AMANDA HOFFNER

AMANDA HOFFNER is a Pennsylvania native. She moved to the southeastern United States in the summer of 2022 where she served as a state board member for NFC’s South Carolina chapter. Amanda now resides in Oregon. She is deeply involved in the tenkara fishing community and has helped connect this native fish centric group of anglers with NFC and its mission. Her efforts at a tenkara outining in New Hampshire raised money to fund a tree-planting project on a local wild native brook trout stream. Amanda can usually be found in the mountains exploring wild native trout streams, or at her fly tying vise creating flies for her next adventure. Her passion for native trout, and native fish in general, and their environments began when she started to drift away from the Poconos region of Pennsylvania and her hometown in the mid 2000s. Exploring different parts of the United States has allowed Amanda to appreciate the nation’s forests, waterways, and wild native fish, and sparked an interest in wanting to help protect and preserve them. After fishing around the northeastern and southeastern United States for many years, Amanda looks forward to experiencing the wild native fish and aquatic habitats of the northwest. Now residing in a non-NFC state, we felt it was important to keep Amanda involved so we moved her to our National Advisory Council as our Tenkara Liason. Amanda can be reached at Info@NativeFishColaition.org