Fishing Fun

served for 11 years. used a combination of downrigging, sight-casting, and slipfloat fishing to land a total of 75 fish, including 48 white bass, and a mixed of 27 sunfish. those new to SKIFF, SKIFF is an acronym for Soldiers’ Kids Involved Fishing Fun. It is a program now 13th year, sponsored by the Austin Fly Fishers, and supported the McBride Foundation, the City Rod and Gun Club, the City chapter of Women HelpOthers (WHO) and a number of supportive individuals, all of whom desire that kids separated from a parent by that parent’s military duty, Star children, and disabled veterans’ children, be given an opportunity to experience the outdoors through fishing during that of separation, free of charge. program also offers a time of respite for the home-front parents may need a short break from single-parenting.

Neveah Payne proudly displays this redear sunfish -one of the 55 fish she and her younger sister, Katherine, caught on June 20th.

From left: Corbin, Janea, and Alex Smith with a pair of fish we took early on in the trip.