With The 2024 Heritage Award on April 18th in NYC
The American Museum of Fly Fishing (AMFF) will honour the Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation (JHOFF) with its 2024 Heritage Award on April 18, 2024 in NYC. The Foundation is being recognized for its extraordinary efforts in supporting conservation projects and educational stewardship programs that benefit the upper Snake River drainage and its native cutthroat trout population.
“I am absolutely thrilled to honour such an incredible organization” remarks AMFF Board President Fred Polhemus, “The One Fly has dedicated itself to the conservation of our waters in a way that inspires each of us to be better stewards. We look forward to highlighting the rich history of the tournament, their conservation pioneers, and the camaraderie and community it continues to feed year after year.”
Founded in 1986, the Foundation hosts the legendary “One Fly” tournament every September in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Every year, forty select teams put their angling skills to the test over the course of two days, with each angler allowed just a single fly. The tournament captures the spirit of friendly competition, while celebrating the generosity of its participants and partners. The JHOFF uses monies raised from the event along with partner matching funds to fund stream conservation and habitat rehabilitation projects along the upper Snake River and its headwaters in Yellowstone National Park. To date, the JHOFF has raised over $3M while joining matching funds from others to fund over $22M, yielding total funding of over $25M for selected native cutthroat trout conservation projects.
The AMFF will honor the JHOFF with our 2024 Heritage Award at a special kick-off event on April 18th in New York City. In addition to cocktails and dinner, the event will feature guest speakers and a film that captures the history and magic of the One Fly tournament. The museum is thrilled to have the chance to celebrate the organization’s devotion to conservation, and to relive a few tales of the camaraderie and tight-knit community of One Fly participants over the past thirty-eight years. Leading up to the event, a lucky member of the museum will win one of the highly coveted seats on the AMFF Chairman’s Boat team in the 2024 One Fly tournament. The official Heritage award presentation will take place during the regularly scheduled Jackson Hole One Fly event in Jackson Hole on September 8th.
Tickets will be available for purchase in the coming weeks. Complete the form through the button below to be notified.
Please contact Sarah Foster (+1 802-362-3300 x201 or at sfoster@amff.org) for more information.
American Museum of Fly Fishing
4070 Main Street
Manchester, Vermont 05254
USA
Tel. +1 802-362-3300
E-mail: amff@amff.org