Fishing for inspiration
Students from the city’s Curley and John F. Kennedy schools renewed a slippery, seasonal tradition Monday when they grabbed buckets and traipsed up to the water’s edge at Jamaica Pond to help state environmental officials stock trout.
In all, more than a 100 students joined in, sending the fish flying in the air from pitched buckets, or slipping away like quicksilver from the grasp of their hands into the water.
Even as the brightly colored fish disappeared into the silvery water and newfound freedom, early season anglers tossed lures to try and reel them back in.
The annual event at Jamaica Pond has become a tradition between Boston Schools and environmental officials with the Department of Fish and Game, and MassWildlife for more than 20 years now.
Six year old Daniella Martinez from the Curley K-8 School tries to hold a trout during MassWildlife’s annual Jamaica Pond trout stocking event. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
Students heave a bucket of trout into the waters of Jamaica Pond during the MassWildlife’s annual stocking event Monday. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
A pair of anglers lace the water with their fishing lines as a student releases trout into the waters of Jamaica Pond Monday. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
A rainbow trout is heads into the water during the MassWildlife’s annual Jamaica Pond trout stocking event. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
Students throw a bucket of trout during the MassWildlife’s annual Jamaica Pond trout stocking event. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)
Students and faculty from the Curley K-8 School throw a bucket of trout during the MassWildlife’s annual Jamaica Pond trout stocking event. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)