You MADE a difference in his life! Teach a man to fish and he will have peace for the rest of his life. Thank you!!
Bend, Oregon Project
Lead Mentor: Terry Miller
Co-Lead Mentor: Jenny O’Brien
Project location: Bend, OR
Year project founded: 2018
Mentors on this team: 9
Children mentored to date: 7
Children to be mentored in 2021: 9
Local foster care partners: CASA
Local companies that support this project: Fly and Field Outfitters, and Confluence Fly Shops, Louie M & Betty M Phillips foundation
Photography: Terry Miller, Candace Bell, Allison Buntin
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It meant a lot to me that this year one of the dads of the foster children we worked with were able to spend a few weeks together and his dad said he was really happy to have a new activity for him and his son to do together. It was sweet how happy fly fishing made both of them!
Project Mentors
TERRY MILLER, LEAD MENTOR
Bend, Oregon
A lifelong Oregonian and fly fisher with great appreciation for the sport of fly fishing and the outdoor places where it is pursued.
RYAN JOHNSON, MENTOR
Redmond, Oregon
Ryan is an Oregon native who learned to fly fish for trout on small spring creeks in Central Oregon. He works as a project manager in the construction industry during the week and as a fly fishing and hunting guide on the weekends. He has had the opportunity to fly fish around the world but still finds himself preferring the solitude and technicality of fly fishing small water in Central Oregon. His enthusiasm for working with teens stems from years of coaching middle school basketball and football which has been incredibly fun and rewarding for him. With Ryan’s passion for the outdoors paired with his coaching experience, he is excited to be able to share all that fly fishing has to offer to Oregon’s youth while serving as a Mayfly Project Mentor.
News & Events
Giving Tuesday Success, 2021!
WOW!! Thank you to our Fly Fishing Family! We have reached $37,000 on our Facebook fundraiser after Giving Tuesday! We had so many generous donors yesterday and people sharing our fundraiser! TMP's Giving Tuesday Fundraiser There were 55 individual Facebook...
Giving Tuesday, 2021!
November 30th, 2021 is Giving Tuesday, an important day for TMP where we work together to raise funds for 2022 Projects! Check out our new projects we're adding to our map next year. More Exciting News:We have donors that will match us on Giving Tuesday up to...
The Big Event, Arkansas
The Big Event, Arkansas When you hear, "This was the most-normal I have felt in a long time," from a child in foster care, you know the time you spent with them was important. A few weekends ago in Arkansas, we had 4 projects travel to fish at Dry Run near Mountain...
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