Gone Fishing
PFSA in partnership with the National Marine Park, Four Greens Community Trust, and the Angling Trust, have been teaching local youth to fish!
Under the gentle and experienced instruction of Martyn Green Devon Fishing Guides every young person caught at least one fish each. They used ground and floating rigs, learnt how to cast and bait a hook and caught mackerel, garfish, dogfish, pollack and a conger eel!
Emmie Kwaan, of the Community Wellbeing Hub | Four Greens Community Trust | England has an excellent relationship with many of Plymouth’s young people and she brought 8 them from the Coxside area in Plymouth to take part. The children’s excitement was high and they fished happily for three hours and would have kept going despite the wind and rain. We ran two sessions and at the end of their first session they were given their own rod and reel. A month later at the second session it was clear they had been practicing because their casting had improved considerably and I no longer had to duck!.
The equipment was funded by the National Marine Park Homepage - Plymouth Sound National Marine Park and the lessons led by professional angler Martyn Green Devon Fishing Guides.
