Nature Matters: The Great Outdoors
Hartley Nature Center in Duluth wants Northland youngsters to experience all that makes the great outdoors “great.”
As their summer series continues, we go fishing with a group of kids on the St- Louis River.
The thrill of adventure is coupled with lessons in fishing in this week’s segment of “Nature Matters” with David Hoole.
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It’s really fun; it’s just great to be out here fishing with your friends, waiting for the big catch.
Fishing on a river in the warm sunshine is a perfect way to spend the day for a group of boys. Tying knots, baiting hooks, and keeping their lines untangled offer new challenges for these anglers.
You put the head on the regular jig and put the tail on the stinger? Exactly.
If you don’t know how to do it it’s a bit hard. But if you know how to do it and are good at fishing it’s a really fun sport.
Our job is to show them how to do it and then get out of the way.
It’s a great sport and everything is unexpected.
Jake I caught one! .
You don’t know what’s going to happen.
In the time before the digital age kids would spend their whole summer like this, being outside, unstructured, in the natural world. Young people of the past had little concern with obesity, hyperactivity, or overburdened schedules.
Not enough has been said about mental health.
I think you look at it and I think some of the kids that have that, kind of temper the society we have, that’s so rooted in instant gratification, to have something that’s a slower pace, where the creativity is theirs not the toymaker.
It’s the coolest part, it’s the coolest part.
As I said before, these kids are going to be policy makers and the thought of putting that in the hands of someone who has not spent time outdoors deciding how our waterway is going to be managed, deciding how a state park or a national forest is going to be managed.
Those are some scary things and this is important stuff.
It’s just fun to be with people and try to wait for the fish.
Sometimes you might not get it but sometimes you will.
Feeling the breeze.
If it’s beautiful weather that’s great.
And just being with your friends.
For Nature Matters I’m David Hoole.
Hartley Nature Center still has some openings for various summer activities.
For MORE, check out:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fishing/downtown/index.html
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