“I can’t wait to show everyone the pictures of the fish I caught!”
Atlanta, Georgia Project
Project Lead Mentor: Zach Yauch
Project Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Year Project Founded: 2020
Mentors on this team: 10
Children mentored to date: Project kicking off 2020
Children to be mentored in 2020: 7-8
Local foster care partners: Chosen for Life Ministries
Local companies that support this project: The Fish Hawk, Fly Shop Atlanta GA / Unicoi Outfitters, Fly Shop Helen, GA, and searching for local partnerships for 2020.
Contact us about this project: kaitlin@themayflyproject.com

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Atlanta, Georgia Project
Georgia foster care children deserve an escape from the everyday, with our amazing mentors and fly fishing community in Georgia, we are going to provide the kids with a much needed break from the trials and turbulence of their current situations and give them a new love and respect for the outdoors and the healing potential nature can provide.
Project Mentors

ZACH YAUCH, LEAD MENTOR
Atlanta, Georgia
An Arizona born but Georgia raised angler, Zach was brought up on spin fishing in the North Georgia mountains. Using skills his grandfather taught him, he quickly became a dedicated fly angler. Now Zach resides in Jefferson, GA. Where he travels for his job and fishes all over the country. A multispecies angler, who looks for any opportunity to teach and share his love for this great sport. His grandfather was a great mentor in life and fishing, with this in mind, Zach is eager to be the same type of mentor to children in need as his grandfather was to him.
News & Events
Wet Fly Swing Podcast
TMP Founder, Jess Westbrook, is honored to speak with Dave Steward of Wet Fly Swing Podcast recently! Jess Westbrook shares the amazing stories behind the Mayfly Project that he created to help foster kids change their lives with fly fishing. Today, we find out what...
Our 2020 Impact!!
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Giving Tuesday Success, 2020!
Thank You!!! Together, WE DID IT! We hit our goal on Tuesday! For our National Project online, we raised $14,000! For our individual project fundraisers we hit over $20,000!!!! This year, many of our lead mentors, mentors, and friends, all did Facebook fundraisers to...
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