Canada Fishing Info

Washington Elementary School fifth-grade students involved in a fishing fly tying class gather around volunteer Bill Nagle (hands) as he shows them several examples during their lunch hour last week. It’s the Washington Elementary School Fly Fishing Club, a voluntary lunchtime program that’s teaching fourth- and fifth-graders to tie flies and catch fish. Lebanon School District health and phys ed teacher Ron Wilcher, who started the program with 11 students last year. A lifelong angler, he wrote up a program that combines instruction on entomology and life cycle issues, fly tying, knot tying and casting, and culminates in several fly-fishing field trips. With the school district’s approval, he solicited donations of tying materials, tools, fly rods, reels and lines and started recruiting kids. Now in its second year, the fly-fishing club has received donations from Gander Mountain, Sportsman’s Warehouse, trout guide Tom Zacoi, youth mentoring group Family Tyes, Otto Beck Co. read more

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