I am 67 years old and drove a truck 47 years I have always hunted and fished but due to bad shoulders I never fly fished . Over the last 3 year's I have had both of them replaced and many,many hours of reb. My reward is fly fishing of all the videos I have watched this is by far the best. Thank you so much . I am in love with Joan and the help form her.
A living legend, an intoxicating to listen to instructor. And I would imagine she doesn’t suffer a man’s crap either. Respect to you, our First Lady of fly fishing. We’re not worthy. 🙇♀️🙇♂️🙇
I taught myself to fly fish at 10yrs old.... my first gear was a Martin combo set for $40 out of a New Mexico supermarket..... there was a Joan Wolf book included....... I fell in love with the sport ......I've been fly fishing for 35 years and I cherished every second of it.... so I dedicate all my trophy catches on the fly to THIS WOMAN..... a true icon in an obscure sport. Thank you!!!!
Hi Pal. I was given a 5 minute lesson from my Dad when I was 10. I'm 71 now , and am not a good caster, and boy is it hard to unlearn 60 years of bad casting.
I enjoy watching the elegance and grace of the ladies on the LPGA. They don’t power the ball down the fairway. This is no different. On a good day I may be able to cast 80 feet. Total respect for this artist..
Thank you Joan, I physically felt that my cast had improved by following your advice. At 55 I am a fairly new fly fisherman. I am becoming quite passionate about the many aspects. It has become my main hobby and pastime. Making my own flies and leaders/droppers etc. If i get to be half as good as you I will be doing ok. We live and learn and it's nice to live and learn fly fishing. X
*Overall **enjoyable.fishing** recommend I feel the Shadowfire 360 offers excellent value for those who are new to tenkara and don't want to break the bank on their first rod purchase.*
Its obvious to me she knows her stuff. She is so eloquent, never misses a beat, and you can tell this isn't rehearsed, but deeply understood. I have fallen in love with fishing over last 2 years and have only been spin casting. I just got a fly rod and am SO excited to try these instructions. It seems she has specific and demonstrable tips for about any scenario one could dream!
Great! Yeah she teaches those small intricate stuff that most don't elaborate on for some reason, because it is important to get what she is saying. It got me to understand what i was doing wrong. Also, I had a fast action rod, not recommended for beginners.
Joan you are an amazing woman and this video was the best tutorial I have ever seen. The double haul tutorial was exceptional and I practiced and practiced and what a difference it made. Thank you so so much.
Joan reminds me so much of my cousins, three sisters, athletes, outdoorswomen, sailors and the same generation. My cousins were hugely influential and inspiring to me, and Joan does the same thing. What makes life worth living? Follow their leads.
Hi Joan. I used to cast with all the casters, but Carol Green was a great as well. I new Lee, but Jim Green, Steve Rajeff and many others drove me. I enjoyed casting much more than fishing. I could go all day just watching the loop and not caring about fish!
Joan you are so right I've prepared to go to a pond or lake only to arrive and find it muddy and just go ''Ahh what the heck I'll practice casting'', and watching the line and getting distance accuracy makes it worth the trip
I'm still only half way through this absolutely beautiful tutorial, and I really don't want it to come to an end. And when it does, I guess I'll just have to view it again; and again - there's so much to learn from this supreme expert fly caster. R.
I love Joan Wulff! I had R.L. Winston custom make a Boron III+ ,9', 5wt with the Joan Wulff thumb alignment depression carved into the western grip. This depression helps immensely in my power snap. I switched to Wulff triangle fly lines several years ago and love them too. I have all her books on casting and I'm pretty sure all her DVD's. It's well worth your time to practice (on the lawn really) and master each of the casts she teaches before moving to the next more difficult one. This will take quite a lot of practice to perfect it. For all the products and instructions Joan has developed, I'm very grateful to Joan!
Hard to believe there was a fly casting club out of Paterson N.J. That's a piece of history I would love to hear more about. the Paterson today isn't safe to walk through.
I'm a brand new to fly fishing and have watched many, many hours of tutorial videos. This by far is the very best! Now if only I could learn to cast more than 20 feet....lol. I will be practicing these techniques and rewatching this video for sure!
I took a class at Caney Fork in Tennessee. My teacher worked for and studied under Joan. Well worth the money. Improved my cast so much. Its all about form.
Just awesome explanations and demonstrations!!! Really love to listen this wonderful Lady! She speaks so clearly, I was able to understand every sentence at first try. We all just have to say THANK YOU for sharing your masterclass experience with us! May the Lord or Petri bless your soul Joan Wolff!
Joan Wulff does a supreme job of explaining all of the nuances... this should be a required video for fly fishing salesmen :-) Everyone does it differently I suppose, but she explains it so well and this seems to cover the bases. It is also pretty phenomenal that she is a woman doing it!
My fly teacher studied under Joan and it was so cool to hear stories about her. Thrasher's guide to fly fishing is a great book and she's a great teacher at Caney Fork in Tennessee.
She stomped em in their own game, to the point where they had to change the rules. I would have loved to been in the room when the old men heard a woman won the cast comp. What an outstanding woman.
I have been looking for a duplicate of his 6ft rod for my collection as I have been using a 6ft rod for years in the small warmwater streams that I fish.
Joan. I doubt that you follow any of these comments but in the outside chance you do can you tell me the Garcia 6ft rod number that Lee used? U used to know but I have forgotten in my old age.
I just purchased Royal Wulff 200 gr. Ambush TriangleTaper fly line in 6wt.and I've never knew you could buy such awesome line I've only been fly fishing for about one year and I can cast this line like a pro over 110 feet! Thank you
Thanks for doing that Joan! Can't believe you misspelled her name in the Title. Very good content. Interesting perspective from a woman's side. Even some humor...at one point she tells you, you don't have to reach with your rod, during the casting stroke, when she is the poster child for reaching and they show that picture 100 times over during the video. Could have made it about 10 minutes shorter without all the repeats.
Yes, and Lee was a legend in his own right. He was known for trampling the ‘aristocratic snob’ attitude that many old-timers promoted, to show and encourage the ‘common man’ to try fly fishing. I’ve seen old movies made of his fishing where he tied a fly BY HAND, no vise, on the bank, then proceeded to wade in and start catching fish with it! Amazing guy, and a legendary couple. Joan was the ‘show-woman’, who demonstrated casting by keeping 100’ of line in the air false casting, with TWO rods at once, one in each hand, while wearing a ball gown, at sportsman shows!
Yes very good video can u help me cast the right way i have a problem with my fly line turning left on my cast everytime with my 8 weight and 5 weight too orher words line ends up with the leader going to left not a straight out i use leader for the size of lures i use 10 12 mostly on my fly leaders 3x is a size i use alot 71/2 feet long i fish mostly fly bugs i make with 10 12 hooks i can cast that 5 weight line just as pretty and straight never wants to turn cast straight out but without lure on put lure back on same problems bad cast can u help me get this right thank u for any help i use a 5 weight mostly 7/1/2 leader 3 x size 10 to 12 size hooks 1x
The line goes where the rod tip stops. If your line/leader is going to the left it is because you are stopping the rod tip slightly left, not straight ahead. I had the same problem until I checked out Lefty Kreh's four principles of fly casting. Much, much simpler concept and allows one to easily self-correct without worrying about exactly what angle your arm was at, whether you stopped at the right place, etc., etc.. Joan Wulff is truly a fly fishing/casting icon but I find these instructions needlessly complex.
J. "Wolf" was married to "Leah Wolf," right? If I'm the twentieth person to recommend a correct spelling, forgive me. This cannot be a Winston-sponsored video. Anyway, great videos, but holy good god, get the name right.
She is not good at all. Her husband was a legend, so people think she is good. But, any serious Fly fisherman will see the manyyyyyyyyy things she does incorrectly.
I am 67 years old and drove a truck 47 years I have always hunted and fished but due to bad shoulders I never fly fished . Over the last 3 year's I have had both of them replaced and many,many hours of reb. My reward is fly fishing of all the videos I have watched this is by far the best. Thank you so much . I am in love with Joan and the help form her.
A living legend, an intoxicating to listen to instructor. And I would imagine she doesn’t suffer a man’s crap either. Respect to you, our First Lady of fly fishing. We’re not worthy. 🙇♀️🙇♂️🙇
I take my hat off to you. What a wonderful lady and teacher.
I taught myself to fly fish at 10yrs old.... my first gear was a Martin combo set for $40 out of a New Mexico supermarket..... there was a Joan Wolf book included....... I fell in love with the sport ......I've been fly fishing for 35 years and I cherished every second of it.... so I dedicate all my trophy catches on the fly to THIS WOMAN..... a true icon in an obscure sport. Thank you!!!!
Nice just started im 17
Hi Pal. I was given a 5 minute lesson from my Dad when I was 10. I'm 71 now , and am not a good caster, and boy is it hard to unlearn 60 years of bad casting.
Instruction like none other coming from a world champion. I learned a lot and of course saved the video to my inbox. t
Thank you Joan from Boris.
Met Joan and Lee back in ‘86 in Montana …
Gracious couple …
Amazing to see Lee tie a fly with one hand .
True ambassadors of the sport
I enjoy watching the elegance and grace of the ladies on the LPGA. They don’t power the ball down the fairway. This is no different. On a good day I may be able to cast 80 feet. Total respect for this artist..
Pure model, good looking lady + put any man to shame. Learned something today.
What a treasure, so lucky to have this available to us. Thanks!
Best instructional fly fishing video I have ever watched....thank you
Thank you Joan, I physically felt that my cast had improved by following your advice. At 55 I am a fairly new fly fisherman. I am becoming quite passionate about the many aspects. It has become my main hobby and pastime. Making my own flies and leaders/droppers etc. If i get to be half as good as you I will be doing ok. We live and learn and it's nice to live and learn fly fishing. X
*Overall **enjoyable.fishing** recommend I feel the Shadowfire 360 offers excellent value for those who are new to tenkara and don't want to break the bank on their first rod purchase.*
Its obvious to me she knows her stuff. She is so eloquent, never misses a beat, and you can tell this isn't rehearsed, but deeply understood. I have fallen in love with fishing over last 2 years and have only been spin casting. I just got a fly rod and am SO excited to try these instructions. It seems she has specific and demonstrable tips for about any scenario one could dream!
She may be one of the best examples you can learn from especially if you favor upright casting, lefty Kreh is also great
Great! Yeah she teaches those small intricate stuff that most don't elaborate on for some reason, because it is important to get what she is saying. It got me to understand what i was doing wrong. Also, I had a fast action rod, not recommended for beginners.
From all fly casting tutorials this is one of the very best I've seen. Thank you so much, much love and tight lines from Norway.
One of the coolest fly fishing videos on UA-cam. This is one for the true hardcore fly fishing nerds lol
Joan set the foundation for teaching casting mechanics. Thank you, Joan!
awsome video! great to see some fly fishing history. always able to learn something new as well.
Awesome! A true pioneer. Joan's moves are like Tai Chi for fly fishing.
Includes a lot of little specific details I'd been wondering about, and hadn't seen in similar videos. Excellent!
Joan you are an amazing woman and this video was the best tutorial I have ever seen. The double haul tutorial was exceptional and I practiced and practiced and what a difference it made. Thank you so so much.
Awesome! Very well done. Thank You!
Thank you for sharing this GREAT video! The best instruction I have ever found. Joan is an amazing woman and teacher.
beautiful casting!!
my hero!
One of the best fly casting videos I've seen, it helped improve my casting a lot.
great video. will be rewatching this one every now and then. thanks for the find.
Thank you for sharing.. You are the legend 👍👍
Joan reminds me so much of my cousins, three sisters, athletes, outdoorswomen, sailors and the same generation. My cousins were hugely influential and inspiring to me, and Joan does the same thing. What makes life worth living? Follow their leads.
What a beautiful caster in some many ways!
Absolutely fantastic, that is the best instruction I have received. Thank you very much
Hi Joan. I used to cast with all the casters, but Carol Green was a great as well. I new Lee, but Jim Green, Steve Rajeff and many others drove me. I enjoyed casting much more than fishing. I could go all day just watching the loop and not caring about fish!
How wonderful, I love her stories. It is very much like dancing!
Joan you are so right I've prepared to go to a pond or lake only to arrive and find it muddy and just go ''Ahh what the heck I'll practice casting'', and watching the line and getting distance accuracy makes it worth the trip
I have a new idol! J. Wolf! Also, the young girl from portland that is winning so many fly casting competitions. Very cool
Way to go Joan ; ) I love to fly fish where ever I fly fish too!
Your a pioneer thank you.
I'm still only half way through this absolutely beautiful tutorial, and I really don't want it to come to an end. And when it does, I guess I'll just have to view it again; and again - there's so much to learn from this supreme expert fly caster. R.
I love Joan Wulff! I had R.L. Winston custom make a Boron III+ ,9', 5wt with the Joan Wulff thumb alignment depression carved into the western grip. This depression helps immensely in my power snap. I switched to Wulff triangle fly lines several years ago and love them too. I have all her books on casting and I'm pretty sure all her DVD's. It's well worth your time to practice (on the lawn really) and master each of the casts she teaches before moving to the next more difficult one. This will take quite a lot of practice to perfect it. For all the products and instructions Joan has developed, I'm very grateful to Joan!
God bless this woman a tru inspiration.
Wow, some great nuggets of wisdom!
Hard to believe there was a fly casting club out of Paterson N.J. That's a piece of history I would love to hear more about. the Paterson today isn't safe to walk through.
I'm a brand new to fly fishing and have watched many, many hours of tutorial videos. This by far is the very best! Now if only I could learn to cast more than 20 feet....lol. I will be practicing these techniques and rewatching this video for sure!
I took a class at Caney Fork in Tennessee. My teacher worked for and studied under Joan. Well worth the money. Improved my cast so much. Its all about form.
Go out and see if you can defeat that wind
Just awesome explanations and demonstrations!!! Really love to listen this wonderful Lady! She speaks so clearly, I was able to understand every sentence at first try. We all just have to say THANK YOU for sharing your masterclass experience with us! May the Lord or Petri bless your soul Joan Wolff!
Joan Wulff does a supreme job of explaining all of the nuances... this should be a required video for fly fishing salesmen :-) Everyone does it differently I suppose, but she explains it so well and this seems to cover the bases. It is also pretty phenomenal that she is a woman doing it!
My fly teacher studied under Joan and it was so cool to hear stories about her. Thrasher's guide to fly fishing is a great book and she's a great teacher at Caney Fork in Tennessee.
One of the best casting presentations I've seen! Thank you Ms Joan!
Never was the expression 'rules are made to be broken' so apt. Great vid. R.
キャスティングをマスターするのではなくて、基本を学ぶ先生ありがとうございます。人それぞれキャスティングの仕方なんて違うと思いマスねフライフィッシングの魅力あこがれそんな魅力と思いマスね夢がふくれます、偉大なる先生ありがとうございます
Thanks for the experience transmitted in these video. Regards from the lake of garda.
Great! I'm a flyfisher from Croatia
She stomped em in their own game, to the point where they had to change the rules. I would have loved to been in the room when the old men heard a woman won the cast comp. What an outstanding woman.
Thank you Mrs Wolf for this video.
Beautiful casting and a beautiful “lady”👍
wonderful sportswoman ...thanks ...I also love tarpon
Joan you are beautiful. You are so correct that the casting is a joy in itself.
I surely don't have your skills and a 75 to 80ft cast is a long cast for me. We all do miss Lee also.
I have been looking for a duplicate of his 6ft rod for my collection as I have been using a 6ft rod for years in the small warmwater streams that I fish.
I am so grateful for Winston rod for sponsoring your video. You and Lee are a treasure of our sport.
Joan. I doubt that you follow any of these comments but in the outside chance you do can you tell me the Garcia 6ft rod number that Lee used? U used to know but I have forgotten in my old age.
A wonderful video. Thank you
Ma'am. You are the best!!
Thanks so very much !
I just purchased Royal Wulff 200 gr.
Ambush TriangleTaper fly line in 6wt.and I've never knew you could buy such awesome line I've only been fly fishing for about one year and I can cast this line like a pro over 110 feet!
Thank you
Superb experience and explanation
Amazing lady ☘️☘️☘️
Cette grande dame une légende de la pêche à la mouche ❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍
She’s a beautiful fly-caster.
wow she is beautiful
Amazing!!!!!!!
Theres a bite to the way you speak, ma,am. A steel magnolia.
Legend!
Gold, pure gold instruction
The best intro!
what an amazing woman!
Amazing.
Cheers Mate!
Go ahead mahma, wab bang!
Go Joan!
hello i give you my suport fullpack done.
Thanks for doing that Joan! Can't believe you misspelled her name in the Title. Very good content. Interesting perspective from a woman's side. Even some humor...at one point she tells you, you don't have to reach with your rod, during the casting stroke, when she is the poster child for reaching and they show that picture 100 times over during the video. Could have made it about 10 minutes shorter without all the repeats.
Wow!
Her husband Lee Wulff, the creator of the Wulff dry flies… legendary…
This is a world champion.
Anyone criticizing had better be able to cast more than 161feet!
Right 😂😂😂
What does that have to do with fishing? Good luck setting the hook at 161 feet!
Poetry!
lovely story
Her name is Joan Wulff.
Thank You.
Joan along with Mel Krieger are some of the best fly casting teachers you could ever have. Was she the wife of the great Lee Wulff??
Yes
Yes.
Yes, and Lee was a legend in his own right. He was known for trampling the ‘aristocratic snob’ attitude that many old-timers promoted, to show and encourage the ‘common man’ to try fly fishing. I’ve seen old movies made of his fishing where he tied a fly BY HAND, no vise, on the bank, then proceeded to wade in and start catching fish with it! Amazing guy, and a legendary couple. Joan was the ‘show-woman’, who demonstrated casting by keeping 100’ of line in the air false casting, with TWO rods at once, one in each hand, while wearing a ball gown, at sportsman shows!
@9:48 whew, joan had incredible legs back in the day. instruction is epic too
Joan was a hottie in her heyday and Lee saw that for sure. 😉
What do you mean was? Is!
i roll cast a lot. you can cast farther if you raise the tip about 15 degrees as the line is furling out
Yes very good video can u help me cast the right way i have a problem with my fly line turning left on my cast everytime with my 8 weight and 5 weight too orher words line ends up with the leader going to left not a straight out i use leader for the size of lures i use 10 12 mostly on my fly leaders 3x is a size i use alot 71/2 feet long i fish mostly fly bugs i make with 10 12 hooks i can cast that 5 weight line just as pretty and straight never wants to turn cast straight out but without lure on put lure back on same problems bad cast can u help me get this right thank u for any help i use a 5 weight mostly 7/1/2 leader 3 x size 10 to 12 size hooks 1x
The line goes where the rod tip stops. If your line/leader is going to the left it is because you are stopping the rod tip slightly left, not straight ahead. I had the same problem until I checked out Lefty Kreh's four principles of fly casting. Much, much simpler concept and allows one to easily self-correct without worrying about exactly what angle your arm was at, whether you stopped at the right place, etc., etc.. Joan Wulff is truly a fly fishing/casting icon but I find these instructions needlessly complex.
small correction her name is Joan Wulff, not Wolf
You need to check her identity and spelling of her name! Her name is Joan WULFF......widow of deceased pioneer aviator/flyfisherman Lee Wulff.
Wulff is her last name, not wolf.
Please spell this great lady's name correctly - it's Wulff. Her husband was Lee Wulff.
But, but, but Lefty said not to raise your elbow.
I must say that I flyfish in saltwater and you have to keep your wrist straight like throwing a baseball unless you want Rei
Past…...
Wulff, not Wolf
Id like to see those who gave this a tumbs down do it bether :)
J. "Wolf" was married to "Leah Wolf," right? If I'm the twentieth person to recommend a correct spelling, forgive me. This cannot be a Winston-sponsored video. Anyway, great videos, but holy good god, get the name right.
OK. Learned a crap ton.
Only took 65 years she got it down now
strange
my wife casts further than i do....
i have to say, that's a pretty rubbish roll cast. :(
Alexander Lim better than ur mom..
@18:16 she talks about 90 degrees from the white line on the forward stroke. Something is not squaring off (forgive the pun)...
She is not good at all. Her husband was a legend, so people think she is good. But, any serious Fly fisherman will see the manyyyyyyyyy things she does incorrectly.