The Buddy Program seeks to introduce youth to the sport of bass fishing and nurture conservationism and responsible stewardship. 

  Every chapters takes students from local schools to go on fishing trips. Each student is given a one on one lesson with a mentor, an older youth who fishes competitively. 

  Our mentorship programs not only instruct youth on fishing, but also emphasizes the stewardship of native fisheries.  Students are taught basic ecology and to identify the native fishes in their area. They are taught about the problems that their local waterways face. They are taught about what they can do to in their own communities to help their fisheries. 

   As the world modernizes, we spend less and less times outdoors. Those memories of walking with grandpa to the farm pond are now a faint memory as people spend more and more time on television and video games. The number of youth fishing has dropped from 15 million to 10 million.

  By doing so, they disconnect themselves from nature. They haven't experienced the joy or the wonder of catching a fish and watching it swim away. They haven't experienced the pain of watching their favorite creek, once full of splashing trout, choke up with silt. 

  By reconnecting youth to the outdoors, to their ponds, rivers, and lakes, we will nurture conservatism among them. 

  The best future stewards of our resources are those that inherit it. The sportsmen are always the most avid of the conservationists. We seek to make youth conscious about the problems that our waterways and fisheries face. One day, they will be the conservationists of the tomorrow. 

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