Memorial Kids’ Ice Fishing Derby

February 29 with registration starting at 9 AM

January 18, 2020 • Saved under Andover Organizations
Press release

The Andover Fish and Game Club is sponsoring its 36th Annual Willis Nowell Memorial Kids’ Ice Fishing Derby at Eagle Pond in Wilmot (off of Rte. 4) on Saturday, February 29, with a bad weather date of Sunday, March 1. 

The Derby is for kids 15 and under.  Registration starts at 9 AM, and the Derby runs from shortly after 9 AM to 12 PM. Tackle and bait will be provided.

There will be plenty of free food and drink, along with lucky prizes, ribbons, and trophies that will be awarded.  Please join us for a great time for kids and family. If you have any questions, call 603-496-4494.

What the Andover Fish and Game Club is all about:

The Andover Fish & Game club was started in 1933 and is one of the oldest clubs in New Hampshire.  Anyone can join, and membership curr is currently $10 a year. Each year we have various fundraisers, events for kids and members alike, and community minded projects.

Each year we have a Beef Barbecue & Chinese Auction, Turkey Raffle, and other raffles that help us make money to have the events for the kids and the members. Money is also needed for general expenses, upkeep, and improvements to the club house.

We provide activities for the community each year including an ice fishing derby and a spring trout fishing derby for the kids, plus a member-anyone trout ice fishing derby. Four kids are being sent this summer, for a week, to the Barry Conservation Camp in Berlin. This Camp has a wide variety of themes, such as shooting sports, fish camp, on the wild side, hunter education, north country adventure, and junior conservation officer.   Additionally, we hold a rabies clinic, a deer pool, and an adopt-a-highway stretch of road that we clean up on Route 11. Informational speakers and seminars are hosted on a wide range of topics. We have also assisted the local game wardens in a variety of ways.

Our meetings are held on the last Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM at the Clubhouse in East Andover by the Highland Lake channel.  If you have any questions, or if you would like to join our club, call 934-4961.