The new school year has brought many new clubs to CHS, ranging from sports to academics. One new club on campus this year is the Fishing Club. Meeting in room 2003, the Fishing Club aims to provide an environment for both new and experienced fishers to become educated on good local fishing spots and techniques.
Fishing Club was created by Drake Pisarczyk, Ashby Segovia-Krause and Connor Gamelin. Pisarczk’s inspiration for starting the club was his love of fishing, a passion he has pursued from a young age.
“I just always loved fishing my whole life, and I just have been fishing since I was young,” Pisarczyk said. “And I love the ocean, and wanted to share my passion with other people.”
At Fishing Club meetings, members can expect to be around people who share the same interest as them. There are also many activities, such as raffles, tournaments and potential outside-of-school activities that the club plans to take part in.
“I think if we do like a raffle, like whoever wins the raffle gets to go on a charter, or maybe if we can do like a tournament later on, or we all can go to a fishing spot and just fish,” Segovia-Krause said. “And maybe we could just do a tournament.”
People who are interested in Fishing Club are encouraged to sign up and attend meetings. The club aims to provide a welcoming environment for people who want to meet more students at the school and make more friends.
“[Fishing Club] kind of helps you build relationships with other people and have fun with the other members,” Pisarczyk said. “I would tell the new members to show up and talk to us or somebody like the owners at the club.”
The founders of Fishing Club envision the club growing by hosting competitions and increasing participation between members who want to get more involved. Along with this, their goal is to convince students to join Fishing Club and future competitions.
“I would say [for students to] just come to the meetings and sign up for the pre-tournament, so we know the headcount we have,” Segovia-Krause said. “And then we can get the stuff we need for the tournament, and then we can have everybody come and give about ten bucks to participate to actually do a tournament.”
It is also encouraged to try to help with fundraising for Fishing Club or to share Fishing Club with other people so they can provide more events outside of school. In doing so, Segovia-Krause hopes this makes the bonds made in Fishing Club closer.
“At this moment, we are not doing activities because there are not enough people yet and we don’t have enough funding,” Segovia-Krause said. “But hopefully we can have a lot more people at the club to do all these fun things, or hopefully, maybe even this year, we’ll have enough people to do it right.”
