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Officers

 

Daniel Plummer

Chairman of the Board

   

Al Caucci

Vice President of Media

 

 

 

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.

Lee Hartman

Vice President of Operations

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.

Sandy Bing

Treasurer/Secretary

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.

John Warakomski

Membership

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.

Legal

Counsel

 

 

Martin Karess, Esq.  
Ralph Kates, Esq.  

Board of Directors

 

Craig Findley

 

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.
 

Dr. Robert Bachman, PhD.

 

 

 

 

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.

Mr. Phil Chase
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.

Mr. Marty Karess, Esq.

 

 
Mr. Jeff White

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

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

 
Dr. Pete Bousum    
Mr. John Randolph

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.

Advisory Committee

 
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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