Women and Fly Fishing Through the Ages: A More Complete Picture Emerges
By – Moirajeanne FitzGerald and Steve Woit
12-31-2020
Much has been written about the role of women in fly fishing over the ages, and much more has been forgotten over time. Women have always fished and have made many notable contributions to advancing the art and practice of the sport around the world. The record of many early pioneering women fly fishers of the early days would be lost without the photos, prints, and postcards rescued by collectors from the stream of time. What can we learn from the women and the memories captured in these images?
Before the 1920s, it was common for men and women to fish and hunt together, as one can see from this photograph of a British fishing party.