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Want to test your hunting skills? Can you find places off the beaten trail where trout may be silently sipping down their bugs unmolested by throngs of fisherman? I’m talking about finding those Thin Blue Lines on a map that hold wild trout. These streams are not too far off the road, yet remote enough where few people venture. The fish are measured in terms other than size. While occasional large ones surprise you, these fish are wild, wily, vividly colored, and often fight as hard as their much larger brothers from the big rivers. And the scenery is always beautiful.

This class will be offered on Saturday, March 21 from 9:00am to 4:00pm. The morning session will be an indoor class covering how to identify fishy terrain on a map before you enter the woods, how to relate GPS and topographic maps to each other, how to estimate time to hike to your destination, and a few fishing tricks needed for these types of streams. The afternoon session will be an outdoors practice session at Caspers Wilderness Park. In this session we will apply the classroom skills to match terrain features on a map and on the ground, and to practice plotting a cross-country course to reach targets not on paved trails.

The cost of the class is $5 to cover printing of maps and protractors, please bring it to the morning session. You will need to bring your own compass and whistle. Our class space is limited to 15 people. Please sign up with Larry Behm at Larry.Behm@cox.net or 949-235-4466.