Fishing

  • CT Fishing Education Programs


  • State Programs

    • 420 Race Team

      This class focuses on improving racing skills and frequently attending regattas.

    • Advanced Navigation

      This course teaches advanced navigation.

    • Basic Sailing Course

      A complete learn-to-sail course, covering everything from basic sailing skills, terminology and rigging, to safety and an overall appreciation for the marine environment.

    • Beginner A's, B's and C's

      Given the ages in our morning session, our program combines sailing lessons with fun-day activities to insure a proper balance of learning and fun.

    • Boatwise

      Boating Safety classes

    • Green Marine Education

      One day class qualifies students for their Connecticut Boat and Personal Watercraft Certificate. Private classes also available at your home, organization, or facility. Classes throughout Connecticut.

    • Intermediate A's, B's and C's

      Sailors with more experience are encouraged to compete in regattas around Long Island Sound.

    • Intermediate Sailing Course

      Includes sail theory, advanced boat handling skills, crew overboard recovery and much more.

    • Junior Club420 or Pixel

      In these classes sailors learn to sail as a team, alternating as either Skipper or Crew, handling a main sail and jib.

    • Junior Sailing's Big-Boat "PHRF" Racing Team

      Sailors learn navigational skills in preparation for a required JSA Navigation Test, participate in a Safety-at-Sea seminar, and at the end of the summer compete in 3 big-boat regattas including the Beach Point Overnight Race.

    • Laser & Laser Radial

      This class is for intermediate or advanced racers ages 14 to 17.

    • Laser Race Team

      The focus is on perfecting boat handling skills; learning advanced racing techniques and rules, as well as racing strategy.

    • Learn From The Dolphins

      This course covers all aspects of safe boating and Personal Watercraft.

    • Opti I

      The course is for beginners who have little or no sailing experience, as well as for children who participated in the Sprite Optimist program and are of required minimum age.

    • Opti II

      These sailors are generally a little older than the Opti I sailors, have one or two years of experience sailing in an Opti, as well as a good knowledge of basic sailing, water safety, rigging and the points of sail.

    • Opti Race Team

      This class will focus on advanced boat handling skills, learn and practice race tactics and rules.

    • Pixel

      This class is ideal as a transition boat for junior sailors ready to learn about jibs and symmetrical spinnakers.

    • Racing Club420s

      The Racing Club420 program picks up where the Non-Racing program ends, teaching skipper and crew the use of spinnakers and trapeze, and tactics used in team racing.

    • Racing Optimist

      Sailors in this program compete in home and away regattas.

    • Safe Boating America

      Take a Boating Course! GET YOUR BOATING CERTIFICATION (aka boating license jetski license) IN ONE DAY OR TWO EVENINGS! Choose from classes in Nassau and Suffolk Long Island, Manhattan NYC, Queens Staten Island, Brooklyn, Stamford, Hartford Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Also in Freeport, Huntington, Oyster Bay, Manhasset, Port Washington, Islip, Port Jefferson, Stamford, Valley Stream, Westhampton and Babylon, among other locations- or have a private class in the privacy of your own home.Our courses cover EVERYTHING YOU NEED to get on the water by Power Boat, Sail and PWC/Jetski including Navigation, Rules of the Road, Personal Watercraft, Safe Operation, Emergencies- among many other things you need to know by law and for the safety of your vessel, your passengers and your own personal safety. Get your State Boating License. You'll receive a waterproof plastic card from the State of New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey upon successful completion of this course. You will leave this class with your boating certificate (a/k/a License) in-hand! Our classes are taught by USCG LICENSED MASTER Captains and Certified State Instructors with years of teaching experience. Course completion cards are engraved plastic, are waterproof, issued by the State and can be replaced if lost at any time- GOOD FOR LIFE! Leave the class with your certification in hand! Call (516) 216-4410 or register online NOW at http://www.safeboatingamerica.com.

  • National Programs

    • Becoming an Outdoors-Woman

      Offers outdoor skills workshops to women throughout North America. Skills for hunting and shooting, fishing, and non-harvest sports likecanoeing and camping are taught.

    • Conclave

      This traveling rod-building seminar includes a banquet and a souvenir program.

    • Educational Recreational Adventures

      Educational Recreational Adventures teaches environmental education, science, and outdoor skills (fly fishing, canoeing, kayaking, cross-country skiing, backpacking, aquatic education,wildlife studies,...) to people of all ages.

    • Hooked On Fishing–Not On Drugs®

      The flagship youth education program of the Future Fisherman Foundation. HOFNOD uses angling skill development as a gateway to teach youth about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and how to deal with the challenges facing them in their young lives. The HOFNOD network includes trained aquatic education professionals in over 30 states with literally thousands of programs nationwide. Connect with a HOFNOD coordinator near you and help America’s youth get Hooked on Fishing and Not On Drugs!

    • Lets Catch Fish

      Educational fishing programs for- 1-Fly Fishing 2-Center Pin Fishing 3-Bait Caster Fishing 4-Open Face Reel Fishing 5-How to Read Water 6-Children Fishing Programs 4-10yrs old where these ages fish for trophies & ribbons... 7-Children Fishing Programs 11-17yrs old where these ages fish for college scholarship money... 8-Drift Boat Fishing Trips 9-Hiking Fishing Trips 10-Members only Tournaments 11-5 star Exotic Vacation for Most Successful Charter for Season... 12-Whole Sale Fishing Store...

    • Physical Education Program

      A curriculum and equipment package designed to teach fly-fishing in Physical Education. We assist teachers in the completion of Federal Fishing Grant Applications and can equip your whole program.

    • Student Angler Federation In-School program

      This free in-school program by The Bass Federation provides an educational look at today’s world of fishing. See how items like math, science and language arts are used by professional anglers’ everyday! Talk to a teacher, advisor or principle and have them apply for this TBF program for your school.

    • Trout Unlimited Flyfishing School

      The longest-running, most comprehensive, fly fishing school in the United States. Run by all-volunteer staff of certified and master instructors, the Michigan Council of Trout Unlimited Fly-fishing School takes place over 3 days near Traverse City, Michigan, and includes casting, landing fish, knots, bugs, fly-tying, reading the water, etiquette and more. All levels covered (beginner, intermediate, advanced). Age 12 and up.