Joan Wulff

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Joan Wulff is a significant figure in the fly fishing industry in the United States. Wife of the late Lee Wulff, pioneer of the Wulff style of dry fly, Joan has continued her husband's legacy with her casting instruction and fly line design. She continues to champion the world class series of "Wulff" fly patterns that were developed by Joans husband Lee Wulff in the 1930’s. Wulff patterns were the first flies to use hair for fly wings and tails.Lee beefed up the body, creating a fly that offered a good mouthful to a hungry trout.

The Royal Wulff Information and Pictures of Wulff flies fly was invented by Joah's husband but is associated with Joan as well. The fly is fished very successfully throughout the world as an attractor pattern. Its buoyancy and visibility on fast tumbling waters is excellent, the red waistcoat gives an added trigger to stimulating the trout. It is one of Wulff's best know fly fishing creations and has probably been cast millions of times by hundreds of thousands of fly fishers all over the world.

From 1937 to 1960, Mrs. Wulff won several fly casting tournaments at the national and international levels, casting a remarkable 161 feet in one competition. Joan is the co-founder and chief instructor of the Wulff School of Fly Fishing in Lew Beach, N.Y. and remains active in fly fishing and casting instruction. She has appeared in several instructional fishing films and authored Joan Wulff's Fly Casting Techniques; Fly Fishing: Expert Advice from a Woman's Perspective and Fly Casting Accuracy.

Joan is a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, writes periodicaly for Fly Rod and Reel Magazine and has contributed articles for the Atlantic Salmon Journal. She is also a founding member and Vice President of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum. She was inducted into the Atlantic Salmon Federation's Cullman International Hall of Fame in 1999.

Her husband, Lee died in his 86th year at the controls of his light plane in 1991. Nobody who knew Lee thought the crash killed him. His co-pilot said, "I will always believe that Lee's death was the cause of the accident -- rather than a result of it. Lee died, as he lived, doing one of the things he did best long after anyone's reasonable expectations.”