Fish and Fishin presentation was a successs!

[fishin' fool]

Well I gave my presentation this past saturday to about 15 boy scouts ages from 8-12 that were sorta a hand full. They were full of energy, but they were a great group and they were really excited and interested in the fish! It was good that I had a hand full of fish they have never seen before like, short nose gar, quilback carp sucker, bigmouth buffalo, whiper, green sunfish and a spotted bass, it really kept their attention. But their favorite was definetly the flat head I had which was only about 6 pounds but to them they thought it was huge! I got the kids involved by asking them what species of fish it was, and why or what key features gave it away. They like that but there was some chaos with 15 kids yelling 20 different answers at once. I had to calm them down a couple of times but they are kids. After the fish I.D. and fish conservation, we did group fishing down by the lake. The weather and water conditions weren't the greatest but they did manage to catch some bluegill and green sunfish.
For my first presentation I thought it went alot better than what I had expected. The live fish was a real hit with the kids! I'm looking forward to doing another fish and fishing presentation in the future! Good fishin

[bamabassman]

GREAT JOB FISHIN FOOL!!!! bet it was a lot of fun too. even with all the yelling. glad you did so good. now you know what to do the next time. i would have loved to have been there to see the different fish as well. i find it real interesting. great job again buddy. keep it up.

[brushhog]

Congrats on a successful presentation. As a 15 year teaching vet, i can tell you the first time is the toughest and it sound like you nailed it!! By the way, be careful teaching can be addicting, especially when you are teaching something you love!

[Rebbasser]

Good job, buddy!

[Jim80]

i'm glad it went well man it also kinda gives me the idea of a function to plan with my 7 year olds boy scout troop

[Buzz Wing]

Way to go, man! Good deed for the month!

-Buzz

[BigBassin144]

Glad to hear everything worked good. It's good you're helping educate possible young anglers.

BB

[keithdog]

It all sounds good. Congrats my friend. I once gave a demonstration to a group about that size of cub scouts about the use of fire extinguishers. Everyone got to take a turn shooting one into a fire. They had a ball, but like you said, they were a handful. LOL Everyone had a story about fires that they had to tell. It was fun. Glad it all went so well for ya.