The 2024 Heritage Award Honoring Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation

AMFF honored JHOFF with our 2024 Heritage Award at a special kickoff event April 18 at the New York Yacht Club in New York City. In addition to cocktails and dinner, the event featured guest speakers and a film that captures the history and magic of the One Fly tournament. The museum was thrilled to have the chance to celebrate the organization’s devotion to conservation, and to relive a few tales of the camaraderie and tight-knit community of One Fly participants over the past thirty-eight years. The official Heritage award presentation took place during the regularly scheduled Jackson Hole One Fly event in Jackson Hole on September 8th.

Founded in 1986, the foundation hosts the legendary One Fly tournament every September in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Every year, forty select teams put their angling skills to the test over the course of two days, with each angler allowed just a single fly. The tournament captures the spirit of friendly competition while celebrating the generosity of its participants and partners. The JHOFF uses monies raised from the event along with partner matching funds to fund stream conservation and habitat rehabilitation projects along the upper Snake River and its headwaters in Yellowstone National Park. To date, the JHOFF has raised more than $3M while joining matching funds from others to fund more than $22M, yielding total funding of more than $25M for selected native cutthroat trout conservation projects.