July 22, 2018
Thanks to volunteers Chris Goudreau, Glenn Guy, Reed Brodnik, Jeff Stevenson, Gary Boyd, Jake Beltz, Julian and Judy Tsai, Leon Smith, Parran and Shane Wilkinson, Floyd Warren, Marty Shubert, and Phil Zalesak, fifteen children learned the basics of how to fish at Greenwell State Park. They also got to try out their skills by fishing off the pier and off boats provided by SMRFO members who served as boat captains on the Patuxent River. Activities included a demonstration by the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory on the value of oysters in clarifying the water in the bay and its tributaries, a water safety brief by the US Coast Guard, and a fly casting demonstration by Mary Shubert.