Pennsylvania Fly Fishing PLACE STAMP Museum Association HERE P.O. Box 205 Boiling Springs, PA 17007 Inside this issue: Page ATTENTION Membership Form 1 ATTENTION Annual Banquet 2 Mark Your Calendar! 2017 Inductees 3-6 Mark Your Calendar! 19th ANNUAL 2017 Raffle Information 7 PFFMA Banquet in State PFFMA Fundraising PA Fish and Boat Book Donation 8 College, PA Banquet and Auction 2017 Heritage Day 9-10 Saturday February 24th, 2018 November 4th, 2017 Donor List 11 Upcoming Events 12 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FORM: All members will receive a membership card, the Museum’s Name: ________________________ newsletters, and special mailings. Address_______________________ Friend $25 Address_______________________ Contributor $50 City ______________ State ______ Sponsor $75 Zip_______ Patron $100 Email___________________ Sustainer $125 New Member Benefactor $250 Make Checks Payable to THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ! and Mail to: PFFMA P. O. Box 205 Boiling Springs, PA 17007 The official registration and financial information of the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum Association may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within PA, 1(800)732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. 1 Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Volume 16 Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum’s 19th Annual Fundraising Banquet and Auction Everyone is welcome to attend The Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum’s 19th Annual Fundraising Ban- quet and Auction will be held Saturday, November 4, 2017 at the Carlisle Comfort Suites, 10 South Hano- ver Street, Carlisle, PA 17013. Festivities begin at 5PM. Cash bar, silent and live auction item viewing, and musical entertainment. A buf- fet dinner begins at 6 PM. This year's inductees are Andy Renzetti, Charles K. Fox, Gifford Pinchot and President Jimmy Carter. Rod Cross will be our Banquet Master of Ceremonies. In addition to the many silent and live auction items, we will be drawing the winning raffle tickets for the 5 Fly Rods and the 6 Guide/Hosted Fly Fishing Trips. Raffle tickets are available online and may also be pur- chased at the banquet. Buffet banquet tickets are $40 each. The buffet includes, salad, rolls, 2 entree selections, starch, vegeta- ble, chef's choice dessert and coffee and iced tea. A vegetarian entrée option is available with advanced notice. Buffet tickets may be purchased online thru our website http://www.paflyfishing.org or by sending a check to: PFFMA, PO BOX 205, Boiling Springs, PA 17007. Deadline for banquet ticket purchase is Wednesday, November 1st. Overnight guestrooms are available at a rate of $89.00 per night with a $4.00 per night per vehicle parking charge. A hot continental breakfast is included in the guestroom rate. Reservations may be made by call- ing 717-960-1000. Museum members can also stay at the Comfort Inn Carlisle, 77 Shady Lane, Carlisle, PA 717-706-3400 (adjacent to the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum). Member rates are $74.00 per room + taxes and also includes a Continental Breakfast. Rooms are limited, make your reservations early. Not a member? You can become a member for as little as $25.00. Details are on our website at www.paflyfishing.org or complete the membership form on page of this newsletter. As the banquet is one of the main fundraisers for the year, we will happily accept any donations, fly fishing related or not. Please contact Bill Skilton at [email protected] if you wish to donate any items, trips, gift cards, services, etc. In This Issue: • 19th Annual Banquet Information • 2017 Museum Inductees • PA Fish and Boat Commission Visit • 2017 Heritage Day • State College PFFMA Banquet Information Letort Spring Run at Museum Property 2 2017 PFFMA Inductees President Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States (1977-81) and later was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humani- tarian efforts. He continues to work to aid oth- ers and The Carter Center continues his hu- manitarian efforts. President Carter is a fly fish- erman! He grew up hunting and fishing with his dad when a boy on their family farm in Plains, Georgia. He came to the sport of fly fishing in the early 1970's on the Chattahoochee River, which forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border. Since then, President and Rosalyn Carter have both become expert fly fishers. Photo courtesy of www.davidcannonphotography.com When in office as president, he fished in Alaska at the Four Lazy F Ranch near Jackson, Wyoming. He also loved to fish Spruce Creek, a tributary of the Little Juniata River in Pennsylvania. Spruce Creek was easily accessible from the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains. President Carter fished at Spruce Creek for the first time in May 1979 and returned there often, forming a close friendship with Wayne Harpster and James Nevels who own property in which several miles of Spruce Creek flows. In the Jan- uary/February 1982 issue of Fly Fisherman magazine in a seven-page article title ''Spruce Creek Diary,'' the former President Carter reported on a week long trip with his family. President and Rosalyn Carter have fished around the world, and he authored “Jimmy Carter On Fly Fishing For Taimen”, published in the May, 2014 issue of Fly Fisherman magazine. He also published a book, An Outdoor Journal, with tales of his outdoor adventures (Bantam Books, 1988). The president and Rosalyn received official recognition of their place in the fly-fishing community with the opening of an exhibition entitled "The Tie That Binds" at the Jimmy Carter Library. The centerpiece of the exhibit was the oak roll top desk at which Carter does his tying (and is quite an artist at it). President Jimmy Carter is “the complete fly fisherman”. References: The President's Catch of the Day - White House Historical Association OUTDOORS: The New York Times. OUTDOORS; In Fly Fishing, Carter's Record Can't Be Assailed By Howell Raines Published: May 4, 1991 ON FLY FISHING: BY JIMMY CARTER By CHARLES MOHR, Special to the New York Times Published: January 7, 1982 3 2017 PFFMA Inductees Andy Renzetti Renzetti Inc., is a family owned business that started its operations in Romansville, Pennsylvania in the early 70's. Andy started making fly tying hand tools in a one-car garage. Frustrated with the fly tying vises that were available at the time, he started working on the Presentation 3000 with the input and support of his brother Robin. That vise was not the first vise designed by Renzetti, however it was the first True Rotary vise made. Since its beginning, the Presentation 3000 became the vise of choice of the many fly tyers. In 1978 he opened Renzetti Custom Machines in a 3-car garage. Eight years later, a new manufacturing facility was build and in 1988 Renzetti Inc, as it is know today, was formally introduced. In the early 70's, Renzetti's tying tools and fly tying vises were only locally known. The Orvis Company was their first retailer. By the late 80's, the Traveler and the Presentation Series Vises were introduced and Renzetti started attending the consumer and manufacturing shows. Through direct contact with many tyers from around the world, received feedback and suggestions. In 1991, through a collaboration with Bob Popovics after meeting at a fly fishing show in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Master Series Vise was developed. After feedback of the proto-pypes, made in 1992, from Bob Popovics, Lefty Kreh and the late Matty Vincenguerra, the Master Series Vise was introduced in 1994. In 1996,Andy and family along with two associates moved to Titusville, Florida, the new home of Renzetti Inc. at 8800 Grissom Pkwy. Renzetti Inc. currently employs 10 associates, including Andy, Lily and son. Their primary business is the manufacturing of the finest fly tying and rod building equipment in the world, and also provide engineering and manufacturing services to many other industries around the country. Renzetti, Inc. owns many patents and trademarks and was the first fly tying vise manufacturer to offer a True Rotary Vise. Renzetti, Inc takes great pride in the fact that every process of the product line is made in the USA. Biographical Information From The Renzetti Website 4 2017 PFFMA Inductees Gifford Pinchot Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until 1910, and was the 28th Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. He studied forestry in France and established a Department of Forestry in American universities. In 1896, President Grover Cleveland asked Pinchot to develop a plan for man- aging the nation's Western forest reserves. In 1898, Gifford Pinchot became chief of the Division of For- estry, later renamed the United States Forest Ser- vice in 1905. Pinchot introduced better forestry methods into the operations of private owners, large and small, by using new forestry school graduates to demonstrate good practices and help make working plans. He developed the Department of Forestry in Pennsylvania. Gifford Pinchot is often called the “Father of American Forestry”. Giffort Pinchot was a true outdoorsman with a passion for fly fishing. After discussions with Edward Hewitt, he established The Fisherman's Paradise on Spring Creek in Centre Coun- ty. It opened to the public in 1934 and the number of visitors in that first year totaled 2, 952. Today, the Paradise has the highest concentrations of wild brown trout anywhere in the state. Gifford Pinchot wrote a number of books on politics and forestry and two fishing books: To the South Seas.