The Fly Fishing Church is an ongoing project with two functions. First, it is a social project  intended to take people fly fishing who haven’t had the opportunity before– whether for financial, physical, or cultural reasons. This process is free, and begins with an education in tying flies and learning how to cast before progressing to fishing. The long, devotional practice implicit to fly fishing along with ideas of conversation are core pillars of the church. The Fly Fishing Church promotes self determination by way of outdoor education and improving physical, mental, and spiritual health through the practice of fly fishing. 

Second, The Fly Fishing Church is an art project of speculative fiction assuming that fly fishing becomes a new religious movement in one-hundred years. Forgoing typical churches and followings, any body of water becomes the place of worship and the fishing outing becomes the service for The Fly Fishing Church. In this world, climate change has vastly altered the physical landscape of the planet and followers of this religious movement travel vast distances to find snowmelt, rain, insect hatches, as well as any otherwise habitable water. These followers practice strict catch-and-release policies, despite widespread famine. Addressed by many as fanatics who care more for fish than people, Fly Fishing Church followers argue that their practice is an act of balancing human tendencies. One being the tendency to admire something so much you want to possess it, or worse, kill it. Another is reckoning with the fact that the human body is in part wired for predation. We are omnivores. They argue denying the urge to kill every catch leaves more room for an abundance that they hope to see again in the world.