Join us for fun, fishing, music, and camaraderie as we celebrate and raise funds to protect and enhance the Battenkill and provide the Arlington area with a hub for wellness, art, and community.

Schedule of Events:

9am: “Tree Planting” - Union Street, Manchester

Tree Planting at Union Street in Manchester with TU’s Jacob Fetterman, the Battenkill Watershed Alliance’s Jim Henderson, and TU / Festival volunteers

10am: American Fly Fishing Tours (included with festival wristband) - American Fly Fishing Museum, Manchester, VT

Guided Tour of the American Museum of Fly Fishing (located at 4070 Main Street, Manchester, VT - 8 miles north of Arlington)

AMFF is home to the world’s largest collection of angling and angling-related items, numbering in the thousands. The collections and exhibits thoroughly document the evolution of fly fishing as a sport, art form, craft, and industry in the United States and abroad, dating as far back as the sixteenth century.  Join curator Jim Schottenham and explore the following exhibits:

Tied Together: The Extraordinary Lives Of Joan And Lee Wulff
Reflections: The Angler And Nature In Art
Guiding Star: The Legacy Of Jose Wejebe
Mary Orvis Marbury: The 1893 Worlds Fair Fly Panels
In Reel Time: Fly Reels Past & Present