Hundreds of kids interested in the sport of fishing gathered along waterways in the Okanagan today for several fishing programs. 

From 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Sunday, kids and their parents crowded into the special-netted fishing area of Shannon Lake Regional Park in West Kelowna and at the Hall Road pond in Mission Creek Regional Park in Kelowna.

Go Fish runs each Saturday and Sunday through June 12 at both Shannon Lake and the Hall Road pond in Mission Creek Regional Park.

Saturday's will have Freshwater Fisheries Society and Peachland Sportsmen's Association volunteers at Shannon Lake and Freshwater Fisheries people and Kelowna and District Fish and Game Club volunteers at Hall Road.

Each Sunday at each location RDCO Parks staff will be on hand with help from the same volunteers.

The program itself offers kids age 15 and under, a chance to catch one rainbow trout each day without a fishing license.

A limited number of rods, reels and bait will be available each weekend for youngsters to use and try their luck.

Check out the video above on Friday when Shannon Lake was stocked full of fish in preparation for the Sunday's event.

Just north of this event, a similar event was held in Vernon where the more than 1,000 kids dipped their reels at Polson Park over the weekend. 

The Kalamalka Fly Fishers put on the kid's fishing weekend in Vernon each year.  

Photo: Wayne Emde

Hundreds of young anglers poured into Polson Park on the weekend to attempt to land a rainbow trout.