Another fishing mad team member joining Clubmate here, but with a few twists!
I grew up in Kenya, East Africa fishing for Nile Perch. As a kid I have done my fair share of drowning worms for small species, slinging a lure for Tilapia
or small Nile Perch & trolling a 12” Rapala lure with 3/0 trebles for big mama Nile Perch.
I moved to the UK when I was an older teenager and stopped fishing! Nuts I know, but I wasn’t keen on the methods I saw on the banks as I was used to
a far more active type of fishing. Instead, I spent the next 15 odd years after college involved in Motorcycles, running a bike club and the usual events
that go with all that. It certainly gave me the life’s tools to organise and plan pretty much anything!
I sold my Motorcycle about 7years ago, on a trip back home to Kenya I also fell back in love with fishing and Fly Fishing. When I got back to the UK, I
picked up a fly rod and not looked back since. Why just fly fish? I love the challenge, that it keeps me active and concentrate on what I am doing. Oh
and anyone who tells you that tying your own flies will save you money, lied! but certainly gives you way more satisfaction landing a fish on a pattern
you tied than bought.
With in the first year once I had mastered the casting targeting good ol Trout, I was targeting Pike on fly and had organised East Anglia's first Wels
catfish on fly session (1st of many since). Yes, you did read that right, Wels Cats on a fly rod! To date I am the first (confirmed) lady in the UK to land a
cat on fly, be it a kitten of 21lbs. 21lbs PB of pure wild fenland pike, I also target Perch on fly and at some point, I will get some Zander on fly action in
between everything. I tend to mainly do my fishing from the bank in the fens or kayak the rivers rather from a boat in a big reservoir.
In my time of fly fishing, I also run my own online shop aimed at predators on fly, I organise 2-3 pike fly fishing competitions a year, I am an Angling
Trust L2 coach and 2 years ago I set up a new Fly Fishing club targeting solely Coarse fish on fly; another 1st for the UK as far as we can tell.
My day to day background has been in retail, customer service, electronics and helping people online with their own shops or services.
This season I bought an inflatable fishing kayak and have been loving every minute of using it. It has opened up much more of the waters I fish and
yes, I still manage to get my fly caught in a tree!
Looking forward to working with Clubmate, carry on helping people with the app and help to modernise the fishing industry one step at a time.