You’ll learn to read water and land you’ve never set foot on before — the flats, the tide, when the wind’s about to turn, and what the low-tide sand can tell you to improve your fishing success before you even cast. Real fishing, taught the way a woman learns best — every technique you need for the situations you’ll face, using any kind of gear, including whatever you’ve already got in your tackle box, if you own one. And in keeping with our theme, you’ll make your own lure out of whatever you find around you.

You’ll learn to cast on Friday — test yourself against some targets — cast to conditions throughout your weekend —  cast at targets again before you depart (same course). Your improvement is yours to see for yourself.

Some sessions, you’re led. Others, the group decides based on the scenario you face, using the wisdom gained — your call, your consequences, your win.

The personal power you’ll uncover comes from reading a pattern, trusting your own instincts, and backing yourself in an environment that owes you nothing — base-level, staunch grit.

Self-reliance isn't self-reliance if it stops when things get real.

You’ll learn to hunt and kill a fish, properly and humanely — ikejime, the same instant dispatch method ethical fishers use. Clean it. Fillet it. Cure it, coal-roast it, smoke it, over a fire you helped build.

By Sunday, you’ll know something most people only ever claim to know.

That if you had to, you could actually look after yourself.

Not because you imagine you can.

Because you've proved it.