The Globe and Mail features five world-class anglers - including Emily.

In 2014, while recovering from a serious cycling accident, Emily Rodger often found herself along the banks of a river in Sedona, Ariz., where she was living at the time. A sign there read: “Fly fishing only.” She wasn’t familiar with the sport at the time, so when she got back home to New Brunswick, she googled, “What is fly fishing?,” she recounted with a laugh. She then looked up local guides and, within a couple of days, was fly fishing.