Spectacular
"Women's week"
with Kate Blubaugh

 

In the best fishing week of the season

July 1-6 
2012

 

Take advantage of exceptional fishing and a unique wilderness experience that will surely be a dream of a lifetime. Grab your rod and a friend and head out to beautiful Tuckamore Lodge in Newfoundland, Canada. Learn how to cast a fly line, tie on a salmon fly and catch your first ever Atlantic Salmon.
 

WOMEN ONLY
minimal 4, maximal 8 participants

$2299.00
 if booked before 1st of  March 2012

Booked after 1st of March 2012  $3250.00

If you don't want to come over alone or want to bring your none-fishing
husband/friend or girlfriend we arrange a very special price for them as well.

 

Happy women going fishing

Program

Day 1
Arrival day, unpacking, sight seeing around the lodge and relaxing
 

Day 2

Introductions
Intro area rivers and fish species to go for
Equipment explained
Rods reels, lines, leader, tippet, fishing clothing
What I carry in my vest and use of the tools
Coffee break
Casting Instruction:
1. Overhand cast
A. false casting
B. releasing line
Lunch
2. Roll Cast
Knots and little about flies
a. Improved clinch knot (let's tie the fly on)

Let's Go to the Salmon river

Back to lodge for relaxing (shower, hot tub or sauna)
Dinner

Instruction Includes:
a. Fishing rules Newfoundland
b. How to approach the river without scaring the fish
c. Wading safety
d. basic flies for salmon dry and wet
e. Use of landing net or hand tailing salmon with gloves
f. Introduce basic dry fly fishing techniques (drag free drift)
 

End of day evaluation and program for next day
Additional lessons for people needing a little extra help

Day 3

Casting Practice,
New Knot: Surgeons knot

What fly to chose
Dry or wet
Leader-tippet
Let's Go Fish Beaver Brook

Back to lodge for relaxing (shower, hot tub or sauna)
Dinner

Instruction includes:
a. Learning Reading river, searching for lies and holding places
b. Introduce Fishing techniques (dry fly-wet fly)
c. Review learned fishing techniques
d. Introduce basic wet fly fishing techniques (mending, stripping in line )

End of day evaluation and program for next day
Additional lessons for people needing a little extra help

Day 4

Let's Go Fish  Beaver Brook (Morning only)
Instruction includes:
a. Review of learned fishing tactics

Lunch at the lodge

Canoeing the lake (depending from the weather)
Back to lodge for relaxing (shower, hot tub or sauna)
Dinner

End of day evaluation and program for next day
Additional lessons for people needing a little extra help

Day 5

Renew and making own leader and tippet
Casting Practice (more distance)

Let's Go to the South-west Brook
Back to lodge for relaxing (shower, hottub or sauna)
Dinner

Instruction includes:
 More fishing techniques

End of day evaluation
Additional lessons for people needing a little extra help


Day 6

Iceberg and Whale watching trip, and visiting the Vikings (depending from the weather)
Back to lodge for relaxing (shower, hot tub or sauna)
Dinner

End of week evaluation
relaxing and packing for departure

 

 

Package include:
Includes pickup and return to Deer Lake or St. Anthony Airport.
Deer Lake is a 4-hour drive through the Gros Morne National Park
and St. Anthony Airport is a beautiful scenic 20-minute drive to the lodge.
Accommodations, meals, boats and canoes, guides (2x1), truck transportation to all fishing pools
when necessary, none fishing activities, all pack out lunches, preparing your fish to take home are all included.
Smokers available.
Highly recommended is to bring your  own gear and waders (hip waders will be fine)
We have a small selection of waders , rods and reels on hand at no extra charge.



Not include:
extra drinks in the evening
Fishing licenses
 Fishing License for Trout or Sea Trout which is $10.00 or $15.00 for family,
Salmon License (2010)was $55.00 for single or family.

Please notice:
Guest who leave early will be responsible for taxi fare back to Deer Lake Airport.

 

 

Biography Master fly caster and fly fisher Kate Blubaugh

Kate with a beautiful Norwegian salmon © Rudy van Duijnhoven
 

General Information about Kate

Kate Blubaugh from Reno, Nevada, USA is an enthusiastic fly angler, teacher and an accomplished fly caster. In the last ten years Kate has been invited to Europe to demonstrate and teach fly casting to the public at different sport shows. Kate has published casting and fly-fishing related articles and has been featured in fishing articles in European and American fly fishing magazines that include Vliegvissen & Vliegbinden, published by Vipmedia in the Netherlands.

 
Kate teaching the basic casting techniques

In addition to starting the first women fly-fishing club in Reno Nevada, she helped founding the first women fly fishing club in the Netherlands. She continues to be in the position of Goodwill Ambassador for IWFF (International Women Fly Fishers), while attending fly fishing/sport shows in Europe. In the role of ambassador she has extended herself to women in European countries bringing women to connect with women in neighboring countries. The past two years she organized the IWFF international Women Flyfishing Gatherings in Austria where women met to fish alongside each other with instruction given to the novice women anglers. The IWFF, International Women Fly Fishers, is an organization that encourages women to participate in the sport of fly-fishing through sponsorship of the Annual International Festival of women fly-fishers, rendezvous and international gatherings.


The final touch

Kate's extensive background includes the first women in a major European fly-fishing fair in Hattem, Netherlands, to be invited to demonstrate and teach fly-casting to a large group of women. At the International Sportsmen's Expositions (ISE) host and co-host for the Best of the West Fly casting championship held in Denver, CO, Sacramento, CA and San Mateo, CA. Featured in Trails for BEET magazine whereby readers could follow Kate and Rudy van Duijnhoven (internationally known photographer, writer and fly-casting instructor) through the website on fishing trails in Ireland and Norway. She was featured with Terry Wickstrom Angling Adventures Television and recently on The Fan Outdoors Radio with Karen Wickstom for the new series of women in outdoor sports. Assistant Manager and casting/fly-fishing instructor of Pine Point Lodge, a fishing lodge in British Columbia.

 
Last corrections before fishing

Kate is dedicated to the sport of fly-fishing, the art of casting and connecting with people. When Kate is not fishing, teaching casting or giving demonstrations you can find her enjoying her family, her grown children, Preston, Page, William, James and her grandson Tyler. January 7th 2009, Kate became a grandmother to a baby girl, Paityn Rae.

 More information can be found on Kate’s website: www.flyonly.info

 

Happy face with big smile as dreams come to fruition



 

 

 

See some women's catches at Tuckamore

 

 

 

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