• Program designed to be fun, educational and hands-on. 

• As a South Carolina Reel Kid, children will work toward goals like catching that first fish, learning about fish and improving fish habitat.

• Participants receive a complimentary South Carolina Reel Kids' License. The license will have future special uses and can be used to report certain goals.

• Children receive a reward for each goal completed, offering positive encouragement for lessons learned.

• After completing 12 goals from the Junior Master Angler book, participants will receive their Junior Master Angler certificate.

• Youth Master Angler program available to participants after reaching their 10th birthday.

Reel Kids' goals include cool stuff like:

• Catch five different species of fish

• Visit a State Lake and go fishing.

• Take three friends that have never been fishing before.

• Learn four kinds of knots used in boating or fishing.

• Describe all the fishing equipment that you use and send a photo of what you take with you on fishing trips.

• Get a friend to check out a fishing rod from a Fishing Tackle Loaner Program Site.

• Report on an aquatic macro invertebrate.

• Make a plankton net and identify at least three organisms after pulling it in a local water body.

• Describe and draw an aquatic food web.

• Take photos of a local water body - one photo for each season.

• Visit two state parks and report on them.

• Visit two fish hatcheries.

• Participate in Beach Sweep/River Sweep events.

• Take the state boating safety course.