Captain Greg and the Learn 2 Fish With Us volunteers, hosted a fishing clinic for the De Pere Cub Scouts at a De Pere park on Sunday, June 27^th.  The day may have started of raining but by the time the fishing clinic started, the mist had stopped.  The afternoon started out with Captain Greg presenting his Fishing Basics seminar which teaches attendees on the equipment and skills needed to begin fishing.  Fishing Basic teaches; safety while fishing, spin cast and spinning fishing combos, casting, setting the hook, simple fishing presentations, knots, live and artificial bait, fish identification, aquatic invasive species, catch and release and so much more.  After the seminar, each youth was given a fully rigged fishing combo, NPAA Future Pro shirt and Shakespeare fishing educational book thanks to the National Professional Anglers Association and Future Angler Foundation.

Fishing was HOT for bass and bluegills.  Sarah and Martin caught their first and biggest fish of their short fishing careers. They both caught monster bass.  You got to see the pics of the fish.  Today over one hundred panfish were caught and all could see were smiles all around!!  The scouts already said they plan on doing a lot of fishing this summer!!

Thanks to Learn 2 Fish With Us volunteers for rigging nearly one hundred fishing combos for Learn 2 Fish With Us upcoming fishing clinics.  Youth attending will receive these fishing combos.

Learn 2 Fish With Us held a fishing clinic for the Oshkosh Boys & Girls Club at Menominee Park in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on June 23^rd.  The day started out with Captain Greg presenting his Fishing Basics seminar which teaches attendees on the equipment and skills needed to begin fishing.  Fishing Basic teaches; safety while fishing, spin cast and spinning fishing combos, casting, setting the hook, simple fishing presentations, knots, live and artificial bait, fish identification, aquatic invasive species, catch and release and so much more.  After the seminar, each youth was given a fully rigged fishing combo, NPAA Future Pro shirt and Shakespeare fishing educational book thanks to the National Professional Anglers Association and Future Angler Foundation.

Next part of the fishing clinic was to go fishing.  Youth were able to utilize their newly rigged fishing combo, where many we had many smiles, due to their successes of casting or setting the hook and of course catching a fish!!  The main catch was bluegills and perch.  The staff from Boys & Girls Club said ‘this will be a great activity for the kids during the summer and with the gear they received all they will need is bait’.  The Boys & Girls Club plans on taking kids to the park over the summer to do some fishing.

This video will show you techniques we used this week to catch monster gills and perch along with some nice bass.

These thank you cards show the impact we are making to our future anglers.  Please read a few and see how much fun they have at our fishing clinics along with all the educational components.