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Ocoee Founder’s Day
8th Annual
FAB FIVE Family Fishing Event
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The City of Ocoee and the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation
Commission (FWC) will be teaming up once again to host a family
fishing event as part of the Founder’s Day activities. The event
will run at the Ocoee Lakefront from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. on October
18, 2008. Everything about the event is FREE and no preregistration
is necessary.
The fishing will occur at the boat ramp boat docks and the fishing
pier. Bait and tackle will be provided compliments of the FWC’s Fish
Orlando program. Raffle prizes will be drawn from the stage closest
to the boat ramp at 12:15 p.m. All kids who fish will receive a
participatory ribbon. FREE event T-shirts will be handed to event
participants as long as supplies last. Headquarters for the event
will be on Lakeshore Drive right next to the boat ramp.
Although the FAB FIVE Family Fishing Event is always a highlight of
the cooperation between the City of Ocoee and the FWC’s Fish Orlando
program, it is only one part of a longstanding effort to make
fishing better for the constituents of Ocoee. Fish Orlando’s mission
statement is to “provide and promote quality fishing opportunities
in the greater Orlando area”. Ocoee became part of the program in
1999 when Starke Lake was named a Fish Orlando FAB FIVE water body.
The FAB FIVE are five water bodies in the greater Orlando area
managed for quality-size fish (See the informational kiosks at the
Ocoee lakefront to find out the other FAB FIVE water bodies).
Over the past eight years many activities have been conducted on
Starke Lake to make it better for fisherman. Some of these
activities include: removing nuisance aquatic vegetation and
replanting with “good” plants favorable to fish and wildlife;
building a fishing pier equipped with fish feeders that distribute
fish feed three times in the morning and evening; constructing
fishing lanes so bank fishermen have a place to cast among the
grass; installing fish attractors made of oak brush to make it
easier for the fisherman to find the fish; stocking baitfish to grow
bigger bass; and spending hundred’s of thousands of dollars to clean
up the water going into the lake.
So come on out and see the work yourself while having some “good ole
fashion” family fishing fun. The fish are usually cooperative and
almost no one goes away from the event without a smile on their
face.
Fish Orlando! “Bringing Quality Fishing to Families”
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