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1994 Annual Banquet

Lefty Kreh has been an active outdoor writer for more than 40 years. He has written for almost every major outdoor magazine in this country and abroad. He is the retired outdoor editor of the Baltimore Sun, and holds a staff position on six outdoor magazines. He has participated in a number of videos in both this country and abroad. He has also participated in a number of television shows, and had his own TV show in Baltimore in 1961-62.

Lefty has fished in all 50 states in the U.S. and all provinces of Canada, as well as having fished all over Central and South America, Europe, Iceland, Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. He is a consultant to a number of companies including Sage Rod Company, Frontiers International Travel Agency, L. L. Bean, and Dupont.

He is the author of several books: "Fly Casting with Lefty Kreh", "Salt Water Fly Fishing", "Spinning Tips", "Advanced Fly Fishing Techniques", "Longer Fly Casting", "L.L. Bean Guide To Outdoor Photography", "Salt Water Fly Patterns", and "Lefty's Little Library", a series of individual books, each devoted to a particular area of fly fishing. He has also coauthored several other books.

Lefty at one time was an exhibition shooter, and in 1950 began giving casting exhibitions with fly, plug and spinning tackle. He has been teaching fly casting professionally since the mid 1950's. He has served on a number of committees and boards of national fly fishing organizations and has received numerous awards from these groups. For ten years he taught advanced nature photography for the National Wildlife Federation at their Outdoor Summit Conferences, and also served as photo consultant to L. L. Bean. Lefty has sold many photos to magazines, calendar companies and book publishers throughout the world. Perhaps his most proud accomplishment is that he has been married for more than 40 years to his wife, Evelyn.