Bush Pilot Angler

by Lee Wulff

Lee Wulff is well known as a salmon angler, and now he will be known as a skilled pilot. This book tells of the many years Lee acted as guide, pilot and entrepreneur to the backwoods camps.

228 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Max Scott]

A Reason to Listen

The author brings my two favorite activities into perfect harmony, fly fishing and flyin. Listening to my father read Wulff's stories in the early 1950s encouraged me to read at an early age. Conservation made sense even back in those days! Conversely, my career began with flying and only late in life did I take fly rod in hand to accomplish my last pursuit! I can recommend "Bush Pilot Angler!"

[Craig Schlossin]

What a dream job!

[Ants]

While some fisherman enjoy reading about the size of the fish caught, those tales bore me. The value of the book, is the documentation of a bountiful resource, and how the fishery is managed by the local residents and the governing bodies. Details of the fish bounty are needed to understand how the fishery can be abused or lost. Sadly, this same scenario applies to every fishery.

The social and business interactions between Wulff, the local guides, and the (paying for the fishing thrill) sports is described with enough anecdotes and memoirs so lessons can be learned. The memoir covers the period from the late 40's to early 50's when Lee Wulff was inspired to access the fishery by float plane. The use of guides to fish similar waters in Newfoundland or Labrador or the Canadian maritime promises had been going on before Wulff's time. My personal interest would be to hear additional memoirs before float plane time. It is probably safe to say the use of float planes accelerated the changes to the fisheries and the local communities.

The historical pictures give a great face to the memoir.

Enjoy the read! I did.