Bull Trout fry require extremely cold water to survive, because of this their satisfactory water for spawning beds are minimal. Which further complicates their recovery rate. Luckily biologists throughout their entire range are attempting to protect valued spawning beds, and awareness of them are being raised. The wonderful thing about nature is she seems to be awfully forgiving about sins of past.

With constant vigilance Bull Trout species will survive, thriving however remains questionable. Already gone in California, those of us fortunate enough to live near waters in their natural range would do well to see what programs exist to further enhance their survival. And extra fortunate might even live near a healthy population, where can go drift a Muddler Minnow in front of a hungry specimen and see, touch and photograph one close up.

Wulff was as skilled as caster as there was, at home delicately laying out a #28 Wulff, (which he could tie, without aid of a vice), or casting to his beloved Atlantic Salmon. Using his now infamous 6 foot bamboo rod for either.

To his list of accomplishments he became a pilot, and was active well into his eighties, when at 86 a plane crash took his life. While many that know him, claim his life must have ended first, and then plane crashed. We will never know.

But we can take genuine appreciation that men like him don't come along every day. And further appreciate that with all his talents and energy, that he chose fly fishing as a medium of his expression. And left a wealth of information and inspiration for generations to come.