Date: Sun Jan 26, 10:00 AM EST - Sun Jan 26, 2:00 PM EST
Category:
- STEM,
- Outdoor,
- Life Skills,
- Creative Arts,
- Healthy Living
Level:
- Juniors,
- Daisies,
- Seniors,
- Volunteers,
- Cadettes,
- Ambassadors,
- Brownies
Calling all Girl Scouts! Come on out and join your OE Team and USFWS
to learn all about ice fishing! Participants will get the chance to
try some "hard water" fishing, fillet a fish (if interested)
and, catch dependent, cook their catch on the ice!
Participants will start with a safety demonstration and be fitted with
ice picks that MUST be worn during the entire event. We will cover how
to "spud" a patch of ice to test for safety, what to do if
you were to fall in and how to climb out.
We will then go
over the basics of ice fishing and equipment needed. Each child will
have their own complete gear set up to use during the event (pole, sit
upon bucket, tackle, and bait) - as well as a complete gear set-up to
take home (pole, reel, tackle, and ice scoop).
If any
fish are caught of legal size and limit, and depending on interest
from participants, we will teach how to properly fillet a fish and
then fire up our trusty camp stove and pan fry them while out on the
ice!
We will have two large ice shanties that will be set
up with heaters running as a warming station. There will also be
indoor, heated access to "flushable" restrooms and an indoor
warming station a short walk away on shore. Participants are
encouraged to bring snacks and drinks.
Included in Girl
Scout and Tagalong Registration Costs:
* 1 hour of hands on ice
fishing instruction
* If fish are caught and girls are
interested - hands on lesson on how to fillet a fish
* Then
frying the fish up on the ice
* GSSEM Outdoor Skills Mini Patch
Program - Winter Sports Mini Patch
* GSSEM Outdoor Skills Mini
Patch Program - Fishing Mini Patch
* Custom, GSSEM "Ice to
Table" Event Patch
* Complete Ice Fishing Gear Kit to take
home after the event
Included in Adult Registration
Costs:
* 1 hour of hands on ice fishing instruction
* If
fish are caught and girls are interested - hands on lesson on how to
fillet a fish
* Then frying the fish up on the ice
*......Adults get an extra, bonus lesson on how to quickly, and
effectively untangle fishing line
***IF we do NOT have
safe ice on Sunday, January 25th - our weather make-up date is planned
for SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2nd. The session that you register for on January
25th will be the SAME session that you attend on FEBRUARY 2nd if
necessary. ***
****THIS IS A WEATHER DEPENDANT EVENT DUE
TO SAFETY AND WILL BE DEPENDANT ON ICE CONDITIONS - IF THE ICE IS
UNSAFE, CAUSING THE EVENT TO HAVE TO BE CANCELLED - REFUNDS WILL BE
ISSUED****
PLEASE note that this is NOT a drop-off event
and proper Girl Scout to Adult safety ratios MUST be met in order to
participate in the event.
Costs:
$30.00 per
girl
$30.00 per tagalong
$0.00 per adult
Registration deadline: January 22 (or sooner if event reaches
capacity)
For program questions, please email Paige
Wigren at pwigren@gssem.org.
For registration questions, please email helpdesk@gssem.org.
