PITTSBURG — Over 100 children descended on Lakeside Park in Pittsburg on Saturday, for the Boy Scouts of America's Hooked on Scouting event. The event gathered new Cub Scouts from a 5 county area, including scouts from Pittsburg, Frontenac, Arma, and Girard, to get together and learn basic fishing skills. Scouts were each given a new fishing pole, a small bag of basic tackle, and were then lead through several stations manned by adult volunteers and other boy scouts. The young scouts were sent through eight stations around the park including ones that taught them about fishing knots, lures, rules and safety, identifying fish and casting...
