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Bush Pilot Angler

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Bush Pilot Angler, by Lee Wulff is an amazing storie about Lee's adventures in Newfoundland. He was an pioneer who set out to open the Newfoundland back country for tourism industry .In this book Lee uses his Yellowbird plane to explore the unfished rivers and ponds, where the salmon will take a fly evry cast and it is only common to catch a ten pound salmon. The book will capture you and you will be sadened when your finished the book because you'll want to read MORE!! The stories he talks of are what every flyfisherman or woman dreams of. This book is a must read if you are a fisherman or a Lee Wulff fan.* -J.Goodwin-

The late Lee Wulff was one of the world's foremost salmon anglers, as well as a skilled airplane pilot and explorer. Bush Pilot Angler is his extraordinary memoir that shares the story of the years in which Lee pioneered the salmon and brook trout fishers on the remote coast of northeastern Newfoundland and Labrador. Having established outpost camps by boat, he quickly learned that getting clients and supplies in and out would require a plane. Through the 1940s and early 50s, Wulff ferried anglers into isolated lakes and rivers by flying them in with a J3 Cub on floats. The fishing in this wild and remote venues exceeded his clientele's most fervent expectations. Bush Pilot Angler is a superbly presented, highly recommended autobiography of courage, love, flying, and fishing.

I started reading this book because my grandfather Jack Young (being a guide in Western Newfoundland) and Lee Wulff were very good friends. Although this book mentions gratefully a few things about my grandfather, the book also tells of many adventures that Lee encountered while flying all over western Newfoundland. I would especially recommend this book to anyone who has an interest of the great outdoors and small-craft flying.

This is a wonderful book, published posthuously by the author's family, by a singularly signficant fly fisherman and explorer. Lee tells us of how he opened up salmon fishing first in Newfoundland in the '30's and '40s and then on to Labrador where he found great salmon fishing as well as extraordinary fly fishing for brook trout and arctic char. Lee relates his experience flying in thoses remote areas and running fishing lodges for "sports" from the states. Lee's prose is more akin to poetry, and the reader is sure to be charmed by him as he evokes so many visions of the lovely wilderness he visited. I loved this book!