YAED

Youth Angler Education Program

We hope you saw the Thank You advertisement in this Thursdays Missoulian on 11/13/04. These people had the foresight to invest in our youth to educate them about our environment. This year we are offering all businesses the opportunity to advertise with The Fish Guys Youth Angler Education Program.

What you would get is your company logo on 3 separate handouts we give to the kids highlighting some of the facts they learned from the program about fish and fishing. 2 out of the 3 handouts will be directed towards parents who want to join their kids on our fishing trips and also on permission slips for our trips. This will put your logo in front of 3,000 parents this coming year. To see your ad in conjunction with our program would be great advertising for this particular target group. It'll make you feel good too!

All advertisers will receive at the end of the school year Thank You letters written by students from the classes your advertising dollars went to fund. This advertising will entitle you to take this as a tax deduction.

Take these Thank You letters and hang them around your business or office and see what comments they garner. It's a terrific feeling and great for business. 4). If this is something you feel can benefit you and your company, as well as making a contribution towards conservation then please contact Les Rutledge at 406-549-4308 or email me at fishguy@bigsky.net for further details.

Facts & Figures for Youth Angler Education 2002 - 2003

1). We had 48 classrooms in 23 schools. We now make a presents in every public elementary school in Missoula.

2). We instructed 1,163 kids and adults OUTSIDE our Youth Angler Education Program.

3). We instructed 1,173 kids WITHIN our school Youth Angler Education Program.
a). Each of these students received an average of 11.5 hours of instruction and fishing time.

4). We instructed 2,336 people within our community about fishing and aquatic habitat since 7/1 of last year.

5). We took 1,703 people fishing for a total of 7,514 hours of on-the- water fishing time.
a). 530 people were outside our Youth Angler Ed. Program.

6). We had 605 hours of teachers time working with us. Down from 793 hours last year. We are getting more self-sufficient.

7). We had 1,086.5 hours of volunteer time. Down from 1,415 hours last year. We are becoming more efficient!

8). We had one coordinator work 996.5 hours on the program. Upfrom 797.5 hours last year.

9). We have managed to tee no one off .......permanently!

10). We had 4 people hook themselves and with no more serious accidents occurring.

11).We caught untold numbers of fish, mostly sunfish, with 3% being very large bass and 10% bass overall. A few perch and a couple of turtles later and most everyone caught something.

12). We succeeded in getting a few people skunked.

13). I estimate 30% of the Youth Angler Education kids catch their first fish with us. My best guesstimate is we've seen 'the look' of excitement in catching their first fish about 400 times this year alone. Some things never get old!

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