Quinte Fishing

wow - strange turn for this thread.

Always Hopeful (Rob),

I stopped into work yesterday and picked the three rod/reel combo's you left for me. Thanks so much and I will make sure a youth/or young teenager in our area will make great use of the fishing gear. As always when someone donates gear to me I keep some of it for the kids derby I facilitate and I also keep some of it to give a way at the local docks.

If I am driving my cruiser around the docks and I see a couple of kids fishing with pretty rough looking gear I'll give them a rod/reel combo and watch them beam with a huge smile. I'll let them know that a person from the fishing community donated them. I am well aware of which kids could use a helping hand and if I give it to them its easier then a Stranger (which might get strange reactions from parents).

I have watched many fisherman/persons from this from this board and local area donate time/knowledge and gear to local youths with no motives other than to help someone else. To give you an example Rick Somerville (Dicky to most of you) last year at the conclusion of the adult derby I run in September for children cancer program called PEDAL FOR HOPE, Dicky's group won some fishing rods/Reel combo's and other gear and saw the big eye's of some local kids watching the weight in and he turned so no one would see and he donated all is gear to those kids. That's a great example of an ambassador to our local fishing area.

I am always in awe of the amount of great people I meet through fishing.

Thanks again to Rob,

Pat

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Pat Comeau