2018 One Bug™ Teams

Bill Canfield/FUDR Youth Team Grant McCormack

Occupation: Student, 8th Grade

Places Fished: Delaware River & Beaver Kill with the Bill Canfield/FUDR Fly Fishing Camp, Helena, Montana with Pro Outfitters Kids Camp, Groton State Forest, Vermont with Green Mountain Fly Fishing Camp, Truckee River, Truckee, California, Andros, Bahamas, Ken Lockwood Gorge, New Jersey, Passaic River, Summit, New Jersey

Klay Hammond

Occupation: Student, 8th Grade

I started fishing because my whole family fishes, and I just love it. Any kind of fishing.

Tom Kravetsky

Occupation: Student

I have been fishing with my father since I was 5 on Lake Ontario and Cayuga Lake. I have always loved to fish. I also like fishing out of my kayak and just on the banks of ponds. I recently learned how to fly fish, and love it, so I can't wait to do the One Bug Tournament.

Alex Hepworth

Occupation: Student, Age: 15

Hometown: Williamsville, NY

This is Alex on a day trip to Meadow Run in Ohiopyle State Park, PA. Alex enjoys fishing locally on Oak Orchard River, 18 Mile Creek, and Cattaraugus Creek. He is a member of the Lake Erie Chapter IFFF and has attended the Bill Canfield Fly Fishing Camp for the past 2 years. Alex has completed all Orvis fly tying classes and all on-stream clinics. He is a young man who loves to share his lifelong passion of fly fishing with people who are open minded and willing to try something new!

East Branch Water Boys

Jeff Skelding

Jeff Skelding has served as Executive Director for Friends of the Upper Delaware River since 2013. Prior to his arrival in Hancock, NY, he directed the Great Lakes Restoration Campaign for the National Wildlife Federation for eight years and has worked with non-profit conservation organization his entire career. His favorite fishing adventures include chasing Permit in Belize, mousing for big Rainbow trout in Alaska, and floating the Missouri in Montana. But it’s the ancient Appalachians that pull most at his fishing heartstrings from northern New Hampshire to the Great Smoky Mountains and his beloved Delaware River will always be home.

Glenn Erikson

Occupation: Architect/Teacher/Writer

Places Fished: This year will be trout fishing the rivers of the Poconos, Yellowstone area and Idaho, the River Itchen in England, plus Salmon on the Flowers River in Labrador and the West Ranga in Iceland.

Delaware Sharks

Pete Grimbilas

Occupation: Principal, Passaic County Welders

Places Fished: Alaska, Antigua, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, British Columbia, Cayman Islands, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Florida Keys, Germany, Jamaica, Labrador, Mexico, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Virgin Islands, and good old USA.

Terry DiSabatino

Occupation: Certified Financial Planner

Places fished: Russia, Argentina, BC, Alaska, all over the Rockies, Pacific NW, New England, Mid Atlantic & FL

Team Costa

March Brown Sponsor

Stephen Spurgeon

Occupation: I spent 7 years managing TCO fly shop’s Bryn Mawr, PA location. Along with shop duties, I held a PA guide license during this time and guided clients throughout Southeastern PA. For the past year, I have been employed by the Don Coffey Co. and am the Northeast sales representative for G.Loomis fly rods and Costa Del Mar sunglasses in the fly specialty channel.

Places Fished: I have fished in throughout the Northeast in both fresh and saltwater as well as Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Belize

Peter Vandergrift

I guided in Montana, Alaska and Wyoming from 1994 that in 2012. I have fished across the US and Canada, South and Central America and Europe. I worked for Simms Fishing Products before joining Costa in 2014. My wining has be published in numerous fly publications and newspapers over the years. I fished the One Fly in Wyoming a couple of times and placed second (1st in bonefish) at the Sugarloaf showdown last year.

In the past year I am most proud of the relief work my team at Costa did days after the Hurricane in Florida as well as the ongoing work helping guides and lodges finding alternatives to single use plastics in their operations.

Jersey Boyz Rich Thomas

Occupation: Project Manager, AT&T; Past Trout Unlimited Chapter President, National Leadership Council Representative & State Council Chair.

Places Fished: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico

Dave King

Occupation: Electrician

Places Fished: Over 20 US States, Caribbean, and Argentina South America.

Kyped Crusaders Travis Conley

Occupation: President at Conley Management Group - Real Estate Development & Construction

Places Fished: Delaware River, Missouri River Montana, Placencia Belize, Andros Bahamas, Mauritius

Alex Smith-Constantine

Occupation: Finance

Places Fished: My home water is the Upper Delaware River System. I have traveled to the following destinations to fly fish:

Fresh Water: Alaska (Kenai River), Montana (Yellowstone River & Madison River), Idaho (Henrys Fork), Arkansas (White River & Little Red River), Tennessee (Watauga River & South Holston) Salt Water: Belize, Bahamas, Miami Fla, Myrtle Beach, SC

4TheDelaware

Hendrickson Sponsor

Zach Cockrum

Occupation: Northeast Director of Conservation Partnerships

Zach has been lucky enough to fish for trout in twenty one states, three continents and six countries including Slovenia, Argentina, Chile and even the mountains of Costa Rica. He’s fished for other species from bonefish in the Bahamas to carp in the world famous C&O Canal in Washington, DC. And he still has no idea what he’s doing.

Jim Jenkins

Occupation: I am retired from the commodity industry and currently teach finance at Fairfield University in CT

Places Fished: Jim has spooked fish and hooked trees in fresh water and salt, from Kamchatka to the Mianus River. He learned to flyfish in the Adirondacks in the 1960’s before acid rain depleted that fishery, and is thrilled to support the NWF in restoring the health and quality of our rivers, including the Delaware.

Team Amel

Joe Cusato

Occupation: Home Builder

Places Fished: New York, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Connecticut, Vermont

Larry Flinn

Places Fished: Platte, Tevere, Rogue, Togiac

Team Eagles

Geoff Bousum

Occupation: Geologist

Places Fished: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho, and the Mighty Upper Delaware.

Josh Bousum

Occupation: Construction Administrator – USA Architects

Places Fished: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Martha’s Vineyard/Cape Cod, Maine, Vermont, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico. Specific locales are a well guarded secret!

Team Emerger Kris Bouslough

Occupation: Physical Therapist, Regional Vice President Drayer Physical Therapy Institute

Places fished: I grew up fishing the small spring creeks of central PA. I have fished in Utah, Montana, and traveled to CO for over 10 years to fish in the Roaring Fork Valley near Basalt. I now call the Delaware my home water.

Craig Bouslough

Occupation: Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Drayer Physical Therapy. Craig is also an FUDR board member and chair of the One Bug Committee. He is a resident of Hershey and Equinunk, Places Fished: All over the world but calls the Upper Delaware River his home water.

Team Project Healing Waters

Sarge Speakman

Occupation: Medically Retired/Self Employed after 18 years in the Army

Places fished: Throughout PA, NJ, Jersey shore, Maine, Virginia

Shawn Bierderwolf

Aquaholics

Steven Lee

Occupation: Commodity Trader/Agent

Places Fished: Catskills NY, New Jersey, Gaspe Quebec, Northern Michigan

Dick Kane

Occupation: Currently retired, prior CEO of “Kane is Able”, a logistics company

Places Fished: locally, the Delaware, and the Lackawanna, and in Montana, the Madison, Yellowstone, and Gallatin rivers.

Feather Chuckers

Derek Protasiewicz

Occupation: Surgical Device Sales

Places fished: Ausable River, Keene NY, East & West Branch Delaware, Salmon River, Pulaski NY, Oswego River, Oswego NY, Snake River, Yellowstone WY, Rogue River, Gold Beach OR, North & Middle Fork of The Flathead, Glacier National Park MT, Eagle River, Vail CO, Blue River, Breckenridge Co

Local NJ rivers fished often: Pogatcong Creek, Musconetcong River, Pequest River, Big Flat Brook, Raritan River

Tom Swavely

Occupation: Senior Vice President of New Development for Drayer Physical Therapy Institute.

Places Fished: Upper Delaware River, Flowers River for Atlantic Salmon Labrador Canada, Montana Trout, Central PA trout streams

Team RiverStewards Eric Naguski

Occupation: Aquatic Ecologist/Conservation District Manager & Part time Fly Fishing Guide in PA since 2001

Places Fished: From Massachusetts to Mexico.

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Mark Gutshall

Occupation: Economic Ecology Practitioner

Places Fished: Mostly Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers

Team Mama Luke

Dan Plummer

Occupation: Environmentalist

Places Fished: Honey Holes

Fishing Partner TBD

Team Get the Net

Scott Noyes

Occupation: He lives near Morristown, N.J. and is President of an independent financial planner and investment management firm.

Places Fished: Scott Noyes has been an avid fly fisher for over 30 years. His home waters are the Beaverkill, main Delaware and East Branch. In recent years he has added spey fishing to his skill set and caught Atlantic Salmon in New Brunswick, Sea-run brown trout in Argentina.

Demetre Bove

Occupation: Retired

Places fished: A lot of great places in the US and and some pretty nice places in South America

Team Nepomuk

Anjanette Daingle

Occupation: US Government (DHS)

Anjanette has fished in the South, in Alaska, in New Zealand

Peter Moskovitch

Occupation: Retired from the practice of Orthopedic surgery

Peter has fished in 40 of the lower 48 states, 3 provinces of Canida, Chile, New Zealand, UK (Eng, Scotland and Wales), Belgium, France, Italy and Slovenia

Anjanette and Peter have fished together on the UDR, the Potomac, the Snake, in Chile and in Biscayne Bay.

Team O-Show

Hendrickson Sponsors

Tyler Atkins

Occupation: Desk Jockey (aka Outdoor Marketing & Merchandising Specialist - Orvis Adventures)

Fished - Fresh and saltwater all around the East and some trout in the West. I’ve also been fortunate to travel and spend time on the water in TCI, Bahamas, Belize, Labrador, Brazil, New Zealand, Patagonia, Australia

Chrissy Atkins

Occupation: Senior Web Merchant at Orvis

Places Fished: Northeast, Southeast and Western US; Bahamas, Belize, and New Zealand (I wasn’t invited on Tyler’s trips to TCI,

Labrador, Brazil, Patagonia, or Australia…) 😊

Team Patagonia

Hendrickson Sponsors

Danny D'Huyvetter

Occupation: Patagonia East Coast Fly Fishing Rep

Places Fished: Up and down the East Coast salt and Fresh, Idaho, Colorado, Keys, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Bahamas

Karl Anderson

Occupation: Manager of Urban Angler - NYC

Places Fished: More exotic locales of places I've fished include: Bhutan, Labrador, Cuba, Hawaii, Alaska, Bahamas (Near & Far), Puerto Rico, and some small ponds near my grandfather’s house.

Team Raleigh

Adam Raleigh

Occupation: Financial Media CEO

Places Fished: Argentina, Belize, Chile, Mexico, Bahamas and throughout the U.S. but the Delaware is my home water.

Tim Raleigh

Occupation: Finance

Places fished: The NE, PA, Montana, Colorado, Patagonia, Alaska, Arizona, FL, SC

Team Reel Men

Pat Martin

Occupation: Attorney

Places Fished: Canada to Chili, Montana to Mongolia & places in between

Ron Zarrella

Occupation: Retired Investor, Chairman Emeritus Bausch & Lomb, Chairman Vnomics Corp, Senior Advisor-Berkeley Fuel Cells, Co-founder & Vice Chairman-Rochester Prep Charter School Network, trustee RIT, Trustee Chairman Emeritus-WPI.

Places Fished: All but one One Bug; Oatka Creek, Rochester, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie Tribs; Bras Coupe Fishing Camp, member, Quebec, Canada; Have fished for trout or other salmonoids in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Norway, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, New Brunswick, Vancouver, Chile, Argentina, Montana, Wyoming, CO, Idaho, CA, Nantucket, Long Island, Florida and the Bahamas. All this and I’m still a novice

The Lone Wulff’s

Dave Miernicki

Occupation: Cost Estimator

Places Fished: Lots

Mike Maher

Occupation: VP Marketing for national restaurant, bar and tavern insurance program.

Places fished: Locally, all of the legendary Catskill treasures. Destinations fished: Alaska, Colorado, California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia...

Fishing experience: I start every day's fishing experience as a "newbie". I still remember my first trout on an Adams dry, I was standing in the WB Ausable River NY in 1966, yep 50+ years’ ago. Favorite experience: just watching the fish and eagles work out front of my EB Delaware home.

Park Cleaners Southside Gregg Eiband

Occupation: Project Manager for Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc.

Fishing experience: 25+ years of fly fishing with my favorite fishing partner and One Bug teammate Christine.

Places fished: Not quite as many as Christine, probably a dozen states including Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and some in the northeast. Also Argentina and Campeche, Mexico.

Christine LaRocca

Occupation: Staff Counsel for the New Jersey Highlands Council

Fishing experience: Have been fly fishing for 25 years with my teammate and favorite fishing buddy, the G-man.

Places fished: Have caught a fish on a fly rod in 20 states, including Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Montana. Trying to get a fish in all 50 states if I live that long. Have fly fished in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in Argentina and Campeche in Mexico.

Team Best Made

Peter Buchanan-Smith

Occupation: Founder / Chief Creative Officer of Best Made Company

Places fished:

Catskills, New York, The McCloud, California, The Water of Dye, Scotland, Island of Yakushima, Japan, Patagonia, Argentina, The Missouri, Montana

Paul Robino

Occupation - Project Manager for J & S General Contractors (Historical Properties)

Places fished: Russia, Patagonia Region 11, British Columbia, Alaska, Northern Cal, Montana, UDR system

Chuck Ruderhausen

Occupation: Carpenter and General Contracting

Places Fished: Alaska, British Columbia, Argentina, California, Montana, and the Upper Delaware River

The Bannack Boys

Art Bartholomew

Occupation: Investment

Places Fished: Delaware, Passaic, and “I hate this stuff’ 😉

Experience: Evolving

R.B. Rocky Marshall, Jr

OCCUPATION: CEO/President Frontier Truck Gear - Headquarters: The great state of Texas

PLACES FISHED: Montana: Missouri River, Big Hole, The Slide, The Dearborn River, Depuy’s Spring Creek and Yellowstone River. Texas - Most every lake in Texas, The Guadalupe River, The Frio River, The Rio Grande, Galveston Bay, and the George H. Bush private pond on Texas A&M University campus (a long story). Colorado –Elk River caught an enormous 31” rainbow. NY - Fished the Upper Delaware in 2016

FISHING EXPERIENCE: 9 Years Fly Fishing. A life time of Bass fishing in Texas; when I set the hook, I really set the hook. I was mentored and taught by guides on the Missouri River in Montana. I will probably need rotator cuff surgery in the future due to the relentless casting on a typical day on the “MO”

Trout Unlimited

Hendrickson Sponsor

David Kinney

Occupation: Eastern Policy Director, TU

Some Favorite Places Fished: Deschutes, Blackfoot, Rock Creek, Delaware (mandatory!); Wasque Point, Sandy Hook, Chesapeake flats; Islamorada

Jim Asselstine

Occupation: Retired Financial Research Analyst. Now Director of the Dorflinger Factory Museum in White Mills, PA.

Places Fished: the Upper Delaware River, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Argentina, and Russia

Team Peak Strategies Tom Walek

Tom is Founder and Managing Director of Peaks Strategies, a financial and capital markets communications agency in New York City and Boulder. Tom caught his first trout on a fly in 1970 on Roaring Brook in Willimantic, CT, using a Muddler Minnow he tied. Tom lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY, and Equinunk, PA.

Steve Schwartz

Steven Schwartz is a forager and conservation consultant living on the Delaware in Stockport. He mainly fishes for wild trout in PA, NY and MT but has caught trout and other game fish many places around the world.

A Big Thank you to our 2018 One Bug Sponsors!

Green Drake Sponsor: Big Tree Woodworks

If you see these guys on the river, give them a shout out - they’ll be joining us at the dinners to check out the scores!

Hendrickson Sponsor:

March Brown Sponsor:

Hook & Fly

Sulphur Sponsor:

Blue Wing Olive Sponsor:

Trico Sponsors:

No Rules Rule – Green Drake Sponsor Dave Morton

Occupation: Woodworker

Places Fished: Wherever I can

Jeff Hoone

Occupation: Arts Administrator

Places Fished: Anywhere is partner lets him