# Everybody Plays!

# Fishing

Fishing is a sport people do alone or with a group at creeks, brooks, lakes, or oceans. To go fishing, you need a fishing pole, fishing line and bobber, bait, a hook, and a fishing license. Some people bring a bucket to store the fish. Many people have a tackle box for all the things they need. It helps to know where good spots are to fish.

A group of campers stand and sit along the banks of a canal and fish.

To go fishing, you buy bait—like worms, or crickets, or night crawlers-and sit or stand by the water. You string fishing line through the small holes on the fishing pole, and tie a hook on the end. You put bait on the hook and throw the line in the water; this is called casting. Once the bait is in the water, the bobber floats on the surface and the bait and hook sink down. Hopefully, a fish will see the bait and eat it. You might feel the fish pull on the hook! Then you quickly reel in the fish. If it is too little, you carefully take the hook out of the fish's mouth and put it back in the water. If it is big enough to eat, put it in the bucket, and take it home for dinner!