We have national ambitions, but intend to start small and build within the next five years. Our immediate need is to finance the hosting of our website for our first year (at least) and the development of our monthly virtual and physical tournament scoring and leaderboard app.

Our Mission

• Provide a safe and inspirational women’s recreational fishing organisation. 
• Increase the overall participation of women in our sport. 
• Provide recreational fishing skills training, support, camaraderie and mentorship for Australian women. 
• Increase the profile and recognition of women in recreational fishing. 
• Improve the social licence of recreational fishing in Australia through excellence and stewardship.
• Develop future leaders in recreational fishing.
• Foster an ethos of sustainability and habitat restoration that ensures a strong recreational fishing future.
• Develop thought leaders who inspire future generations of Australian fishers.

How will the formation of the Womens Recreational Fishing League help?

The WRFL will provide an enjoyable, gender-relevant pathway for women to take up fishing as a sport (or build upon already attained skills) in a non-threatening environment. This will make “beginning” as a fisher more appealing and promises to tap into a pool of potential anglers who may otherwise never pick up a rod.

Women are important to recreational fishing for two reasons: participation is under-developed, providing enormous growth potential; and they are the thought leaders for the young. WRFL will empower women to not only fish themselves, but mentor children into the pastime with a mindset of sustainability and environmental stewardship.

By providing this opportunity to women, the WRFL will create a stronger family fishing culture, along with increased enjoyment for couples who fish together. It is expected that empowered and capable female anglers will be more supportive of their fishing partners, too… thereby providing greater opportunity for everyone to fish, without that age old issue of “seeking permission from the non-fishing missus”.

Recreational Fishing will, in the long term, benefit from increased participation, a greater proportion of educated and sustainability-minded participants and the on-going development of female leaders across the country. Our goal is to achieve gender parity in both participation and leadership. Through the Australian Sports Foundation, any donation over $2 is tax deductible so please give generously today!