Tuesday - May 12, 2026
5:30-6:45pm: Pre-meeting mini-class
7:00pm: Meeting & Speaker

David Ladensohn
Fly-Fishing with
Leonardo Da Vinci 

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

Leonardo understood rivers like no one else before him. He also drew them like no one else ever had. His interesting life story and the beautiful drawings he produced combine with his unequaled power of observation to produce a figure that could have been the ideal fly-fishing guide.

Ladensohn explains with Leonardo’s own illustrations how the artist’s many talents would have made any angler’s day both successful and entertaining.

This book is a portrait of the sport, the people who live it, and the Renaissance Man who would have loved it.

DAVID LADENSOHN'S BIO

David Ladensohn is the author of Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci and is also a mediator, retired executive, and entrepreneur. He was recently a Next Horizons Scholar at Oxford University. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, and outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico.