Wonderfully powerful women and the creation of Extreme Fishing Africa

in Ecency3 years ago (edited)

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Extreme Fishing Africa lady Angler's feature came about two and a half years ago on a idea for a page I created on Facebook 9 years ago but never had the confidence to publish.

Lockdown saw us all trapped inside and we were banned from fishing or spending time on the beach. We decided to travel to another province that had less restrictions than we had in Maputo province. We loaded up the jetski to fish in Bilene and found a treasure angler's resort in the process. We fished hard for a week and were discussing the fact that I always get a strange look from people when I tell them I'm into fishing. Just because I'm female!

I told my partner about my wish to meet more like minded ladies and that I had the idea for a page for lady angler's but that I felt I would be out of my depth trying to run a fishing page. Mark spoke me into publishing the page and we came up with the name Extreme Fishing Africa since we do extreme Fishing off of a Jetski.

I finally published the page thinking I would randomly find a lady every now and then to feature. Never did I think that from there on out I would be featuring one lady a week for more than two years and still have a line up waiting to be featured. It was awesome to see how many talented Lady angler's were actually fishing on the southern half of Africa.
https://www.facebook.com/Extreme-Fishing-Africa-1039304319465872/

I was very fortunate to have met @Jackoutdoor a few years back and he is just as passionate about fishing as I am. He put me in touch with Angler's talk who picked up lack of coverage that lady angler's received. They helped change that and even went as far as giving us full Lady Angler issues over woman's month. This was a stroke of genius that definitely put Extreme Fishing Africa on the map.

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We managed to get post reach of 100 000 on some of our features and even had two interviews on the well known Fly Navarro's 'No Bs world tour' podcast. This was a huge privilege that such a big name from the USA would like the content we were presenting to the public.

We also saw the complete gap in the market when it came to gear specific for lady angler's. @Jackoutdoor once again proved to be a friend of Ladies in Angling by making a clothing range that suits needs of women. I was fortunate enough to get my kit sponsored 😁👌

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Extreme Fishing Africa has a strong following with about 7000 members on the Facebook and Instagram pages.

I would love to build the same kind of community here on this platform and Ecency. This is a wonderful and rewarding concept for us who love writing and blogging.

Extreme Fishing Africa hit a luck again when Assassin marketing team reached out to us with a offer to run a long standing competition with really great prizes for the ladies.
This solidified my resolve to do whatever I can to showcase skilled women in angling from a woman's perspective and away from the bikini posing we usually see on social media.

We are currently running a Extreme Fishing Africa in association with Assassin RECENT CATCH COMPETITION.

We have had a fantastic response with some monster's being caught by the ladies. I wish I could sponsor a prize to every entrant as they have all been exceptionally good catches.

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Ladies from Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania are free to enter by sending 1 photo of a recent catch and a short description of your catch. Where, when and how you caught the fish.
Email your entries to extremefishingafrica@gmail.com
All entries will be featured in Angler's talk magazine.
http://anglerstalk.co.za/Magazine/april22/

Follow us to show your support for women in angling and get your fix of exciting fishing content on a regular basis 📢📢📢

Photo credits: Extreme Fishing Africa
Angler's talk magazine

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I have a couple of suggestions to help you with this (and more coming, but one thing at a time, lol). First, you need to enter the tags in the area for them, so they can show below the post. Second, you'll want a discord account. Once you have that, you will find a whole new world of Hive connections :)

Hi there, thank you 😊. I have joined discord and I'll take note with the tags. Looking forward to this journey on Hive

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Go to this discord server, then tag me and @dreemsteem and @bluefinstudios and @shadowspub

@shadowspub is running a post promotion live show tomorrow, where you can discuss your post and your love of fishing ♥️ @bluefinstudios and you are going to get along great too 🙌

Awesome thank you. Would love some guidance on discord. I've had a few invites but I'm bit lost still not sure on how to use it. I have promoted some posts on @schoolofminnows as they helped me get out of my old ways on Facebook and onto Hive. 😊

Awesome 🙌 To accept the invite, just click on it, then go through the prompts to accept :) Sorry for the late reply!

I tried to follow your advice regarding the tags but I'm having issues with it on the the Ecency app. I keep getting this error message. Not sure what to do.
I've accepted the invite. Hope to chat on discord 😁
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Oh my goodness!!!!! what a great story here! hehehehe

and I would not consider myself anything but a fishing hobbyist hahahaha but i absolutely love deep sea fishing! love everythign about it heheheh but i just do it for fun hehehe and i don't get to do it as often as i like!

but I just love being out on the water - and i have always WISHED that i could take a trip where I could fish for something really spectacular! hehehehe

it would be so exciting!!!

I'm dropping this post into DreemPort tonight - so you might get a few more people here tomorrow to read and enjoy from DreemPort

if you'd like to see what it's all about (but i think that @wrestlingdesires might have mentioned a bit about it already hehe) feel free to take a look at this post!
How do I use DreemPort? It's easy!

nice to meet you! and can't wait to take a look at that post tomorrow with that amazing rainbow fish i saw hahahahahaha

Oh my gosh you guys got me all excited again 😁 I love meeting like minded people.
Really nice to meet you. Believe me I am also not an expert but I have a huge love for the ocean and fishing. I used to only do shoreline and estuary fishing until I moved to Mozambique. My 1st trip out deepsea I caught a 52kg sail fish and iv been hooked since then.
I have joined your group on discord, I'm not exactly sure how it works yet but I'll get there.
Thank you again I really appreciate the support 🙏

hehehe yes I saw that you came in when I was sleeipng LOL sorry about that - I'm in California!

I would love to come to South Africa someday! I have several friends who live out there (or who are from there originally) and would just love to experience it! if I ever get the chance, I'm coming to find you to take a fishing trip! hahahahaha

do you have any posts about that 52kg sailfish catch?!?! LOL if so - you'll have to point me in that direction so I can read about it... and if not - write it so we can all enjoy vicariously through you hehehehe

I'll be in PYPT today for about a half hour - and when I'm there - I'll definitely share your post if you can't make it hehehe

it takes a bit of time to figure out discord - but there are lots of 5 minute tutorials on Youtube for discord that really help so much!!! grab one and you'll feel a lot more at ease with the app! hehehehe

California dreaming of Africa hey. No worries we all need sleep and out time zones are completely different 😊
I'm living in Mozambique now just across the border.
I do have to photos of the sail fish and will definitely do a post about it.
I'm so stoked to finally be interacting with people here. It's not so easy to get to this point as a newbie hehehe.
Part of what I have planned here is to do adventure fishing in Moz. Would be great to have you on one of the trips 🎣🐟
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That is super awesome and really excellent job.

I'm trying to find my dad a dog Mom for me...

I totally want to find somebody for him with a German Shepherd for me to run around and play with...

Thank you hehehe that's really sweet. I love German Shepards too but I'm a Pitt bull mom at this stage 😋

Yep dad is definitely a German Shepherd lover.

That and I'm a service dog so I have all sorts of things I get to do.

I'm a working dog.

Your dad is lucky to have you 😁

LoL most days.... Woof!

Wow, this is amazing.
I am so happy that you are successful with this passion and I hope you continue to reach higher heights.

Thank you so much 🙏😊