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- Hi, I'm Miss Penny
and these are the wonderful KidVision kids
and we're here today at Mack's Fish Camp
to learn about fishing.
- I'm glad to finally meet you guys
and I'm going to teach you all
about fishing in the Everglades.
My name's Thadeus from Glades Bassin
and this is Marshall.
- Thank you all for coming today.
We look forward to teaching you all
how to fish here in the Everglades.
- Great, we're ready.
Are you ready?
- [KidVision Kids] Yeah!
- Whoohoo! - Let's do it!
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- What kind of fish are we gonna be fishing for?
- Today, we're gonna target largemouth bass with artificial,
which we have a large array of artificial lures
that we use to catch largemouth bass.
And one of the favorites is a frog.
This is a really cool bait.
You wanna touch that frog see what he feels like?
All squishy.
- Artificial means that it's not alive.
- Today though we are going to use plastic worms.
Artificial, not alive.
They are
salty
and oily.
You make 'em dance in the water.
A fish can't stand it, they have to have 'em.
- So fish like things that dance
around in the water. - Yes.
- 'Cause then they want to catch it,
kind of like cats like to catch things.
- Exactly.
They're kinda like cats in water.
Here,
we have
live bait.
Crickets.
Look at these crickets,
and what we catch with these is
more of what we call panfish,
which is bluegill, crappie,
Mayan cichlids, oscars,
and catfish.
Things like that.
- Can you tell me which one is alive
and which one isn't?
Those are alive.
Those are not.
So some are living and some are artificial,
which means they were never alive.
Oh, there's a real worm.
(Thadeus laughs)
Is that alive? - Yeah.
- [Thadeus] You want a worm?
- Look at that. - Mmmm.
Doesn't that look delicious?
And then we have
something that we all like to eat, bread.
And we're gonna make bread balls.
Take a little piece
and roll it up into a ball,
a little bit smaller.
Break that one in half,
and we'll go...
- Yeah, everybody gets some.
- Make a nice,
round bread ball
so it fits on the hook perfectly.
And you're going to make one too?
- Sure. - Alright, cool.
There you go.
- Ready to go fishing?
- [KidVision Kids] Yeah!
- Yeah, let's learn how to fish.
Good job.
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- [Miss Penny] We are gonna learn about fishing now.
- This is a spinning reel.
It's one of the most used types of reels.
We're gonna use an artificial worm.
I'm going to show you guys how to cast this spinning reel.
So what you want to do
is reel your worm up to about a foot and a half
before the tip of the pole.
See where it's hanging?
Okay.
And this hand goes here, right.
And then you're going to grab this string
with your one finger here, okay.
And then we're going to open this,
which is called a bail.
Alright, then this hand goes here.
And to make the line go out,
you're going to let go of the string with your finger
when you cast.
So watch this.
So I'm going to keep this hand here.
This hand stays here too.
We're gonna go...
There, and I let the string go,
and then I'm going to close the bail when it's out there.
And then you start reeling.
This is called reeling.
And to work a artificial bait,
you kinda reel and jerk and make it dance
and you let it sink
and the fish really like it moving around.
Look behind you.
Make sure there's no one in the way.
No one's there.
Focus on where you want to go.
- [Miss Penny] Let go.
- Awesome. - Wow!
- Now close it.
Now reel.
There you go.
And that's how you cast a spinning reel.
Grab the string with your finger.
Perfect.
Open the bail.
- [Miss Penny] Oh boy.
- Awesome.
Now grab the back of the rod with that hand.
Look around, make sure there's no one there.
No one's behind you. Now you're going to swing it back
and then swing it forward
and let go of the string.
And swing it and let go of the string.
Awesome!
Look at that, you got it to go out there!
Now reel it and shake it and make it dance.
Alright, remember, grab the string.
Open the bail.
Grab the back.
Look at you.
You're a pro.
- [Miss Penny] Throw it out there.
- Wow!
- Whoa! - Awesome!
And close it. - That was awesome!
- And start reeling.
Awesome, good job.
- Why don't we try with our little bread balls
and see if we can catch something with that?
- It's almost guaranteed. (laughs)
- Okay.
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Now we're going to try a little dock fishing.
- Alright guys, let's try all
the different things we have today.
We got the bread ball, the worm, the cricket.
We have a plastic worm over here.
What do you want, a worm or a bread ball?
- Probably a bread ball.
- [Thadeus] Bread ball, okay.
- So now you have to put it on your hook
and this time we're not gonna cast.
We're just going to drop it into the water
and see what happens.
- So you're going with the bread ball,
the non-alive bait that we're using today.
You're getting a cricket, aren't you?
- Yeah, I want a cricket.
- You want a cricket. - Haha!
Let's see what... - Oh, you got one!
Get him! - You got a fish!
Oh my gosh!
- [Thadeus] That's a cichlid.
That's a Mayan cichlid.
- Oh, he's beautiful!
- [Thadeus] Look at that dot on his tail.
- He's tiny. - Yeah, he's tiny.
- He's a baby. - I got one! (shrieks)
- She got one too! - She got one!
- Look at that! - Reel it up, reel it up!
- [Thadeus] Turn your reel over.
An oscar, we got an oscar. - Here we go.
- [Marshall] Good job.
- [Miss Penny] Oh, look at that!
- [Thadeus] We're going to throw this one back.
- Wow! - Throw this one back.
- Look how beautiful
that fish is. - Throw him back.
- This has been great.
Really had a good time fishing.
We caught a lot of fish,
and I think maybe we can go measure
a couple of the big ones we caught.
- [Thadeus Voiceover] Let's go measure that bass.
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- Now it's time to measure some of the fish we caught.
- Alright, and do you know why
we measure the fish?
To make sure that we are not keeping fish
we shouldn't keep.
We don't want to keep them too big or too small,
depending on the regulations.
Because we want to conserve the amount of fish in the water
and keep plenty there for us to catch in the future.
- Okay, so let's get started.
We're going to use this measuring stick.
(fish splashes in water) - Whoa!
- What is it called?
- It's a measuring board.
We keep these in our boats
that way we can just pull it out
and measure the fish right there on the spot.
- Okay. - And know if we need
to throw it back or if you want to keep some,
we can decide to keep it or not.
Now the regulations on the bass
are you can keep
five fish, right,
only one over 16 inches.
This one - This one is about 15.
- Is 15 and a quarter.
So if you wanted to keep it,
you could keep it. (fish flops around on table)
- So guys from his mouth to the end of his tail.
- [Thadeus] Here's the jaguar.
- Oh that one is the one that was so different and unusual.
Look how beautiful it is. - An invasive species.
So we could keep it, no matter what size.
- What does invasive mean?
- Invasive, he's not native to here.
- Okay.
- Brought in from South America.
Another invasive species.
These are delicious, you guys.
People know these from the grocery store.
They sell these in the grocery store.
Really good to eat. - Tilapia.
- [Thadeus] Tilapia.
- [Boy] Like nine inches.
- [Thadeus] This is about nine inches.
- We did good today.
We caught big fish
and we caught little fish
and we were able to use our measuring,
our fish measuring stick.
That's awesome.
Thank you so much for everything
that you've done today.
Thank you so much. - I was just happy to see,
you know, to get the kids out
and teach them something new
and share the experience of fishing with them.
- [Group] See you later aligator!