Tag: kids

Joey's Fly Fishing Foundation, located in Sheridan, WY, has been holding clinics to help kids to "cast for a better future" since 2007. This year, their annual dinner has been postponed due to the pandemic. However, they're switching to an all-radio fundraiser, featuring advice from guides, and stories from kids who've personally gone through Joey's Fly...

Orvis, the family-owned outdoor retailer that specializes in fly fishing gear and education, introduces a new weekly summer camp platform offering lessons and activities for kids of all ages who are homebound by the COVID-19 pandemic. Orvis Summer Kids’ Camp seeks to highlight outdoor skills and engage kids in their local ecosystems with topics covering...

I love Wyoming - both the empty stretches of prairie, and the people who make up the Cowboy State. This story from Wyoming News Now just makes me love Wyoming that much more. The Ugly Bug Fly Shop, based in Casper, is streaming fly tying lessons for kids during this pandemic. According to the article, the shop has been streaming fly tying videos for years...

I don't have any kids, nor am I married, but I'm unquestionably a product of the age-old tradition of fathers taking their kids fishing. If it weren't for my dad taking me out on the water when I was as young as five years old, I don't think I'd have started down this path of fly fishing writing. That's why this column from George Smith caught my eye. Smith...

If you've ever worried about how we're going to get younger kids interested in fly fishing, this story out of Pennsylvania should give you some hope. The Rivers Conservation and Fly Fishing Camp registration is now open for kids to sign up and learn all about fly fishing this upcoming summer. Read more about the camp here.

The seeds of improvisation are planted young. The habits of systems, methods, and standards take root at later ages. There’s nothing wrong with either, of course. Playing the scales and studying the basics—of jazz music, or fly fishing for that matter—will never hurt. But the mature mind depends on the system, while the young, unencumbered mind...

In his latest podcast, Tom Rosenbauer offers a "10-step plan for getting a kid into fly fishing." "Number One: Get them into fishing first, particularly with younger kids. There are other ways of fishing that are easier than fly fishing. Most of us don't think they are as much fun, they're a little more mechanical, you don't have to think as much, you don't...