Saturday was the Union Spring Hooked on Fishing Event the turnout was nothing short of amazing with well over 200 at Ayer Park. Baiting hooks, casting lines, eating hot dogs and oh yes even catching a few fish. You can see articles and pictures about the event in the Courier Gazette and Village Soup. Both papers have excellent photos of the day, none of me though.

 With such a large turnout we were quickly out of fishing rods but with a little rounding up of equipment from everyone involved we were able to provide a rod and bait to all that wanted to fish. Next year we will need to figure out how to have 100 rigged rods ready to go on the day of the event. Not sure how we’ll pull it off but it is a great problem to have. These events are a great introduction to fishing and we hope to get a bunch of kids interested in going fishing and eventually the outdoors.