AN Alnwick teenager is making a trans-Atlantic trip to promote her business venture. Since launching fishingforeveryone.com 18 months ago, Lucy Bowden’s range of female fishing clothes has gone from strength to strength.

Frustrated by being the only girl on the lake while fishing with her father, the then 17 year-old Lucy Bowden originally founded Fishing For Everyone in May 2004 with the express intention of getting more women, and especially girls, actively participating in fishing. The site attracted immediate interest from places as far apart as Canada and Fiji with everyone agreeing that this was a fantastic opportunity and one not to be wasted.

Frustrated by being the only girl on the lake while fishing with her father, the then 17 year-old Lucy Bowden originally founded Fishing For Everyone in May 2004 with the express intention of getting more women, and especially girls, actively participating in fishing. The site attracted immediate interest from places as far apart as Canada and Fiji with everyone agreeing that this was a fantastic opportunity and one not to be wasted.

The Jack Charlton disabled angling competition is a fishing competition held at Bantry in south west Ireland yearly. Set up to get more disabled people into angling the competition, patroned by Jack Charlton gets disabled anglers from all over Ireland and the United Kingdom together fishing. April 2005 was the first time I had attended the competition and what an experience!

Below are photographs taken from 'The Jack Charlton Disabled Angling Competition' in Ireland 2005.