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Family fishing event
at Bass Pro Shops
A “Gone Fishing” event featuring a catch-and-release pond designed to introduce new anglers to the sport and provide an opportunity for others to test various tackle is being held Saturday-Sunday, June 20-21, at Bass Pro Shops, 3501 Paxton St., Harrisburg. Fishing is from noon to 5 p.m. These free how-to seminars will be presented:
Gone Fishing, 11 a.m.; Fishing — The Reel Thing, 1 p.m.; Fishing — Anyone Can Do It, 2 p.m.; and Go Fish — Batteries Not Required, 3 p.m. Information about “Gone Fishing” events is available at www.BassPro.com/GoneFishing.
Shoot spokesman
radio show guest
Pennsylvania State Trap Shoot public relations director Tom Austin is today’s guest of Republican-Herald/News-Item outdoors editor Doyle Dietz on “Experience The Outdoors,” winner of the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association award for best outdoors radio program, 7-7:30 a.m. on WLSH 1410-AM, 9:30-10 a.m. on WMGH, Magic 105.5-FM, and on the Web at www.wmgh.com by clicking the “Experience The Outdoors” link.
Banquets
Lobster, Chicken and Country, Sunday, July 12, noon to 5 p.m., Friedensburg Fish and Game, featuring Jesse Wade Gang. Ticket deadline Friday, June 26. For information, call (570) 739-2085.
Education
Norm Thornburg Youth Conservation Camp, Thursday-Saturday, July 9-11, Schuylkill County Fairgrounds and Bear Creek Environmental Area, Summit Station. For ages 13-15. For information and scholarship requests, contact “Porcupine Pat” McKinney at (570) 622-4124, ext. 113, or email porcupinepat@yahoo.com.
Fishing
Deer Lake Catfish Derby, Saturday, July 11, to Saturday, Aug. 8, separate divisions for adults and 12 and younger. For applications and information, visit the Deer Lake/West Brunswick Township Fire Company or call (570) 366-2562.
Daily events
3D simulated hunting course, dawn to dusk through Saturday, Oct. 17, Bear’s Head Archery, 148 Lofty Road, Delano, off Exit 134 of I-81; closed for trap second and fourth Sundays, 1-5 p.m. For information, call the club at (570) 467-0331.
Today’s events
3D, 8 a.m., Friedensburg Fish and Game, 169 Stone Mountain Road, Pine Grove. For information, call (610) 763-4925. Muzzleloader shoot, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., First Frontier Militia, Bowmanstown Rod and Gun Club, Gun Club Road, off Route 248. For information, call Ken Milburn at (610) 767-6222 or Dave Algard at (610) 760-8333.
This week’s events
• Thursday: Pennsylvania Biodiversity: A Professional Educator Workshop, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Education Building, Kempton. Designed for formal and informal K-12 educators. For required preregistration, call (610) 756-6000, ext. 208. For information, call (610) 756-6961 or access www.hawkmountain.org.
• Friday: Show Your Love, Keep Them Safe Water Safety Program, 1:30 p.m., Dry Brooks Day Use Area Swim Beach, Blue Marsh Lake, Bernville.
• Saturday: Hunter-Trapper Education Course, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sapa Extrusions, Cressona, Building 103 conference room. For information and registration, access the Pennsylvania Game Commission website at www.pgc.state.pa.us. Swatara State Park Hike to Bordner Cabin, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., meet Robin Tracey in the parking lot off Swopes Valley Road, Suedberg. For information, contact “Porcupine Pat” McKinney at porcupinepat@yahoo.com or (570) 622-4124, ext. 113. Night of the Moth, 8:30 p.m., Visitor Center Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton. For required preregistration, call (610) 756-6961. For information, call (610) 756-6961 or access www.hawkmountain.org.
• Sunday, June 21: Sporting clays, 9 a.m., Friedensburg Fish and Game, 169 Stone Mountain Road, Pine Grove. For information, call (484) 520-5904. Colonial Classic and Pennsylvania State Shoot, 9 a.m., Valley Gun and Country Club, Elysburg. For information, access the website at www.passatrap.org. Blue Ridge Rifles Muzzleloader Club meets, 2 p.m., club grounds, Coon Club Road, off Route 183 south of Summit Station. For information, access the club’s Facebook page.
— Compiled by Doyle Dietz