My
name is Aldo Orlando. I am now forty-six (2002) and I have been fishing
from the age of six.I began fly
tying by hand at age14 and three years later bought two instructional books in
England. My father made for me a simple vise and I started to work in a
conventional way.
I
live in Italia, in the southern part of the region of Piedmont, land of great wines
and small trout creeks. I am secretary of a fly fishing club that works
hardto protect a local strain of
brown trout.
I
fly fish mainly for trout and grayling in Italy and Austria but my flies have worked also for salmon in Norway, bonefish &
tarpon in Cuba and a kindof shad in
tributaries of the Po river.
I
work at a secondary school teaching physical education in the small town of Gavi (who gives the name to an excellent dry
white wine) only minutesaway from my
home waters of the Lemme and Scrivia basins. I like very much,and
use extensively, patterns of masters like Gary La Fontaine, Roman Moser and Hans Van Klinken. I am sure their flies
work everywhere that trout and graylingare
found.
