April’s Crusade to Save Flyfishing

Outside Magazine has evidently found its flyfishing equivalent of Lance Armstrong in the form of April Vokey. And it paints a dire straights image of the current state of flyfishing in this recent blog post, highlighting Vokey’s “crusade to save a foundering sport.” Does flyfishing need a savior a al Joan of Ark? Not so sure. At least she’s out there, getting after it…. like a lot of talented women already doing the same.

Via Outside: “Sad fact: the last time fly-fishing was on the rise, Bill Clinton was in the White House. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, participation has plummeted nearly 33 percent since 1996, when the sport was riding a surge from A River Runs Through It. Enter April Vokey. A 29-year-old British Columbian steelhead guide and budding TV personality, Vokey has the charisma to give angling a much-needed boost, in part because she’s made it her business to attract the half of the population thus far ignored by the sport: women.”

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