I am back!!! Yes, I was gone for a while. I had some serious work deadlines, the temperature in my shop was 35 degrees and heating was not an option. I was also focused on the holidays though for some reason it was a dull or flat xmas. I also had to take a month off after eye surgery. I was no longer able to do the close work but I am 20/20 again.

My next projects will be a new reel and this; Valesesiana

This ancient Italian system was shown in paintings from 1538. It uses a horse hair line and flies with a forward hackle very similar to Tenkara. However, this system is designed to also catch larger fish than normally fished with in Tenkara and can use three flies at the same time.

This is a painting of Saint San Zeno the Patron Saint of Fisherman from 1538 in Italy showing the same type of rod and fishing as was handed down until now in the families of Italy where it is known. In the close-up of the caught fish one can see the other two flies tied on the same horse hair line.