2nd Annual TM Goodwin Youth Hunt

[Novalex]

Heads up everyone, it's that time of year again.

Delta Waterfowl/Florida State Chapter & the South Brevard Chapter of Ducks Unlimited will be sponsoring the 2nd annual Youth Hunt at TM Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area.

As last year, we will be offering "Mentoring Hunts" to first time
youth hunters & their parent/guardians.

The captains will supply the boats, gear, decoys, & trip to the area.

The boat captains will obtain the reservations for the 1st time Goodwin hunters. They will then be pre-assign to their captains.

Guns, ammo, & camo are the hunter’s responsibility.

Hunters are asked to preregister with Goodwin at
321-726-2862. Please supply the number of hunters &
experience level.

Hunters are to meet at the TM Goodwin WMA check station on Saturday, 01/31/04 at 4:30 am.

At 11:00 am, a free burger & hot dog lunch will be held at the Goodwin check station.

The lunch is underwritten by the Coastal Sportsmen crew.(www.coastalsportsmen.com)

Hot Dogs
Hamburgers
Potato Chips
(Only fresh water will be supplied, hunters are asked to supply their own drinks)

Afterwards, youths will be supplied with a free ticket for the raffle table with items donated from:

Hi-Viz Sights www.hivizsights.com
Dokken Retriever Trainers www.deadfowltrainer.com
FUD Decoys www.duckdecoys.com
Illusion Duck Calls. www.illusionproducts.com
Go-Devil Motors www.go-devil.com
Static Motion Wings www.staticmotionproducts.com
Tri-Tronics www.tritronics.com
Swamp Thing Mallard Calls www.swampthingmallardcalls.com

Ducks Unlimited will be providing magazines & posters.
www.ducks.org

Delta Waterfowl will be providing "voluntary restraint" leg bands.
www.deltawaterfowl.org

Freelance writer & former editor of Wildfowl Magazine
Worth Matherson will be providing youths with their
"1st Duck" pins.

For additional information, please contact Eddie Harmon of TM Goodwin @ 321-726-2862 or Capt Jeff Kraynik @ 321-725-3456

[Randy Clark]

does this mean their first hunt at tm goodwin or their first youth hunt their because we have had the chance to hunt there for the first time this year and i was going to try to get my youngest son there for the youth hunt which would be his first time at tm goodwin for a youth hunt

[D Duck]

Sent you a PM.

[Novalex]

The hunt is open to "all youths."

It's kind of a honor system is regards to the "mentoring hunts."

What we are trying to do is get our future duck hunters & their parents out into the blind.

What we don't want to do is give "free charters" to folks who have the "means & expirience" to get out there themselves & leave a first time hunters to fend for themselves.

Does that kinda answer your question.


CJ

[Novalex]

The Coastal Sportsmen Crew & the A-Team:rolleyes: obtained (8) eight spots for the youth hunt.

We will also have (4) four airboats leaving from the Stick Marsh ramp & heading into the marsh.

Please call Goodwin & get your name on our list.

By next Thursday, 1st time hunters & their parents will be assigned to a captain for a "Mentoring Hunt"



Schedule of Events


0430 Hunters meet @ TM Goodwin check station & are assigned to guides

0500 Hunters/Guides leave for morning hunt

1000 Hunt parties begin to pick-up

1100 Lunch @ TM Goodwin check station

1145 Raffle


CJ

[Novalex]

Jan 26, 6:07 PM

Mentoring duck hunts offered for youth

By Bill Sargent
FLORIDA TODAY



PALM BAY -- Jeff Kraynik was an 11 year old growing up in northern Ohio when a neighbor took him rabbit hunting for the first time.

"From that moment, I was hooked on the whole outdoors thing," said Kraynik, 39, now an avid sportsman. "I remember that rabbit hunt like it was yesterday."

It will be payback time for Kraynik on Saturday when he and 11 other waterfowl hunting guides take children and their parents on their first duck hunting trips.

The free mentoring hunts will be offered at the T.M. Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area south of Palm Bay as part of the statewide Youth Waterfowl Days sponsored by the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Members of Brevard County Ducks Unlimited chapters and Delta Waterfowl will assist.

Under the rules of the two days set aside each year for youth-only duck hunting, each child must be 15 years old or younger, and must be accompanied by an adult who does not hunt. Youth hunting will continue Sunday statewide, but not at the Goodwin area.

Kraynik, owner of Coastal Sportsmen of Florida, a hunting and fishing guide service based in Palm Bay, said the guides will provide boats, gear and decoys. Shotguns, ammo and camouflage will be the responsibility of the accompanying adults.

Coastal Sportsmen will host a cookout lunch starting at 11 a.m. following the hunt.

While the mentoring hunts will be reserved for first-time hunters, dozens of other young hunters and adults will be using the Goodwin area, which includes the adjoining Broadmoor Marsh Unit.

No more than 64 children will be allowed in the Goodwin area, a series of small marshy impoundments, and 56 will be the limit for the Broadmoor area, which features marsh and an open impoundment. Each party, consisting of no more than four young hunters, will be assigned a hunting area.

Children 15 and younger accompanied by an adult are not required to have a state hunting license.

Kraynik said the hunts are designed to educate the parents as much as the children.

"It gives the parents an idea of what they need to do," Kraynik said. "Our purpose is to get the kids away from the TV sets and computers and expose them to the outdoors. It's our future. It sounds corny, but it's true," Kraynik added.

Reservations are necessary for the mentoring hunts and are available by calling the Goodwin office at (321) 726-2862. Kraynik can be reached at 725-3456.

[Keith Yates]

CJ read that this morning. Bill did a fine job with the plug. Good luck this weekend. Hope the ducks are cooperative.

[uncle D]

CJ,

Glad to see the coverage and commitment to the sport.

I'm sure all the kids will remember the hunt and will cherish the memory just as you do.

Good luck to all young hunters!



:)
Duke

[Novalex]

Duke,

Will anyone from UW-F be there?

I beleive Duckmanjr is working.


CJ

[Steve W]

Hope you get lots of birds like last year.

I cannot make it this year as I have a committment Saturday afternoon.