Kids Fishing Day at Mt. Shasta Fish Hatchery
The Kids’ Fishing Day at the Mt. Shasta Fish Hatchery on Saturday, June 14th was a riot. Kids were reelin’ in fish everywhere, sometimes the fish were nearly as big as the little guys & girls who caught them. Parents were having a good time, too: baiting hooks, showing their kids how to cast and netting the fish as their son or daughter worked to bring them in. It was fun to watch.
According to Dept. of Fish & Game volunteers, the Kids Fishing Days of summer are wildly popular, with the event last August drawing in over 1,000 kids. The Fishing Day is open from 9am-3:30pm, and by 1pm on Saturday nearly 700 kids, plus their parents, had come to fish. There is a two-fish limit per kid, and kids up to 15 years old are allowed to fish. Plenty of family members joined the little ones, offering support and providing snacks. The DFG did a lot to make the day fun and fruitful for these budding young fishermen. Volunteers were on hand at the three ponds to help bait hooks, instruct on how to cast and bring a fish in, and to offer general encouragement. Once a family had caught its limit they’d take their big, shiny trout up to the volunteer center where they were packed in ice for the trip home.
Some families come year after year on at least one of the three fishing days per summer. Folks from as far away as Gilroy, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Fairfield and even Moscow, Idaho headed out to the Hatcheries’ ponds to try their luck.
“People say, we’ve been fishing down at the lake and we haven’t caught anything. Do you think we’ll catch anything here? And we say, well, take the children down to the ponds and see,” said DFG volunteer Ruth Kindle. “They come back up with a big fish and they’re all smiles.”
Take a look at the following photos to see just how big those fish were, really. There are photos to prove it.
July 19th and August 16th are the remaining fishing days for this summer. Registration is open from 8:45am-2:30pm, with fishing open til 3pm. If you don’t have tackle the DFG has some to loan out, and they also provide free bait. The Kids Fishing Days are held at the Mt. Shasta Fish Hatchery, just west of the freeway at the 4-way stop as you follow Lake Street out of town. To learn more, call Monty Currier at the Dept. of Fish and Game at 530.225.2368.
Tags: Fish Hatchery, fishing, kids, Mt. Shasta
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By sara, June 1, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
when are the dates this year?
By Judy, July 20, 2009 @ 7:41 pm
We will NEVER go again! 2 yrs ago we brought company & there was a crazy blonde lady working. We were standing in the cool shade to cool off and this gal punched the gas of her trunk to get to us like we were going somewhere. She acussed us of walking to “the ponds”? We were so embarassed! We are in our late 50′s, early 60′s mind you……no excused for her behavior!
By Zip Gasman, May 3, 2010 @ 4:35 pm
She had gas in her trunk? That doesn’t sound very safe…Did you get her plate numbers..? For all you know she might have been in Al Quaeda or worse…Heck she might have been a Tea Bagger…..Maybe it was Sarah Palin in a blond wig……On the other hand maybe you should have been embarassed…Afterall this is a childrens event and you admit that you were in you “late 50′s and early 60′s” why were you hogging up all the shade from the kids?
Your story smells like cheese…There is something rotten in Denmark….!