Welcome to the reel world

ANGLING is one of those activities that tends to divide people into two groups; those for whom it is an all-consuming passion and those who consider sitting on a cold rock with a worm on the end of a long stick as complete folly.

Many women in particular seem to subscribe to the latter opinion and thus the world of angling tends to be dominated by men.

One female angler who has bucked the trend is Glenda Powell, the proprietor of Blackwater Lodge on the Cork/Waterford border and Ireland’s only qualified female angling instructor. She is also one of the best qualified female salmon angling instructors in the world. To succeed in this competitive world takes considerable determination; a quality she possesses in abundance.