More than fifty years back in time, a bubble float and a bunch of classic coq de Leon wet flies achieved the miracle of bringing to my hand a wild brown trout almost 19 cm long. My first one ever. At the time it looked like a trophy to me, as it still is in my memory.

27 years ago I took proper fly fishing, and I turned into an avid consumer of any information about it I stumped upon. Shortly after I started to develop a special interest in fly casting: I found out soon that keeping tying flies without paying attention to how to present them wasn’t a good idea.

My interest in fly casting coincided in time with the boom of the internet. It was a revolution in the availability of information never experienced before and, moreover, it opened the possibility of interacting in real time with fly anglers from all over the globe through the different forums that soon started appearing. That interaction was the springboard of the most important qualitative jump in casting knowledge ever experienced in history.

What all that brainstorming showed was that fly casting wise there were lots of technical aspects to study, loads of questions which were begging for a proper explanation, and none less casting mechanics myths which didn’t hold water science wise. It was time to refresh all those basic physics concepts I hadn’t visited since my secondary school days, and contrast them with the reality of fly casting viewed in slow motion. Currently I am using my fourth high speed video camera, and I keep in my video library hundreds of slow motion clips about different fly casting mechanics issues; some of them have prompted considerable debate in the castingsphere.

Over time I became a regular contributor to several international casting forums, and was administrator of the Spanish section of the Sexyloops board.
I have been studying fly casting mechanics in depth, learning from world class instructors like Alejandro Viñuales, Carlos Azpilicueta, Bernd Ziesche, Lasse Karlsson, Paul Arden or Jason Borger.

I passed the Instructor test of the Spanish fly casting certification (PAIL) in 2006, and the FFF (Federation of Fly Fishers, currently Fly Fishers International) CI test in 2009.
I have dedicated the last twenty plus years to teaching fly casting to anglers of all levels of ability, both on my own and in collaboration with world reknown instructors like Bernd Ziesche or Chris Rownes.
My work appears listed on the MCI Study Materials of the FFI certification program.

In Spain I wrote regularly for Danica and Trofeo Pesca magazines. Currently I collaborate with the British publication Fly Culture Magazine and with the digital magazine A mosca.
I translated into Spanish three fly fishing related books: The Cast and Troubleshooting the Cast (both by Ed Jaworowski) and Presentation by Gary Borger.
More recently I was invited to participate in the proof reading of the encyclopaedic Single Handed Fly Casting by Jason Borger.

I have been lucky of enjoying fly fishing in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Poland, USA, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Maldives, and Zambia.

If someone asks me what fly fishing is, the first thing coming to my mind —without disregarding other species and scenarios— is a spring creek, brown trout and grayling rising to minute mayflies, a #3 or #4 weight rod and a long leader with a 7X tippet knotted to a size #22 emerger. Add some good fishing buddie to the mix and that’s heaven.