Captain Greg, Learn 2 Fish With Us, National Professional Anglers Association (NPAA) and the Wisconsin Fishing Expo have partnered for the last ten years to bring youth and fishing education to the Wisconsin Fishing Expo!!  Thanks to Learn 2 Fish With Us and NPAA members Karen Karch #121 and Greg Karch #138 for hosting three seminars this past weekend to educate youth and adults to the great sport of fishing.  The first Fishing Basics seminar was Captain Greg’s and Learn 2 Fish With Us, three hundredth fishing clinic since their inception in 2009. 

Captain Greg introduced his new seminar Advanced Fishing during the Wisconsin Fishing Expo.  Advanced Fishing seminar was created so youth that attended previous  Fishing Basics seminars had another seminar to build their tool box with more advanced equipment and fishing skills education. 

Greg and Karen hosted two ‘Fishing Basics’ seminars during the show which educated youth, families and adults to all the skills and equipment need to begin fishing.  ‘Fishing Basics’ educates attendees on; safety while fishing, spin cast and spinning fishing combos, casting safely and accurately, basic fishing presentations, knots, fish identification, parts of a fish, live and artificial bait and aquatic invasive species and so much more.  ‘Advanced Fishing Basics’ seminar is built upon the ‘Fishing Basic’ skills and equipment and educates attendees on: bait caster and line counter reels, jigs and plastics, crankbaits, crawler harnesses, jigging and trolling presentations, how a graph works, maps, filleting a fish and cooking fish.

Thanks to the National Professional Anglers Association and Learn 2 Fish With Us youth attending the seminars received one of the following; Shakespeare fishing combo, mini tackle box with tackle or a NPAA Future Pro Shirt. 

Captain Greg of Learn 2 Fish With Us, hosted their 300^th fishing clinic during the Wisconsin Fishing Expo!!!  What an accomplishment for the both of them!!  That’s like hosting a fishing clinic everyday for year!! 

Captain Greg founded Learn 2 Fish With Us in 2009 and has been averaging about thirty fishing clinics a year.  All Learn 2 Fish With Us fishing clinics are FREE to the organizations they work with.  In 2019, Learn 2 Fish With Us and Captain Greg hosted thirty-eight fishing clinics and over ten thousand people attended.  During the COVID era in 2021, Captain Greg and Learn 2 Fish With Us hosted thirty fishing clinics that were safe for the public.  In 2022, Captain Greg has already schedule thirty fishing clinics and is looking for a couple more.

Learn 2 Fish With Us host three different seminars.  The first seminar is ‘Fishing Basics’ which educates youth, families and adults to all the skills and equipment need to begin fishing.  ‘Fishing Basics’ educates attendees on; safety while fishing, spin cast and spinning fishing combos, casting safely and accurately, basic fishing presentations, knots, fish identification, parts of a fish, live and artificial bait and aquatic invasive species and so much more.  

The second seminar is ‘Advanced Fishing’ which allows youth and adults to build upon the fishing education learned in the ‘Fishing Basic’ seminar.  Attendees will learn about advanced skills and equipment such as: bait caster and line counter reels, advanced fishing presentations of jigging / casting / trolling, jigs and plastics, crankbaits, how a graph works, fish marks, maps, filleting a fish and cooking of the fish.

The third seminar is ‘Ice Fishing Basics’ which educates youth, families and adults to all the skills and equipment need to begin ice fishing.  ‘Ice Fishing Basics’ educates attendees on; safety while ice fishing, augers, ice fishing combos, ice fishing jigs and spoons, tip ups, tip downs, knots, fish identification, live and artificial bait and aquatic invasive species.

Learn 2 Fish With Us has hosted fishing clinics in the following states: Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and New York.

Organizations Learn 2 Fish With Us has worked with over the last ten years is; Best Friends, Big Brother & Big Sister, boy scouts, cub scouts, girl scouts, YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, Farm Technology Days, Breakfast on the Farm, 4H, Discovery World, Kids Fishing Day, state parks, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, many different fairs and so many other organizations.

Greg would like thank his and Learn 2 Fish With Us sponsor’s which include: National Professional Anglers Association, Shakespeare, Mercury Marine, Berkley, Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund, The Boat Doc, Lake Poygan Sportsman’s Club, Dave’s Musky Club, Off Shore Tackle Company, Northland Tackle, TTI Blakemore Fishing Group, Maui Jim, Mad Wraps, Future Angler Foundation and The Reel Shot.

Learn 2 Fish With Us hosted a Volunteer Appreciation Ice Outing on Saturday, February 5th on Partridge Crop.  Learn 2 Fish With Us wanted to thank all the great volunteers we have and get them out fishing.  The day started out very cold and there was a breeze, but that didn’t stop our volunteers from showing up.  We were tip-up fishing so that we could chat with each other between the flags going up.  Some awesome bass were caught with a couple Notherns.  It may have been slow but you would have never known that.  Captain Greg cooked lunch on the ice!!  This was a great event to get our volunteers together and do some fishing of are own!!  Learn 2 Fish With Us could not exist without the help of our volunteers!!

Captain Greg and BJ of Learn 2 Fish With Us shared their passion for ice fishing with the cub scouts of Neenah.  The Ice fishing clinic took place the evening of February 8th at Spring Hill Elementary, which Is located in Neenah, Wisconsin

The evening started out with the scouts learning the skills and equipment needed to begin ice fishing through Captain Greg’s Ice Fishing Basics seminar.  Ice Fishing Basics teaches; safety while ice fishing, different ice fishing combos, electronics, bait, tip ups and tip downs, augers, how to tie a Clinch and Palomar knot, fish identification and so much more.

Thanks to Learn 2 Fish With Us, each youth received a soft sided tackle bag by Shakespeare, fish identification cards and a fishing educational book.  All scouts also went into a door prize drawing for Shakespeare ice fishing combos and Berkely tip ups.  Everything needed to get out ice fishing!!

On Sunday, February 20^th the cub scouts will hit the ice where they will utilize their newly learn skills and use the equipment they received.

Here’s a great video on how to make your own ice fishing jigs for shallow water fishing. Creating your own jigs allows you to customize and by creating a shallow water jig with slow fall can allow for a big time payoff when fishing between one and six feet of water.