Learn 2 Fish With Us was at the Greater Wisconsin Outdoor & Sportsman Festival educating the public in many different ways.  Angler Educator Greg Karch hosted his Fishing Basics seminar at 11 AM on Saturday and 1 PM on Sunday where he educated youth and families on all the skills needed to fish.  Greg was the weigh master for the Greater Wisconsin Outdoor & Sportsman Festival Youth Fishing Tournament where there were many awesome prizes handed out. The first place youth received a $500 Cabela’s gift card, fishing combo and tackle box.

Greg brought the Learn 2 Fish With Us truck wrap and his Triton 216 Fishunter and Mercury motors to the show.  You should have seen all the kids and parents enjoying checking out the rig.

The Learn 2 Fish With Us booth included Lake Shakespeare where you could go fishing and catch Backyard Bass.  Let’s say the kids were really excited to participate in this activity!!!  There were also other fishing educational activities in the booth which included checking out the different bait used for fishing, tying knots and more.  A big thank you to all Learn 2 Fish With Us sponsors as every youth went home with a prize!!!

Check out pictures from the event!!!

I have had a few request on families looking for a couple areas to fishing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  Attached is pdf file with information.  I will work on getting something for Madison.

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This past Saturday Learn 2 Fish With Us co-hosted the Plymouth Church Family Fishing Clinic which had one hundred thirty-seven youth attend and just as many parents.  It was a bright and sun shinny day.  The event started at Plymouth Church where Rich Stadler a member of Plymouth Church showed a couple videos that were fun and interesting.  He then introduced Greg Karch of Learn 2 Fish With Us where he presented his Fishing Basics seminar.  After the seminar the kids took a group picture and they along with the parents attended fishing educational stations.  Greg brought with wrapped truck and Triton 216 Fishunter.  They had a lot of fun!!!  Lunch was then served with consisted of Subway subs, beverages and cookies from Insomina Cookies.  The youth then collected fishing combo and tackle box and headed over to Menominee Park for the fishing part of the event.  Largemouth, walleye, shephead, bullheads, catfish and bluegills made up the catch.  Rich demonstrated how to fillet a fish.  A big thank you to the following sponsors of the event: Brandan Kalmerton Foundation, Battle On Bago, Plymouth Church, NPAA and many others.

Check out pictures from the event!!!

This past Friday Learn 2 Fish With Us was highlighted in the Oshkosh Northwestern.  Founder and Angler Educator Greg Karch was interviewed for the story.  Learn 2 Fish With Us knew they would be in the paper, but when they picked up a copy were shocked that they were on the front page.  Learn 2 Fish With Us co-hosted a fishing clinic with Plymouth Church that was a huge success.  Check out the 2015 Plymouth Church Family Fishing Clinic post for more details of that event.

Chris from Mad Wraps LLC donated a truck wrap to Learn 2 Fish With Us.  Patti Parcell, Learn 2 Fish With Us Board Member, worked with Nate at Mad Wraps to come up with this great design for the truck wrap.  Besides Greg being an angler educator, he also is a professional walleye fisherman.  So when Greg saw the truck wrap he was excited.  The splash ‘FREE Fishing Clinics’ will hopefully draw organizations that are looking for a fishing clinic.  This truck wrap should get the youth excited for the fishing clinic when Greg drives into the parking lot!!!

What do you think!!!!

On Saturday, May 16th, Learn 2 Fish With Us educated youth and families on the fishing basics and then had the families utilize their newly learned skills to catch some fish.  Learn 2 Fish With Us partnered with the State Parks to providing fishing clinics at a couple Wisconsin State Parks.

The families attended the ‘Fishing Basics’ seminar where they learned everything needed to start fishing as a family.  One dad was really excited that he and his son now know how to tie a couple different fishing knots  After the seminar it was time to practice casting with Backyard Bass.  The kids were excited that they could catch fish on land.  Next it was time to go fishing where almost each youth caught a fish.  They families fished for about an hour and half.  Next, each youth found out they were getting a fishing combo and a door prize.  You should have seen all the excited kids!!!

On Friday, May 15th Learn 2 Fish With Us educated a one hundred and forty seventh graders from Webster Middle School.  We split the group into seventy students each.  The first group attended the ‘Fishing Basics’ seminar where they learned everything needed to fish.  Greg worked with many of the students doing hands-on activities.  Once the ‘Fishing Basics’ seminar was completed it was time for them to go fishing.  Learn 2 Fish With Us provided the fishing equipment along with the bait which was donated by The Reel Shot.  Fishing was tough as the lake fly hatch has been going on for two weeks.  The first group did catch four fish in an hour.  One girl that never fished caught two of the fish.  Thanks to Plano the boy and girl that caught the largest fish were awarded a KVD tackle box.

Once the first group went fishing the second group attended the ‘Fishing Basics’.  After the seminar it was time for them to go fishing.  The NPAA donated a shirt for each of the youth and were they excited.

Check out this story that Hannah wrote along with the great pictures.  Hannah wrote this story for her dad’s birthday.  This past weekend at the Lil Angler event Hannah shared this and I thought I would share this with you.  Hannah just turned eight and I think she is well on here way as a story book writer!!!  What do you think?

This past weekend Learn 2 Fish With Us was at the Lil Angler event where they assisted families during the fishing part of the event.  The event was held in Kaukauna and had over 175 youth attend the event.  Angler Educator Greg Karch worked with the families on casting, tying knots, bait hooks, fish identification and more.  Greg worked with many families that were fishing for the very first time.  The kids were so excited to see Greg and talk about the fish they caught the past year.  Hannah was so excited to see Greg as she wrote a story about her dad and fishing.  It was so awesome to see the book.  I will work on posting on the website within the next couple of days.

This past Friday, Learn 2 Fish With Us educated the fifth graders at Hawley Environmental School which is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  The kids were excited to learn about fishing as they were going on a camping trip the following week and were going to fish.  The kids were taught all the fishing basics from safety, fishing combo’s, fishing presentations, casting, fish identification, parts of a fish, bait, knots, Clean Drain Dry message, catch and release and many things on the environment.  After the Fishing Basics seminar the school was notified that they would be receive fifty fishing combos.  Learn 2 Fish With Us volunteers worked with the kids to rig the fishing combos so they could fish with them at camp.  Greg then worked with the kids to practice casting with the fishing combo’s.  The fifth graders are all excited to go fishing now that they know more about fishing.