A safe place to fish, and a safe place to be sober

OUR MISSION

Reeling in Serenity celebrates life free from addiction by embracing nature and the spiritual connection that fly fishing has brought so many.

We do this through free fly fishing retreats, open to those who have chosen to live their personal truth. We also serve as a safe space and a resource for the sober fly angler who is doing the work, one day at a time.

Woman in outdoor gear preparing fishing line near a river with fall foliage background.

IN MEMORY OF

Becca Sue Klein

Becca founded Reeling in Serenity out of her own recovery. She had found fly fishing at the point in her life when she needed something to hold onto, and she recognized what it was doing for her before she had the words for it. She started taking other people fishing. That was the whole beginning of it.

She didn't do it alone. Sylvia Huron, Jennifer Gilbert and Ian Huron co-founded Reeling in Serenity with her, and all three are still here.

She spent more than fifteen years at Chattahoochee Riverkeeper defending the river, and was a member of Georgia Women Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited. The Becca Sue Klein All Kids Fish event still brings young people to the water to learn the sport she loved.

She passed away in January 2025. Everything here is built on what she started, and it's run the way she ran it — by volunteers, at no cost to anyone who comes.

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There's something spiritual about the way the light peeks through the trees at dawn, or the way caddis dance over the water right before dusk."

Becca Sue Klein
Founder

WHAT WE DO

Three things, really

Strip it back and there are three things here. A day on the water, the people you spend it with, and the reason any of it matters.

Retreats

Guided trips with all gear and instruction provided. Free to every participant.

Connection

The fishing is the reason to show up; the people are the reason it works.

Recovery

Sobriety is the work. This day is a reminder of what makes it worth it.

Our Pillars of Recovery

Six things fly fishing gives back to people in recovery.

Community

Being part of something larger than yourself gives you purpose, belonging and inclusion. In recovery a community is a lifeline — nobody gets there on willpower alone.

Mindfulness

Fly fishing asks for your whole
attention. Reading water, watching a drift, feeling for a take — there isn't room left over for anything else, and that is the point.

Acceptance

Twelve-step programs taught us that acceptance is the answer to all our problems today. Serenity comes when we accept people, places and situations as being exactly the way they are supposed to be in that moment.

Purpose

The ability to find deeper meaning
grows with the time we spend outdoors. Nature teaches us to slow down, to be patient, and to know there is a cycle to things and a right time for everything.

Nature

Moving water lowers stress, and time outside does the rest — better sleep, less anxiety, a body that has been used well. Standing in a river is its own kind of medicine.

Service

Give more than you think you can
afford of your time, your talent and
your treasure. Service builds self-
esteem and belief in oneself, and the better we feel about ourselves the more completely we care for
ourselves.

The people who make this possible

Every retreat runs on borrowed water, donated gear and people who clear their calendar for a day.
These are the outfitters, shops, lodges and organizations who make it possible.