Y'all shoulda seen those city kids from the first four schools back in '98, when we had our first ever culmination weekend at the CFFC&M for the Trout In The Classroom project. Yeah we started with just four schools way back in '98, now there are around 400 schools involved last i heard. We (TGF) had to turn the program over to TU National a couple years back because we just couldn't afford it anymore. TGF had always provided all the money to purchase the tanks, eggs, and other nessessities, when a new school came on board. Anyway, we're taking the kids on the bus to tour the DEC hatchery, and the reserviours, and this incredable Mayfly spinner fall is taking place on the wet road/pavement. When it came time to get off the bus, the kids had to be convinced that "everything was cool," lmao. They'd never seen anything like that
before, and were afraid to get off the bus. That was the same weekend my wife and i first rented the apt. on top of the gift shop at the CFFC&M. And the two of us continued to be the chaparones (sp?) for the kids on that weekend each year until about 2003. Normally we would have to pick one or two kids from each school, down in the city, and from up in the Catskills, until we hit our max of 50 kids, and then bring them together at the CFFC&M to spend the weekend together. That way the city kids whose drinking water comes from where the Catskill kids live, could get not only a better understanding of the watershed and it's resources, but also get to know these country kids and interact with them. And the country kids good get to help educate the city kids about the rivers and life in the mountains. We taught them fly tying, water quality testing, bug/insect identification,
casting, and how the water is cathered, stored, and transported to where it will be, where it needs to be, when they need it, and that it is precious and needs to be protected, and not taken for granted. They (the kids) would bring their fingerlings from the school tanks and release them into the Willowemoc right in front of the museum, upon arrival in the Catskills and then we would start their first fly tying lesson. I once spilled more than half a bottle of head cement all over my pants right in front of all those kids, lmao. It was a classic. mark.....
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Subject: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:27:00 -0600
"What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch."
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