Triple-A Baseball Take Me Fishing™ partners with Minor League Baseball during the Spring/Summer season to give fans at parks around the country the opportunity to win prizes! The promotion kicks off at each team’s season opener and takes place during every weekend game.

Parks and Recreation Month (July 2009) pulls communities together to volunteer, get involved in outdoor activities, celebrate the joy of outdoor spaces and recognize the vital contributions of employees and volunteers in public parks and recreational facilities. Learn more about how you can get involved.

National Marina Day (August 8, 2009) focuses specifically on two central themes: the important role marinas play as safe, family-friendly gateways to boating and the invaluable service marina operators and owners perform as stewards of the environment. Learn more about this event and how you can get involved.

National Public Lands Day (September 26, 2009) Public lands offer a variety of fishing and boating opportunities. National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. In 2007, 110,000 volunteers built trails and bridges, planted trees and plants, and removed trash and invasive plants.

National Hunting and Fishing Day (September 26, 2009) Join the nationwide celebration of National Hunting and Fishing Day and help build public support for outdoor lifestyles. Everyone knows about the great traditions and family values that make hunting and fishing special, but fewer people realize the tremendous conservation and economic benefits provided by America’s sportsmen and women.

Take Pride in America is a national partnership established by the U.S. Department of the Interior that aims to engage, support and recognize volunteers who work to improve our public parks, forests, grasslands, wildlife refuges, cultural and historical sites, local playgrounds, and other recreation areas. Together we protect and enhance the special legacy all Americans share—our public lands that cover more than one in every three acres across the nation.

National Safe Boating Week is part of the North American Safe Boating Campaign, which aims to raise awareness of safe boating practices and ensure that every person on a boat is wearing a life jacket. Sponsored by the National Safe Boating Council, the U.S. Coast Guard and many other boating safety partners, the campaign offers educational resources, event planning and promotional materials.

American Rivers: River Action Day American Rivers is a conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy natural rivers and the variety of life they sustain for people, fish and wildlife. They deliver innovative solutions to improve river health, raise awareness among decision-makers and the public, and serve and mobilize the river conservation movement.

National Fishing and Boating Week National Fishing and Boating Week (NFBW) is an annual, national celebration of fishing and boating coordinated by RBFF. Coinciding with most state’s free fishing days, NFBW occurs the first full week of June. Search for NFBW events in your community.

National Get Outdoors Day offers events held across the nation to help all Americans - especially American families with children - discover opportunities for healthy fun. National Get Outdoors Day sites will be open to the the general public, with a special outreach to local community segments that currently benefit less from the use of public lands and waters. Each National Get Outdoors Day event has a mix of information centers and "active fun" areas - places where guests, and especially kids, can use a fishing pole, go geocaching, help pitch a tent and more.

Getting Involved

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• Register your event for free publicity or search for events happening near you.

View and Download Event Planning Tools

• Take advantage of the Take Me Fishing™ Event Planning Kit, which offers FREE, customizable resources that help you plan and promote successful boating, fishing and aquatic conservation events.
• Make event planning even easier with RBFF’s Passport to Fishing and Boating Program, designed to teach families the basic skills to begin fishing and boating.