Youth Camp 2014
This years camp was a mix of boys, girls, brothers, sisters, parents, and grandparents. Everybody really enjoyed all aspects of the camp, from the fly tying, casting, entomology, to the casting and of course the fishing at Dry Run Creek. Everyone stayed engaged and learned a lot.
We had campers come from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma as well as our local Arkansas gang…
One highlight of the camp came at the conclusion of the two day event when each camper was presented with their own Orvis “Encounter” rod and reel set. You would have thought it was Christmas morning….oohs and ahhs and even a few tears were shed by the joyous campers(young and old). Then, to put an exclamation point on the emotional conclusion, our little eight year old camper, Annabelle, who has an obvious passion for fly tying, won the Wapsi fly tying kit that was given out as a door prize.
Bob Wyble of DeerHunterfan.com came up with the idea of giving each camper an Orvis Encounter Outfit, rod reel & line, and he wrote the check to pay for them. Jim Dugan ran with the idea and arranged with Orvis to have the 20 outfits shipped in for the camp.