Casting for Kids at Indian Creek Lodge
For the next week, we have special guests at the lodge chasing steelhead for the benefit of kids. Guides, volunteers and other supporters have put together a fly fishing extravaganza for a group of anglers whom have donated to the organization. For Indian Creek Lodge, it’s a humbling and exciting organization to be a part of. We wish all the anglers tight lines during their stay! If anyone would also like to help Cast Hope, we’re including a link to their website to donate!
For Cast Hope guides, guiding is a passion lived out every day. They love connecting with people and sharing their knowledge of fly fishing and the outdoors. Their desire is to empower these kids to make fly fishing a sport they can do on their own while conserving and sustaining our natural resources. They also partner with other non-profit youth organizations to help underserved kids and their existing mentors. Some of our current partners are Boys & Girls Club, Wilderness Experience, Youth 4 Change, Environmental Alternative, and Big Brothers and Sisters.
When you love interacting in the outdoors, the best response is to give it away, to make it grow, and to protect it. So their desire is to Share the Adventure-- to give kids something to look forward to, something to enjoy, something to look back on, something to care for, and something that will positively impact their lives. Cast Hope is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization looking to provide kids with the gift of the outdoors. As an organization it is their desire to bring kids and mentors together outside through the sport of fly fishing. In this day and era it seems that our lives are constantly bombarded with screens, whether TVs, computers, iPads, iPods, and gaming systems. At Cast Hope they want to break that pattern by immersing people into the environment. Through guided fly fishing trips, fishing clinics, fly tying events, camp outs, road trips, and conservation outings they are trying to create a healthy hobby that kids and mentors can do together.
Cast Hope believes if you provide a positive experience for kids where they grow deeper in their relationship with the mentor, learn how to effectively fly fish, receive free necessary equipment, find out that the outdoors has much more to offer than their latest gadget, and learn about how to conserve and sustain our natural resources, then they will naturally want to become outdoor enthusiasts. They provide an environment where kids can become stewards of the outdoors and fly fishing.