Take your fishing next level

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Expert instructors
from across
Australia’s recreational fishing sector

Let by Jo Starling, founder of the Women’s Recreational Fishing League, enjoy insights, tips, tricks, humour, and many life-times of experience from a carefully curated team of Australian fishers sharing pearls of wisdom covering every aspect of our industry — from recreation to vocation!

100 percent online training + creative practical assignments.

Tap into your studies wherever and whenever it suits you. All you need is internet access and you’re on your way. You’ll be instructed through a variety of content styles and encouraged to undertake self-guided practical activities to consolidate your learning. Get ready for an experiential learning journey in fishing quite unlike any other!

Online + uploaded assessments

As you work through each unit, you’ll be challenged with reflective and/or practical tasks that will draw upon your imagination, intellect, and creativity. At the end of each module, you’ll be asked to upload your reflective worksheet — an ongoing measure of shifts in your knowledge and values, as well as pass a knowledge assessment quiz based on the content studied.

Individual module recognition +
course certificates

When you crest a milestone, you’ll be offered the opportunity to download a certificate of acknowledgement of that level. This can be included in your resumé, demonstrating your passion, commitment, and initiative. When you wish to advance in your rec’ fishing profession, these will set you apart from your competitors.

Something For Everyone

For fishers
of every skill level

During this course you will learn to:

  • chat with other fishers like you were born with a rod in your hand
  • live with the confidence and certainty that only self-reliance can offer
  • walk out of a tackle store with exactly what you need because you know precisely what you’re after and why
  • cast with accuracy and ease, even on a crowded jetty in the wind
  • make valid, quality decisions about where to focus your fishing efforts — even if you’re on a waterway you’ve never seen before
  • give yourself a fighting chance to find fish, even without technology
  • service and maintain your own tackle
  • tie reliable knots and even create your own rigs
  • humanely dispatch and look after your catch for optimum flavour
  • improve the survivability of fish you intend to release
  • successfully plan for all kinds of fishing trips
  • become a responsible custodian of the waterways and help protect fishing for generations to come
  • contribute to better research outcomes
  • identify potential pathways for greater involvement in the recreational fishing sector

    Introduction to Recreational Fishing

    From jargon to compliance, personal motivations and the benefits recreational fishing brings to our society. Knowledge is power, and it starts here.

    The Empowered Fisherwoman

    Investigate the historical role women have played in fishing as well as the impact of the rise of feminism on recreational fishing in Australia. Learn how being a fisher influences your life and more!

    Finding Fish

    Technology can fail. Dig deep into the fundamentals of where fish hang out and why, and learn to read the water and surrounding terrain to find them.

    Knot Knowledge

    Your system is only ever as strong as your weakest link. The most common flaw in an anglers setup is applying the wrong knot for the situation (or tying the right knot wrong). Learn the best knots and rigs to use when… and how to tie them well.

    Honing Your Hook-up Skills

    There are anglers, and there are danglers. Anglers are actively fishing at all times. Discover how to catch more fish by making your offering the most attractive morsel in the water.

    Tools & Tackle

    More than protecting your investment by learning to maintain your gear properly, you’ll also learn to troubleshoot your own casting action, plan your fishing adventures, and always have the right gear.

    Fly Fishing Fundamentals

    Fly fishing is fun! It’s also scientific, creative, meditative, challenging, and daunting. Demystify the gear, the flies, and the basic cast so that you can add this stealthy skill to your repertoire.

    Maximising Your Fishing

    Next level fishing takes next level knowledge. Understanding how fish hunt will boost your catch rates. Ensuring there are plenty fish to catch is also important, so effective release techniques are paramount. Find out how best to keep a fish for the table to maximise and ensure the best eating results!

    Stewardship & You

    Recreational fishers provide invaluable eyes and ears as custodians of our waterways, and examples to our juniors. Delve into all the ways you can have a positive impact in the world of rec’ fishing, whether taking part in citizen science projects and passing on knowledge in an effective way.

    Taking Your Fishing Further

    Insights into next steps available if you wish to pursue greater involvement in the recreational fishing sector.

    Start transforming your
    fishing future today

    Learn

    Explore and investigate the theoretical knowledge, practical skills and even the philosophies that will take your fishing to the next level.

    Achieve

    Take your learning to the great outdoors to apply your skills in the real world. You’ll discover how subtle changes can have amazing impacts to end results.

    Excel!

    Open pathways to opportunities you probably never thought about before. Whether in your personal life, your community, or your career.

    Your first module is free!

    ENROL NOW

    Get in touch

    wrfl.nsw@gmail.com

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & GRATITUDE

    This course is supported by funding from the FRDC (Project ID 2022/033) on behalf of the Australian Government.

    For more information on the full team behind this project, please click here.

    The Women’s Recreational Fishing League acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live, work and fish on across Australia.
    We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.