BY Merit McCrea
LONG BEACH– The Los Angeles Rod and Reel Club Foundation has been dedicated to taking underserved youth fishing on SoCal charter boats at no cost to the kids since 1951. This year was no exception and this past week they hosted kids from the Antelope Valley Young Marines. In past years it’s included wards of the court and other groups of kids coming from some of the most challenged, underprivileged backgrounds there are.
The urge to ‘catch critters’ is innate in all of us. It’s country kids catching tadpoles and pollywogs. It’s city kids catching Pokemon. It’s gown-up kids adding to their list on eBird. It’s beach kids bagging a bunch of shore crabs.
Somehow we all start with the urge to keep whatever we’ve caught, but then realize that’s really not the best idea. Even a box-full of snails ends up faring poorly after a while.
