Learn a variety of outdoor skills and engage in activities such as archery, fishing and kayaking. Improving your outdoor skills is the focus of Outdoor Fools Day. The event showcases outdoor recreation opportunities in East Texas while teaching some of the skills needed to enjoy them, such as fishing, outdoor cooking, birding, and more.
Staff from Purtis Creek State Park will teach camping and kayaking skills. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department aquatic education staff will teach the basics of fishing. Fly-fishing expert Bob Cappallo will help you catch a rainbow trout from TFFC's casting pond, and then a volunteer will help you clean it and cook it on a Big Green Egg. Volunteers from Project Healing Waters will demonstrate fly-tying in the Anglers Pavilion.
Live animal displays will let you get up close to reptiles and raptors. Wildlife on the Move will present a variety of interesting creatures at noon followed by a see-and-touch session at 3 p.m. The Blackland Prairie Raptor Center will present a raptor show at 1 p.m. and also conduct a walk-around displays on the grounds. Staff from Sea Center Texas will be on hand with their popular salt-water touch tank.
Other stations will let you sample tasty foods cooked in a Dutch oven; see fish swimming in a glass-bottomed stream; see skins, tracks and skulls of predator and prey animals and learn how people lived in the Middle Ages.
Sky Ranch will be on hand with their popular rocket-making and shooting station and the Big Woods Archery Club will be handling the archery range.
Regularly scheduled dive shows in which a diver hand-feeds fish will take place at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Guided bird walks will take place on the hour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Outdoor Fools Day takes place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 29 and is free with regular paid admission to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center. Click here for more information.
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