1. NewcomerBeverly Sandvos Casts for Friends and Fish!
“I don’t know anyone here in Dublin,” says Beverly Sandvos. I’m meeting people by volunteering.
Volunteering is a good way to get to know people.”
More than a dozen parents and children bobbed around the perimeter of the DCRC ponds
Thursday evening. The children cast their rods, waited 30 seconds, trolled for fish; cast their rods,
waited 30 seconds and trolled for fish. The fish weren’t biting.
The youngsters put canned corn or fish dough on their hooks—and to really lure the bluegill, bass,
sun and catfish—both!
It was Beverly’s first Real Time Fishing class and only her third volunteer event. “Idid two owl
hikes and this,” she offered. “It was cold in February. We didn’t find any owl but Barbara Gray
(who leads the classes), kept up a real interesting commentary,” she added.
If Beverly appeared comfortable untangling fishing line, attaching bobbins, casting and baiting
hooks and chatting with the children it’s because she grew up in Arkansas on a large lake. “I was
fishing early. My daddy had a boat; we went out on lakes and rivers.”
She advises one boy, “Bait the bottom, bobbin on top. Then spit on it!!” Laughing she explains,
“My grandpa used to say that.”
Another boy tells Beverly that he wants to catch a Northern Pike. “I don’t think you’ll find one in
Northern Ohio,” she says. The boy added that he researched what Pike eat: duck! “Idon’t think I’d
like to catch one,” she says.
Beverly’s childhood fishing experience ranged from catching small bluegill to a large striped bass.
“Instead of fish dough we used crickets and worms.” She sauntered around the pond offering bait.
Suddenly the quiet spring evening was shattered with shouting and excitement, “Mommy, I got
one!”
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Carolyn Greco