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Hѐritage de IWFF; a site to visit faces of younger and older women anglers gracing IWFF website with their smiles.

 

Can you see yourself on this wall of the present and the future? We come to fish but it is about so much more, as we take our rod in hand and greet and meet women around the world in the sport we call Fly-Fishing.Join this Hѐritage de IWFF website by submitting a fly fishing picture (with permission for IWFF to use), with your first name, a line or 2 of information about the photo - where the fish was caught, on what fly, on what river/lake/stream/ocean, and the State or Country where the photo was taken all in your native language. Watch this website as we globally join hands in the sport we call fly fishing as we come together to share, learn, teach and heal.
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Linden, The Future Fly Fisher Woman’s Secret Weapon

 

Translation:  English by her Father Jack

Consent given by: Father Jack and Linden

 

Whether it's fishing bass at an urban pond or fly fishing for native trout, Linden just flat catches fish! She has been fly fishing for two years since she was 7 years old. She is extremely independent as Linden insists on hooking and fighting her own fish.  Persistence may be Linden's secret weapon - if she is sight fishing a fish, she works the fish until she entices it to the hook. Linden loves a challenge.  Her latest request is, “Dad get me an 8-weight so I can fish for those giant carp”.
 

Emmie, The Future Face of the Fly Fisher Woman

Club:  Recently joined IWFF

Translation:  English by her Father Michael

Consent given by: Father Michael and Emmie

 

“Emmie is 9 years old and has been fly fishing since about 5 years old.  She loves fishing Woods Canyon Lake, and Silver Creek (in Arizona) where she had her first real success on a fly rod.  Emmie and her brother enjoyed participating in the stocking of Silver Creek on the first day of catch and release.” 

 

“Emmie has started to learn to tie flies, ‘but only ones that have pink in them.’  Emmie has also developed a good set of stream eyes and looks for little bugs along the waters edge.”  An International Woman Fly Fisher face of the future!

 

Judith Brown, 2008 IWFF President. November 2008 steelhead fishing on the Trinity River in Northern California, USA. Cold weather and challenging wading, but well worth the effort! Photo IWFF member Cheryl Bell.
 

Rogue River steelhead in Oregon. The result of my first time using a switch rod and some spey techniques! I'm a believer! Rebecca Blair, California
 
“A beautiful day and a beautiful fish!!! What more do you need!” KiKi Galvin: Falls Church, Virginia USA Photographer: Frank Kneeshaw from Four Rivers Fly Shop, Twin Bridges Montana
 
Ann Bounds with wild brown trout caught in Glacier Creek at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA.
 
Deb Bowen of Marietta, GA, USA With a 6 lb. 26.5 inches long - wild brown trout caught on the Cumberland River in KY.

 
Eli in Ambergris, Belize at dusk. Permission given by Eli and photographer.
Fanny Krieger with a sea run brown trout of about 25 Lbs, caught on the Rio Grande River in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Photo credit: Mel Krieger.
   
Lesley Crawford, angling author and guide based in highlands of Scotland with a 12lb Atlantic Salmon caught on the River Forss near her home.
 
2008 Cheryl Bell steelhead fishing the Trinity River, California, USA. Photo by IWFF member Judith Brown.
 
Rachel Andras fishing for Tarpon in Cuba. This fish was caught on a Black Death Bunny fly on an oceanside flat. Permission given by Rachel Andras.
Barbara Klutinis catches her first Redfish on the Gulf flats off the east coast of southern Texas. Photo by guide Rick Hartman.
 

Christ'l Van den Wyngaert from Belgium.

On a very rainy day in April 2008, I caught this beautiful rainbow trout in 'Lac de Rabais', a small lake nearby Virton in Belgium. I was accompanied by my friend Rik and Guido Vinck, who wanted to introduce me and my friend to this lake.

Photographer: Guido Vinck
 

Diana Jeanne, FFF Certified Flycasting Instructor and Guide (Pinetop, Arizona), spending the winter in Aransas Pass, Texas, with her favorite furry fishing companion, Missy who is admiring a nice November Redfish.  Photo credit given.
 
Sally Stoner with nice brown trout caught on the Metaura River in South Island New Zealand. Photo credit: Lynda Topp.
 
Tina Strixner of Unterschleissheim Germany hooked into this fish just off Fraser Island. - Eastcoast Australia just north of Brisbane. Photographer: Christian Strixner.
 
Misako Ishimura, Goodwill Ambassador of IWFF-CLC, Casting Presentation at Indiana Fly Fishing Show. Photo Linda Morrow.
 
Natasha, 7 years old, was catching little snapper blues. The Location was in Cape Cod, in the bay area in Yarmouth. While fishing for strippers Natasha kept catching these baby fish while drifting a nymph near a rock jetty. She was having a blast! Photo and Permission given by her Father.
 
Monika Holzapfel of Seefeld, Droessling, Germany
New angler Monika with her first new fly rod and reel.
 
Marie Allen with a brown trout on the Big Horn River in Montana, USA. Photo credit: Dr. Larry Allen.
 
Donna O'Sullivan, on Loop Pro Staff, with my first 18-pound Norwegian Atlantic Salmon caught on the River Orkla, Norway. Photo credit given.
 
Anneli Romany Engström
I am from Karlstad,Sweden.I caught the fish at Norrbystrommen, Motala, Sweden . I worked this one fish from hidden position for about 25 minutes before I could trigger it to go for my fly. That was a great experience!Photographer: Ewa Falklind
Liesbeth Timmerman-Vogelzang Netherlands I caught this nice bonefish with my #8 rod with a floating tip pallot line, the leader consists of only 2,5 meters 30/00 fluoro carbon line with a pink tied Crazy Charlie fly, size 6. Bone fishing on Bonaire is nice and not too difficult a job and is a good place to stay for a short holiday. Photographer: Heino Vovelzang.
 
Patti Beasley, with a 25 pound redfish!
Photographer and guide from Louisiana, Gary Montgomery
 
Wendy, Northern California, June 2009. “My first experience in a float tube! I caught a largemouth black bass on a private cow pond at Pt Reyes National Seashore. “
Photo by IWFF member, Rebecca Blair.
 
Susan Hunter, an IWFF member for 10 years! Photo from the trip to Baja, Mexico in April 2006 hosted by Pudge. It took a good 20 minutes to bring it in. Photographer: Jim Hunter
 
Alice Owsley a Fishing Guide in West Yellowstone, MT, USA, named this fish Waltina. She was caught on the lower Henry's Fork of the Snake in Idaho in June 2009. She measured 23 inches long and has a 15 1/2 inch girth, we estimated she weighed 7 pounds. She ate the Salmonfly dry. Photo by Mike Lobel.
 
Christa Buchwald member of IWW: This rainbow trout measured 47 cm (I calculated wrong: 47 cm are 18, 8 inches), and was attracted to a Stimulator Nymph. It was a nice, but rainy Saturday morning at a little stream in Bavaria, South Germany, shortly before lunch. The fish became our lunch. Christa’s friend, Antje Friedrichs took the photo
 
My first bonefish! What a beautiful fish and what a fighter! After catching smaller trout and greyling in Sweden, the power of this saltwater fish was a shock to me. I have never seen so much of my backing line before.
Maria Ålander, Gothenburg, Sweden, went to Cuba in April 2009 and caught this baby on the north side of Cuba, in Cayo de Santa Maria. It was caught on a Loop rod and reel and a fly tied by former Formula One driver Fabrizzio Barbassa, who is nowadays running a fishing operation on Cuba. Photographer Martin Falklind.
 
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