We've begun National Fishing and Boating Week (NFBW) sponsored by the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF), a non-profit organization dedicated to growing participation in fishing, boating and aquatic stewardship.
To celebrate, South Carolina's Department of Natural Resources is sponsoring two free fishing days on June 6-7. According to the SCDNR's news release "Free fishing days allow people who would like to try the sport of fishing to go without having to purchase a license." DNR has loads of information about fishing and boating, and their program, SC Reel Kids, which encourages youth to go fishing.
SCDNR has free fishing tackle loaner sites around the state, including at our own Hunting Island State Park. Rangers will teach kids how to fish from the pier on some Friday afternoons. Just be sure to pre-register with the folks at Hunting Island State Park!
Fishing and boating have long been part of lowcountry culture. The fishing photographs in the Donner Collection attest to that!
Outdoors columns about local fishing and hunting conditions appear in all the area newspapers, printed or virtual. The online only Beaufort Tribune runs an Outdoors Features column by Charley Webb. You can find Outdoors SC featured in the printed and online versions of the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette.
As the anonymous author says: "A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work." Besides which, one must agree with John Gierach that "The solution to any problem -- work, love, money, whatever -- is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." Now, go wet a hook!
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