Sydney Abbott is 18 years old and lives in Nortonville, Kentucky. She first began fly fishing in 2014, and soon after attended her first Trout Unlimited Trout Camp at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, which sparked her love and passion for fly fishing and conservation. In 2016, she became the first representative from Kentucky to be on the Trout Unlimited Youth Leadership Council, where she remained for two years. In 2017, she was asked to participate as the teen voice on a women’s panel at the Trout Unlimited Southeast Regional Meeting. It was here that Sydney met Jen Ripple, who asked her to write an article for the DUN Magazine 2018 Spring edition. The following summer, Sydney returned to the camp that first sparked her passion to be a fishing mentor. She hopes to go on to many more fly fishing adventures. Sydney will be attending Murray State University in the Fall of 2019 to major in Environmental Sciences. She hopes she can then start a 5 Rivers chapter to get more youth involved in the sport and in the Trout Unlimited community.