Central High School students Nick Montalto and Will Godbee are members of the Georgia BASS Nation. The organization recently volunteered time to work on the Water Willow Conservation project on West Point Lake. Over 25 students representing high school fishing clubs in the area met to plant water willows on the shoreline.

Water Willow is an aquatic plant that can grow from the shoreline to about five feet deep in the water. Water Willow is a non-invasive plant that provides great shoreline cover for young and adult fish as well as preserving shoreline from erosion. Once the plant is established it will move around on its own, breaking loose and rooting elsewhere. The Water Willow Conservation project will have long lasting, positive effects for West Point Lake.

Though the Georgia BASS Nation program is relatively new in the state of Georgia, the organization boasts more than 200 participating students from local high schools.