The team

Guides who have won on this water

Between them: a World Championship medal, a national title, a Fly Casting Master and a professional tier. They coach national squads in the off-season and fish these rivers the rest of the year.

Plan your trip

A guide is the difference between fishing a river and reading it. Ours know every stretch, which technique the water asks for on the day, and where the good fish sit when conditions turn. Several have competed at national and international level, and all of them teach — casting, nymphing, fly tying.

If you want to go deeper into technique, or pick up the habits that competitive fly fishing rewards, a day out with us will get you there faster than a season on your own. And if your interest is less about method and more about being on good water with people who care about it, that works too. We will show you the rivers and the mountains, and a fair amount of the culture on either side of the bank.

Yasmany Picorel Nieves

Bronze medallist and captain of the Spanish national team at the 2017 World Championship. Founded Wild Trout after retiring from competition. Now coaches the Slovak and Japanese national teams between guiding days on his home rivers.

Álvaro G. Santillán

Fly Casting Master at fifteen, biologist, and founder of A Mosca Magazine. Has fished in more than twenty countries and guides summers in Norway. Specialises in sight-fishing for trout and Atlantic salmon.

Miguel Blanco

Self-taught tier who caught a trout on the second fly he ever made. Ten years of travelling rivers across Europe, but his real specialism is the most selective wild browns — and the perfect drift.

How a day works

What a guided day looks like

01

We talk first

Before you arrive we agree what you want from the trip — technique, water type, pace, how hard you want to walk.

02

We pick the river on the morning

Eight rivers within forty minutes means we fish the one that is right that day, not the one on the itinerary.

03

We fish, and we teach

As much or as little instruction as you want. Casting, nymphing, reading water, entomology, or simply a good day out.

04

Every fish goes back

Barbless, wet hands, short fights, quick releases. These are wild fish and there are no stocked replacements.

Who we coach when we're not here

National teams come to León to train. So do brands, film crews and magazines. The same people who run those sessions are the ones who will be standing behind you on the river.

The Japanese national fly fishing team, 2023

The Slovak national team at the table in León, 2022

A casting clinic in a meadow below the Cantabrian mountains

Guiding and filming from the boat on a León reservoir