{"id":13586,"date":"2017-04-04T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=13586"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:34:53","slug":"youth-fishing-rodeos-kick-off-throughout-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/04\/04\/youth-fishing-rodeos-kick-off-throughout-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Fishing Rodeos Kick Off Throughout Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Events Planned to Get\u00a0Youth Hooked on Fishing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8076\/8345335731_9370674883_n.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"268\" \/>Calling all future anglers! The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> is offering children \u2013 aged 3 to 15 \u2013 the opportunity to bait, cast and catch their own fish through our <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/youth\/rodeo.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Fishing Rodeo Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to introduce young children to the joys of recreational fishing, participants \u2013 with or without\u00a0previous experience \u2013 are mentored by experienced \u00a0volunteers and department staff to create a safe, educational and fun environment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this program children learn how to become better anglers and\u00a0also taught to respect our parks, ponds, lakes and rivers,\u201d Youth Fishing Rodeo Program Coordinator Michael Anderson said. &#8220;The Youth Fishing Rodeo has been a Maryland tradition for more\u00a060 years, and\u00a0we hope to continue nurturing the next generation of anglers and stewards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Youth Fishing Rodeo Program has over 40 rodeos scheduled between April and October; these events draw nearly 3,000 youth anglers statewide.\u00a0The\u00a0complete calendar is available <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Documents\/Rodeo_Schedule.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Fishing and Boating Services<\/a> staff\u00a0release stock trout or hybrid sunfish for each rodeo event, assuring that youth fisherman have a good chance of catching that first fish.<\/p>\n<p>Youth Fishing Rodeos are free of charge\u00a0but participants are urged to register early as some rodeo events fill-up quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events Planned to Get\u00a0Youth Hooked on Fishing Calling all future anglers! The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is offering children \u2013 aged 3 to 15 \u2013 the opportunity to bait, cast and catch their own fish through our Youth Fishing Rodeo Program. Designed to introduce young children to the joys of recreational fishing, participants \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/04\/04\/youth-fishing-rodeos-kick-off-throughout-maryland\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[2973,2972],"class_list":["post-13586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-michael-anderson","tag-youth-fishing-rodeo-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13586"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14720,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586\/revisions\/14720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}