On the foot of the Cantabrian Mountain range, in its
leonine slope, a valley of great beauty extends by which
a river known by the lovers of the fishing flows very well,
the Curueño river. To speak of the Valley of the Curueño river is
to speak of fishing, trouts, roosters, pens and flies.
The Curueño is born in Vegarada, surrounded by beechtree and
hollytree. It begins to walk between rocks, and little by
little it is taking water until arriving at a fishing preserve
called "Tolibia". He continues his to run breaking through between the
rocks until arriving at another fishing preserve, "Valdepielago".
Of here for down, the mounts to both sides of rio with oak
and holm oaks forests begin. The borders from the river to their
passage by La Candana, located to about 1000 meters on the level
of the sea, are of black poplar. Here, the bottom
of the river has happened to be of rock to be of stone.
One of the most representative towns of all this tradition
and passion by the fishing, it is La Candana de Curueño, a
small town pertaining to the city council of La Vecilla.
In order to arrive at La Candana it is possible to be gone
by highway LE-311 from Leon to Robles de la Valcueva, where
we will take the LE-626 towards the right until La Vecilla.
From here we will descend the valley on a par that the river
by the LE-313, stops after 3 kms. to arrive at our destiny.
It is worth the trouble to take the trip with tranquillity
and to enjoy the beautiful landscapes. Waters down the Curueño
river, near Ambasaguas de Curueño, contributes its waters to
another river of the great trout prestige, the Porma river.
A way to live
The life of the people of these lands turns around the
river. The people who lives by the river are servant to the
border of the river, they have grown fishing precious trouts
and they have inherited of the their parents the culture of
the wet fly fishing. Many of them have maintained the
tradition of the roosters breeding for the handcrafted
preparation of the known leonine wet flies ones intact. The
fame of these pens, exclusive rights of this region, is world-wide.
In La Candana, the good one for making and the meticulous work
of the breeders of roosters have given rise to the purest
races of "pardos" and "Indios". Single selecting and crossing
the best units the best quality can be obtained. And a good
example of this work is Jose Maria Gonzalez, known in the world
of the fishing like Chema.
From always much has commented that is what does that the pen
that the roosters of here have it is different from the rest.
It can be by a uranium layer that happens below La Candana.
Also by the water or by the peculiar climate of the zone.
Very not often it is windy, since the town is in a valley and
to the height of Valdepielago the mountain finishes which are like
a wall and this has been causing that the zone has a special
microclimate. Winter is very cold, but it is dry. The humidity is
very bad for the roosters.
The region always has lived on ranching. Today in day, as
in mayoria of the towns mainly, it stays people older, since
youngs has had to go away by the lack of work. Those that has
remained have been to have had the luck to find a job this way.
After all the roosters are something alternative, and in the
case of Chema it is a passion without which it could not live.
On the foot of the Cantabrian Mountain range, in its
leonine slope, a valley of great beauty extends by which
a river known by the lovers of the fishing flows very well,
the Curueño river. To speak of the Valley of the Curueño river is
to speak of fishing, trouts, roosters, pens and flies.
One of the most representative towns of all this tradition
and passion by the fishing, it is La Candana de Curueño, a
small town pertaining to the city council of La Vecilla.
In order to arrive at La Candana it is possible to be gone
by highway LE-311 from Leon to Robles de la Valcueva, where
we will take the LE-626 towards the right until La Vecilla.
From here we will descend the valley on a par that the river
by the LE-313, stops after 3 kms. to arrive at our destiny.
The life of the people of these lands turns around the
river. The people who lives by the river are servant to the
border of the river, they have grown fishing precious trouts
and they have inherited of the their parents the culture of
the wet fly fishing. Many of them have maintained the
tradition of the roosters breeding for the handcrafted
preparation of the known leonine wet flies ones intact. The
fame of these pens, exclusive rights of this region, is world-wide.
From always much has commented that is what does that the pen
that the roosters of here have it is different from the rest.
It can be by a uranium layer that happens below La Candana.
Also by the water or by the peculiar climate of the zone.
Very not often it is windy, since the town is in a valley and
to the height of Valdepielago the mountain finishes which are like
a wall and this has been causing that the zone has a special
microclimate. Winter is very cold, but it is dry. The humidity is
very bad for the roosters.