Of Pigs and Fishing: Yellow Creek Coalition Pig Roast

By Anthony Naples, on April 23rd, 2010

When people speak of “pigs” in fly fishing, they’re usually talking about huge fish. In this case a pig is a pig. The Yellow Creek Coalition (YCC), in Bedford County, Pennsylvania is sponsoring a Pig Roast fund raiser to support the work that they do on Yellow Creek. Below are the details quoted from a post on the Fiberglass Flyrodders Forum. The Fly Fishing Only project water on Yellow Creek is a great stretch of water, and the YCC does a lot to preserve access to this water, which is located completely on private lands.
This includes working with landowners and physically maintaining an access road, bridge and parking lot.

The Yellow Creek Coalition is a non-profit 501-C-3 organization located in Bedford Co., PA. We have worked to protect and enhance the Yellow Creek watershed. We have constructed a parking lot. This year we completed the building of a new bridge and access road.
All of these things have been paid for by donations from the Yellow Creek Coalition and from you, the fishing public. Now we must pay for the debt incurrred. We must also pay taxes and do maintenance on the parking lot, the new road and the fly project. We’re funded through donations and our main event is our pig roast. Our next pig roast will be held on June 19, 2010. We’ll have rod raffles; 50/50 tickets; silent auctions; door prizes and drawings. The event will be held from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. Food will be served starting at 2:00 pm. The cost of a ticket will be $20.
Please mail ticket request/donations to:
Fred Sherlock- President, Yellow Creek Coalition
132 McElwee Drive
Hopewell, PA 16650
Fred can be reached at 814-766-3176.
You can [contact], Barry Moldovan…at 412-758-1888 for any questions you have. I’m also working on getting prizes for the pig roast so please write or call if you have flies or any other items/services you can donate.

Pictures:
Please go to http://www.pbase.com/darter02/ycc01
to see from left to right pictures of: a signed print donated by the artist, Maurice Mahler; a painting donated by artist David Weaver; a rod and rod case built by Bill Conlin that features a fantastic looking boxwood burl seat with nickle silver donated by Bellinger. The last rod pictured was built by Ed Thompson. The blank and all of the components were donated by Bill Batson of Batson Enterprises. The blank is a fairly crisp 8’6″ #4 RX7. Ed was raving about the quality of the reel seat. Thank you to Ron Cilli for donating the Landmark tube.

Some answers to questions you may have:
- This just isn’t a chance to get a pig sandwich. Yellow Creek is a spring creek and a great stream to fish. We’ll gladly answer questions regarding hatches, flies, conditions and gear to bring.
- In case you have a GPS or plan to use Map Quest for directions the pig roast will be held at Ron Lundquist’s Pavilion. Ron’s address is 161 Corners Hill Dr., Hopewell, PA 16650.
-We plan to have six or more rods to raffle ( some will be fiberglass!). We plan to have pictures of the rods posted in this topic. We also will have lots of other prizes to raffle.
-For lodging we have a couple places that support our efforts and we’d like to recommend them. The Union Hotel is in Everett, PA and can be reached at 814-652-2731. The Travelers Rest Motel is off of US 30 and can be reached at 814-652-6263. Roaring Springs, Altoona, Breezewood, Everett and Bedford are some of the towns nearby with lodging. Book early though. There’s a golf tournament scheduled nearby for the same weekend.
We hope to see you there!
Thank you, Barry

In addition to all the really cool stuff (fly rods, original art), I’m sending along some flies for the raffle. Here’s some pics of the flies I’ll be donating.