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Paflyfish Cumberland Valley and Gettysburg - Mini Jam 8 June 2013
At the Lancaster FF show recently the discussion turned to a Cumberland Valley jam combined with a tour of Gettysburg National Military Park. If you enjoy Civil War history and/or love fly fishing places like Yellow Breeches, Big Spring, or Letort……or would like to learn more about either, by all means consider joining us. If you prefer, you can attend either just the park tour or the afternoon fishing. For the tour, you’ll join me for a two hour drive around the battlefield to key places like Little Round Top etc. There is no fee for the tour. We’ll carpool around the park – due to limited parking space and other issues, the tour is limited to registered PAFF members (and one guest). The maximum that can attend one of my tours using carpool is about 25 people. I doubt we’ll exceed that number but if so, selection will be determined in a manner TBA. There’s some flexibility here. Hopefully, everyone who’d like to attend the tour can do so. (If you have a van or other vehicle that can seat a large number of people, please let me know). The tour does not include access to the Visitor Center’s museum and film/Cyclorama. After the tour, you may certainly stick around for these worthwhile events. This summer is the 150th Anniversary of the battle and the park will likely be very crowded so we will start our tour early in the morning; after lunch, we’ll drive/carpool to Boiling Springs to fish. There should still be some sulphers around in the evening. Although a one day event, if you’re coming from a distance or otherwise plan to stay overnight, lodging this summer in G-burg is very tight – you’ll want to seek lodging around Boiling Springs or Carlisle instead. Drive time from Gettysburg to Boiling Springs is about 45 min.
Here’s the itinerary:
8:15am - Meet at Gettysburg Visitor Center (look for the flagpoles in front)
8:15-10:30 – Tour
11:00 – Meet at General Pickett’s Buffet for lunch (there are several restaurants along this street)
2:00 pm – Meet at “The Run” in Boiling Springs
At this point, we’ll probably want to disperse with folks fishing different areas. We’ll coordinate this and perhaps see if we can get experienced PAFF “guides” to show folks around to the different streams. You can fish as late as you want (no night fishing in special reg areas of course). If some of you would just like to fish, you can certainly coordinate an earlier link up time in Boiling Springs (or somewhere nearby) but the group coming from G-burg will be there at 2pm.
Hope to see yuh,
Dave W
At the Lancaster FF show recently the discussion turned to a Cumberland Valley jam combined with a tour of Gettysburg National Military Park. If you enjoy Civil War history and/or love fly fishing places like Yellow Breeches, Big Spring, or Letort……or would like to learn more about either, by all means consider joining us. If you prefer, you can attend either just the park tour or the afternoon fishing. For the tour, you’ll join me for a two hour drive around the battlefield to key places like Little Round Top etc. There is no fee for the tour. We’ll carpool around the park – due to limited parking space and other issues, the tour is limited to registered PAFF members (and one guest). The maximum that can attend one of my tours using carpool is about 25 people. I doubt we’ll exceed that number but if so, selection will be determined in a manner TBA. There’s some flexibility here. Hopefully, everyone who’d like to attend the tour can do so. (If you have a van or other vehicle that can seat a large number of people, please let me know). The tour does not include access to the Visitor Center’s museum and film/Cyclorama. After the tour, you may certainly stick around for these worthwhile events. This summer is the 150th Anniversary of the battle and the park will likely be very crowded so we will start our tour early in the morning; after lunch, we’ll drive/carpool to Boiling Springs to fish. There should still be some sulphers around in the evening. Although a one day event, if you’re coming from a distance or otherwise plan to stay overnight, lodging this summer in G-burg is very tight – you’ll want to seek lodging around Boiling Springs or Carlisle instead. Drive time from Gettysburg to Boiling Springs is about 45 min.
Here’s the itinerary:
8:15am - Meet at Gettysburg Visitor Center (look for the flagpoles in front)
8:15-10:30 – Tour
11:00 – Meet at General Pickett’s Buffet for lunch (there are several restaurants along this street)
2:00 pm – Meet at “The Run” in Boiling Springs
At this point, we’ll probably want to disperse with folks fishing different areas. We’ll coordinate this and perhaps see if we can get experienced PAFF “guides” to show folks around to the different streams. You can fish as late as you want (no night fishing in special reg areas of course). If some of you would just like to fish, you can certainly coordinate an earlier link up time in Boiling Springs (or somewhere nearby) but the group coming from G-burg will be there at 2pm.
Hope to see yuh,
Dave W