Fishing News - 10/19/01
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AWARD PRIZES TO YOUNG U.S. ANGLERS
Hooked on Fishing International Names Winners of Kids Contests Sponsored by Frito-Lay/Pepsi, Southwest Airlines and Fujifilm U.S.A.
KETCHUM, OK – Clint Logue, 8, Decatur, Tex., won a gas-powered go cart styled like a stock car. Kacie Julian, 9, Cookeville, Tenn. won four round-trip airline tickets. Blake Hochhalter, 11, of Jamestown, N.D and Karl Swanson, 8, Homer, AK each won $500 savings bonds. These young people are the newly announced winners of 2001 fishing and casting contests organized by Hooked on Fishing International and sponsored by well-known corporations that support the Kids All American Fishing Derbies in all 50 states.
Young Clint Logue's scaled down stock car was the grand prize for winning the national Frito-Lay/Pepsi Kids Casting Contest. He participated in a local casting contest in Decatur, Tex. organized by the U.S. Forest Service. The national winner's name was picked in a drawing of more than 100,000 entries.
When her name was drawn, Kacie Julian won the Southwest Airlines "I Caught a Fish" Contest. The nine-year-old caught her fish at a derby organized by the Student Fisheries Association of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. She won vouchers for four free round-trip flights on Southwest Airlines.
Blake Hochhalter, 11, of Jamestown, N.D., caught a 10-lb., 14-oz. northern pike to win the Freshwater Division of the Fujifilm "Big Fish" Contest. He caught the big northern on a "Husky Jerk" lure at a fishing derby hosted by the Dakota Anglers in Jamestown, N.D.
Karl Swanson, 8, of Homer, Alaska, caught an 18-lb., 4-oz., king salmon to win the Saltwater Division of the Fujifilm "Big Fish" Contest. He caught the chinook in a derby organized by the Anchor Point Chamber of Commerce.
Hochhalter and Swanson will each be awarded $500 U.S. Savings Bonds and special gift boxes of Fujifilm products.
The national Fujifilm, Frito-Lay/Pepsi and Southwest Airlines contests are special events wrapped into more than 700 Kids All-American Fishing Derbies held around the country every year with the help of local volunteers. Hooked on Fishing International (HOFI) announced recently it is conducting a national search for volunteer adult groups, and public or private organizations, that want to do something special for young people.
In previous years hosting organizations have included state fish and game departments, the U.S. Forest Service, parks and recreation departments, chambers of commerce, YMCAs, fishing clubs, scouting groups, and civic and service organizations such as the Optimists, Lions, Kiwanis, and Elks.
Qualified organizations can order a kit that includes everything they need to put on a local fishing derby, even prizes. Organizations can request an application or additional information on the HOFI web site, www.kids-fishing.com., or request an application by emailing info@kids-fishing.com or by writing Hooked On Fishing International, P O Box 660, Ketchum, OK 74349. Requests must be received before December 15, 2001 for hosting a derby in 2002.
