Autor/-in: Joan Wulff

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