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, based in Nashville, Tennessee. She left a successful engineering career in 2015 to venture into the business full-time.

Her passion for fly fishing lead 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. Susan credits most of her teaching success with experience gained as an instructor at the Joan Wulff School of Fly Fishing, where she was on staff for 15 years. In addition, she is a Certified Casting Instructor through FFI (Fly Fishers International) and has taught hundreds of students the art of fly casting.
She is the author of Thrasher’s Fly-Fishing Guide, published May 2020. Susan currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, just a short drive from her beloved Caney Fork River.

Susan will be speaking at our Women’s Beyond the Cast Fly Fishing Symposium, and she will also be doing casting critiques throughout the event.