The Aquatic Education Program can provide fishing tackle, a list of volunteer fishing instructors, and educational materials for organized fishing events. The UFP may even stock some extra catfish or trout in a public lake prior to your event, if given sufficient advance notice. Become a volunteer fishing instructor. If you're an angler, share your knowledge and skills with others. Instructors can get a wide range of teaching aids to use.
Instructors also get hats, patches, and other items recognizing their efforts.
Contact the Aquatic Education staff at the AksarbenAquarium near Gretna for more information. Allow a few people to fish on your property. If you have a pond or a creek on your property, allow your neighbors or friends to go fishing there. Private ponds meeting eligibility criteria maybe stocked by the Commission with largemouth bass and bluegill. Water bodies that are open to the public are eligible for a whole range of programs, assistance, and funding to improve fishing,hunting, wildlife habitat, water quality, boating access, and more.