Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/71 Joe Brooks shares how he produced a documentary about the great Joe Brooks, his grandfathers brother and the man who influenced Lefty Kreh and many other great fly fisherman. We find out how the late great Joe Brooks fell from grace to live on the streets but pulled himself out of the gutter to become one of the most influential fly fisherman in history. Show Sponsors The Wet Fly Swing Members Society: https://wetflyswing.com/members-society/ Show Notes with Joe Brooks (Updated show notes links and time: https://wetflyswing.com/71) Pools and Riffles was one of the his first popular fishing columns that Joe wrote as part of a local paper Salt Water Fly Fishing was the first book on salt water fishing. In The Complete Book of Fly Fishing Joe talks about how he was a dry fly purist to begin with but Tom Loving introduced shad and striper via salt water. Salt Water Game Fishing was another book Joe published. Joe Brooks had a career in baseball and played for the Baltimore