Joan Wulff's Fly Fishing: Expert Advice from a Woman's Perspective

by Joan Wulff

Overview

Joan Wulff's book teaches women--and all those who enjoy angling with a fly--the myriad tips and techniques that have worked for her in her lifetime of practicing and perfecting the sport.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811775656
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/06/2024
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	676,612
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Joan Wulff, fly fisher, author, and educator, is known as the First Lady of Fly Fishing. In 1951 she won the national fly-casting distance title, an all-male competition, and was a National Casting Champion from 1943-1960. She started the Wulff School of Fly Fishing with her husband, Lee Wulff, in 1978 on the Beaverkill River in New York. She was inducted into the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame in 2007 and the American Casting Association Hall of Fame and is widely regarded as the architect of modern-day fly-casting mechanics

Editorial Reviews

Wulff, one of the world's great fly-casters and author of Joan Wulff's Fly Casting Techniques (Nick Lyons Bks., 1987) offers a woman's perspective on angling. Her expert advice on companionship, clothing, tackle, casting, wading, reading water, approach, presentation, and playing and landing fish is clearly presented in a pleasurable anecdotal style. Conservationist ethic suffuses her work, as well as a belief that one is in ``the trout's world'' when outdoors. Her late husband Lee, author of Trout on a Fly ( LJ 10/15/86), was the first to promote the ``catch and release'' philosophy back in 1936. Though any beginning or intermediate fly fisher can profit from this book, women will appreciate its focus on the positive influences of women's fishing. For all angling collections.-- Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York

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