Little boats = big fun
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My love affair with small boats goes back a long ways. My mother and dad were avid bass anglers and did most of their fishing from the banks of the many backwoods farm ponds in Red River County where I grew up back in the late fifties and sixties. One day my Uncle Jack showed up with a brand new, homemade wooden boat. I remember it to be about 12-foot long with a couple of padded bench seats. It was built from marine plywood. Caulked and varnished, my uncle’s handiwork was a little fishing machine.
This little boat opened up plenty of new waters for my parents and served double duty for running trotlines during the many family camping trips we enjoyed every 9 weeks when the broiler chickens my dad raised went to market.
Source: North Texas e-News
Day at the Docks starts free fishing program for kids
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Free is good pretty much no matter what it is, and following Sunday’s 33rd annual Day at the Docks, all kids 15 and under get to fish free on any open-party half-, three-quarter- or full-day trip out of any of the San Diego Bay-based sport boats.
It all starts Sunday with the free Kids Fishing Adventure sponsored by Everingham Bros. Bait Co. and Okuma Fishing Tackle. Fishing pens will be stationed on the dock at H&M Landing, Point Loma Sportfishing and Fisherman’s Landing, and each will be stocked by Everingham Bros. with mackerel. Fishing is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
But the big Day at the Docks celebration is only the beginning of a more than month-long program where kids 15 and under get to fish free with a paying adult on any of the San Diego-based boats. It’s a terrific way to introduce a youngster to the splendors of ocean fishing without breaking the bank.
Source: U-T San Diego
Miller: IHSA's fish story continues to grow
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Illinois isn’t always on the cutting edge when it comes to trends, but it certainly was with high school bass fishing.
In 2009, our home state was the first in the nation to offer bass fishing as a high school sport. Since then, Tennessee has begun offering it as well, and Kentucky plans to add it in 2012-13. South Carolina also is showing a great deal of interest.
Here, competitive high school bass fishing is thriving.
Passionate coaches like Randy Marchand, who also is the Washington girls basketball coach, and former East Peoria head football coach Mark Propst are enjoying introducing students to a sport they have participated in for years.
Marchand, who has been a tournament fisherman and was the 1984 Illinois B.A.S.S. Federation Angler of the Year, had 20 students come out for the team this year. Only two boats with two students per boat are allowed in state competition.
Source: Peoria Journal Star
For a more comprehensive report, go to http://www.norcalfishingnews.com for reports from more than 100 waters from 12 regions. For regular updates, join the NorCal Fishing News Facebook page. ANDERSON: Bass numbers are good. Most are under a pound.
The dam and the bridge are good spots. Bass and catfish. The lake record crappie — a 3.1-pounder — was caught last week by Mike Jagd. 1-800-286-0576 Water is flowing through the lake and that has helped trout fishing. Anglers are taking their boats
