Anne Woodcock organises fishing days for women. She is the Marketing Director at FishPal and has a weekly show on CVFM Radio 
Today is International Women’s day and what better way to spend it than with a group of women discussing how to get women and girls into sport in 2012 and beyond.
There were presentations from celebrities and leading females in sport from Dame Kelly Holmes, Jill Scott, Andrea Congreaves etc and also from women who run sport in the local Newcastle community.
It was refreshing to listen to presentations by female coaches, athletics and referee’s from male dominated sports such as football, rugby, basketball and Read More
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I took up fly fishing after attending a day organised by a group called Ladies Fishing. £16 got me a day fishing at Chatton, fly dressing with Paul Little and casting tuition with Cliff Johnston who has over 60 years fishing experience. The group is keen to support charities and in particular Casting for Recovery, a Breast cancer support group using fly fishing to heal sufferers both mentally and physically.
The Ladies Fishing group supported this charity, this weekend by attending the Glasgow Angling Centre Open Weekend to provided the opportunity for people to tie a brooch with funds raised for this worthy charity. As my Mum died from breast cancer when I was twelve this is a charity close to my heart so I decided a trip up the M74 was called for. Not to mention the Read More
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For the latest angling chat from the bank side, spend a day with Chatton Ladies.
Chatton Trout Fishery in conjunction with Ladies Fishing have launched Chatton Ladies, with the aim to introduce more females and re-engage lapsed females back into angling through a series of events starting Sunday 15th April 9.30am to 4.30pm running until September.
Chatton Ladies are providing 6 days of fishing instruction and guidance covering Read More
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Paul Little has kindly tied 4 classic spey flies and framed them to sell at the open weekend to raise money for Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland. Unfortunately my right hand man can’t make the show this weekend, he’s off chasing specimen rainbow trout in the south of England, hence why i’m nervous !
I would like to thank Peter Veniard from Veniard for the generous donation of the brooches and Paul Little for all the fly dressing material. Thank you to Paul Devlin, Gary Wingate and Gordon Armour from Glasgow Angling Centre who Read More
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Only one sleep before we go to the Glasgow Angling Centre open weekend to help members of the public, especially women and children, tie their first fly on a brooch to help raise funds for Casting for Recovery and giving advice to any ladies thinking of taking up angling.
Are we nervous, YES! Read More
Anne Woodcock organises fishing days for women. She is the Marketing Director at FishPal and has a weekly show on CVFM Radio 