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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (April 26, 2010) —The motto at FishingSponsors.com is “Getting all anglers hooked up.” Now this innovative new company is hooking up with the Future Fisherman Foundation (F3) to support angling education efforts around the country.
“When an angler becomes a member of FishingSponsors.com, we help them create a professional portfolio that increases their odds of getting positive feedback from potential sponsors,” said FishingSponsors.com owner Justin Eidem. “Now they’ll also have the satisfaction of knowing that a portion of their membership fee will be earmarked to support the Foundation’s youth fishing initiatives such as Hooked On Fishing Not On Drugs and Physh Ed. We feel that our network of avid anglers, fishing guides and business organizations will all be interested in learning more about, and supporting, the Future Fisherman Foundation. And we hope our support of F3’s efforts will encourage more young people to become lifelong anglers.”
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (April 22, 2010) — For more than 15 years, schools, fishing clubs and families have been using the Backyard Bass from Ironwood Pacific Outdoors to help youngsters learn to cast. Each Backyard Bass set comes with colorful plastic fish and casting plugs. Simply place the fish on the ground, step back and let the kids cast. The goal is to snag one of the fish and reel it in — just like real fishing! Ideal for children age six and up, the Backyard Bass can be used indoors or outdoors to develop casting and fishing skills.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (March 24, 2010)—With spring fishing season getting underway, many anglers are stocking their tackle boxes and getting out on the water. The Future Fisherman Foundation (F3) encourages fishing enthusiasts making purchases to patronize companies that support F3’s important youth angling programs such as Hooked On Fishing Not On Drugs and Physh Ed.
One such company is Poor Boy’s Baits, a family-owned business in LaGrange, Indiana, that sells a wide variety of quality fishing products. To show their support for the Foundation’s youth education programs, owners Shawn and Kim Straley have formed a partnership that will help fund F3’s work. Each time anglers purchase a bottle of Poor Boy’s Baits’ popular new lure dye, the Straleys will donate 20 cents to F3.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. (November 19, 2009). Just in time for Christmas, Lurenet.com is offering a three-pack of popular tournament-winning lures for less than half price. And to make this offer even sweeter, you have the satisfaction of knowing that $1 from every sale goes to support Future Fisherman Foundation youth angling programs like Hooked On Fishing Not On Drugs and Physh Ed.
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MCLEAN, Va.(October 20, 2009) —
The Physh Ed National Fishing and Boating Initiative, which provides grants for K-12 teachers to incorporate fishing and boating activities into their school curriculum, has proven fishing is a fun way to lure children back outdoors. During the past seven years, the Future Fisherman Foundation (F3) has awarded more than $1,200,000 in grant funds to help teachers from 325 schools in 47 states deliver angling, boating and aquatic conservation programs through the Physh Ed Initiative. Most schools approach this program in a cross-curricular manner, teaming physical education, science, math, health and art teachers to deliver lessons.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (September 22, 2009) —
Outdoors enthusiasts who become members of “O’Neill’s Outdoor Legion,” a unique, new club started by radio/television host O’Neill Williams of O’Neill Outside, will be helping support programs of the Future Fisherman Foundation (F3). O’Neill Outside will donate $1 for each $37.95 membership sold to F3 and another $1 to the Wounded Warriors Fund.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (August 4, 2009)
In support of its mission to teach young people to fish, the Future Fisherman Foundation received a donation of $6,612 from Plano Molding Company at ICAST, the world’s largest sportfishing trade show, held July 15-17, 2009, in Orlando, Florida.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (July 15, 2009) --
At the ICAST Show today, Keith Sutton of Alexander, Arkansas was introduced as the new executive director of the Future Fisherman Foundation. A former executive with the Boy Scouts of America and past president of the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association, Sutton has worked 30 years as a free-lance writer, photographer, editor and lecturer, and served 19 years as editor of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s award-winning conservation magazine Arkansas Wildlife.
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August
13, 2008, Alexandria, VA —
For
40 novice anglers from Boys & Girls Clubs around the
country, Bassmaster Elite Series Tournament professional
anglers was an experience of a lifetime. The young anglers
participated in the Future Fisherman Foundation’s Youth
Fishing competition held Saturday, August 2, in Buffalo,
N.Y, during the Elite Series Empire Chase.
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