Learn 2 Fish With Us and NPAA Educate Future Anglers at Stockbridge Fishing Swap Meet
Aug 7th, 2015 by OutdoorsFIRST
Modified Aug 7th, 2015 at 12:00 AM
On Saturday, August 1st, Certified Angler Educator Greg Karch and NPAA Member #138, hosted a fishing seminar to introduce attendee’s to the fishing basics. In the Fishing Basics Seminar youth and families learn the skills need to fish such as safety, fishing combos, casting, fishing presentations, knots, fish identification, bait, parts of the fish and more. Each youth received a ‘My Fishing Journal’ from Shakespeare which reviews the different skills for fishing and allows them to keep a fishing journal of past fishing trips. After the seminar Greg talked about the ‘Clean Drain Dry’ initiative which talks about cleaning weeds off your trailer and boat. Draining the water out of your boat by pulling the boat plug and draining live wells, not transporting live bait from one lake to another if lake water has been used and finally drying your boat for five to seven days before heading to a different body of water. By us following these simple rules we can prevent the spread of Aquatic Invasive species from spreading from one body of water to another!!
Before and after the Fishing Basics seminar Greg worked with youth on casting at Lake Shakespeare which is a huge blue trap that resembles a lake that is stocked with thirty Backyard Bass. If a youth has a good cast that is just beyond the fish and reels it straight in they will catch a fish. You should see how excited these kids get when they reel in a Backyard Bass. Greg said “Backyard Bass has been by far the best educational tool in getting kids to practice casting!!!”
Each youth attending the seminar received a fishing related prize from a Plano tackle box, Shakespeare fishing combo, NPAA visor or NPAA Future Pro shirt.
Greg would like to thank his and Learn 2 Fish With Us sponsors which include: Dave’s Musky Club, Shakespeare, Berkley, Plano, NPAA, Mercury, Triton Boats, The Boat Doc, Off Shore Tackle Company, Northland Tackle, TTI Blakemore Fishing Group, Navionics, Maui Jim and The Reel Shot.
To learn more about the following organizations check out their websites Learn 2 Fish With Us at www.learn2fishwithus.com , NPAA at www.npaa.net and Future Angler Foundation at www.futureangler.org. Together these organizations are working to grow the great sport of fishing by educating future anglers!!!