Joan Salvato Wulff (born 1926) is a fly fisher. 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 along with her husband, Lee Wulff, in 1978, along the Beaverkill River in New York.

2024年4月29日 · With almost nine decades of experience in fly fishing, Joan Salvato Wulff has established herself as a living legend in the field, or rather, stream.

Joan Wulff grew up in New Jersey and started fly fishing at the age of 10. In an era when fly fishing was overwhelmingly male-dominated, Joan didn’t just keep up—she led. By her teenage years, she was already making waves in casting competitions, and in 1943, at just 16 years old, Joan won her first national casting title.

Joan Salvato Wulff. Joan was a National Casting Champion from 1943-1960. Highlights: winning the National Fisherman's Distance Casting event against an all-male field, and casting a fly 161 feet. Joan has pioneered a set of fly casting mechanics which were presented in her book Fly Casting Techniques.

2021年3月17日 · Joan Salvato Wulff is “The First Lady of Fly Fishing” and recognizes that her story and career have inspired countless women to pursue the sport. Wulff revised her first book as Joan Wulff’s New Fly-Casting Techniques republished many times.

One of fly fishing’s greatest twentieth-century pioneers is none other than Joan Salvato Wulff. She has been participating in the sport for more than seventy years, and she has singularly proven that fly fishing is not just a man’s sport. Joan Salvato was born just outside of Paterson, New Jersey, in 1926.

2020年5月12日 · Hooked on fishing at a very early age, she rose to prominence as a National Casting Champion, winning competitions for both distance (161 feet!) and accuracy from 1943-1960. In the late 1970s, she and her husband, Lee Wulff, opened the Wulff School of Fly Fishing in Lew Beach on the Upper Beaverkill.

2022年3月22日 · Joan Salvato Wulff, the first-ever paid female spokesperson for a fishing company, placed first in many tournaments during her fly-fishing career, often besting the all-male competitors.

When Joan Salvato and Lee Wulff were joined in marriage, it brought together two luminaries of the fishing world. The significance of the contributions this pairing made to the sport of fly fishing cannot be overstated, providing modern-day anglers with numerous innovations related to both the gear and techniques that have helped shape the ...

2017年5月16日 · He invented the pocketed fly-fishing vest in 1931 and was the first to use long-lasting animal hair in dry flies, rather than chicken feathers, for heavier-bodied flies, such as the Royal Wulff, which along with other outdoor gear is still sold by Royal Wulff Products, now run by Joan’s son Doug.