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Cecilia “Pudge” Kleinkauf

Pudge Kleinkauf

“Pudge” Kleinkauf is Alaska’s leading woman fly fishing instructor, fly tier and guide. Renowned for her teaching skills in both fly fishing and fly tying, she is also Alaska’s best-known woman guide, offering lodge-based flyfishing schools and small-group guided trips for women and couples to a wide variety of Alaska’s best known fly fishing locations. She also leads guided trips for saltwater fly fishing to Mexico each spring.  A regular presenter at outdoor shows around the country, Pudge is also one of the “Special Explorers” for the Alaska Magazine Television Series on PBS.

A retired University professor and lawyer, Pudge is member and one of the founders of the Intl. Women Fly Fishers. She serves as a Fly Fishing Ambassador for patagonia®, and as a Pro Staff member for Ross Reels, Scientific Angler™,  Sierra Stream & Mountain, Jay Fair, and others.

Women’s Flyfishing®

  • Alaska’s premier flyfishing company for women
  • The Internet’s leading resource for women who fish with a fly rod
  • In business over twenty years

Women’s Flyfishing® provides a safe and supportive environment where women can learn to flyfish with both heavy and light-weight fly rods and put their skills to work on the water. Based in Anchorage, we fish throughout the state for salmon, trout, char, grayling, pike, and sheefish and provide all of the gear, equipment and flies for all of our trips. We also offer fly tying classes so women can fish and catch with flies that they have actually tied.



In addition to owning and operating Women’s Flyfishing® Pudge is the author or two books and a contributing editor for Fish Alaska Magazine. Her first book, Fly Fishing Women Explore Alaska, 2003 Epicenter Press received several awards, and her second book, River Girls: Fly Fishing for Young Women, 2006 Johnson Books, won the first-place gold award in the Benjamin Franklin Awards’ Sports and Outdoor Recreation Competition.

She is a member of Trout Unlimited's Outfitters, Guides & Business Members Program and a member of the Federation of Fly Fishers' Guides Association.

Women’s Flyfishing® is a member of Trout Unlimited’s Outfitters, Guides, and Business Members Program, as well as a member of the  Guides Association of the Federation of Fly Fishers.


Fly Fishing Women Explore Alaska
"Fly Fishing Women
Explore Alaska"

Fly Fishing Women Explore Alaska won second place in the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Sports/Recreation Book of the Year Award!

 


Sample Flyfishing Presentations

Women

  • Flyfishing for Women: Getting Started
  • Flyfishing  Gear & Clothing for Women
  • Some Great Alaskan Flies and Some Great Women Fishing Them

Alaska

  • Flyfishing for Pacific Salmon in Alaska
  • Alaska’s Salmon & the Flies That Take Them
  • Flyfishing Alaska’s Wild Country
  • Flyfishing for Alaska’s Trout, Char, and Grayling
  • Float Tubing for Alaska’s Trout, Char, and Grayling
  • Flyfishing Alaska’s Pike with Sub-surface Pike Flies

(We will customize a presentation for your group, your club, or your shop.)

Sample Fly Tying Presentations

  • Tying Tips for Some of Alaska’s Great Flies
  • Five Easy Salmon Flies
  • The Three Best Lake Flies for Alaska’s Stillwaters
  • Tying With Beads, Cones and Eyeballs
  • Weighted Flies for Sub-surface Pike Fishing

(We will customize a presentation for your group, your club, or your shop.)

Pudge is available as a speaker for presentations for your club or organization.
Contact Women's Flyfishing® for more information.

Listen to both of the Women’s Flyfishing® interviews online in the archives at:

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