Blog: Hook Rec Program Participants with Fishing

We're perched on the edge of another summer, and while that surely means Little League games and days at the pool, it also brings an opportunity to get kids outside and involved in another activity: fishing.

Fishing is, to use a well-oiled and perhaps inappropriate phrase, an odd duck. Kids are either aware of it as a sport - having caught the Bassmasters on TV - or they think it's something Tom Sawyer did in a book. If they didn't grow up around water, they may not know much about it at all. Urban fishing initiatives, however, are helping introduce kids to fishing, and are growing in popularity. Here in Baltimore, Patterson Park's rec staff holds catch-and-release Family Fun Fishing Nights every Thursday. They use loaner poles to teach local city kids the fine arts of baiting a hook, casting a line - and practicing patience. And ultimately, they teach kids to reel 'em in.

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