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Fly Casting Tuition with Glenda Powell


Glenda Powell - Instructor
APGAI-Ireland (Salmon & Trout)

Tuition Charges per hour
 (includes tackle provided if required)

       1 Rod
       2 Rods		 -
-		 € 50
€ 60

Recommended maximum time:
2 hours in order to absorb it all!

Guided Days with Glenda 
 8 hours of mixed instruction/gillying:  €300/day 
(4 rods max)

Glenda's History & Profile 

   Some of the Compliments &
Comments about her teaching!

Photos of Glenda in action

Articles by Glenda

 Highs & Lows of Life, Work & Salmon Fishing
Recession, Death and Salmon Fishing
End of Season feelings 
Earthly Utopia (poem) 
 
 Double-hand casting in Simple Terms: 1
Double-hand casting in Simple Terms: 2
Double-hand casting in Simple Terms: 3

Articles about Glenda
 Salmon - Feminine Style
A Woman with a Mission


Glenda demonstrating to an enthralled audience at the Loughs Agency Angling Fair in Derry (N. Ireland) on March 7, 2009
 

For all information or queries on Tuition, contact
Glenda Powell: glenda@ireland-salmon-fishing.net

Glenda first qualified as an instructor in Scotland when she was only 19. 
She fished in the Scottish Ladies International Flyfishing team, & went on to manage the Irish Ladies team. 
An avid fisher, Glenda is a natural teacher with a gentle approach to helping people 
through some of the more difficult steps on the way to becoming a proficient caster.  
She is also a qualified Trainer in Industry with Cert - the Irish training institution for the Hotel & Catering industry.
She is one of the highest qualified female salmon fly-casting instructors in the world
having achieved the APGAI-Ireland both Double (Salmon) and Single hand (Trout) certification.

Learn all the intricacies of salmon fly fishing in a practical situation on the river Blackwater.

All levels of single- & double-hand casting are catered for including:

 - basic overhead casting  - all forms of spey cast including single & double spey
 - roll casting  - advanced snake roll & loop casts.

Tuition in all other forms of salmon fishing is also available - the intricacies & subtleties of 
spinning. worming & shrimping explained, demonstrated & taught in great detail.

 

The Loop Website

Glenda Powell is a Loop Instructor.
Loop is one of the most innovative tackle companies in the world
with a superb range of tackle and exciting fishing adventures
for seatrout & rainbow trout in South America.

Glenda's Loop Website page direct

Glenda becomes Emerald World Masters Ladies Salmon Fly Casting Champion
September 2, 2006 (click here for details)

Glenda scores a double at Chatsworth Angling Fair (Derbyshire, England)
The Fair was held on Saturday & Sunday - May 21/22, 2005.
Glenda won both the Ladies Distance Casting Competitions 
- Trout & Salmon - on Sunday, with the longest casts of both days.

Glenda's casting & teaching skills receive recognition!

A.P.G.A.I. - IRL (Salmon)
Following her successful exam on December 4, 2004, Glenda receives her qualification at the A.G.M of the Association of Professional Game Angling Instructors - IRL on December 5th.

She is one of a very few women in the world
to have achieved this standard in salmon fishing,
and one of an elite band of only about a hundred worldwide
who are qualified to this level.

Pictured with Glenda are her examiners - 
Liam Duffy (Hon. Sec.) & Peter O'Reilly (Chairman) - 
both of whom are now qualified as Master Instructors 
with the American Federation of Flyfishers.  
There are only seven instructors in Europe to have achieved this - four of whom are members of A.P.G.A.I - IRL.

A.P.G.A.I. - IRL (Trout)

On November 12, 2006, Glenda achieved her second APGAI-IRL qualification when she passed 
the Trout Instructor's exam.

She is pictured here with her examiners:
Peter O'Reilly (FFF Master) & Pat Mulholland.