Tomorrow Fall Kids Fishing Derby

[D'ANGLER]

On Saturday, September 29th, the Rahway River Trout Unlimited chapter will hold it’s annual Kids Fishing Derby. The Kids Fishing Derby is open to everyone and will take place at Nomahegan Park in Cranford between 9:00am and 10:30am. Generous gifts and prizes will be distributed.

For prizes, we have a lot of fishing rods and tackle boxes. Bait and tackle will also be provided. Please stop on by.....

[D'ANGLER]

Bumping this event up.......come join us today @ 9:00.

[D'ANGLER]

Great day had by all who attended today's kids fishing derby in Cranford. The Chapter arrived early to set up the prize table and immediately we had people signing up and asking questions. The kids grabbed their cup's of worms and by the start of the event at 9:00 there were 28 kids lined around Nomahegan Park lake. It wasn't to long before we had our first hookup. The bites continued all morning with the board members running around like crazed geese recording measurements and helping out as needed. The smiles and laugh's were endless, we don't know who had more fun the kids, parents or us. Some members rigged up their fly rods and introduced this method of fishing to many for the first time. I had one boy catch his first fish on the fly with an antique bamboo rod I had in tow. When all was said and done there was a tie for first place with two contestants both catching 7 1/4" smallmouths. Many other boys & girls came close with varying types of panfish. We awarded all who attended choice prizes of fishing rods, stocked tackle boxes, lures & even a singing fish. Thanks to those who donated prizes & time to this annual event, especially our VP David Licks for who put this all together - I'd say it was a huge success. Parent's thanked us to no end for hosting this event & introducing many kids to fishing for the first time.
Additional pictures can be found here > http://www.meetup.com/RahwayRiverTroutUnlimited/events/77971152/

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[AndyS]

Thanx for posting and taking the time to get the kids involved, great job.