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 hard to 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 kind of 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 minutes away 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 grayling are found.