Day 2 - License up, how hard could it be?
I was all twitchy and shit that night trying to sleep and think about hitting the river at the same time, so I downed a couple bottles of wine and settled down. After morning on the patio for breakfast with the ladies I had a quick chat with the desk staff and found out we need to head into town to find the "Information" office to liscense up.
Well, there is a big fucking castle like building over-looking the river valley and this is where we are supposed to end up. That's it poking out of the trees up on the right bank.
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The view of the castle from below. even for me this was not too hard to find.
When we get there we are met with a big bronze plaque on the outside of the entrance, very official. After about 20 minutes I have the first part the license dance done, Sweet! After the deal at the castle you have to go across the plaza to the post office and hope you're in the correct line AND that you get someone who vaguely speaks some resemblance to english. I was, I did, hurdle two, DONE. At the post office - present your passport and fill out the form. Pay the fee (8.40 euros) and you will get a license good for 3 months for the region.
Next we have to go find the person who has the rights to the river…this turns into 4 hour process.
From the Post Office we got further instructions to go to a hotel about 1 Km away to get the local license. We were given another book called "Agriturismi in provincia di Belluno" which they marked a page stating "if all else fails - go to this place to get the local license."
At the Hotel - the owner informs us that he no longer sells fishing licenses and gives us another address to go to.
With the use of the navi and some good old fashion detective work - we find the next place - it's closed with a phone number on the door.
We call the number (first we had to figure out what the country code is. Good thing my wife's sister had her smart phone!). The guy answers and 2 phone calls, 1 text and 3 languages later we have a new location to target.
In the end we find ourselves at the "all else fails" location marked in the book.
Rio Cavalli
di Fiorenzo Mazzalovo
loc. Sagrogna, 74
32100 Belluno
Tel: 39.0437.927380
www.riocavalli.it
The website does not have an english option. After using google translate - we find the site promotes their onsite fishing more than anything. You won't find much info about buying a license but don't fear - this is the place to go. The license for "No Kill" or "Catch and Release" is 11 Euros per day.
After the trip was over, a more careful inspection of the information books we had in hand revealed more information that we could have used. In the rules and regulations book, the above location is again mention under "Punti Vendita Permessi" or retail outlets for licenses.
Fine we are done, but once again, you can’t go ‘round hungry so we decide to have a tortellini lunch. Then I swear I am going fishing.
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James “Wingnut” Redden lives in Germany and has a very patient wife that is indulging his passion to fish while they live abroad. We’ll get another report when he stops draining cans and goes fishing again! “Wingnut” is an excellent cook and in the future we may be lucky if he visits upon us his cooking knowledge in a recipe or two… if we are lucky.”
*Ruth Ann is Jame’s beloved truck that still resides here in the states while he is overseas.
