Dynamics of Fly Casting

… from solid basics to advanced techniques …

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. The author of numerous books, Wulff was inducted into the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame (2007) and American Casting Association Hall of Fame and is widely regarded as the architect of modern-day fly-casting mechanics.

The ASF (Atlantic Salmon Journal) wrote an article about Joan in 2020, which you can read here>

Joan Wulff

For a short refresher, view No. 6 video (5:47 minutes). In this segment the master instructor demonstrates all the basic parts of a good cast, from the pickup to the back- and forward casts, to loop formation and correct arm movement.

You will find a total of six instructional videos by Joan Wulff here> Dynamics of Fly Casting with Joan Wulff

A selection of comments from YouTube channel “The Angler’s Art”:
”59 and just learning to fly with Joan leading , what a joy to watch and learn from one of the best.”
“Thank you for your journey. You have taught me a great deal.”
”Joan you make it look so easy. I've watched a lot of fly fishing instructors but no one made it look so easy and made such great sense of it.”
”Joan is a great teacher. She follows the EDGE method. She Explains the skill. Demonstrates how to perform the skill, Guide you though the process of the skill and now you are able to perform. She has Enable you to do it now on your own.”