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Little Beaver Park Gears Up for Fishing Derby

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This weekend only people can fish in West Virginia waters...without a license.

The Mountain State is celebrating National Fishing and Boating Week with free fishing this Saturday and Sunday.

And at Little Beaver Park they will be hosting their annual Kid's Fishing Derby on Saturday for children 14 and under.

"Our theme is get hooked on fishing not on drugs and we try and show kids a great alternative to sitting at home playing video games. We are so blesses with our parks here in Southern West Virginia so we might as well get out and enjoy them," Mark Scott Division of Natural Resources said.

All participants need to bring to the event is a set a fishing polls, bait and their sense of adventure.

You can register Saturday morning at the event.