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Hi Al,
Did you recieve my mail message, if not, I am interested please
keep me up to date on latest info for next sessions etc.....
Johnny Roach
PS your tourney idea sounds good, i only have a canoe for a boat
though unless I upgrade before spring...
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| Copy of mail I sent to Steve and Johnny, Is there anybody else out there
interested in giving a little back to get other people started in fishing?
al
From: CASPRO::FLOOD 6-FEB-1990 11:50:35.93
To: MFGMEM::MROWKA,DECSIM::DEMBA
CC: FLOOD
Subj: RE: Fishing instructors
Johnny R. and Jim,
Sorry for not getting back sooner -tried last week, but the network let me
down. I am currently doing an all hands on dec assignment in MKO as I am
currently excess from US administration. In any case, since I am doing
temporary assignements, I must use TSN to connect to my CHM node and last
week while I was typing out a response to both of you, tsn dropped me out
and all was lost. Let's try again today...
The Harvard group that I belong to doesn't imply that you must be a Harvard
resident, it is just the geographical way the state has been divided up and
also Harvard recreation dept. has been a strong user of our clinics. Our
Group hopes to spread out in the harvard, maynard, acton, concord, stow,
ayer, littleton areas as we grow in number - a typical class runs for two
hours and the clinic days can be 4-8 hours long. We would like to have 2-4
instructors per course. The courses are for ice fishing, softwater fishing
and instructor training courses. Clinics related to the classes are called
catch and cook. We also do single days clinics that are not tied to any
class structure.
Your individual skill level is not a prime concern, I for one enjoy fishing
but am not the cunsummate pro. It is more important to be interested in
teaching and developing skills in kids as well as adults who want to learn
to fish. The classes are relatively informal with all instructors
interacting together rather than one instructor running the whole class.
We are just completing my first class on ice fishing - we had 4 two hour
classes and will conclude this saturday with a catch and cook day on Bare
Hill pond in Harvard ice permitting... The next classes will be the
instructor training that occur one night a week for 2 hours over a 4 week
span plus one field day( i.e. outside demos etc.) The instructor students
prepare the classes and the certified instructors critique them. To become
a certified instructor you must complete the 10 hour course. To become a
master certified instructor you must help to lead a 10 hour fishing course.
Although I haven't taken the instructor training yet, I have completed my
fishing course portion.
We keep a time sheet of all our time, class preparation, travel time, class
time, clinic time etc and we turn this into the F+W guy down in Westboro,
he in turns summits the totals for the program to the federal goverment,
who in turn turn over monies to him to support more fisheries programs. We
are all volunteers and receive no compensation. However we do have a
banquet in March at the Marlboro rod and gun club. Cost of the banquet is
very low and we have a hugh raffle, most the major tackle companies supply
equipment for the raffle. I am told it is a lot of fun and everybody goes
home with prizes.
We plan to start the next instructor training in March, we would like to have
around 8-10 students - instructor students can be 12-13 years old(boy scout
age) on up and sex is no factor(M or F). We currently have 34 other
students who signed up at the Centrum plus others we may not know of yet. I
can/will send out the registration form if you are interested and will
contact you as soon as the class has been set up.
I have enjoyed the short bit of time I have put in so far - it also has
helped the winter hard water time go faster. Let me know if you have any
more questions - look forward to seeing you sign up.
al
If interested send me your loc/ms so I can send the application via
interoffice mail.
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| The fishing instructor course will be starting 4/10 and run 4 consecutive
weeks. Steve Sennott, our group leader will be contacting all people who
signed up with me as well as those who signed up at the centrum. This will
cover people who are in the Harvard, Ayer, Westford, Berlin, Lancaster,
Hudson, Maynard, Acton areas. We have approximately 16 students signed up
and if 10 of these people are serious we will have a very nice sized
instructor group capable of teaching a lot of kids. We had our annual
banquet at the Marlboro Rod and Gun club several Saturdays ago. Greating
meal, good speakers and some great door and raffle prizes. Also awards to
the oustanding instructors in each group as well as awards for the teenager
and adult instructors who made the greatest contributions to the program.
The Harvard group totaled some 400+ volunteer hours with just 3 Master
instructors and 3 field(teenager) instructors. We came in very high on the
list of 12 groups in the state and hope to increase that number greatly for
next year. One instructor who came in the highest in the state and also won
the outstanding award put in almost 800 hours - granted he is retired but
he really puts everything into the program and is a great guy with a
lifetime of stories.
If anyone else wants to get into the program, drop me a mail message and I
will send along the application.
al
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