CFFCM holds trout season opener

Posted 8/21/12

LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum (CFFCM) will host a Catskill Legends dinner in the Wulff Gallery at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10. Honorees are local flytyer and …

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CFFCM holds trout season opener

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LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum (CFFCM) will host a Catskill Legends dinner in the Wulff Gallery at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10. Honorees are local flytyer and fly-fishing shop owner Frank Kuttner along with (deceased) Catskill artist and conservationist, Francis Davis, and Theodore Gordon’s friend, Albert E. (AE) Hendrickson and his nephew Sam Hendrickson, the well-known Catskill River conservationist. Catskill Legends are the fly fishing pioneers who discovered and appreciated the richness of the rivers and streams in the Catskills; they are those who have kept the Catskills alive for future generations to enjoy.

Sally Jesse Raphael will MC the dinner event, which starts at 5 p.m., with dinner to be served at 6:30 p.m. Reservations can be made by calling 845/439-4810; space is limited.

On Saturday, April 11, the 2015 trout season opener will be officially ushered in on the Willowemoc Creek just upstream from the CFFCM Bridge at 9:30 a.m. in a celebratory cast by Kids Only. Join the Lake Family—Rylie, Silas and Veidaalong with Iris and Roan Gillingham—as they lead a group of those under 16 to cast the first flies on the frigid waters of the Catskills.

Immediately after, everyone will return to the gift shop for a hot cup of Agnes Van Put’s famous soups and visit the Wulff Gallery for The Catskill Fly Tyers Annual Rendezvous. This annual event draws 50 of the finest flytyers who preserve the arts and craft of the Catskill Flytyers of the past and provide a non-stop tying demonstrations of the style, techniques and patterns generated in the Catskills that have spread worldwide.

Kids will have the chance to bake and decorate their own trout cookies in the Heritage Craft Center at 11 a.m. Join the staff and roll the dough, cut them out, pop them in the oven and decorate them.

In both the museum and the Wulff Gallery, new and fresh exhibits: The Year of the Hendrickson; Roy Steenrod; The One Armed (fisher) Man; The Tree of American Flyfishing; Dorothy Vogel, a casting champion; Treasure Boxes; Discover South Africa; The Land of Little Rivers by Enrico Ferorelli; and Lee Wulff: Healthy Catch and Release. For more information email: flyfish@catskill.net or call 845/439-4810.

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