National Go Fishing Day - June 18 - Grab Your Fishing Pole!

Time to grab your fishing pole and some bait. June 18 is National Go Fishing Day! Let’s head to the outdoors for some good old fashioned fun.

Keep reading to learn ways to celebrate this June national day and to get a list of fun facts about fishing.

If being near the water is attractive to you, be sure to also check out National Oyster Day on August 5.

How to observe National Go Fishing Day

There are plenty of obvious ways to celebrate National Go Fishing Day – just go fishing! Here are a few creative ideas to also help honor this national day.

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Read Field and Stream’s Total Fishing Manual to find out how to catch big fish.
Listing to some fun country music fishing songs.
Watch the movie Gone Fishin’ for a fun look at a day of fishing.
If you can’t go fishing, try making one of your favorite fish recipes today. Barramundi with Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce is a great one.
Read the book H is for Hook to your toddler to help them learn the alphabet.
Do the word search puzzle for June and find Go Fishing Day in it.
Use the hashtag #NationalGoFishingDay to spread the word about the day on social media.

Fun facts about fishing

Brush up on your knowledge of fishing with these interesting facts.

There’s a popular knot called “the fisherman’s knot”, which also goes by the name “true lovers knot”. This knot is a symbol of Valentine’s Day.
A person who goes fishing with a rod and line is known as an angler.
When you go sport fishing, the fish is often thrown back into the water.
According to the American Sportfishing Association, the sport of fishing supports more than 800,000 jobs in America.
World Atlas tells us that there are 33,600 species of fish in the world.
Fly fishing dates back to about 200 AD.
Fish fossils found on archaeological digs seem to indicate that some of the first fishermen existed 500,000 years ago.
The largest fishing industry in the world comes from China.
The most popular type of sport fishing is fly fishing.
What do you think? Is it really true that hungry fish are easier to catch?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest fishing lure measures 40 ft, 5 inches long x 8 feet, 1 inch wide!
There are many means of catching fish, including gathering by hand, spearing fish, netting, trapping and fishing with a rod and fishing line.
The act of fishing can be divided into two categories: commercial fishing and sport fishing. Entire industries are centered around procuring fish for human consumption.

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