Hi. I'm working on a community service project to help scouts learn how to fish. We've blazed a trail and will be putting up outdoor locker sheds filled with fishing gear. This will enable the scout reservation to offer a den leader a key and send the group to a station that has everything they need to teach scouts the sport of fishing and have fun. We are in the process of creating large educational signs at every station that have information on the types of fish in the lake, requirements for belt loops, merit badges, and fishing knots. We hope to get this completed by the end of July. We are a little short on fishing gear so I’m inquiring to see if anyone might have old fishing gear at home that they would be willing to donate. Also suggestions on where I could purchase items at wholesale would be greatly apprecaited! We are in need of fishing reel/rod combos, tackle boxes, buckets, nets, spools of line, hooks, etc. THANK YOU!
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Where are you spear heading this project from, and how do you intend on collecting donations from "other than local" areas. I suspect you'll find lots of people willing to donate, but no so motivated to pay shipping.
Also, has this game plan been coordinated with other scout troops accross the US? So, in other words, if I call the local scout troops, they won't be like: "what the hell are you talking about?" LOL [
] Would the local scout troops, granted they are in on the gig, be willing to collect the gear and deal with the logistics.
Once all that is sorted out, I may have some gear i'd be willing to part with, for the cause.
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back in the stone ages, I was called in to a fishing class for the girl scouts.
what you want to do is make the class repeatable. meaning the same way every time you hold it.
year one
1 have your scouts contact family and friends for old equipment, even if it is broken or dosnt work.
2 teach them the fine art of cane pole building. teach them to fish with that the first trip.
3 fish identification
4 proper processing of their catch
5 proper storage and prepairing for the table.
the perpose of year one is to get the kids to understand what fishing is about. "the sport of fishing comes later"
year two,
1 the return kids help teach year one kids
2 properly make a pocket tackle box that will fit in to a back pack.
3 fixing and cleaning the fishing equipment is part of the project. weather it is broken or not. so make sure the kids know not to show up with thier dads or gramps gold plated engraved $1000 lumis. They must repair, re-spool new line, clean gears lube, or scavange for parts to make the unit useable before they are aloud to proceed to the fishing hole.
4 properly build a camp fire suitable for cooking fish not bruning down the tree tops.
your best place is to go to your local church, bait shop, barber shop, put up a box with a small sign, wanted used and broken fishing equipment wanted for scout no .. any kind, any condition, any shape.
you dont need a great deal of equipment stock piled, this only leaves oppertunity of vandilism.
and it is counter productive. teach the kids to haul back out all that is hauled in and leave nothing but track when they leave. "and as few as those as posible"