Hi everyone,
There is a local fly fishing club just for kids (ages 5-17) that meet once a month and have a lot of great volunteers and fly tying classes before their meetings.
There is also an inexpensive raffle each week which the kids love. Items include tying materials, used fly rods, out-grown boots, etc. One thing that comes up quite often are old magazines. Kids really enjoy looking through them for tips. Raffle money goes to buying tying materials, summer trips to local ponds, rivers, and lakes, etc.
If anyone of you have old issues of Fly Tyer (very useful since they tie a variety of flies all year), American Angler, Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, etc., and would like to put them to a good cause, please PM me, and I’ll give you my address.
The kids don’t care how old the magazines are. Knowledge is knowledge
I was also asked if the kids needed fly tying or fishing books about casting, fish, etc. Yes, that would be great, too. The raffle money goes to buy hooks, equipment, and materials for the tying classes, as well as Spring and Summer fishing trips.
Thanks to Bassman, we will have several happy kids next month when they win some of his magazines in the raffle. They’re in great shape. Thanks for sending them!
Hi, Z,
I met up with your buddy and he gave me the boxes of magazines he had.
You are awesome to do this for the kids. So is he for carrying them in his trunk. I will get them sorted out and into next month’s raffle. The kids were very excited about the magazines they won last month. They’ll be thrilled about this batch.
Our sport can only be carried on by the generations behind us.
PLEASE PM Diane to get her address–we all are packrats and can easily get rid of the stuff we have had for ages and let Diane use the materials to help her kids.
If the shipping charges bother you then take this idea to your local TU chapter and start this “at home.”
I sent stuff to her that got lost in the USPS but immediately began collecting for the future. We do not have a local program here.
If we are going to preserve our sport and it’s traditions what better way than to get our kids into it the right way with good instruction by caring folks.