THANK YOU EVERYONE!

The First Cast Radio Show, Veinotte's Gone Fishing and CKBW wish to thank everyone who assisted with, donated to or just came by and enjoyed our recent "Fishing for a Cure" event. Thanks again for making it a huge success! You can still show your support by visiting our on-line Cancer Society donation page, by visiting http://convio.cancer.ca/goto/thefirstcast you can still donate instantly to our cause on-line. We thank you for your support.

The First Cast Radio Show will be airing its eighth season in 2009. The new shows will begin airing every Saturday and Sunday morning on CKBW with the first show coming to you April 4th. Show times are approximately 7:20 AM each Saturday and 9:15 AM each Sunday morning following the weather. CKBW serves the southern half of Nova Scotia through 98.1 FM, 94.5 FM Queens County and 93.1 FM Shelburne County. CKBW, the BEST Variety!

Proud to be Nova Scotian and proud to be the South Shore source for your angling information and enjoyment. At the First Cast we cover our local fisheries, news, tournaments and all things fishing along the South Shore. We also feature select interviews with fishery officials, members of our local clubs covering all species, various guests sharing information to help us fish better and safer plus weekly profiles of our youth anglers along the South Shore.

Do you have a young angler that you would like to be profiled on one of our 2009 shows? We'd would like to hear from you; each week we will feature a youth from the listening audience and not only we will air details about them we will also provide to them a free Shimano rod and reel combo, a free rod and reel every week on the show! If you know such an angler then just submit to us some basic information about them to be featured on our weekly profile brought to you by Power Pro Canada . Please follow this link for all the details and let us know today.

A huge thanks to our returning Corporate Sponsor this year, Veinotte's Gone Fishing from Bridgewater, NS. They will proudly present each new show every weekend on CKBW. Visit their website today for more information on their products and services; as always, we ask you to support our sponsors with your patronage. We stand behind them and their businesses so we thank them for allowing us to come to you each week with our radio show. Also a thank you to Shimano Canada for their constant overall support, Power Pro Canada for supporting the weekly profile and to Lowrance Electronics for supporting the weekly Last Cast Quick Tip.

Your host Mark Weare brings to every show a sincere appreciation of our local fishing backed with over 30 years experience of fishing here in Nova Scotia and other parts of North America. The show presents this interest clearly and keeps that true down home feel throughout every installment, whether it be a good laugh or a word stumble on air, the commitment of informing and entertaining our local anglers is always at the forefront of every show. 

We appreciate you for the taking the time to join us each weekend as our shows air and we also thank you for visiting our official show website. We always want to keep the show current and cover those ideas / topics that are of interest to you, our listeners. We welcome any feedback that you have and ask you to also send us any topics or events that you would like to be covered each weekend. You can send us your ideas/comments via email, phone or regular mail.

The First Cast Radio Show Email

Mail and phone Care of:

CKBW Radio
215 Dominion Street
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
B4V 2G8
902-543-2401

If you would like to learn more about Mark Weare and his bass tournament fishing, you can visit his Team Valley Tire / Marktech Outdoors website here: 
Mark Weare . com
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Listen Online!

You can click below to listen to each of our 2009 shows as they are aired throughout the season. You can listen in either RealAudio or Windows Media formats, just click the appropriate link to automatically stream the show. As new 2009 shows become available, they will be added to this page for your listening. You can also click over to www.ckbw.ca and listen live on-line, listen to our shows or other CKBW programming at will free of charge.

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Show #1 welcomes everyone back for another great season of The First Cast. We feature an interview with Kevin Veinotte and we discuss some opening show fun as well as the upcoming "Fishing for a Cure" event.

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Show #2 has Mark offering some safety reminders and tips for early season fishing. John Wiles joins us to speak about the Fishing for a Cure event on May 9th. The Power Pro Canada profile features Danny Ross of Bakers Settlement.

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Show #3 has some more early season discussions about fishing and the past winter / current high water. The Power Pro Canada profile features Kailie MacQuarrie from Conqerall Bank.

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Show #4 talks about trailers, some basic maintenance and an in-depth discussion with Steve Quigley from Valley Tire about the often overlooked trailer tire. The Power Pro Canada profile features Tatiana Stabenow from West Dublin.

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Show #5 shares some fishing tips from Mark as well as a detailed description of the upcoming "Fishing for a Cure" event. The Power Pro Canada profile features Jennifer Maloney of Pleasantville. 

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Show #6 has Ben Woo of the upcoming Berkley B1 tournament, Ben stops by to discuss the details of this large scale Canadian tournament. The Power Pro Canada profile features Nick Slauenwhite of Hebbville..

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Show #7 thanks all of the sponsors and volunteers who assisted us at the recent "Fishing for a Cure" event. Carroll Randall also stops by and discusses the upcoming LRSA kids fishing derby to be held May 23rd at the MARC. The Power Pro Canada profile features Ryan Matthews.

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For show #8  has Carroll Randall in the studio again, we discuss special projects and activities of the LaHave River Salmon Association. The Power Pro Canada profile features Dylan Rutledge of Grand Lake.

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Show #9 has Al McNeil of NSDAF joining us in the studio to talk about the NS Sportfishing weekend and we feature some local events taking place. The Power Pro Canada profile features Chantel Rafuse of Pleasantville.

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Show #10 discusses the free sportfishing weekend here in Nova Scotia. We also give you a few tips on fishing the plastric stick type baits. Our Power Pro Canada profile features Danika Meisner.

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Show #11 features our efforts of taking out local classrooms fishing. We feature a montage of  kids speaking about their fun from the three scholols covered in 2009 -Hebbville Academy,  JC Wickwire and Hillcrest Academy. The Power Pro Canada profile features all 80 kids as each and everyone was given a free rod and reel combo.

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Show #12 shares some rigging tips on tube baits. We also talk about starting bass fishing this year during the time that trout become harder to catch during the warmer months. Our Power Pro Canada profile features Nicole Lohnes.

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Should you have any comments, suggestions or questions for us at The First Cast, then please contact us today.

Thank You For Listening and please take a moment to visit our show, site and angler sponsors by clicking on the logo's below.

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