Fishing Video Write up

 One major recreational activity that many Vermonters take part in is fishing, whether its ice fishing in the winter, in the summer time, or fishing in the rain like our video.

 There are many places and opportunities to fish in Vermont whether you chose to go to one of the giant lakes, ponds, or one of the thousands of tiny streams. There are always fish to be caught if one knows where to look and what they are doing.

 However, nobody will get far without a fishing license. The state of Vermont requires that all people must have a legal fishing license in order to cast their line. If caught without a license by fish and wildlife, a sort of nature police, you can get stuck with hefty fines and lose your ability to obtain a permit for a number of years.

 The repercussions of getting caught without a license may be steep, but getting one is not that hard. Pretty much any outdoors shop such as a gun shop, sports store, or town office supplies fishing licenses. A few signatures, some paperwork and a small fee, somewhere between twenty and thirty dollars, and the license is yours.

 Just because you have your license now does not mean you can go rid the world of all underwater life. There are stipulations and regulations that apply and many times their specific to what body of water you are fishing in. For example one lake may be catch and release only, another may only be fishable during certain months of the year, another may have size limits to what you can keep.

There are over fourteen fishable species in Vermont including trout, bass, and pike. To learn more about Vermont’s outdoor activities visit http://www.vtfishandwildlife.com/ and for some information about where some good spots to fish may be visit http://www.scenesofvermont.com/fishing/index.html

For our video we started by driving to Village Sport Shop and filmed the different equipment along with Ryan Holmes buying his fishing license and asking the woman where he could fish. Next we drove to Blake Pond Road in Sheffield and I filmed Ryan fishing in the pond in our friend’s backyard. He caught a few fish and we used a waterproof camera case to try and get some unique shots underwater. Everything went well except when we came back to try and edit the program Dan told us to use Kept freezing and would not work for Ryan, so I  tried editing using I-movie and it worked great, Richie wrote up the great report above this paragraph. All together the project came out good but our audio could have been better.