I would rather fish any day than go to heaven

Juliana Berners, Cornelia Crosby and more

Me on the river, trying again and again to put Joan’s teachings to good use (image via Steve Carpenter)

My siblings and I had this rite of passage when we were growing up.

My dad, himself an avid fly fisher, would gather us together and pop in the household copy of the Joan Wulff DVD, a “Dynamics of Fly Casting” series she recorded way back in 2001. Then…