Wanda Taylor, Professional Guide & Instructor

Wanda Taylor has been a professional guide and fly casting instructor since the 80's. She’s been a feature angler or host in magazines, on radio, television, video computer fly fishing games and podcast from coast to coast. Her passion is teaching independent fly casting/fishing to women and girls, as well as, pursuing fins with a fly around the world.

Wanda is currently teaching private casting instruction and instructional guiding on the Hiwassee River, near Reliance, TN and private 1hr casting instruction on a private lake estate. An outdoor writer for Dun Magazine and Girls, Guns & Rods. Wanda is the Women’s Casting Instructor of the 18th annual Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Festival January 14-15, 2023

• Wanda is known as "The South's 1st Lady of Fly Fishing"
  
• She's the 1st woman inducted into the Southern Appalachian Fly Fishing Museum Hall of Fame
  
• She  is the 1st woman certified by the International Federation of Fly  Fishers as a Master Certified Casting Instructor in the world.
  
• She is the 1st woman Orvis Endorsed Guide in the Southeastern United States.
  
• She was awarded the Southeastern FFF 2005 Woman of the year award.
  
• The  recipient of the 2008 FFF SE Council Award of Excellence for her work  with breast cancer survivors with Casting For Recovery, Georgia’s  Casting For Confidence and her teaching and testing activities for the  FFF Certified Casting Instructors program.