Within this community, we talk about getting more women involved with fly fishing all the time.
That’s because women are instinctively better anglers than men. During my years of guiding, I could not count the number of times when little sister out-fished her big brothers-that was the norm, not the exception. I married the youngest of three daughters, but only after I passed her father’s “does he fish?” test. It moved me, so much, in fact, to think, “Jeez, so, so much of the trout fishing literary tradition is about fathers and sons… grandfathers and sons… we should turn that on its ear.” While I do not have a daughter myself (I have three awesome nieces who are like daughters to me), my whole trout fishing and conservation experience is really rooted in a story about daughters. Several months ago, I noticed a thread on the TU online community that centered around “daughters,” and it really moved me.
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