Donations to the Fly Fishing Academy

This year the program will expend $2,300 for each student attending the academy. $1,550 more than a student's $750 tuition. That's why your support is so necessary.

The program has been helping students understand the aquatic world better and we've had three graduates go on to Alaska and Washington Fisheries Agencies and a recent attendee securing work with a fly lodge. Donating is worth it because the students are learning next to a private 4 acre stocked lake in the forest where they can easily explore multiple streams and watersheds to discover varied benthic macroinvertebrates and fish populations while also discovering the effects of local fish passage barriers and the impacts of humans in a watershed. So many learning opportunities within a 30 minute drive in the forest.

You are invited to visit the academy in order that you may better understand our goals. You'll also find the curriculum is so much more than showing a group of youngsters how to tie a woolly bugger or cast a fly. It's immersive, it teaches life lessons about invasive species, delves into how humans interact with nature and how the student can turn that experience into a life-altering path. It's more than how to fish with a fly, it's how to be a better human because of fly fishing. Donations have been vital to this program since it's inception in 2002 and 100% of your generous donation (minus a very small banking fee) goes directly into making the academy a reality. FYI - The staff are all unpaid volunteers and there are no administrative costs. Happy Trails and Thank You