Alumni fishing

A former Physh ed student called me up and asked to go fishing. I told him to bring a couple other UM students with him so he did. We had a fun evening of fishing.

this is the new physh ed blog for Community High in Ann Arbor

I am the teacher Mike Mouradian . This blog will inform you of what's happing in the class. Here is the basic lesson plan for the first nine weeks.The class will meet tues and thur after forum 3:30 -5:30


This class is a Community Resourse Class at Community High and I am a volunteer teacher. The class materials, equipment and some fees are sponsored by the Future Fisherman Foundation, Ann Arbor Area Trout Unlimited, The Argo and Gallup Park Canoe liveries, and Colton Bay Outfitters.

Week 1
What is being an Outdoors Person?
T 9/11
Conservation
Ecology
Protection
Restoration
Wise Use
Th 9/13
stream ecology
Physical
Chemical
Biological
Use

Week 2
Fishing- Sport or Harvest?

T 9/18
History
ethics
Methods
Spincasting
bait casting
Fly Fishing
Th 9/20
Look at Equipment
take apart spincast reel
take apart Fly reel
learn to tie knots, chinch, surgeon, nail

Week 3
Lets go fishing!
T 9/25
Spincast for sunfish/bass

Th 9/27
Canoe Basics
safety
paddling

Week 4
T 10/2
Canoe trip
Th 10/4
What is flyfishing
pg 1-6
fly line, fly rod, leader tippet Types of flies

Week 5
T 10/9 Learn to cast a fly rod
tth 10/11 Fly Golf

Week 6 Fishing
T 10/16 Fish
Th 10 /18 Fish

Week 7 Review flies
T 10/23Learn to tie flies wooly bugger, crayfish
Th 1-/25 Tie Caddis, elk hair nymph

Week 8
T 10/30More fly tying/ trip to fly shop
Th 11/1 final fly display

Week 9
fishing practice

what I've been doing the past year

The past year has been busy for the physh ed classes.
I have presented fly fishing workshops at two middle schools as well as a summer camp.
I was able to do a fly tying workshop for a teacher in an elementary school who is doing a special project to teach his fifth graders fly fishing. The students tied a wooly bugger.

Recently we had a "women's fly fishing day" with a dozen women at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor.
here is a web site to the pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/mouradia/WomansFlyfishing?fgl=true&pli=1#


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