PA Fly Fishing Museum

04/27/2026

One of only two non rotary stationary fly tying vises Any Renzetti made in the early 1970s. Stop into the Pa Fly Fishing Museum and get an up close look at this vise. Cheers

04/16/2026

Announcing
PFFMA Free Open House

The Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum Association will be holding an Open House on Saturday, June13th. The event will be held from 10am to 4pm at the museum at 101 Shady Lane, Carlisle Pa. Everyone is invited.

Some of the activities include, touring the museum with Museum Board Members, watching expert fly tying by Tom Baltz, Ken Okorn and Scott Loughner, casting demo as well as individual casting assistance by Scott Loughner. Tom Smithwick and other rod makers will be on hand casting and discussing bamboo rod building. Historian Jerry Girard will be available to appraise tackle. Also available to view will be items from the museum archives that had not previously been on display.

We will also be recognizing individuals who donated fly rods and financial means to complete our Pa Bamboo and wood rod display.

The event is free and open to everyone. If you are not currently a museum member, you may join at the open house.

Plan to visit Carlisle, PA for the weekend, fish on local streams and take a break midday Saturday to visit the museum. By becoming a member and supporting the museum association, you will be providing valuable assistance in us reaching our goals by:

- Significantly expanding the displays throughout the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum,
- Funding research for exhibits, oral histories and video projects, building a research library to discover and document more of the Pennsylvania fly fishing influence and history,
- And much much more.

paflyfishing.org

01/16/2026

Save the date:

Our next fundraising banquet will be held on October 17, 2026.

Barry Beck will be our guest speaker. He will be reminiscing about his experiences fishing with PA's great limestone legends.

11/04/2025

10/15/2025

Ticket sales to our November 1st banquet will end on October 24th or until we sell the 10 remaining tickets.

Purchase your tickets thru our website, paflyfishing.org.

10/06/2025

PA Fly Fishing Museum
Big Weekend Fundraising Banquet and Open House

We will kick off the weekend with our fundraising banquet on November 1st. Registration will be open until October 24th or until we sell out. Joe Humphreys will be receiving the PFFMA first lifetime achievement award. This will be a special event and we hope everyone will consider joining us. Registration and more details are available thru our website, paflyfishing.org.

The PA Fly Fishing Museum is happy to announce that we have been working on a few new displays. Everyone is invited to the Pa Fly Fishing Museums Open House on Sunday November 2nd starting at 11:00 am. We will be unveiling our new Pa Bamboo and Wood Rod Makers Display. The display will have thirty-six bamboo and wood rods dating almost as far back as the Civil war, to the present time. This display will also have several rods built by Vincent C. Marinaro from Mechanicsburg, PA.

The PA Fly Fishing Museum would like to thank the following individuals for all of their work in building this beautiful display: Don Albright, Tom Smithwick, Ed Bosley and Bill Skilton

We also will be unveiling our fishing vest display. All of the vests were manufactured in PA, including vests made by the former C.H. Masland Company in Carlisle, PA. The vests range in age from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. Thanks to Ken Okorn for his help with this display.

We will have a short presentation, time to cast a few rods on the grass, and meet some of the rod makers and donors that helped make these displays possible. Light refreshments will be served. We hope you will be able to join us at this free event. No RSVP required.

09/20/2025

2025 PFFMA Banquet Registration is Open
Joe Humphreys will be receiving the museum's
1st Lifetime Achievement Award
Date: Saturday, November 1, 2025
Location: West Pennsboro Volunteer Fire Company
20 Park Road
Plainfield, PA 17081
Event Time: 4:30 - 9:00 pm
Doors open at 4:30 for social time and auction viewing
Dinner at 6PM
Dinner is Turkey and Ham Buffet
BYOB
If purchasing more than one banquet ticket - a PFFMA volunteer will contact you to acquire the names of the additional registrants.
Click the link below to register
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/hdfark7?source_id=6368553d-d0a4-4996-aff6-986823e5ede7&source_type=em&c=Iqzl6r5EBHCAVlvDTUoejx5BhdEcmmGNdPfNc_nZpE0bYpURrDC1DQ==
Interested in donating to the banquet? Please contact Bill Skilton at [email protected]
Thanks to the FLY FISHERMAN, everyone attending the banquet will receive a copy of the magazine with Joe Humphreys on the cover.

08/26/2025

The museum will be exhibiting at the Yellow Breeches Anglers open house and gun raffle on Saturday, September 6th from 10AM to 5PM.

Please stop by and say hello!

07/27/2025

Very sorry to announce that a wonderful man and friend of the fly fishing world has passed. Donald Holbrook from Shiremanstown, Pa. was a past member of the Pa. Fly Fishing Museum Association Board of Directors. Don passed Wednesday the 23rd. 2025. Don had a unique sense of humor and was an all around good guy. If you ever met him, he probably made you laugh. Don co authored Midge Magic in 2001 with Ed Koch. He spent many years researching, photographing and matching midge insects with his own fly patterns. In 2012 Don's flies were used as the commemorative flies for our annual banquet. Don was a very generous man and will be missed by all.

07/23/2025

SAVE THE DATE!

The PFFMA will be holding a fundraising and awards banquet on November 1, 2025. We will be awarding the museum’s 1st Lifetime Achievement Award to Joe Humphreys!

If you are not currently receiving emails from the museum, please sign up on our website, paflyfishing.org.

More info to follow!

07/04/2025

Mark your calendar for a huge two-day Fly Rod Sale! There is No charge and it is Open to the public.

The Pa Fly Fishing Museum’s Fly Rod and Tackle Sale of Ray Steward’s estate is now scheduled. Sale dates are Friday and Saturday, August 15th and 16th, from 9:00 am. to 6:00 pm. 2025. The sale will take place at Paddletown St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 355 Church Road, Etters, PA 17319.

This sale will benefit the Pa Fly Fishing Museum Association and we will have our display set up at sale.

There will be 600 plus Bamboo and wood fly rods for sale. There will also be Graphite and Fiberglass fly rods. Approximately Seventy-five bamboo baitcasting rods. Also, there will be bamboo project rods, blanks, tips, mid sections and handles. In addition to rods there will be rod tubes, cloth bags, tip cases, books and assorted tackle.

All rods and tackle items will be priced to sell. This sale will be a flea market atmosphere.

If interested in receiving an inventory sheet of rods, please email [email protected]
Rod lists will be sent out asap after July first.