SECA - Rise Festival Award Winner 2023 - A Fly Fishing Adventure in Spain

SECA, which means dry flie in Spanish, is an adventure that combines our emotions as anglers with the search for the last rises of the season. To make the most of the last warm days of the year, we went into a quest for the big brown trout in Spain, with the aim of catching a trophy wild trout to close our season. Low water and fish trained by Spain’s finest anglers made this quest even more captivating. A complex equation, with small flies and big tippets as the constants, in the hope of seeing these incredibly strong fish up close. With the ending of the season approaching fast, we had just a few days left to complete our shoot and achieve our goals. Evening after evening, positioned on the acceleration of a huge pool, we waited to see the noses of the big Farios come out for the last hatches of the day. A fast current on a mirror of clear water along the willows, we’ve had our eyes locked on this bank until nightfall everynight. Then one evening, everything lined up. A discreet ri