Judith Austin Brown, President

Judith was born in San Francisco and has spent a lifetime exploring California’s natural wonders. Judith lives in El Cerrito and Mt. Shasta, California with her husband, Peter. When she is not practicing law, Judith enjoys fly fishing, yoga, hiking and writing.

Judith has been a member of IWFF and the Shasta Mayflies of Redding, California since 2004, a member of San Francisco’s Golden West Women Flyfishers since 2007 and has had the extraordinary pleasure of attending all of IWFF’s Mt. Shasta Rendezvous.

Susan Baer, Vice President

I started my fishing career as a young girl in Southern California but did little to develop my skills until about five years ago. Through the encouragement of my friend Judith Brown, I joined the Shasta Mayflies and IWFF in order to attend the second annual Mt. Shasta Rendezvous. I have a tremendous love of the outdoors and have spent most of my life skiing, hiking and boating in the high Sierras and San Francisco Bay area. Fly fishing was a natural extension of these other activities and provides me with the wonderful opportunity to spend time in the outdoors.

Since most of my professional career was spent as the CFO and CAO of an investment management firm in San Francisco a change in venue was highly prized. I now reside in Sonoma, CA in the heart of the wine country. I have an interest in expanding my fishing experiences and in promoting fly fishing for women everywhere.

I am pleased to have attended five different IWFF Rendezvous and several of the annual festivals. I remain an active member of IWFF, the Shasta Mayflies, Golden West Fly Fishers and the Mt. Tamalpais Fly Fishers.

Karen Kukolich, Chief Financial Officer

Physical Therapist and Charter Boat Captain, Karen has been saltwater flyfishing for 20 years and holds several Saltwater Flyrod World Records.

Pat Magnuson, Secretary

Pat is the IWFF Membership Committee Chairman. Pat is a wife of one, mother of two, grandmother of three who is enjoying a second childhood through fly fishing. 

Fanny Krieger

Fanny is the co-founder of the Golden West Women Flyfishers, founder of IWFF with the first festival in San Francisco in 1996, certified FFF casting instructor and inductee into the Northern California FFF Council Hall of Fame in 1997.

Fanny enjoys the friendships that have come through flyfishing around the world.

Rebecca Blair

Rebecca currently resides in El Cerrito, CA with her husband, Bill and her yellow lab, Samantha. She has been fishing since she was in gradeschool, but didn't take up flyfishing until 1993 when Bill introduced her to the sport. Searching for women to also fish with, she joined Golden West Women Fly Fishers in 1994 and IWFF in 2000, attending the first ever women's international festival in San Francisco.

She has served as the GWWF Membership Chair since 2003 and assists with the GWWF "rookie" program for beginning anglers. She is also involved with the Casting for Recovery Program.

Through the 2007 IWFF Mt Shasta Rendezvous, she met "fun fishing women" from other clubs and promptly became a member of the Shasta Mayflies. In addition, she is a member of the Diablo Valley Fly Fishers, and the Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club.

Rachel Andras

Rachel is more than an expert in every aspect of flyfishing; she is a dedicated, meticulous fishing travel professional who loves people as much as she loves fish. 

She has done everything from guiding to selling international travel and is widely regarded as one of the, most well informed, cheerful, and highly skilled female anglers in the nation.

For over a decade, Rachel's love of fly fishing has taken her to fish all over the world. The Bahamas, Venezuela, British Columbia, Mexico, Tahiti, Russia, Chile, Argentina, Christmas Island and Alaska have given her the experiences and tools to understand what we desire as anglers.

These days, Rachel can be found working at Fly Water Travel as a travel sales consultant and continuing her travels to various waters around the world.

Kate Blubaugh

Year 2000, I began my fly- fishing experience shortly after a divorce, watching Oprah, there was a short film clip of a famous model/actress fly-fishing and instinctively knew this was for me. My love and background of the outdoors drew my attention to the sport of fly- fishing.

My background in sports as a participant and coach for several sports that made it a “no brainer” to teach and share the sport of fly- fishing. It is a life -time passion, gives me great pleasure to have helped found new women fly fishing clubs in the state of Nevada and recently in the Netherlands.

Goals for the year 2009 for IWFF is to create a Gathering of women fly fishers in Austria, keep the International Fly Club directory and CLC News on our website updated for the year 2009.