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Officers |
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Daniel Plummer
Chairman of the Board |
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Al Caucci
Vice
President of Media
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Al Caucci has been an international
name in the fly fishing world since his milestone book, Hatches.
Al is the author - along with Bob Nastasi - of five fly fishing
books.
Recently, Field and Stream magazine honored Hatches II
as one of the best 25 fishing books ever printed and Trout
Magazine says it's "one of the 15 most important books of the
last 30 years."
Al is creator of the famous "Comparadun"
and developer of the Compara-fly series of patterns with Bob
Nastasi.
Al is owner/director of the nationally
acclaimed Al Caucci Fly Fishing Schools for the past twenty years
and co-owner of the Delaware River Club Fly Fishing Resort.
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Lee Hartman
Vice
President of Operations |
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Lee Hartman's love for the sport of
fly fishing began at an early age. Lee has done extensive
exploratory fishing in Russia since 1990 to help establish sport
fishing there. He continues to host annual trips to great
fishing destinations throughout the world.
Lee's first love however is
the Upper Delaware River system, where, for the past 30 years he
has worked and fished. He now owns Indian Springs Fly Fishing
where he manages, guides and host anglers on the Upper Delaware
River. An advocate for the Upper Delaware, Lee has twice served
(1977 to 1985) (2002 to present) as Chairman of the Delaware
River Committee for the Pa Council of Trout
Unlimited. His involvement with river flow issues began with NYS
DEC experimental cold-water releases in 1977.
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Sandy Bing
Treasurer/Secretary |
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Sandy Bing spent his working life as a
securities analyst, market letter writer, and research director
with several Wall Street firms.
He also has spent many hours fishing the Delaware from Deposit on
the West Branch down to Buckingham on the Main Stem and the East
Branch from the town of the same name to the junction pool at
Hancock.
Sandy has long been interested in protecting trout streams and
rivers from the many threats they face and was an early and
influential member of the group led by River Network that saved
the Three dollar Bridge stretch on the Madison River (MT) from real
estate development.
He is a member of The Anglers' Club of
New York and Theodore Gordon Flyfishers.
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John Warakomski
Membership |
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Providing Fly Fishing Guide Service in
New York State Regions of Central, NY, the Southern Adirondack's
and the Catskill's.
JW Trout has 30 years plus experience fly fishing for trout that
encompasses the New York, New England, Pennsylvania, Montana,
Wyoming, Idaho, Bahamas and Belize Regions.
On-Stream instruction is available for individuals and groups.
Instruction can be provided for the fly fishing basics, casting, entomology, hatches, trout behavior, fly selection,
presentation or for any other specific area of fly-fishing. |
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Legal
Counsel |
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| Martin Karess, Esq.
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| Ralph Kates, Esq. |
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Board of
Directors |
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Craig Findley
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While still in college, Craig began
his career as a campaign manager and strategist for candidates
seeking public office in varying levels of government. Now a semi
retired consultant specializing in business plans for, primarily,
small and mid size companies, Craig has been an outdoorsman most
of his life. Since discovering fly fishing nearly twenty years
ago, he and his wife Marilyn have fished extensively throughout
the US and Canada. Still, he regards the Catskills as his home
waters and fishes the area some thirty to forty days a year.
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Dr. Robert Bachman, PhD.
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Dr. Bachman retired from state
government on April 1, 1999 after thirteen years of service with
the state of Maryland in a number of fish-and-game-related
positions including:
Director of Fisheries (inland and marine), Director of Fish and
Wildlife and Chief of Freshwater Fisheries.
Throughout this thirteen-year period he supervised, among other
things, Maryland's coldwater fishery and in such capacity was
instrumental in establishing environmental and regulatory changes
resulting in the creation of four nationally-recognized trout
fisheries.
Bob currently serves as Chairman of the Trout and Salmon
Management Committee of the Pennsylvania Council of Trout
Unlimited, president of the Cocalico Creek Watershed Association,
board member of the Pennsylvania Flyfishing Museum Association and
is a member of Trout Unlimited and the Federation of Flyfishing.
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| Mr. Phil Chase |
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Phil started tying flies in 6th
grade in Exeter NH when his dad was in the airforce in WW2 and
still ties. Graduated from Cornell in 1954 and minored in
fisheries- natural resources.
Received the Hudson River Fishermen
Media award in the battle to stop the Storm King pump storage on
the Hudson. Man of the Year for the Federation of Fly Fishermen
in developing the National 1969 Water Watchers Program thru TGF, and
NYS rep to Save The Delaware Coalition as a VP.
Was a director in Catskill Waters
which passed the NYS 1976 Release Legislation taking control
away from NYC and giving control to the NYSDEC. Is a member of
the Upper Delaware Council that governs the Scenic- Recreation
Corridor since 1994 and attended the Trenton DRBC and FMTAC
meetings during that time. Was presented in 2003 by Joan
Wulff the Catskill Fly Fishing Center Museum/ Lee Wulff first
Conservation award. Is a director of CFFCM.
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| Mr.
Marty Karess, Esq. |
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| Mr. Jeff White |
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Jeff White grew up
fishing the ocean, lakes and streams of Southern CT and the
southern tier of New York. After graduating college in SC with a
business degree, he spent the next few years exploring the
abundant tail-waters on the East coast.
After a few years of
wandering Jeff found his home on the Upper Delaware where he is
currently the manager of The Delaware River Club and co-owner of
XSTREAMER FLIES, a wholesale fly company. |
| Mr. Jim "Coz" Costolnick |
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World renowned fly fishing guide and TV personality Coz is a true
teacher at heart. Coz spends spring, summer and fall on the Upper
Delaware River introducing its magic to fly fishers from around
the globe. Coz holds BS degrees in Education & Biology as well as
several designations throughout the fly fishing world.
In his spare time Coz can be found just a stones throw from the
river on his farm training his championship German Shorthaired
Pointers. |
| Mr. Jerry Wolland |

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| Dr. Pete Bousum |
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| Mr. John Randolph |
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John Randolph
grew up in East
Colrain,
Mass.
And attended Arms Academy in Shelburne Falls, Mass., graduating in
1957 He graduated from
Williams
College
in 1962 with a BA in English, then spent three years in the U.S.
Marine Corps. In 1966 he became a technical writer for General
Electric In 1969 he founded The Vermont Sportsman, a
statewide tabloid monthly magazine, which he edited and published
for 15 years.
In 1978 he became
managing editor of Fly Fisherman magazine and in 1981 was
named editor. His books include Fishing Basics
(1981), Backpacking Basics (1982, Prentice-Hall) and
Becoming a Fly Fisher, Lyons Press, 2002. His book chapters in
anthologies include: Waters Swift and Still (Winchester
Press, 1982) and Seasons of the Hunter (Knopf, 1985). He
is married to Mary (Galbo)
Randolph
and they live in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |
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Advisory Committee |
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| Barry and Cathy Beck |
Peter Kaminski |
| Peter Bodo |
Nick Lyons |
| Monte Burke |
Charlie Meck |
| James Butler |
Mike O'Brien |
| Mary (Dette) Clark |
James Prosek |
| Bob Clouser |
Tom Rosenbaurer |
| Don Eckert |
Dick Talluer |
| Paul Guernsney |
Tom Valenti |
| Joe Humphreys |
Craig Findley |
| Mr. Paul Weamer |
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