Amanda Hoffner

There really have not been many times in my life that I have felt “called” to something. As much as nursing calls to me, the West truly has been calling me since I completed this East coast based goal of mine.

If you know me, you know I love brook trout. I grew up fishing for them on the Kittatinny ridge of the Appalachians in Northeastern Pennsylvania and nothing makes me feel like home quite like the those rhododendron lined streams. They are my biggest passion and these natives have lead me to want to explore the United States in search of other native species in their native range.

I was happy with my experience as a foreign tenkara angler. Tenkara was more openly accepted, or at least people weren’t outright rude.