Fishing
- Point out and identify the parts of a saltwater reel, a
bait-casting reel, a spinning reel, and a fly reel.
Point out and identify the main parts of a fishing rod.
Tell how you would care for this equipment.
- Demonstrate the use of two of the three types of
fishing equipment (bait-casting, spinning, and fly) and
explain how each of the three is used.
- Demonstrate and explain the use of the following knots:
clinch, palomar, turle, blood loop (barrel knot), and
the surgeon's loop.
- Name and explain five safety practices you should
always follow while fishing.
- Name and identify five basic artificial lures and five
natural baits and explain how to fish with them.
Explain why bait fish are not released alive.
- Give the regulations affecting game fishing where you
live. Explain why they were adopted and what you
accomplish by following these regulations.
- Catch two different kinds of fish by any legal
sportsmanlike method and identify them. Demonstrate how
you released at least one of them unharmed. Tell how
you cleaned and cooked another fish.
- Explain what good outdoor sportsmanlike behavior is and
how it relates to fishermen. Tell how the Outdoor Code
of the Boy Scouts of America relates to a fishing
sportsman, including the aspects of littering,
trespassing, courteous behavior, and obeying fishing
regulations.