Susan Thrasher

Susan Thrasher started fishing at a young age with her dad in East Tennessee and has been passionate about the outdoors all of her life. In 2004, she started Southern Brookies Fly Fishing, a guide service and instructional school, near Nashville, Tennessee. She left a successful engineering career in 2015 to venture into the business full-time. Her passion for fly fishing led her to serve as the co-founder of the Music City Fly Girls, a women's fly-fishing group, and to serve as the Middle...See more

Susan Thrasher started fishing at a young age with her dad in East Tennessee and has been passionate about the outdoors all of her life. In 2004, she started Southern Brookies Fly Fishing, a guide service and instructional school, near Nashville, Tennessee. She left a successful engineering career in 2015 to venture into the business full-time. Her passion for fly fishing led her to serve as the co-founder of the Music City Fly Girls, a women's fly-fishing group, and to serve as the Middle Tennessee retreat leader for Casting for Recovery, a program focused on breast cancer survivors and the healing nature of fly fishing. Thrasher credits most of her teaching success with experience gained as an instructor at the Wulff School of Fly Fishing, where she has been on staff for the past 15 years. She currently lives in East Nashville, Tennessee, just a short drive from her beloved Caney Fork River. See less