We have the competitors set for this year's National Casting Competition, to be held at Bennett Spring Park in Lebanon, Missouri this August! Congratulations to all competitors! We look forward [...]

"Just spending time with her buddies in PHW has made a real difference in Karen's life. She has gone from quiet and shy to being able to talk Navy with the best of them. "

The PHW Newington CT Program was established in 2012 and has provided fly tying, fly rod building, and fly fishing outings on an ongoing basis at no cost to our veteran participants. In order to [...]

A wonderful poem by Michael Young about time spent with PHW on the Farmington River

Several Maine veterans of the PHWFF Augusta Chapter came together for a fly fishing weekend at Lopstick Lodge in Pittsburg, NH this August.

Thanks to a generous financial donation, PHWFF Newington CT traveled to Deerspring Lodge located in the Adirondacks region of upper state New York for its first overnight outing in 2022.

For three nights and two full days of fishing, 8 veterans from across Maine, Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts visited the North Maine Woods to fish the historic waters of Grand Lake [...]

On Thursday March 17, 2022, the Newington PHWFF Program held their monthly in-person meeting featuring volunteer veteran Ken Martin who presented Euro Nymphing Fly Fishing Basics with 25 veterans [...]

On Thursday, February 17, 2022, the Newington VA program restarted our monthly indoor fly-tying sessions after a skipping January out of an abundance of caution due to rising Covid 19 numbers.

Despite the continued issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was a year in which the Newington, Connecticut Program of PHWFF adapted to the situation and overcame a constantly changing [...]