Registration deadline is Aug 21. The leader trainings provide important curriculum material as well as two days of hands-on techniques in teaching specific topics, basic teaching and mentoring skills, and program organization and coordination. The adults are trained this way so that they will teach their youth in the same fashion.
Aquatic ecology stresses water quality, insect and plant sampling, and population dynamics.
Angling skills is an introduction to fishing methods from knot tying to fly casting. People and fish explores ethics, resource and human management, folklore and heritage and media and interviewing skills. Tackle crafting involves lure making, rod building and maintenance, and specialty equipment making. Local teams are made up of these agency's personnel and other volunteers.