Fly-Fishing in the Italian Alps, Part 4: Nude beaches and remote reaches
In Piemonte, on the Sesia and Mastallone rivers, anything is possible with the right attitude.
Welcome to new grads from the Fall Term of PCC's fly fishing course! Our latest cohort spent last week soaking up all they could around fly fishing, tied a few knots, made some casts, and caught fish.
Here, we're continuing our recap of this summer's Italian Alps trip for another two weeks.
Let's rewind to all the prosciutto and melon, the best and the würst, this time heading up to Piemonte, the heartland of the Italian alps. Catch up with part 1, all about the rules and regulations around Italian fly fishing, and part 2, fishing the Ram up near the Swiss border, and part 3, searching for marble trout in the Passer river near the town of Merano.
A few readers have been in touch to ask about packing and planning gear for an international trip, so I'm going to talk about what I brought, what I didn't bring, and what I wished I had brought in next week's letter.
n.b. If you're reading this and have expertise around fly fishing in Italy that would be helpful, or you can correct any of my likely plentiful errors, please leave a comment!
We spent about a week in the Piemonte region, embracing summer life in a small village in the Sesia valley. If you've seen the film The Eight Mountains (Otto Montagne) or read the book, or followed the videos of YouTuber Martijn Doolaard as he does some mountain DIY you have a sense of the terrain, which differs significantly from the Dolomites.
The Sesia valley offers access to two of Italy’s finest fly fishing rivers: the Sesia and the Mastallone.
