South Carolina Reel Kids Goals at a glance...
- Program designed to be fun, educational and hands-on.
- As a South Carolina Reel Kid, children will work toward goals like catching that first fish, learning about fish and improving fish habitat.
- Participants receive a complimentary South Carolina Reel Kids' License. The license will have future special uses and can be used to report certain goals.
- Children receive a reward for each goal completed, offering positive encouragement for lessons learned.
- After completing 12 goals from the Junior Master Angler book, participants will receive their Junior Master Angler certificate.
- Youth Master Angler program available to participants after reaching their 10th birthday.
Reel Kids' goals include cool stuff like:
- Catch five different species of fish
- Visit a State Lake and go fishing.
- Take three friends that have never been fishing before.
- Learn four kinds of knots used in boating or fishing.
- Describe all the fishing equipment that you use and send a photo of what you take with you on fishing trips.
- Get a friend to check out a fishing rod from a Fishing Tackle Loaner Program Site.
- Report on an aquatic macro invertebrate.
- Make a plankton net and identify at least three organisms after pulling it in a local water body.
- Describe and draw an aquatic food web.
- Take photos of a local water body - one photo for each season.
- Visit two state parks and report on them.
- Visit two fish hatcheries.
- Participate in Beach Sweep/River Sweep events.
- Take the state boating safety course.