Our Goals

Outreach

Cultivate, facilitate, and maintain connections between and with women and fly fishing-related entities that support women fly fishers.

Objectives:

  1. Appoint a Women Fly Fisher Liaison for each Council that leads women-only activities at the Council Annual Events.
  2. Create formal/informal partnerships with other groups with similar objectives for Promoting Women in Fly Fishing.
  3. Become a resource for other organizations.
  4. Develop a roster of women to teach skills in the industry.
  5. Have a presence (booth, etc.) at FFI educational events.

Education - Skills Building

Facilitate and promote educational opportunities for women to improve their fly fishing skills, including but not limited to; fly tying, fly casting, safety, fishing, equipment, entomology, conservation, fly fishing travel, and fly fishing etiquette.


Objectives:

  1. Develop and offer educational opportunities for women who want to begin/advance their fly fishing skills. (i.e. rod building, fly tying, rigging, casting).
  2. Develop, or partner with professional entities, and offer educational opportunities for those wishing to become professionals in the Fly Fishing Industry.
  3. Develop educational resource materials to teach fly fishing skills, with specific instructions on presenting the materials to women.
  4. Educate and empower women to teach and/or become professionals in the industry.
  5. Acknowledge personal safety issues and teach ways to minimize personal, wading and watercraft fly fishing risks and ways to be safe.
  6. Work to create an inclusive environment where all are encouraged to teach others our sport.
  7. Motivate and mentor women fly fishers to achieve their Fly Casting Skills Challenge Medals and/or Fly Tying Medals.
  8. Motivate and mentor women fly fishers to achieve Casting Instruction Certifications.
  9. Teach and practice fly fishing safety and etiquette.

Conservation Awareness

Promote the awareness of conservation issues, FFI conservation projects and ways to support the conservation of recreational resources.

Objectives:

  1. Participate and support FFI Conservation Goals.
  2. Offer conservation events and/or educational opportunities.
  3. Develop a program to educate the fishing community to preserve and protect our resources.

Social

Provide and promote opportunities for women to meet like-minded women fly fishers via social and travel opportunities; thereby, creating lasting friendships.

Objectives:

  1. Establish a Women Connect Private Social Media Group that allows all members to contribute.
  2. Create a Women Connect Web Page within the Learning Center homepage now, and within the FFI website once Women Connect becomes an independent committee.
  3. Host women-specific events at the Annual Fair and beyond. (Examples include educational events that can be utilized by the Learning Center, social events, and fishing events.

Leadership

Encourage and prepare women to assume leadership roles in FFI and the Fly Fishing Industry.

Objectives:

  1. Train women to become leaders in FFI and beyond.
  2. Work to make Women Connect a Committee of the Board of Directors, rather than a subcommittee of the Education Committee, while continuing to have a presence on the Education Committee.
  3. Appoint women representatives to the Board of Directors.
  4. Select a woman for each committee of the Board of Directors.
  5. Facilitate planning the Women Connect educational opportunities of FFI.
  6. Train and cross-train women in each leadership/educational role to assume greater responsibility in that role.

Inclusiveness

Cultivate an inclusive community within FFI.

Objectives:

  1. Increase the number of classes taught by co-ed teams.
  2. Add more co-ed classes taught by women to the FFI Fair educational opportunities.
  3. Encourage (Motivate) women to take co-ed classes.

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