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.

Learn 2 Fish With Us and Head2Head Fishing Pro Walleye Series hosted fishing clinics at Izatys Resort which was located on the shores of Lake Mille Lacs in Minnesota.  This was Head2Head Fishing Pro Walleye Series third stop for the year.  Fishing clinics were held Monday, June 7th and Wednesday, June 9th from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM.  Head2Head Fishing Pro Walleye Series anglers along with Captain Greg of Learn 2 Fish With Us educated youth on the equipment and skills needed to begin fishing.  The evening started with a Fishing Basics seminar, which taught future anglers; safety while fishing, spin cast and spinning fishing combos, casting, different fishing presentations, knots, fish identification, live and artificial bait and aquatic invasive species and so much more.  After the seminar, youth worked with Head2Head Fishing Pro Walleye Series anglers, where the youth tied knots and practiced casting along with getting photos and autographs from PWS anglers!!  

At the end of the fishing clinic, each youth received a fishing combo, NPAA Future Pro Shirt, My Fishing Journal thanks to the National Professional Anglers Association and Future Angler Foundation. 

Learn 2 Fish With Us so enjoyed working with the Head2Head Pro Walleye Series and look forward to the next fishing clinics which will be held at Lions Levee Park on the shores of Mississippi River near Hastings.  The fishing clinics will be July 12^th and July 14th from 4:30 PM to 6 PM.

It may have been a hot day, but so was the fishing!!  On Saturday, June 5^th, we hosted a fishing clinic for girl scouts of Northeast Wisconsin.  The fishing clinic was held at Marion Park, which is located Marion, Wisconsin.  The morning started out with Captain Greg educating the girl scouts on the skills and equipment needed to begin fishing.  After the seminar, girl scouts split up into three groups, where they attended three hands on educational stations.  The first station, was knot tying, where girl scouts tied a Palomar and Clinch knot.  The second station, girl scouts learned how to cast safely and accurately.  The final station was fish identification along with live and artificial bait.  Girl scouts enjoyed being able to see and touch the live bait.   Once the girl scouts rotated through the educational stations, it was time for them to go fishing!!    Girl scouts caught a lot of fish which included bluegills, perch and bass.  The fish where close to shore, so, the scouts enjoyed seeing all the fish swimming around.

Girl scouts were excited to learn that each of them would receive a fishing combo, NPAA Future Angler shirt thanks to the National Professional Anglers Association and Future Angler Foundation.   Thanks to The Reel Shot for providing the bait for all our fishing clinics. 

Here is another great knot to add to your arsenal!!