is not expensive at all.
I decided to go out for my first day of fishing in the 2014 season on river Serio from North Italy. It is a nice river, unfortunately with a lot of small dams on it but with nice wild fish in it.
I arrived very early at 7.30 in the morning after a hour of driving from Monza. A lot of fishermen like me very excited to go in water and catch some fish. The river was low and the water was very clear, too clear compared with my types of rivers.

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These pictures were taken from on one of the rivers that I love very much.

The place is very quiet and almost all the time  there aren’t any fishermen on it.

The silence and majesty of the mountains makes you feel deeply connected with the river and all the elements of nature. When I’m there I forget about everything: job, car, town, people, pollution, problems…  I’m completely  disconnected from the social live.  I’m only a man with his rod  searching for the perfect cast.