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| The Trout fishing |
As much the fishing as the hunting has been, since the man exists,
means for the food obtaining. Until it does this well little has
been in this way. The Nature has offered to the man the resource of
the fishing of generous form, regenerating of natural way the
piscícola wealth.
The trout has been and is one of the fish appreciated so
much more from the point of gastronomical sight like sport.
In Leon the trout fishing, and its commercialization,
has been the source of income of many families. Decades ago
the rivers had a great density of trouts, reason why this
form to live did not suppose any reduction for the river.
But the times change, and today the rivers undergo many
problems that cause that the commercialization of the trout
has disappeared. The contamination, pressure on
the part of more and more the numerous fishermen, irregular
volumes and the inopportune furtivismo are worrisome reasons
that take to the fishermen to take one more conservationist
and sport position with respect to the fishing.
The trout fishing is a passion that faces the cleverness
of the fisherman as opposed to the one of the fish. When we
arrived at the river we integrated within the surroundings and we
happened to comprise of him. A kind observation will present the
track to us the habits and homings of the trout. This is our great
trick to offer to the trout an imitation to him of its menu.
Nonsingle we must imitate the insect that the trout is eating,
but also its presentation and evolution by the water.
Even so, the days in which the trout gives a humility lesson
us are numerous. Sometimes until the most expert fisherman
it feels that impotence when seeing as the trout inexplicably
pays attention neglectful to its perfect imitations. That
is what the challenge makes so special and addictive of the
trout fishing.
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| Roosters, pens and flies |
The fly fishing, the importance of the pen, the
imitations, the wings, the observation, the time of year,
the hatching. The fly fishing is based on the
imitation of the natural insects that constitute the diet
of the trout. The service life of most of these insects
happens through an aquatic phase stops after a
metamorphosis to happen to be winged insects.
The trout eats these insects in all its different phases.
The fisherman takes his boxes filled with imitations of
nymphs, emergents, dry and wet flies to cover as far as
possible the necessities with the fishing day.
In Leon the fishing with wet fly is the one that more
tradition has. There are true artists handling the "cuerdas"
by currents and pools. The preparation of these
wet flies is everything an art and the leonine craftsmen count
on the best raw material for the preparation of these small
works of art, the roosters of Leon.
From the kidney part of these roosters the incomparable, so
famous anywhere in the world, pens are obtained. No matter
how hard they have tried it, nobody has obtained as much
quality in the bred roosters outside the region of the
Curueño. It has been spoken much of the characteristics of
this microclimate that causes that the pens of Leon have a
rigidity, colorful and brilliance without equal.
The roosters of Leon divide themselves in two main groups,
the "Pardos" and the "Indios", and these as well in diverse
varieties. The craftsman mounter uses each one of these
varieties to imitate the wings of the flies. Depending on
the species of the insect and its phase of maturity the
colorful one of the wings can be white, gray, is
transparent, yellowish, reddish, etc. In addition "penca"
of the "pardos" pens imitates the nervure that some wings
can have.
The appearance of different insects at the different times
from the year forces the fisherman to use wet flies
certain for every month. For that reason the mounters
divide their wet flies collections in: flies of season
start, flies of summer, etc. Names like "cardenal",
"pardón", "butano", "tabaco", "oliva",
etc. are habitual in the conversations between fishermen.
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