Patrick County High School’s Fishing Team had a great kick off meeting filled with excitement about the 2024-2025 fishing season. Currently, the team also is holding its annual fundraising raffle, and would like to thank everyone in advance for their support of the student anglers.
There are many benefits of being a part of the high school fishing team: It provides great fun, recreation and relationships at school and provides a pathway to a college education. It also gets students back into the great outdoors, introduces students to fishing while showing them potential career and educational opportunities through fishing, and adds to a student’s education by giving them real life examples of how math, science, biology, technology and language arts are used by anglers every day out on the water. Joining the team also increases environmental awareness and understanding of aquatic ecosystems with the complex balance of abiotic and biotic factors, and reduces stress while forming lasting relationships with like-minded peers in natural settings.
The team is actively looking for boat captains for the 2024-2025 season. Several new anglers have joined the team, both in the junior and senior division, and all would love to learn the “ins and outs” of bass fishing, but need a captain.
Boat captains are given gas money for each tournament and would be fishing Smith Mountain Lake and Philpott Lake for the 4 qualifiers this season for states. If interested or if you want more information, please contact Hylton or Melanie Scott (276) 229-1301 or Sandra Heath at (276) 694-2911.
