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more on this subject. There is a great Does not this single incident serve Conservation's Greatest Need deal of encouragement for those of us to impress upon us how little our interested in betterment of fishing children today know about the fish in As we enter the year 1937, we are and hunting through proper conser­ our streams ? Is it fair for us, who, in confronted on all sides by serious vation methods in this apparent eag­ many instances have never taken the Problems threatening the future not erness of our boys and girls to learn time or made the effort to teach the only of wild life conservation but of all it is possible for them to absorb boys about us concerning matters I conservation of fish life as well. relative to fish life and wild life. that are common knowledge to most While the disastrous winter of 1935-6 How often has the individual fish­ anglers, to condemn and rant about struck a body blow to conservation of the accidental catching of a bass out various species of game birds and erman observed, during a day animals, an equally disastrous flood astream, the curiosity with which a of season by some boy fisherman who and the 1936 summer drought that boy fishing nearby approached him to did not know the difference between followed seriously affected the fish look over a bass, pickerel, trout or a bass and a sucker? To the average Hfe of the inland waters. In the years other fish captured? Probably, too, boy, who has not had the advantage to come, we must put forth every ef­ he may have had a few questions to of learning more concerning our fish fort to restore the favorable balance ask, all pertaining to that particular life, a fish is a fish, no matter to what of wild life and fish life which existed species it happens to belong. Prior to these great natural disasters. fish. This desire to learn, but far It seems that there is no more essen­ more important, the ability of a boy Here, then, fellow sportsmen, is a tial need in the successful carrying to learn at this age, makes the teach­ challenge to every one of us. It is a out of this program than the educa­ ing of our youth in conservation mat­ ringing call for our great army of tion of our youth, the sportsmen and ters comparatively easy. There is, Pennsylvania fishermen and hunters sportswomen who will enjoy the out­ after all, a basic longing in all of us to shoulder, individually, the respon­ doors of tomorrow, to the essential sibility of acquainting our youth with that may be traced back to the earli­ features of conservation. Here is the facts relative to the sports we love so groundwork upon which any compre­ est days of man. Fishing and hunting well. We cannot, if we look to the hensive effort to better present day today are sports; in the dawn age for future, evade this responsibility. conditions for the hunter and fisher­ men they were vital necessities of Rather, we should welcome the op­ man must be laid. life. The instinct still lingers strongly portunity, each one of us, to do his in many of our boys and girls today, How may this program of youth part, in a state-wide program of edu­ e as well as in us. ducation in conservation best be car­ cation of our youth. Every convert ded forward? First, of course, there We recently heard of a little inci­ we make to the conservation cause, a are our public schools. One of our dent that serves to typify the real cause that today needs our whole­ field officers during the past month need for conservation education for hearted support more than it ever did atid also during the winter school our youth. A bass fisherman, return­ before, is a stepping stone to the fu­ term last year, traveled to a number ing home with a fine smallmouth ture of fishing and hunting that must °i the schools in northeastern Penn­ bass, weighing three pounds, was sylvania, displaying a collection of be engaged in by those who are to showing it to a friend. Two little follow. Counted fish and explaining the hab- chaps sauntered by, and with usual ] *ts and characteristics of inland Educate the youth of Pennsylvania curiosity, crowded close to see the water fishes found in Pennsylvania. to the need of sportsmanship and to a catch. ^e reports that invariably he found knowledge of conservation, and a vi­ 111 audiences of school children excep­ "Mister," said one of them, "That's tal stride will have been made toward tional interest and the desire to learn a nice carp you caught." future success of our program. 2 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

had to be covered with secrecy, as it is a general custom to greatly advance the price of land desired by any public agency. And in order to avoid this in but a few instances the investigators, when studying proposi­ tions, did not reveal their purpose to the land owner. In July, 1932, a site having most of the assets, was located on the headwaters of the Yellow Breeches Creek, Penn Township, Cumberland County, near the village of Huntsdale. An option was taken and the purchase made in September, 1932. The geographic location is very favor­ able from the standpoint of the fish distri­ bution, as it is near many outstanding trout and bass waters. The soil is of a nature that builds water tight pond banks. The fall or drop in elevation from the head of the property to the lower section is not as much as is desired, but this is offset by the high oxygen contents of the water, as it comes from the springs or creek. The spring water supply, while of a very peculiar nature, is abundant. During the most severe drought period, since the prop­ erty has been acquired, the combined mini­ Aerators at Huntsdale mum flow of the spring did not fall below 5,000 gallons per minute. Irishtown Gap Bun, which heads in the mountain south of the village of Huntsdale, flows through the hatchery property, and HUNTSDALE HATCHERY has sufficient flowage to provide the right kind of water for the warm water fish pond By MILTON L. PEEK, development. Member, Board of Fish Commissioners Geographically, the site comprises a most peculiar phenomenon, and in my judgment, would prove of great interest to those par­ HE older established State hatcheries for fish, increased facilities in the way of ticularly interested in this subject. The top Twere originally located and constructed new hatcheries were necessary. soil, to a depth of four to eight feet, con­ for the purpose of hatching fish eggs and Those in charge of the task of locating sists of rubble sandstone; underlying this is the planting of the fish at a very early likely sites for the construction of a State a strata of limestone. Through the sand­ stage of development. Fish hatchery work, Hatchery were confronted with numerous stone permeate numerous springs. All of where the crop is planted, or disposed of problems. The Board was desirous of lo­ these springs are assumed to be deep seated. when very small, requires but very little cating and building a development adapt­ Regardless of rain-storms or floods, they pond space and a comparatively small water able for the growing of trout, as well as never become turbid, being so clear that ob­ supply. The work is more or less seasonal warm water fish species such as black bass, jects can be seen as plainly in the water, and the financial investment relatively bluegill sunfish, catfish and others. For the almost, as in the air. The spring consists of small, as compared to a Fish Farm, where trout work, this required a site where a six groups, all originating within an area the crops are grown in the plant until they large dependable flow of spring water of of three acres. are sufficiently large to be caught and outstanding quality could be had. For the In most sections of the country, in a par­ legally retained by the angler. warm water fish development, it required ticular locality, all deep seated springs are It has long been the policy of the Board a water supply of high summer tempera­ inclined to have a uniform water tempera­ of Fish Commissioners to centralize pro­ ture and low winter temperature, prefer­ ture. At Huntsdale where the different duction at a few major plants, in preference ably to be taken from a stream having no groups of springs all bubble forth in such a to creating many small establishments. This possibility of ever being polluted by indus­ small area, they vary greatly in this re­ trial waste or from other sources. facilitates supervision and eliminates much spect. For example, Group No. 1 has a tem­ costly equipment. Hence the building of all The topography of the land was to be perature of 57.2° F., Group No. 2, 53.6° F., the fish cultural stations has been along such that there would be ample fall be­ Group No. 3, 59.0° F., Group No. 4, 59.0° very permanent lines—constructed to last tween the pools, in order to provide aera­ F., Group No. 5, 51.8° F., and Group No. 6, for many years. tion for the fish and also to permit economi­ 57.2° F. The constantly increasing demand, by cal draining of each separate area. It is not uncommon to find springs that the anglers, for more fish and larger fish The character of the soil had to be such at their source will not support fish life. for stocking the public waters, was rapidly that it would permit economical pond con­ This is generally caused by a deficiency in placing a burden on the hatcheries far be­ struction, and if possible, the location should oxygen, or a very high content of carbon yond their ability to meet. Due largely to be in a section having an abundance of suit­ dioxide. As the water flows from the spring, the foresight of those in charge of fisheries able water for stocking purposes not al­ down the stream over rocks and other ob­ work in Pennsylvania when the early hatch­ ready near an established hatchery. This jects, it soon absorbs oxygen and liberates eries were established, most of them were was thought to be an admirable feature as carbon dioxide and other gas, making it located whe^e ample water, of a suitable a location in proximity to the water to be ideal water for aquatic life. quality, was available, and when it became stocked greatly reduces fish transportation For obvious reasons, it is desirable to necessary to change the program from costs. locate the hatcheries for trout culture at or merely hatching fish eggs and stocking fry, Of course, it was realized that few, if near the source of water supply. Fish cul- to the growing of thousands of large fish, any, places were available having all of turists know the oxygen content of water most of the plants were economically these favorable characteristics. Many sites suitable for this purpose, and are some­ changed or redesigned to meet this need. were investigated and rejected for various what familiar with the tolerance limit of But it soon became evident that in order to reasons. All of the work of analyzing the carbon dioxide, but know little about the keep pace with the needs of the public water water in the selection of likely locations other chemical contents of water, as in- PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

"Uencing the well-being of trout in hatchery Ponds and hatchery troughs. Nor can any fixed rule be applied as to the number of Pounds of fish that can be retained in the Pool per cubic foot of water, which has a certain flow, or exchange of water through the pool, as for undetermined reasons, Waters vary greatly in respect to their hold­ ing capacity for fish. This proves true when all known factors, having a bearing, are equal; it follows that in many cases, the capacity of hatchery water to grow and hold fish is controlled to a certain extent by conditions that are not entirely familiar to the fish culturist. Again, at some hatcheries, waters can be used over again many times; or in other Words, it can be passed through long series °f fish ponds and its ability to hold fish in­ creases as it passes through each area. In other cases the water cannot be used more than once or twice. This is not due to oxy­ gen, or carbon dioxide, but it is assumed that certain waters create a condition toxic to the fish much more rapidly than do other *aters. When the Huntsdale property was first given serious consideration for a hatchery site, a chemical analysis was made of the Temporary Hatching House Waters from the various groups of springs. These tests showed them to be good water Springs Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 6, the greater the spring water, particularly those found in for hatchery purposes and an option was mortality. limestone regions, change from time to taken on land, comprising the springs and a In other words, the greater distance the time. All the experiments had been con­ sufficient area for the proposed pond con­ water was permitted to flow, before being ducted during a comparatively dry season. struction. An outright purchase was not used, the better it became. This led those in Heavy rains might change the condition fiaade until further studies could be con­ charge to assume that proper aeration and again make the water undesirable in ducted on the suitability of the water for might solve the problem. spite of the work of the aerating devices. trout culture. Temporary aerators were installed at the Luckily, in the month of January, 1933, While all indications were that the water source of all the springs. This made a vast weather conditions changed with heavy Was suitable, those in charge realized that improvement, and no further difficulty was rain-fall and the rapid melting of the snow. Unknown factors had to be considered, and had with the fish held in the water after it The high water period showed no detri­ because of the variations in temperature of had passed over the aerating devices, which mental effect on the fish crop. the springs, believed that they were con­ break the water into fine particles and ex­ From the results of these experiments, it fronting a situation different from any pose it to the air. was definitely known that trout could be other hatchery water that they had ever Still, those responsible for the construc­ grown successfully, if the water was given been privileged to study. It was believed tion of the hatchery were not satisfied as the proper aeration before being used. that the only safe way to test the water to the suitability of the water, as it is gen­ Just what gas or gases the aeration of before spending the sportsmen's money for erally known that the chemical contents of (Continued on page 12) a Property that might not be suitable, was to construct temporary pools and hold fish in them for a number of months, and make careful observation on the results. Such Pools were built adjacent to each group of springs, and the first fish brought to the Piant on August 23, 1932. The results, as a Whole, were very disappointing. The fish held in the water supplied from Springs Nos. 2 and 5 did very well. Those neld in Springs Nos. i, 3 and 4, had an abnormally high mortality, while those held ln the water coming from Spring No. 6 all uied within a few weeks. The first fish were brought from the •feasant Mount Hatchery, which is sup- Plied with freestone water. It was first thought that the loss may have been due to 'he extreme change from freestone water t° Water of the limestone character. In order to check on this, fish were brought from all the different hatcheries and the Jesuits were about the same. The water r°m the springs unites before leaving the Property, and it was found that the fish did xceptionally well in the water, combined roni ajj ^e springs, at the lower end of "e project. It was also learned that the ne arer the fish were held to the source of Walled-ln Spring i PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER WE CAN'T AFFORD POLLUTION By KENNETH A. REID, Member, Board of Fish Commissioners

ers of their only source of supply for stock- watering and other uses, while instances of major declines in property values are so numerous and widespread as to constitute a generally accepted corollary to pollution. In no phase of our social behavior has there been such flagrant violation of the property rights of others as in the visitations of pol­ lution on downstream communities and landowners. In the municipal and industrial water- supply field, the annual expense resulting from polluted waters is tremendous. As far back as 1915 the report of the Army Engi­ neer's office for the Pittsburgh District showed an annual loss resulting from acid pollution alone of $11,202,956, covering re­ pairs and replacements to plumbing, boil­ ers, engines, boats, locks and dams, and for water-treatment costs. Today the condition of the rivers is very much worse and the cost correspondingly greater. Even after Pollution and its continual increase are elaborate and expensive treatment, the final POLLUTION of streams has been a grad­ product that comes through the faucet to ual and insidious process, from an un- a result of Man's utterly selfish and short­ sighted business economy, which in the final the residents of cities like Pittsburgh and appreciable beginning to a present crisis of Philadelphia, while it may be bacteriolog- first magnitude that is not merely a menace analysis is an entirely false economy. Streams have been used by both municipal­ ically safe fluid, is generally offensive to to public health, but strikes at the very the taste and nostrils, and cannot by the foundation of our entire economic and so­ ities and industry as an easy and conveni­ ent means for getting rid of wastes with­ wildest stretch of the imagination be cial structure. Vilely polluted streams classed as pure water. Just what effect con­ throughout the length and breadth of the out any thought for destroyed biological values or for the dire effects of this pollu­ tinued use of this conglomerate mass of nation furnish mute but convincing testi­ chemicals and disinfected wastes may have mony that altruism and the practice of the tion on downstream communities. In this process of "passing the buck," the Golden on the human system is rather imperfectly Golden Rule constitute a beautiful theory known, but it is a definitely established fact without application in this country, where Rule has long been buried under the bosom of polluted waters. that its repugnant taste and odor causes water is concerned, and that existing meth­ the average person to consume a smaller Only the most sparsely settled sections of ods of control by state and local agencies quantity of it than one would of pure water. the country are relatively free from pollu­ have proved utterly inadequate. This is no reflection on the water companies tion, while the great industrial state of Pollution was no problem in Colonial serving these and other cities—in fact, it is Pennsylvania enjoys the odious distinction times; what little existed was quickly as­ . a wonderful tribute to their ingenuity that of having the highest percentage of pol­ similated by the large volume of pure water they are able to convert the dark and sin­ luted waters—approximately 80 per cent of in the streams and rivers. When one or two ister fluid from the rivers into a relatively the stream mileage of the state being pol­ small industries turned their wastes into clear product that the citizens can drink, luted, and a great part of this mileage so a river there may have been no appreciable living to tell the tale. ill effects, but when fifty or a hundred thoroughly polluted that no aquatic life can survive. Fortunately, all cities do not have such larger ones added their pollution to this badly polluted sources of supply, but, un­ same stream, Nature's ability to assimilate It would be difficult to estimate accurately in dollars and cents the tremendous loss of fortunately, few escape payment of the and neutralize this greatly increased load financial penalty resulting from pollution. was severely overtaxed, and the river be­ aquatic resources that the nation has suf­ fered as a result of pollution. Some crite­ Rare indeed is the situation of a city with came a vile, dead thing—a liability and a a pure and adequate source of water at its scourge to the people living in the water­ rion is furnished by the present annual take of salmon from the Columbia River by doorstep. Usually such a supply is secured shed, instead of "a living thing of beauty only at the great expense of laying many and a boon to all humanity." commercial fishermen, amounting to more than $10,000,000. Consider also the tre­ miles of pipe-line to a distant source that Under our present social and economic man has not yet defiled. In either case the system — which where water is concerned mendous runs of shad, herring, and other anadromous fish that have now largely be­ citizens have to pay the bill that was passed amounts to no system at all—water pollu­ on to them by polluters above. tion is in direct ratio to the increase of pop­ come history, the hundreds of thousands of ulation. Where we still find unpolluted acres of oyster and other shell-fish beds The prohibitive cost of necessary treat­ streams, almost invariably we find a com­ ruined, the many thousands of miles of in­ ment works is the common excuse of both, parative scarcity of the genus homo in the land streams devoid of their valuable fish municipalities and industry for not install­ watershed, rather than any orderly plan of resources, and the serious reduction in ing them. The real reason is that there is his for keeping them so. It is a sad com­ water-fowl through the agencies of pollu­ no incentive voluntarily to dig down into mentary on our vaunted civilization that tion, and we have a staggering total. Cer­ their own pockets for the construction of water pollution seems to be an integral tainly it would run well over a hundred treatment works because the benefits would part of it. If the predicted further increase million dollars annually in commercial and accrue, not to themselves, but to others be­ in population is to be reckoned with, the food values alone—and this does not take low in the same watershed, to whom the problem will become increasingly acute with into consideration the tremendous esthetic stream now carries their pollution by the the years until it becomes literally neces­ and recreational values of the waters them­ law of gravity. The same industries and sary for the American race to conquer pol­ selves. municipalities that plead poverty can usu­ lution or be conquered and wip«d out by In addition to the biological losses, severe ally raise equal or larger amounts for other pollution. ,. pollution of streams has robbed many farm­ purposes that accrue to their direct benefit. PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 5

The whole idea that adequate pollution What will be the cost for cleaning up the abstract matters, but it certainly is not so control would be tremendously expensive is nation's pollution? Wild statements have when it comes to the corporate altruism re­ entirely erroneous when viewed from a been thrown around by 'apologists for pol­ quired for a municipality to borrow money broad public angle. It would mean a dif­ lution' to the effect that municipal sewage to build an expensive sewage treatment ferent distribution of costs, to be sure, but treatment installations would total more plant that will directly benefit a rival town Ho increase. The public is already paying than a billion dollars, while those for in­ down the river; or for an industry to spend the bill with interest but the only thing it dustry would total four to six billion. There its money in purifying its effluent so that is getting for its money is bacteriologically is no substantiation for such wild figures. the water treatment costs of a hated com­ safe fluid from the faucet, while the streams There are already sufficiently accurate data petitor below may be reduced. Until we face ,f continue to be polluted. The present prac- available for estimating the total cost of these facts squarely and quit dreaming |0 tice of one town or industry dumping its needed municipal sewage treatment plants, about an altruism that does not exist, and a raw wastes into a stream, in order to effect together with intercepting sewers, and this the individual voluntary action of polluters n an immediate saving of a few dollars to total figure for the United States as sub­ that will never take place, we will continue .e themselves, thereby necessitating an equal mitted by E. E. Butterfield, a municipal to have an unsolved and active pollution ;y and often greater expense on the part of sewage expert, at the recent Senate hear­ problem. j. the next one below for elaborate treatment ings on pure-streams bills, was $425,000,000. d °f the polluted water before it can be used, There is no basis for any present estimate Barring the very limited and ineffective •s an unsound, indecent, and uneconomical of the total cost for industrial waste treat­ jurisdiction of the War Department, the Public Health Service, and the Bureau of r_ °ne. If the process were reversed and the ment plants, although the same authority same amount of money were devoted to the indicated that the four billion figure was Fisheries, what little pollution control we _ treatment of these wastes at the source be- inflated at least as badly as the one billion • fore they are dumped into the rivers, the estimate for municipal sewage. Whatever ,t Pressing pollution problem would be solved, the cost, any fair estimate would place it "j and the public would have thousands of below the bill the American public is pay­ 3_ rniles of pure streams with their great ing today for having polluted waters. j_ aquatic, esthetic, and recreational values as )r a clear dividend. When we consider the direct expense im­ posed on the public by reason of pollution m . The estimated treatment costs for most of its waters, necessitating greatly in­ te industrial wastes are frequently grossly creased costs of treatment for municipal »r exaggerated. Very often these wastes that and industrial water supply — or equally al constitute noxious pollution when dumped costly transportation from distant unpol­ to 'nto a stream are valuable and will pay a luted sources—the more frequent and costly id Profit on their recovery by the industry at replacements of boilers, plumbing and fix­ T- the source. Wastes from distilleries, copper tures by reason of its corrosiveness, the in­ to and brass manufacturing plants, and even creased amount of soap required by reason ie coal washeries and pulp and paper mills, of its artificial hardness, and the lessened >e furnish concrete, even though isolated, ex- life of the garments we wash in it, to say ii- arnples of this truth. The capital invest- nothing of the wear and tear on the human jf ttient for the treatment plant is often con- body incident to this internal consumption of a highly chemicalized fluid in which fish re siderable, however, and even though the in­ cannot live, the actual annual expense will ly dustry may know that the treatment plant run into the hundreds of millions—and not ct Will be a profitable investment, it is fre- one cent of this goes toward correction of 3S Gentry loath to make this outlay. the source of the expense. Add to this the jr While some industries have taken the r definite annual loss of food and commercial - initiative in working out satisfactory treat- revenue from the disappearance of fish and 3S nient methods, and almost invariably to aquatic life, the more intangible, but per­ is their own ultimate advantage as well as haps greater losses from the recreational i* that of the public, the general attitude is and esthetic standpoints, and a proper fig­ i- °ne of laissez faire. Many take the attitude ure to represent the annual interest on ty that there is 'no known practicable method' k property devaluations along polluted wat­ > for the treatment of their wastes and chal­ ers, and it seems reasonable that the total lenge the public or the water-control agency might exceed a billion dollars annually. In have had has been by local or state agen­ ;h to refute this stand by showing them how order to play safe and avoid any possible cies. The utter lack of uniformity in these a- to treat their own wastes. No public agency, criticism of exaggerated figures, let us di­ various independent state agencies has mili­ ie regar(jiess of how learned, is in as favorable vide this amount by four and call the an­ tated against any real accomplishment, even n. Position for working out and designing a nual loss $250,000,000. in the rare cases where state laws gave the th satisfactory treatment plant for the wastes power necessary for real accomplishment. ts of an jn(justry as the engineering staff of But this $250,000,000 does not represent In most cases state laws are woefully in­ sd the industry itself, which through years of the capital loss from pollution, but only the adequate, and there is litle prospect that iy Research and development has worked out interest on this capital as expressed by the they will be materially improved, or effec­ at the system that put the objectionable wastes annual loss or expense. It is a continuing tive, even if they are strengthened, because ie in its effluent. If one-tenth of the capital in- annual expense that will go on indefinitely,-' it is only human nature for one state to be ;d vestment, the brains, engineering research, and even increase with the years until we loath to put its citizens and industries to study and planning had been put into the correct the source of the trouble. Taking the expense of treatment works when their .t- treatment of the effluent that has gone into an interest rate of 4 per cent, the capital competitors in adjoining states are not re­ th. the development of the complicated manu- loss represented by this $250,000,000 an­ quired to do the same thing. Each waits for [1- facturing practices that produced that ef- nual loss would be $6,250,000,000 — more the other to act first and, as a result, no­ is nient, the pollution problem for most, if than even the most wildly exaggerated esti­ body acts. The same illustration applies to to not all, industries, would long ago have been mates of the cost of treatment works by the ineffectual bickering between munici­ of solved. It is an insult to American inven- those who claim that pollution correction palities and industry within a state as to ld tive genius and to American engineers to costs are prohibitive! who should clean up first. e- Jay: "It can't be done." The truth is that What is the answer to the pressing pol­ Any pollution abatement program to be ie the incentive for doing it has seldom been lution problem that to date has defied suc­ successful must include the principles of ie there, but the time is rapidly approaching cessfully all efforts toward its solution? The uniformity and fairness, and must confer id ^hen industry must consider satisfactory answer lies in an honest analysis of human mandatory powers on the directing agency. u- treatment of its polluting effluent as a nature and a program that recognizes the It is idle to contend, as so many of the er Proper and legitimate part of the cost—or short-comings revealed by this analysis. apologists for pollution do, that existing it. Profit—in the manufacture of its product. Human nature may be altruistic in certain (Continued on page 14) PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

Watersnake With Bass WHY NOT CONTROL? Reasonable Campaigns For Predator Reduction Are Necessary By ALEX P. SWEIGART jyjR. AVERAGE FISHERMAN and Mr. predator question. Personally, we have, the peak of the drought, of thousands of A Average Hunter are being subjected while training bird dogs in September, ob­ herons and egrets which seemed to center today to a bombardment in writing by na­ served a pair of allegedly beneficial marsh on the lower Susquehanna River. It was ture idealists. This predator is beneficial; hawks following the dogs in their course, perhaps a compliment to the fish producing that predator accomplishes far more good the better to mark down rabbit or game qualities of the big river that these birds than harm; we are dangerously near to the bird routed. We have also observed a pair should have chosen it as their feeding extermination point for certain valuable of sharpshinned hawks (it is understood ground, but the fact remains that it was a species. If the "Save the Predator" cam­ that some naturalists are inclined to be costly compliment if we consider the num­ paign stopped right at this point, little rea­ lenient even with this species) play havoc ber of fish destroyed. son would exist for taking issue in the with a covey of quail near the Tuscarora Fish eating animals, the mink and rac­ matter. We believe that few sportsmen Creek in Juniata County. But we have coon for example, may be dismissed from would ever desire to witness the extermina­ strayed from the subject with which this consideration simply because their incur­ tion of any species. Unfortunately, the im­ article must deal, fish predators. sions on the fish life of our streams are at minor consequence. But when, in addition pression created by many of the articles on One can readily understand, and sympa­ the subject is one placing the average out- to giving the above-mentioned creatures a thize with, the efforts of naturalists to pre­ clean slate, we hear a clamor against con­ doorsman in a distinctly unfavorable light. serve the rare osprey or fish hawk and the trol of reptiles that kill fish, it seems an And why? Simply because, when the op­ blue heron on our public waterways and appropriate time to discuss the other side portunity is afforded, he does not hesitate lakes. In fact, we believe that fish-eating of the problem. to kill a hawk or owl that he believes de­ birds do not usually constitute a serious In the past, the Fish Commission has structive to the game for which he has been menace to fish life. It is, of course, neces­ caring; or snuff out the life of a water- stressed the necessity, in its watersnake sary to qualify this statement in respect to campaigns, of controlling the number of snake on the shoreline of stream or lake. invasion by such birds of our hatchery these reptiles on our popular fishing It is not within the sphere of the properties. An exception also should be streams. Certainly there has never been ex­ ANGLER to enter the hunter's side of the made of the invasion last summer, during pressed the desire that this reptile be driveJi PENNSYLVANIA ANGLEK to the point of extermination. As a matter of shad which at one time occurred. These license, there seems little likelihood that we of fact, it is ridiculous to assume that even changes have come with the development of shall ever require control measures for fish under intensive hunting the number of Pennsylvania into a great industrial, min­ life in any water. watersnakes could be reduced to such an ing and agricultural Commonwealth. We have a rather strong suspicion that a alarming degree. Environmental conditions That changed environment has seriously great deal of this alarming propaganda obtaining on waters frequented by these curtailed the productivity of our waters in­ spread by nature lovers who deplore the Predators today make highly improbable sofar as reproduction of the various species extermination of creatures destructive to their extermination. In the past, we have of fishes are concerned there is little reason fish may be exaggerated for effect. Modern Pointed out how effective is the coloration to doubt. The sucker running upstream, in conditions on our streams, it seems to us, of the watersnake as a camouflage and pro­ a smaller tributary to its home water, to should determine the wisdom of sensible tection. Another factor favoring its abun­ spawn, may find its way blocked by a dam. campaigns by the sportsmen for control of dance is the high birth rate, an adult fe­ In the frequently high water at the base of destroyers of fish such as the watersnake. male frequently bearing from 25 to 40 this structure, thousands of eggs are Too many factors enter into the modern young. The snake's agility while in the spawned, and destroyed. It is doubtful conservation picture to permit unjust crit­ water must also be classed an important whether ten percent, taking an extremely icism of efforts to improve fishing and protective asset. To an even greater de­ high percentage, of trout eggs spawned na­ hunting conditions until those efforts have gree, the snapping turtle, most destructive turally ever hatch, owing to silt in most been proved undesirable. reptile to fish in Pennsylvania waters, is streams and other unfavorable conditions. safeguarded in its environment through its Other species are also handicapped in na­ nocturnal feeding habits and protective tural reproduction by environmental fac­ OLD TOWN SPORTSMEN coloration. tors. This simply means that a great part From a practical standpoint, we believe of the work of maintaining good fishing in NOMINATE OFFICERS that Paul L. Swanson of Wesley has con­ Pennsylvania waters must be accomplished tributed a great deal toward better under­ by artificial propagation at the hatcheries. The January meeting of the Old Town standing of Pennsylvania reptiles and their During the past six years, in addition to Sportsmen's Association held at the Court relationship to our wild life problems. Quot- House was poorly attended. However, the In the pollution handicap, drought conditions g Mr. Swanson on watersnakes: have prevailed on virtually all watersheds. members who attended the meeting enjoyed "Watersnakes are inimical to our inter­ When waters are high, the watersnake and seeing two moving picture reels on Hunt­ ests. Repulsive in appearance, vicious in other predators are handicapped to consid­ ing Bear and Moose with the Camera, which attitude, voracious in appetite, it would be erable extent in taking fish from the were shown by the Clearfield Taxidermy difficult to find any redeeming feature about streams. But given extremely low waters Company. them. Due to campaigns endorsed by the such as occurred last summer on our trout As is customary during the January ANGLER thousands of watersnakes were streams, four or five water snakes on a meeting the following nominations were killed last summer. It should be known that stretch of good trout water are capable of made for officers of the association for the these and most other remai'ks concerning playing havoc with the fish. Under such year 1937. the watersnake refer to the banded or com­ conditions, there seems little plausible rea­ President, Howard Stewart, Curt Smith, mon watersnake." son to question the advisability of control Oscar Barrett, Richard Gilbert, and N. O. It would appear that a major portion of measures for predators. Lewis. the defense of any destroyer of wild life Vice-President, Clifford Connors, R. K. rests in the fact that, when fish and game w Man's influence Nelson, Oscar Barrett, J. B. Fleming, and ere most abundant, these same predators E. J. Pritz. existed in far greater number than they do It is extremely doubtful whether even a Secretary, N. O. Lewis, Wayne Conklin, today. At first glance, this argument seems s large number of natural enemies to fish J. B. Fleming, Clifford Connors and George ound. But is it? Have not two factors could take from any one of our popular Smith. entered under modern conditions which streams or lakes the vast quantity of fish Treasurer, "Pep" Undercoffer. completely alter the perfect picture of prim- of the various species accounted for in a Directors, Dave Yingling, E. J. Pritz, 'tive "balance of nature"? Let us consider single year by the fishermen. Just recently, these two altering factors — radically Paul Smith, J. F. Livingston, J. B. Flem­ for example, we had a report that in one ing, R. K. Nelson, M. W. Stevens, Wm. J. changed environment, and the increasingly week, at the juncture of Tuscarora Creek heavy kill of fish and wild life by modern Mitchell, Albert Giles, Oscar Barrett, S. K. and the Juniata River in Juniata County, Williams, Howard Stewart, E. J. Dufton, fishermen and hunters, equipped with dead­ over 500 suckers ranging to three pounds ly tackle, shotgun and rifle. The recreational Chas. Cowdrick, Leslie Ogden, Richard Gil­ v in weight had been taken by anglers. Some bert and Curt Smith. alue of fishing and hunting today is not idea of the yearly take of this species at t° be computed in dollars and cents. Rather, Delegates, James Smith, J. B. Fleming, l this particular spot may be had when we Oscar Barrett, E. J. Pritz, Orvis Gulich, t is generally agreed that under modern consider the fact that some fishermen are conditions these primitive sports afford re­ Edwin Clark and Dave Yingling. usually trying their luck there whenever The above nominees will be voted on at lation of vital importance to the general conditions are favorable. Intensive fishing Welfare of our people. Growth of interest the next meeting of the association which ln on our drastically reduced mileage of fish­ will be held some time during the month of outdoor sports and therefore, growth in ing water has served, we believe, to curtail nUmber of those who fish and hunt must February, and all members of the associa­ increase in any species to the saturation tion are asked to consider well the list of oe regarded as an outstanding and health- point. *•' trend in modern life. nominees so that the officers elected for 1937 Insofar as game fish are concerned, we will make up a personnel that will insure have observed during the past ten years, the successful continuation of the associa­ Changed Environment amazing improvements in tackle for use in tion for the year 1937. During the past century, radical changes taking these species. Gut leaders, improved Members and prospective members of the ave occurred in environmental conditions artificial flies for trout, and cleverly con­ Association are reminded that their 1937 Under which fish life of the inland waters structed casting lures for bass and warm membership cards are now being written, ^ust exist. Of 100,000 miles of waterways water game fishes have aided the fishermen so let's cooperate by getting the 1937 cards ln Pennsylvania, 80,000 miles today are in their angling. The number of skilled fly from Marvin Peters at the Routch & nected by pollution in varying degrees. fishermen and artificial bait fishermen un­ Swartzle Hardware Store on North Second While doubtedly has been increased by production Street. many of our trout waters are free of better rods, lines and casting reels. It is n,01?1 Pollution, cutting of the forests on only fair to assume that the tendency for Englishman: "What's that bloomin' noise heir drainage areas and intensive cultiva- greater skill and effectiveness in taking fish . °n of the soil has made them not only sub­ on rod and line will grow from year to I 'ear outside this time of night?" ject to disastrous floods but to the damag­ year. With over 260,000 licensed fishermen, American: "Why that's an owl." es influence of sediment and silt washed and probably an equal number of boys un­ Englishman: "Of course it is, but 'o's nto them. Giant dams on the lower Sus- der 16 years old who may fish without a 'owling?" "Uehanna have blocked the vast migrations PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER Research Activities of the Fish Commission By FRANK D. YOUNG, Laboratory Director

'"THE rather imposing title that heads this the benefits that accrue from a logical sci­ With this unlimited field to work in, the article may, at first glance, alarm you. entific approach to the problems that beset sifting out of the essential lines of attack "What possible interest lies in this dry them. was a difficult task. However, a start has tale for me?" you ask in some disgust. Witness the huge sums expended each been made, and while specific results must Research—the very word itself arouses year in the laboratories of our manufac­ necessarily depend upon additional study, your suspicions. You can't expect to find turers; the government subsidies that sup­ there is every reason to believe that some much of interest in a dull recital of scien­ port the research activities conducted in the very worthwhile findings have already been tific facts and figures. interest of better farming. It is impossible obtained toward an understanding of the Right here, I'll venture to say, that if to touch upon any of man's pursuits that hitherto unsolved problems that have con­ you read no further you may work up quite have not been aided by the work of the fronted the fish culturist in his work. a case of indignation against the editor for research worker. The laboratory work has been under the desecrating your ANGLER with an article The Board of Fish Commissioners has direction of the writer for a period of a of this nature. long been cognizant of the need for a sci­ little over one year. All of the work has "This is a magazine for fishermen, not a entific approach to some of the problems been under the immediate supervision of journal of science," you say to yourself. that perplex the minds of those entrusted C. R. Buller, Chief Fish Culturist. "Here's another scientist, trying to sound with the growing and stocking of fish. Real­ In considering what has been accom­ important, another little fish talking like a izing the necessity for creating a depart­ plished to date, the thought continually re­ big whale." ment that could study these questions, a peats itself, that the progress so far made Now you're all worked up to a really worthwhile stage of resentment. Yes sir, what you want in these pages is fishing dope —anything, just so it's fishing — is your argument. But wait a minute. How about going along a little? Perhaps you may find this research a bit more interesting than you anticipated. Forget, if you can, the popular conception of the word, research. Here are no owl-eyed bearded professors, filled to the brim with profound and lofty theories—no purveyors of a mysterious alchemy, assur­ ing us of a panacea for all of our perplexi­ ties. To clarify the situation—and it is to be hoped that you are still with us—let's nar­ row the meaning of the word research to its essential definition, namely — "a careful searching for facts." But, you inquire, "What difference can that make?" "What bearing does any of this have on the all important subject of bigger and bet­ ter fish?" Well, let's answer this question by asking a few others. At Work in the Laboratory For example, would your interest be aroused by a smashing strike from a trout in a stream where, heretofore, no trout had serves principally to emphasize the great i: laboratory was established at the Bellefonte r ever existed? Hatchery, equipped to carry on this work amount of work remaining to be done on all s Do you recognize the difference between of research. of the studies undertaken. Notwithstand- a scrappy healthy fish, and a slim underfed From its inception the laboratory has ing, certain facts have been determined that *> runt, when you slip a net under him? been operated with one fundamental idea do directly bear on the all important goal of Is it not, in the last analysis, the number constantly in the minds of those carrying improved fishing. U of times in a day astream, that you connect out the work of this department. Research Considerable time, for example, has been p with a worthwhile fish that will really bat­ has been carefully restricted to the prac­ spent in the study of artificial foods for a tle it out with you to a finish, that deter­ tical problems affecting the growing of fish, trout. Fish culturists are practically unani- W mines the success of your day? their distribution, and the improvement of mous in the opinion that sheep livers are f In short, are you one who would welcome fishing generally, for the fishermen of the the most satisfactory food available at the ~; any action that might contribute to the Commonwealth. present time for the growing of trout. The ^ perpetuation, and improvement, of the sport ever increasing cost of this product has . This restriction of activities was neces­ Sl of angling, in the waters of Pennsylvania? sary because of the almost unlimited field been a source of growing concern to those If you are, Mr. Fisherman, read on, for it that opens up to the student of aquatic life. engaged in the growing of trout at the ^ must necessarily follow, that you will find There has been some excellent work done in hatcheries. yourself interested in this work of research, the past in this connection, and yet in com­ Recognizing the important part that this ~_ inasmuch as it consists essentially of a parison with the progress made in other factor plays in the total cost of raising "searching for facts" that will provide more fields the surface has been scarcely trout to legal size, when they become avail- •> and better fishing for the anglers of the scratched. A lifetime would not suffice to able for distribution to our streams, a series Commonwealth, now and in the future. cover thoroughly any one of a dozen studies of experiments have been conducted in ai> 2J Industry, agriculture, and kindred fields that present themselves, to even a casual effort to obtain a satisfactory substitute for Z. of human endeavor, have long recognized student of this fascinating subject. the liver diet. Work will continue in this PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

field, and meanwhile, it is of interest to the license buyer to know that definite reduc­ tions have already been brought about in the cost of food per pound for fish released 10 the streams. Still another interesting aspect of the work in research deals with the ever pres­ ent problem of pollution. Working in co­ operation with the Sanitary Water Board, considerable knowledge has been gained of the tolerance limits of different species of fish in regard to polluted waters. This work, too, will require additional study, but a very practical and important Phase of the pollution problem is even now being handled through knowledge gained in the laboratory. Prior to the establishment of this de­ partment, and the development of facilities tor making a chemical analysis of water, stocking was, at the best, a more or less ftit-and-miss proposition. Of course, a pro- Portion, of our streams are fortunately free °f any sources of contamination. Grateful as we are for these remaining miles of un­ spoiled waters, it is acknowledged that there The Focal Point of Pennsylvania's Fisheries Research are a number of other streams that are not so favorably located. These are the ones that have particularly commanded our in­ problem becomes discernible. Mine sealing tionship between the available food supply terest. programs, elimination of industrial wastes, in the stream and the sport enjoyed by the In former years but one course was open and similar work on the part of public fishermen. when the question arose of stocking these spirited sportsmen and civic organizations Some of the research activities of the borderline or partially polluted streams. is showing visible results. In the past year Commission have been very briefly touched Experimentally, a few fish were planted in a number of streams, that had formerly upon in this article. It is our intention to the doubtful waters. If they lived the stream been partially contaminated, have been so keep the sportsmen informed, from time to w far improved as to make them entirely sat­ time, through the pages of the ANGLER, as approved, but if they died—and they isfactory for the planting of fish, as shown of additional progress made in this work. admittedly did die at times—the stream was by tests conducted on these waters. 'isted as unsatisfactory. Considered from Meanwhile it is not amiss to suggest that any viewpoint this was a wasteful and in­ Another phase of the work in the labora­ in the future, should you encounter some efficient method of dealing with the prob­ tory deals with an intensive study of the unusual happening in a day's fishing, touch­ lem. Today by means of a few simple chem- natural food organisms present in our ing in some way on the problems that are ^al tests on samples of the doubtful waters, streams. No attempt will be made in this being studied, you might call the event to tJleir ability to support fish life is deter­ article to give a detailed account of this the attention of the research department. minable. Here is obviously a more satis­ work, as it has not yet reached the point By so doing you may contribute some very factory method than the one formerly em- where definite conclusions may be published. valuable information that would assist in Ployed. However, in general, it may be stated that , the solving of some of the mysterious prob­ progress thus far made points conclusively lems that influence in such marked degree, . In this connection it might be added that the success of your fishing. ln this work a brighter side of the pollution toward the establishment of a direct rela­

Suckers in Koons Dam—Andrew Alexander on in several years. Dunnings also pro­ REPORTS FINE CATCHES caught 14 measuring from 12 to 22 inches duced some fine season catches of trout." DURING 1936 SEASON in length. Oliver Pauly caught 11 suckers weighing combined 24% pounds. Four . Typicai of many of the reports concern- smallmouth bass were taken in Dunnings FIRST SMELT TAKEN IN LAKE ERIE lrig good catches of fish during 1936 is that Creek, Bedford County, which measured be­ received recently from Charles Kapusie, tween 14 and 17 inches. Thomas Washko REPORTED BY VERMILION special fish warden of Scalp Level, Cam- took 15 trout on successive days in the brja County. He writes: Raystown Branch of the Juniata River. The smelt is now to be found in the Just a few reports on our fishing in this Two carp were caught by Andrew Alex­ waters of Lake Erie. neighborhood. The fishermen are very much ander, one, 32 inches long, weighed 21" Dr. John Van Oosten, of Ann Arbor, in Phased with the luck they had last year, pounds, the other, 29 inches, weighed 12 charge of Great Lakes investigations for and seem to be agreed that the past season pounds. Walter Golden caught three carp the United States Bureau of Fisheries has as better than any in recent years. Trout from 18 to 24 inches. In one day's fishing, received reports that commercial fishermen ^treams appeared to be well stocked and the of Vermilion, Ohio, have been taking smelt Frank Oatman caught 8 nice bass, from 10 in their gill nets. ass and pike fishing was very good. The to 19% inches in length. These are only a 0Vs 5 . join in thanking the Fish Commission few of the good catches I checked during Captain George B. Parsons, a commer­ i ?*" being on the job and making it pos- the season. My own luck was fine, too. cial fisherman at Vermilion, sent in the 1Dle to keep the streams well stocked. This Caught two carp on the Raystown, one of first specimens of smelt from Lake Erie, 5 ote of thanks comes not only from me but 24 inches, weighing 7 pounds, the other, the first record of the species being present ^°ni fishermen I contact while along the 29V2 inches, and weighing 12 pounds. My in that lake. Both individuals were in their second year of life, according to Dr. Van fl reams. Here are some of the reports on two biggest bass measured 17 inches, nsh Oosten. caught. weight 2% pounds, and 19 inches, weight On Koons Dam—three wall-eyed pike, 3% pounds. One wall-eyed pike I landed The smelt present in Lake Erie undoubt­ "to 21 inches, two largemouth bass, 19 measured 22 inches in length. There have edly migrated from southern Lake Huron nd 24% inches in length. Trout in Koons and Lake St. Clair where smelt were first ani been some nice catches of suckers made on i three rainbows caught by Harry Dunnings Creek, the best I have checked reported in April of 1932. Kelr n, 19%, 18 and 15 inches respectively. —The Fisherman. 10 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

Fishing -for Bass in Sherman's Creek, Perry County

LANDS BIG PIKE ON private breeder of rare game fowl, will league was well-attended, 800 sportsmen display a collection of birds from her estate. being present. Other officers elected were 5«/2 OUNCE ROD The Government's fish and game and con­ Karl W. Van Tassel, vice-president; Paul servation agencies, and the fish and game Howard, secretary, and J. C. Hadley, treas­ An angler from Huntingdon has set a commissions of several states are cooperat­ urer. Directors of the group include H. L. record for fly fishermen to shoot at, ac­ ing. Steadman, Charles Kraus, Dr. William Al­ cording to Warden Link Lender, of Bell- Herb Welsh, of Hayes Landing, Me., na­ len, Carl Anderson, James Keesey, R. H wood. Writes Link: tional fly casting champion, will be at the Jackson, E. Earl Davison, F. K. Geisler, "On October 7, Fred Martz of Hunting­ show. Fly casting contests will be held, in F. E. Buchanan, Walter Weber, Lewis Sis- don landed a wall-eyed pike in the Rays- which fishing clubs and individual fisher­ son, and Fred Kreider. town Branch of the Juniata River near men will vie for prizes and honors. "Grove" Dr. Koehler, affectionately known to Huntingdon that weighed 5 pounds 11 Walter, of Chicago, plug casting expert, members of the league as the "little gen­ ounces. It was 25% inches in length and and "Doc" Wellman, of Geneva, O., who eral," was unanimously re-elected. had a girth of 13% inches. Tackle used in can place a fly on a silver dollar at twenty- In speaking at the meeting, Fish Com­ the taking of this big fellow included a five yards, are also expected. Governor missioner Charles A. French of Ellwood 5% ounce fly rod and a No. 8 trout fly. Earle is coming, through his interest in out­ City reviewed the fish stocking program "Fred said he fished all season with fly door sport. carried out by the Board in Erie County and spinner with the exception of the first last year. He spoke on the benefits to be day of the trout season, when he used A huge tank in the center of the hall pro­ vides for water sports and fishing contests. gained through improvement of trout worms. He claims he caught more fish and streams, and also outlined proposed changes had more fun and sport. More luck to him. Indians and North Woods guides will be there and will provide a program of sport in the Fish Code which are to come up dur­ "You will find more fishermen using flies and entertainment, including log rolling, ing the present session of the Legislature. for bass on the streams during our present canoe tilting, wood chopping, woodcraft, open season than you would have met in etc. Eber Peck, a young Nova Scotia guide, ten seasons years ago." claims he is the log rolling champion of CATCHES EGG-BOUND BASS North America. Friends of Miss Cilvia Winters, of Astoria, Ore., claim she is the SPORTSMEN COOPERATE IN log rolling champion of the Pacific Coast. The following interesting communication PLANNING SHOW Both have accepted invitations to the Show has been received from Shirley C. Hulse of and will "roll it out" on a log to decide Bedford: which is the champion of the world. "Last September 9th, near the upper end William Burk, popularly known among of the west arm of the Koon Reservoir be­ sportsmen as "Bill" Burk, will install at his tween Bedford and Cumberland, Md., * own expense an inclusive display of inland caught two big mouth bass, on a plug* game fish in the Philadelphia Sportsmen's PRESQUE ISLE GROUP which were apparently hanging out to­ Show, which will be held March 29 to April gether by a small rock pile. The rock pile 3, in the Commercial Museum building, 34th RE-ELECT KOEHLER was disclosed later on as the level of the and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia. Mr. Burk, reservoir powered. The two fish were al­ wealthy manufacturer and devoted disciple At the annual meeting of the Presque most identical in size and weight, 17 inches of Izaak Walton, is one among a number of Isle Sportsmen's League in Erie, Dr. John long, 3 pounds each, and seemed to me private enthusiasts for wild life and con­ J. Koehler, Erie dentist, was re-elected rather heavy for their length. I had onl)' servation who will cooperate in the Show. president. The January meeting of this these two strikes, all afternoon, both fish Mrs. Wikoff Smith, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., splendidly organized and large sportsmen's struck viciously and the second took the PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 11

Plug on the first cast made after I had ERRATA landed the first fish. One of the fish had two very large sacs of roe. The eggs seemed The December issue of the PENNSYL­ smaller than normal and the roe was al­ VANIA ANGLER printed an article by most white, almost entirely lacking the P. G. Piatt entitled "This Pollution Prob­ yellowish color characteristic. The whole lem." Among the accomplishments of the behavior of the fish was suggestive of that Sanitary Water Board was listed "Sealing one encounters at spawning time. Does this Abandoned Mines. The acid waters rising strike you as anything out of the ordinary from abandoned mines in the western part considering the fact that the fish were bass of the state is one of the most prolific and and the time September?" glaringly useless sources of pollution in NOTE : It is probable that the female bass that section. The Board, cooperating with caught by Mr. Hulse had become egg- the Department of Forests and Waters, bound during the regular spawning season, Fish Commission, Bureau of Mines and De­ which usually comes in Pennsylvania partment of Justice, took advantage of Waters during late May or June, although available Federal funds to successfully con­ rt may extend even beyond that time in clude a major undertaking in this respect." rare cases. The whiteness of the roe would The actual work of the sealing of mines also tend to confirm this. Various causes was accomplished by the Department of may be ascribed to this condition in the Health, financed by funds secured from the mstance of the bass. A sudden drop in United States Public Health Service and water temperature at spawning time or the failure of the female fish to find a mate at this time are two possibilities. In the in­ stance of egg-bound bass, apparently with Ain't never seen a winter when there was this species this condition frequently does better sucker fiishin' than we been hevin' not result in the death of the fish, particu­ this year. Water open, weather like spring larly if it be a strong and healthy indi­ an' the suckers a-bitin' ter beat the band. vidual. We have reason to believe, from fish Down where the trout run goes inter we have caught, that the unextruded eggs the crick, I reckon they've ketched nigh are eventually absorbed into the system of onter a thousan' suckers up to now. An' the female bass. some whoppin' big uns, too. Not much frost in the ground back o' the barn, so I ain't hed much trouble a-gettin' plenty o' worms fer bait. SEARS-ROEBUCK CO. Them suckers sure has got tergether in FISHING CONTEST one o' the biggest schools I ever heard about in this section. An' the way they take the By A. P. Werner, hook this year is a caution. Seems like, ef the day's right at all, a feller don't more'n Sporting Goods Manager git his line in the water afore one's aworkin' In 1935, Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Harris­ at it. Right about the middle o' last month, burg decided to have a fishing contest which I figgered thet some winter caught suckers'd would include types of fish most commonly go first rate on the table fer a change. So I caught in our streams in Pennsylvania, takes my two cane poles an' heads fer the these being the trout and bass. We had quite crick. Jed Tucker's boy was afishin' when I a large number of entries in this contest got there an' he hedn't caught but one but the honor of catching the largest brown Elmer Harbach, of Temple, R. D. I, with 18 inch sucker, mebbe 14 inches long. and 14 inch bass taken in Perlciomen Creek trout went to Wayne Long of New Cumber­ Funny thing about sucker fishin'. I threw land. He captured his prize fish in the Yel­ in right below him an' my bait must hev low Breeches Creek near the mouth of the the P.W.A. The motivating influence in the landed right plumb in the middle of the Susquehanna River. It was 26 inches long securing of these funds was furnished by school. Inside o' half an hour, I hed a and weighed 6% pounds. the Fish Commission and the sportsmen string o' five o' the biggest suckers a feller Incidentally, one of the largest bass of of the state. could shake a stick at. Two o' them was 19 *he 1936 season was taken not more than inches long. Thet's plenty fer the house, so half a mile from the Yellow Breeches in the I quit. Jed's boy hedn't caught any in thet Susquehanna. The bass was caught by ACTION SUGGESTED time. Reckon there's some luck in this here Harry Mathias, also of New Cumberland. fishin', at thet. **e made this capture by using a chub, and tne bass was 23 inches long, weighing 5U, The fishing industry of Canada recently combined their forces and ideas and again Pounds. Canada's annual Fish Weeks have carried out their annual "Fish Week" .to Not knowing of the fine salmon or wall- brought untold benefits to the industry in e bring the fishing industry more forcibly to yed pike fishing we have in the Juniata that country. They have increased the per the attention of the general public and to tu^ Susquehanna Rivers, we did not enter capita consumption of fish, and more im­ increase fish consumption. This year the them in the contest, but had a salmon portant than that, have made the people popular fish week was held from September brought into the store, caught by a friend conscious of the important place that the 28 to October 3 and during that time the end °* mine, Ray Watkins, of Harrisburg, which fisheries hold in the life of the country it­ people of Canada were continually con­ • be- was 27% inches long and weighed 5% self. This last fact recently led to a pro­ fronted with the story of choice fish and L, I Pounds. This, I believe, was one of the long- gram of financial aid sponsored by the fed­ es seafoods. The hotels and restaurants fea­ >lugi t taken in the state but not the heaviest. eral and provincial governments to help tured special fish dinners, while retail stores to- During this contest we had many beauti- worthy fishermen who had lost boats and Iu supplying provisions for the home offered pile l specimens of bass ranging from 2% gear through sudden storms. In other daily specials on various kinds of fish and the Pounds to the champion. words, the Canadian fisheries are recog­ seafoods produced in the Dominion. Radio, al- The trout that were brought in all seemed nized as an industry of national importance, motion pictures, magazine, newspaper, bill- cheS to be from 1% to 2 pounds in weight, with and are treated as such. i»e the exception of E. J. Sheesley's brown -board, and every other available type of onl)' rout, weighing VA pounds and measuring advertising medium were used to impress In addition to the major benefits brought fisli 1 *4 inches in length. It was caught on a upon the Canadian citizens the high place about by their annual fish week the Cana- the y> in the Yellow Breeches Creek. that fish should hold in their diet. (Continued on page 16) 12 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

HUNTSDALE HATCHERY the necessary aeration. It was found thatt been due largely to the fact that those re- (Continued from page 3) an average of two feet could be placed onQ sponsible have learned the holding capacity each group. For every foot that the headi of the waters for fish, and also became the water is liberating is still not known, was increased, above the two feet, water familiar with other conditions on the prop- and scientists, connected with the Board of flow diminished approximately 25%. Plac-­ erty bearing upon the fish production. Plans Fish Commissioners, are still working to ing a pressure on the mouth of limestone have been approved, when the money be- find this unknown factor. springs is always accompanied with risk, as comes available, not only to make this one In most instances, the hatchery waters the water course is apt to seek a new chan­ of the major fish producing plants, but also are aerated to increase the dissolved oxygen nel, thus drying up the original spring sitei.. to make it one of the show and recreation and decrease the carbon dioxide. Insofar as This was also feared and the elevation was centers of Southern-Central Pennsylvania, the waters from the Huntsdale spring are left at the two feet level. This elevation was Almost all worthwhile fish farms have concerned, this is not the case, as the car­ not very great for aeration purposes, andI certain outstanding features. The Hunts- in order to overcome this defect, the aera­ bon dioxide runs almost uniform, and well dale Fish Farm has two that stand out, with below the tolerance limit for fish. The oxy­ tors were built similar to a series of steps, the length being in proportion to the spring, distinction, namely the rapid growth of the gen varies from 78.1% to 69.9% saturation. r trout and the high coloration of the fish. Hydrogen Sulphide Gas is found in some flowage. The aerator at Spring No. 4 is ap­ proximately 100 feet long, and the water The rate of growth of trout is governed spring water, and the lethal dose for brook P by amount and kind of food fed to them, trout is said to be .86 P.P.M. Naturally, passes in a thin veil over a series of three steps. 3 strain of fish, water temperature, chemical the investigator searched for traces of this analysis of the water, and other factors. gas. None has been found to date, and the One admirable feature of the plant is3 Inasmuch as the Board plants many of the presence of Hydrogen Sulphide Gas is that the upper section of the hatchery pool1 trout after they have attained a size of 1 usually accompanied by a low oxygen con­ is fed by three independent sources of water". inches or over, the hatchery that can pro- tent, while these springs showed no de­ supply. The upper sections of hatcheries5 duce the desired sized fish in the shortest ficiency of oxygen. are always used for the baby fish. Babyt length of time can operate more economical- While this research work was being con­ fish are more susceptible to disease than thei ly, and have a higher annual production—• ducted, thought was also being given to the older ones, and preventive measures, for other things being equal—than the plants suitability of a portion of the water for egg the control of disease, are always prac­ where the fish make a slow growth. Trout hatching purposes. A fish hatchery that ticed. The three separate sources of supply' are grown faster at this site than at any cannot develop and hatch its own eggs is somewhat handicapped. The springs having a temperature above 52° F. were eliminated, because water, with a temperature higher than 52° F., hatches the eggs prematurely, resulting in weak and undesirable fish. Spring No. 5, because of its favorable temperature and location, was chosen for the water supply for egg hatch­ ing purposes, and a temporary building was constructed for this purpose. The trout eggs were obtained in November, 1932, and hatched out in the latter part of December, 1982. The results were most gratifying and the returns have been very favorable each year since. The temporary building is still in use but when the permanent hatching house is constructed, it will be supplied with water from this source. From these experiments, sufficient knowl­ edge of the characteristics of the water was had to warrant the start of the permanent construction work. The building of the first series of ponds, along permanent lines, Propagating Pond Constructed by the Montgomery County Federation of Sportsmen. started on February 18, 1933. To date, per­ Located near Abrams manent aerating devices have been installed in all the springs, and nineteen permanent segregate the Huntsdale plant in three in­ other one of the state hatcheries, in fact trout pools have been built. In the fall of dependent units. If disease occurs in one faster, than at any other hatchery that has 1934, two experimental bass ponds were section, there is little danger of it entering ever come under the investigation of the constructed, and the results obtained in the other areas provided proper caution is Fish Commission. Ninety-nine per cent of 1935 proved so successful that it is hoped taken. the fish crop attain a size of seven inches, that a number of additional ones, fed from The Board of Fish Commissioners is one or over, in twelve months, and it is not un­ Irishtown Gap Run, will be created in 1937. of the few State agencies that is self-sup­ common to have many specimens achieving The first work, along permanent lines, porting. The revenue for its operation is growth of ten to twelve inches in this was to confine the water in the various derived from the sale of fishing licenses. length of time. This rapid turnover permits groups of springs. The water from Springs From this fund, such costs as the operation all of the ponds to be used, each year, for Nos. 1 and 2 was conducted in such a man­ of the hatcheries, distribution of fish, war­ the growing of fish of the same season's ner as to feed the same series of ponds. den service and administration, must first hatch. While plants having a much slower Springs Nos. 3 and 4 were used to supply a be deducted. The balance, if any, may be fish growth must use a number of pools for separate section of the hatchery. Spring No. used for construction work at the hatch­ holding the fish of the previous year. 6 was led into Irishtown Gap Run, and used eries. An unexpected increase in the cost of Why the fish grow so fast at this plant is for an independent series of pools. Spring fish food in 1935 and 1936, and heavy prop­ not definitely known. The fish held at the No. 5 was conducted through the hatchery erty damage at several of the hatcheries different hatcheries are all of the same building. After passing through the various due to the flood in March, 1936, took heavy blood strain. The same kind of food is used series of ponds, the entire flow is united, toll on the money collected, with the result at all hatcheries. A water having high al­ and will eventually be used in a series of that the construction work has not pro­ kalinity is thought to increase the rate of large pools on the lower section of the site. gressed as was anticipated. growth, but this does not explain the de­ Another problem that caused considerable Each year since the plant has been in velopment in full, so far as this hatchery is anxiety was the increased head that had to concerned, because the alkalinity at Hunts- be placed on the Spring, in order to give operation, the result, insofar as the fish crop is concerned, has improved. This has dale is about 55 P.P.M., while that at Belle- PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 13 fonte is 218 P.P.M. Yet the growth rate is much slower at Bellefonte. Temperature is a factor that has a great influence on the rate of growth of flsh; 52° to 60° F. is looked upon as a favorable temperature for trout growth. The waters at Huntsdale, Bellefonte and Reynoldsdale, all come within this range, yet the Hunts- dale fish grow faster than those at either of the other places. In addition to the fish being remarkable for their rapid growth, their high colora­ tion is also outstanding. Why these fish have a much higher coloration than the trout grown at the other hatcheries like­ wise is still unsolved. The known factors tending to influence the color of trout, are the strain of flsh, food and chemical con­ tent of the water. These factors do not dif­ fer sufficiently at Huntsdale from other hatcheries, having less colorful fish, to fake any material difference. The pond bottoms are of a white sand and gravel nature. It was first thought that the light pond bottoms, combined with the very clear water, permitted the penetration °f certain light rays that might influence the color. In order to check this, fish were placed in Newly Constructed Ponds at Huntsdale well shaded pools, and they assumed a flsh became darker and this was to be ex- fish, investigators know that some factor, deeper richer color than those exposed to pected. While it is not known, at this time, heretofore overlooked, has a direct influence the light, although the ground color of the why this characteristic stands out on the in addition to the one mentioned before.

WOMEN SCORE UNUSUAL to launch such a movement and many other counties are now following the same plan. CATCH Through cooperation of landowners on whose properties this work is carried on, While catches of eastern chain pickerel more birds have been saved in the county and muskellunge are frequently made in this winter than ever before, officials in Pennsylvania waters, the taking of a charge of the work said. •Northern pike is rather unusual. And it re­ gained for two feminine disciples of Izaak Walton, Mrs. George Auman and Mrs. D. Error in Fisherman's License y- Alderton of Kittanning to accomplish Revoked by Board Just this feat, according to Warden Dean Oavis of Punxsutawney. In the January issue of PENNSYL­ . Mrs. Auman and Mrs. Alderton were fish- VANIA ANGLER, a list of licenses re­ *g in the Allegheny River at Kittanning, voked for violation of the Fish Laws was Armstrong County, when the big flsh shown printed. In this list appeared the name of jn the cut, a pike measuring 29 inches in Charles Feaster, Millmont, Pa. This name ler*gth and weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces, was in error—it should have been Clarence struck. Feaster, Millmont, Pa. After an hour's battle which left both Women nearly exhausted and trembling with *right, the pike was landed. Before it final- Caught 64 Carp in Allegheny *y Was taken, Mrs. Auman received sev- Henry Zdanowski, of Vandergrift, re­ er_al cuts in her hand from the sharp teeth of cently sent us a photo of a big carp, 36 the pike, and Mrs. Alderton tore sev- inches in length, 23% inches in girth and eral holes in her clothing when she pounced weighing 21 pounds, which he caught last °n the pike. Finally it was carried in tri­ summer in the Allegheny River. This photo umph to the Auman home where a large will appear as a cut in a near future issue. dumber of friends of the successful angler- "Last year I caught 64 carp in the Alle­ ettes viewed the catch, Davis writes. gheny River," he writes. The pike, he says, was a female heavy with spawn at the time it was taken. Sucker Catch From different sections of the state come LANCASTER SPORTSMEN reports of good sucker fishing during De­ FEEDING WILD LIFE Pike caught by Mrs. Mary Auman in Allegheny cember. Warden Anthony Lech of Cressona River last summer. reports excellent fishing in Schuylkill Word comes from Lancaster County that County waters for this excellent winter food WPA wild life conservation project, spon­ than 2,000 winter feeding shelters, creation fish. ged by the County Commissioners at the of refuges and cover for game and the plant­ According to Lech, John Pleva of Shen­ Request of the Lancaster County Federated ing of wild life food. It is said that Lan­ andoah caught 18 fine suckers during a Portsmen, has involved erection of more caster County is the first county in the state day's fishing at Lakewood Pond. 14 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

WE CAN'T AFFORD POLLUTION particular fondness of health bureaus for (Continued from page 5) "studying and investigating" the pollution problem for its own sake. agencies and present laws are entirely ade­ If there is any subject under the sun quate, because present conditions are the that has been investigated to death without result of existing authority—or lack of it. taking action on the results of these in­ The disgracefully polluted condition of our vestigations, it is water pollution. Let us streams throughout the land stands as mute have no more stalling under the guise of evidence to the utter breakdown and failure further investigation and research until we of the present alleged system for their pro­ have made some use of the tremendous in­ tection. vestment already made in this field. The Streams flow by gravity from county to issue is clear. When the bills are reintro­ county and from state to state with utter duced in the next session of Congress, see disregard for man-made political bounda­ that you support the one that provides for ries. It is not possible to confine them and action by conferring mandatory powers on the pollution load they carry within such the directing agency—and be sure that you boundaries if gravity decrees that they go are not misled by soft words and assur­ elsewhere, and it logically follows that they ances from the Investigating Fraternity of cannot be successfully controlled except on Sanitary Engineers and Health Officials. a watershed basis which frequently involves several different states. Barring a few short A Troller's Thought coastal rivers, the great majority of pollu­ When my time has come to shuffle off this tion eventually assumes an interstate char­ mortal coil, acter, and even the intrastate rivers on the And leave behind my fishing days and coast take on a Federal aspect when they divers cares and toil; enter the sea. S. F. Starner, ardent Harrisburg angler, caught When I cross the river Jordan, if it's rough Realizing these basic facts and the abso­ these bass, largest l7'/2 inches, and pike perch, or smooth as glass, lute necessity for some uniform and coor­ !9|/2 inches, on plug in Susquehanna I'll be sitting in the stern sheets a-trolling at Marysville dinated program, forty-odd conservationists for a bass. who were vitally interested in pure streams WM. E. ASHTON. met in conference with the late Secretary ice and the health departments of the in­ of War and Senator Lonergan of Connecti­ dividual states — the very agencies that cut to formulate a program for the nation­ have made such a miserable failure of pol­ That Sucker Urge i wide purification of streams. This confer­ lution control in the past! Specifically, they The following incident submitted by Bur­ ence, held in December, 1934, and known as provide for an appropriation of $1,000,000 gess E. H. Davis of Mount Morris would the 'Dern-Lonergan Conference,' outlined a annually to the U. S. Public Health Serv­ indicate that "Pickle" Burris, veteran program for Federal control of pollution on ice, $300,000 of this amount for the admin­ sucker fisherman, is to have competition a watershed basis, which after much fur­ istration of the Division of Stream Pollu­ from his son this winter. We quote Mr. ther study and research formed the basis tion Control in the Bureau, and the balance Davis' letter: for the two bills, S3958 and S3959, intro­ of $700,000 to be paid to state health de­ "There were several sitting around in the duced in the last session by Senator Loner­ partments for "investigations, surveys, and hardware store yesterday afternoon when gan, and reported favorably by the Senate studies"—and for nothing else! "Pickle" Burris came in carrying a 20-inch Commerce Committee shortly before the Senator Lonergan's Bill had the solid sucker. Pick looked all around for his boy close of the session. Senator Lonergan plans support of conservation organizations and not seeing him started out when a to reintroduce essentially the same bill at throughout the country, including such na­ voice from the rear of the store exclaimed, the beginning of the next session when tional organizations as the Izaak Walton "Oh, Ralph, get me a nickel's worth of there will be ample time for it to be acted League, Audubon Society, American Fish­ sucker hooks." upon—favorably, I hope. eries Society, and North American Wildlife There has been so much publicity on the Conference. It was opposed by practically LEBOEUF YIELDS FINE MUSKIES Lonergan Bill and the various subterfuge all the polluting industries, individually and From Warden W. E. Briggs of Erie comes bills that followed it in the national Con­ through their associations, and either openly a report of fine muskellunge catches in Lake gress that I shall only comment briefly on or secretly by most state health depart­ LeBoeuf, Erie County, during the 1936 sea­ the essential points of difference to clear up ments and the U. S. Public Health Service. son. On July 10, Gill Zewe of Pittsburgh some of the confusion that exists. Prac­ It is significant, however, that not a single caught a 32-inch muskie weighing 11 pounds; tically all of them provide for cooperation municipality opposed the bill. The Barkley on July 16, R. J. Stranahan, Union City, with state agencies, for interstate com­ and Vinson bills were opposed by the con­ scored with a 16-pounder measuring 39 pacts, for studies and surveys and dissem­ servation organizations that have long inches; E. J. Hines, of Iron City, landed a ination of information, for Federal loans fought for pure streams, but were supported 20-pound muskie measuring 42 inches on and grants for treatment works, and other by the very polluters who vigorously op­ July 22; a 15 pounder, tipping the 40 inch similar provisions, but Senator Lonergan's posed the Lonergan Bill, and were also mark was caught on July 25 by Gill Zewe, Bill is the only one that clearly recognizes supported by most state health depart­ Pittsburgh; J. B. Hartman, caught a 32- the futility of existing systems and provides ments and by the U. S. Public Health inch muskie weighing 11 pounds on August the mandatory powers so essential to force Service. 1; a 15-pounder measuring 39 inches was into action the recalcitrant minority that Why did the polluters support the Bark­ caught on August 24 by Deri Hess of Sun- has successfully held up pollution abate­ ley and Vinson bills? Because they realized bury, another, 36 inches long and weighing ment programs these many years. It is also that there was absolutely no mandate in 11 pounds was taken on August 30 by M. the only bill that provides protection either bill that would interfere with their G. Allen, address not given; Vic Waldren of against the spread of the disease from new doing exactly as they pleased about their Waterford took a 17-pound muskie measur­ or potential sources. pollution as they had always done in the ing 41 inches on August 31; C. W. England The Barkley Bill, S4627, and its com­ past, and, furthermore, that the passage of and J. L. England, addresses not given, panion bill in the House by Mr. Vinson, are such an innocuous bill would lull the un­ caught muskies weighing 11 and 13 pounds typical brain children of the bureaucracy informed public into a peaceful sleep of respectively on September 1 and 3; E. C so rampant in Washington and in many false security, thereby delaying another Davis, no address given, caught a 37-incher state capitals, that puts bureau welfare and five or ten years the positive control of pol­ weighing 14 pounds on September 10; W. glorification ahead of public welfare and lution that eventually must come. The atti­ E. Briggs landed a 16-pounder measuring accomplishment. When their verbiage is all tude of the health departments will be 39 inches on September 14, and R. C. Ex- boiled down, they amount in substance to clear to those who are familiar with the ley, address not given, caught an 18-pound- memorials to the U. S. Public Health Serv- workings of the bureaucratic mind, and the er, length 43 inches, on September 27. PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 15 YORK AND ADAMS FISHING CONTEST

Keen competition developed during the nymph fly. Jesse Bair won the prize for three-quarters inches long and weighing Past fishing season in the fishing contest brown trout with a catch weighing two eleven ounces. Nelson Lapham won first conducted by the York and Adams County pounds, six ounces, and measuring seven­ prize in the bluegill class, entering as his Game and Fish Association, according to teen inches in length. This fish was caught best catch a sunnie measuring eight and word received by J. Richard Stover, chair­ in Spring creek, June 11, with a bucktail one-half inches in length and weighing five man of the association's Fish Committee. fly. Mrs. George E. Kauffman was a close and one-half ounces. It was caught in Dicks' Prizes for the contest were awarded by Mr. runner-up for honors in the brown trout Dam, October 21, with a worm as bait. Stover at a meeting held on the evening of division with a catch weighing two pounds J. Richard Stover won first prize in the January 20 at the American Legion Hall in and measuring sixteen and three-quarters catfish division with a catch measuring fif­ Hanover. They were contributed by the inches in length. teen and one-half inches in length and Hanover Hardware Company, Samuel Shirk Numerous large fish were entered in the weighing one pound, ten ounces. It was and Son, and a number of fishing tackle smallmouth bass division. The largest bass caught in Dicks' Dam with a tadpole for manufacturers. Prior to the awards, they entered was that caught by Charles F. Mil­ bait, on October 5. Charles F. Crawford was had been on display in the windows of the ler at Hoover's Ford on October 8. It was runner-up for honors with a thirteen-inch Fischer Insurance Agency at Hanover. twenty inches long, measured thirteen catfish weighing one pound, four ounces, The anglers receiving the prizes were inches around the body, and weighed three caught in Hoover's Ford with a minnow as called upon to relate briefly how they pounds, seven and one-half inches. A tad­ bait. caught their prize-winning fish. pole was used as bait. The next three heav­ Game Protector R. C. Anderson, Gettys­ Dr. George E. Kauffman won two prizes iest entries in the smallmouth bass division burg, addressed the sportsmen at their lr meeting, speaking on the value of song and > the trout class, having entered the targ­ were caught on plugs by Donald McKim, insectivorous birds in combatting the in­ et brook trout and the largest rainbow Roderick L. Fisher and Dr. S. G. Naylor. sects which threaten to destroy crops on trout in the contest. The Hanover dentist's These and Guy Fleming, whose catch was farms. He stressed the importance of pro­ Prize-winning brook trout was thirteen made with a helgramite as bait, were awarded prizes. viding natural nesting grounds for the mches long, weighed twelve ounces, and was birds and warned against destruction of caught in Spring creek, May 29, with a fly. Charles N. Resh won first prize in the brush by farmers in an effort to keep their Daniel Altland was runner-up for brook rock bass division with a catch measuring farms in a "too clean" condition at the ex­ r •- out with a catch measuring twelve and ten inches in length, eight inches in girth pense of their feathered friends. three-eighths inches and weighing eleven and weighing thirteen ounces. It was The association went on record as being ounces. Dr. Kauffman's rainbow weighed caught in Bradford county, September 14, in favor of an increase in the hunting li­ two pounds, was eighteen inches long and with a helgramite as bait. Cletus C. Bowie cense fee and of the issuance of special vvas caught in Spring Creek, April 21, on a won second prize with a bass nine and licenses for trappers.

LIST OF ENTRIES IN THE YORK & ADAMS COUNTY GAME & FISH ASSOCIATION'S 1936 FISHING CONTEST Name of Entrant Species of Fish Weight Length Girth Bait Used Where Caught Date Caught

Dr- Geo. Kauffman *Brook Trout 13" 6%" Hoffman's Fancy Spring Cr. May 29,1936 Daniel M. Altland Brook Trout 12%" 6%" Worm Birch Run. May 30,1936 Jesse Bair *Brown Trout 2 17" 9%" Buck Tail Fly Spring Cr. June 11,1936 ^rs. Geo. Kauffman Brown Trout 2 16%" 9%" Buck Tail Fly Spring Cr. May 29,1936 Dr- Geo. Kauffman * Rainbow Trout 2 18" 9%" Weber Nymph Spring Cr. Apr. 21,1936 chas. F. Miller *Smallmouth Bass 3 20" 13" Tadpole Hoover's Ford. Oct. 8,1936 I> 18%" 12%" Plug Feeser's Quarry Aug. 18,1936 Roderick Fisher * Smallmouth Bass 3 lbs. nw ii%" piug Dicks' Dam. Sept. 21,1936 Dr- Stephen G. Naylor * Smallmouth Bass 2 lb., 8oz. 17%" 10%" Plug Conodoguinet. Sept. 23,1936 Gu Waldheim. July 2,1936 m y Fleming *Smallmouth Bass 2 lb., 5 oz. 18" 10%" Helgramite Waldheim. July 17,1936 :h jj- P. Becker ' Smallmouth Bass 2 lb., 4 oz. 17" 10%" Helgramite e, %rl R. Crawford Smallmouth Bass 2 lb., 1 oz. 17%" 10" Minnow Keagy's Quarry. Aug. 1,1936 2- ^illard M. Starner Smallmouth Bass 1 lb., 14 oz. 17" 9%-" Worni Keagy's Quarry. July 6,1936 3t • Richard Stover Smallmouth Bass 1 lb., 12 oz. 16" 9%" Minnow Dicks' Dam. Sept. 22,1936 IS £*cob Grimes Smallmouth Bass 1 lb., 12 oz. 14%" 10%" Worm ConewagoCr. Oct. 26,1936 1- ^aul E. Crawford Smallmouth Bass 1 lb., 8oz. 15" 9" Minnow E. Berlin Dam. July 2,1936 g h 10" 8" Helgramite Bradford Co. Sept. 14,1936 I. £ as. N. Resh *Rock Bass 13 oz. *?letus C. Bowie *Rock Bass 11 oz. 9%" 8" Worm Dicks'Dam. Oct. 20,1936 )f E.Berlin Dam. July 14,1936 r- r^rl R. Crawford Rock Bass 7oz. 8%" 9%" Helgramite id G- Roy Swartz Rock Bass 8oz. 8%" 7%" Minnow Dicks' Dam. Aug. 7,1936 a, *tart Garvick Rock Bass 6oz. 8" 6" Fly Big Conewago. July 3,1936 Is ^elson Lapham * Bluegill Sunfish 5% oz. 8%" 7%" Worm Dicks'Dam. Oct. 21,1936 Raymond Crawford Bluegill Sunfish 3% oz. 7%" 6%" Worm Eisenhart's Dam. May 11,1936 it *' Richard Stover *Catfish (Blue) 1 lb., 10 oz. 15%" 9%" Tadpole Dicks' Dam. Oct. 5,1936 J. £has. F. Crawford *Catfish 1 lb., 4oz. 13" 8" Minnow Hoover's Ford. Aug. 12,1936 g uyde Wolford Catfish 1 lb. 14" 7%" Minnow Dicks' Dam. Aug. 3,1936 c- I 16 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER (Continued from page II) DISTRIBUTE OVER MILLION FISH dian fisheries receive many small, indirect benefits too numerous to mention. The en­ IN THREE MONTHS tire plan has worked splendidly and satis­ factorily. The Fish Commission planted 1,440,310 Why can't the American fisheries plan an fish of the various species in public waters annual fish week? throughout the state during October, No­ —The Fisherman. vember and December. This number in­ cluded 4,419 bass, 447,034 brook, brown and rainbow trout, 298,465 sunflsh, 208,133 cat­ fish, 92,060 yellow perch, 25,600 minnows, SPORTSMEN BACK MOVE TO 362,500 embryo frogs, 70 pike perch, 1,129 pickerel, and 700 suckers. All the trout CLEAN UP BRANDYWINE stocked were over legal six-inch size. That fishermen and hunters of Chester County have been key figures in the com­ mendable movement to clean up pollution in the historic Brandywine Creek is made evi­ Waters Stocked During October Include: dent by the following interesting letter from Adams County-—catfish and sunflsh, Lt. Marsh Cr., Marsh Cr., Hokes Lake, Keagys Lake. special fish warden, Clarence E. Miles, of Allegheny County—catflsh, sunflsh and yellow West Chester. Writes Mr. Miles: perch, Panther Hollow Lake. "On March 9, 1936, I was appointed Spe­ Armstrong County—catflsh, sunflsh and frogs, Allegheny River, Craig Run, Buffalo & Susq. cial Fish Warden. Some of my fishermen Coal Co. Dam. friends wrote to me on July 10 about the 20-inch, 4-1 b. largemouth bass taken by Louis Beaver County—rainbow trout, Brady Run. condition of the Brandywine Creek. I in­ Reitile, Morrisville, in Lehigh Canal Bedford County — brook trout. Cove Cr., Tountz Cr., Sherman Valley Run, Flintstone formed them that if they would bring me a Cr.; brown trout, Cumberland Valley Run ; cat­ petition, I would not only sign it but carry flsh, sunflsh and frogs, Raystown Br. Juniata River, Brush Cr., Wills Cr., Dunnings Cr., Bobs it through to a finish. Mr. F. C. Dutt, a FISHY? Cr. fisherman of this place, who has been fight­ Berks County—black bass, Ontelaunce Lake; ing pollution in the Brandywine Creek for brown trout, Hay Cr.; catflsh and sunflsh, Cones- A Black-fish is not black at all, toga Cr., Tulpehocken Cr., Oley Furnace Cr., the past six years, brought me petition No. Manatawney Cr., Mill or Fishers Cr., Long Pond 1. After signing this petition, I carried it But dark gray is its hue; on Lehigh Cr., Lt. Lehigh River, Sacony Cr., Boyertown Water Co. Dam, Lt. Swatara Cr., about with me for three weeks, and one A Red-fish is not red, but brown Crosskill Cr., French Cr., Monoeacy Cr.; yellow day, while so doing, came upon a group of A White-fish is light blue. perch, Monoeacy Cr., Lt. Swatara Cr., Boyer­ town Water Co. Dam, Sacony Cr., Lt. Lehigh men holding a meeting at a camp ground River, Long Pond, Wyomissing Cr., Ontelaunce along the creek. I presented the petition to A Blue-fish is not sad or "Blue," Lake. them to sign, and then learned that they But quite content is he. Blair County—catflsh, sunflsh and frogs, Reig- hard Dam, Stevens Dam, Frankstown Br. Juni­ were officers of the "Friends of the Brandy­ A Jelly-fish does not congeal— ata River, Williamsburg Dam on Frankstown wine." They signed my petition, I became Br.; brown trout, Bald Eagle Cr., Clover Cr. From jelly he is free. Bradford County—catflsh and sunflsh, Beaver one of their members, and was then ap­ Meadow Pond, Cooks Pond, Rockwell Pond, pointed chairman of the Stream Pollution A Cat-fish cannot catch a mouse, Herrickville Rod & Gun Club Pond, Susq. River N. Br., Lake Wesauking; pickerel, Lake Committee. And never does it mew, Wesauking. "In your November issue, you published a A Dog-fish never barks or growls; Bucks County—catflsh and sunflsh, Delaware full account of our conference on October River, Deep Run trib. Tohickon Cr., E. Swamp A Sea-cow does not moo. Cr. or Unami Cr., Tohickon Cr., Three Mile 9, 1936. At that time, we had 42 petitions Run ; pickerel, Tohickon Cr.; suckers, E. Swamp Cr.; yellow perch, Tohickon Cr., E. Swamp Cr., containing 2800 names. These petitions were A Hoj7-fish never roots or grunts, Silver Lake. sent to fishermen in every section of the Horse Mackerel eats no hay; Butler County—rainbow trout, Brady Run, county, and handed from one fisherman and Silver Cr., Bear Cr.; catflsh, sunflsh and frogs, A Crab is never sulky, but Yellow Cr., Breakneck Cr., Buhls Channel, sportsman to another. Cambria County—catflsh and sunflsh, St. "I believe in giving credit where credit is Seems quite content and gay. Francis Lake, Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co. Dam, North Branch Little Conemaugh, Clear­ due, and credit is surely due every sports­ A Star-fish twinkles not at night, field Creek, McCoy Shaft Dam, Dooman Dam, man in Chester County. Roland S. Grubb, New Borough Dam, Beaverdam Run, Chest A Spot-fish moves around; Creek, Walters Dam on Killbuck Run; frogs, Esq., is a member of the Chester County Dooman Dam, New Borough Dam, Beaverdam A Spade-fish never shovels coal Run, Chest Creek, Walters Dam on KillbucK and Philadelphia County bar associations, Run; suckers. Slate Lick Run; brook trout, also a member of the Pennsylvania Stream Or digs down in the ground. Cedar Run; rainbow trout, Edensburg Water Co. New Dam, New Boro Dam; yellow perch, Pollution Committee, P. G. Piatt, chairman. A Craw-fish doesn't have a craw, McCoy Shaft Dam. To Mr. Grubb great credit is due. He was An Angel-fish no wings; Cameron County—catflsh. Bowers Pond. the brains of our movement." Carbon County—catflsh and sunflsh, Round A Devil-fish no hoofs or horns, Pond, Mahoning Creek, Lizard Creek, Harmony Unfortunately, the impression was given Lake ; frogs, Quakake Creek; pickerel, Harmony in a recent issue of the ANGLER that a Forked tail or other things. Lake. certain individual was responsible for the Centre County—brown trout, Spring Creek, A Weak-fish doesn't seem so weak, Marsh Creek, Cold Stream, Pine Creek; catflsh, program being carried on to break up pollu­ Moshannon Lake; rainbow trout, Elk Creek • tion of the Brandywine. We list herewith Sea-Lions have no mane; frogs, Bakers Dam,- Moshannon Lake ; blue gi" sunflsh, Bakers Dam, Moshannon Lake; catflsh officers of the "Friends of the Brandy­ A Jack-fish cannot lift a thing— and frogs, Moshannon Lake, Bakers Dam. wine": Roland S. Grubb, president; Arthur He's not built like a crane. Chester County—black bass, French Creek; brown trout, French Creek; yellow perch, Shatf A. Russell, vice-president; William J. Peo­ Lake Chester Creek, Crum Creek, Ridley Creek, ples, treasurer; Albert H. Ford, secretary; A Jew-fish has no business brains, Darby Creek, Crum Lynne Dam; catflsh, Big Elk Creek, East Branch Big Elk Creek, Bakers Christian C. Sanderson, vice-president; A Shark no money lends; Hole, Barnadis Quarry Hole, West Branch Clarence E. Miles, chairman, committee on A King -fish never wears a crown, Brandywine Creek tributary Brandywine Creek, Potts Dam on Perkins Run, Muddy Creek. stream pollution; and the conference com­ A Needle-fish ne'er mends. Beaver Creek, Buck Run, Delchester Farm* Dam, Ridley Creek, Delchester Farms Dam* mittee chairmen include: Richard G. Tay­ Indian Creek, Mill Pond, Black Dam, French lor, publicity; H. L. Owens, entertainment; A Powt-fish is not stubborn, as Creek; sunflsh, East Branch Big Elk Creek, Bakers Hole, Barnadis Quarry Hole, West Frank Keen, finance; Mrs. Samuel S. Her­ Its name seems to imply; Branch Brandywine Creek, Potts Dam on Per­ man, reception; Mrs. E. P. Allinson, pro­ kins Run, Muddy Creek, Beaver Creek, BucK A Milk-fish never gives us milk Run, Delchester Farms Dam, Ridley Creek. gram; Robert Parke, banquet; F. C. Dutt, For babies when they cry. Delchester Farms Dam, Indian Creek, Mill Pond. resolutions. Black Dam, French Creek, Shaw Lake, Big E1H —Margaret M. Martz. Creek. PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 17

_, Clarion County—brook trout, Canoe Run, wood or McCalls Ferry Dam on Conestoga Schuylkill County—brown trout, Locust Creek, jkoms Run, Deer Creek, Little Piney Creek, Lit- Creek, Octoraro Creek, West Branch Octoraro sunflsh and catfish, Sweet Arrow Lake, Long "e Toby Creek; catfish, Clarion River, Alle­ Creek, Conowingo Dam, Susquehanna River; Run, Dock Pond, Mahantango Creek, Pine gheny River, Snakehead Pond. frogs, Safe Harbor Dam, Conowingo Dam. Creek, Mahoning Creek. Clearfield County—brook trout, Moshannon Lawrence County—brook trout, Offerts Run, Snyder County-—catfish, Penns Creek, Mahan­ ~reek; catfish, Pine Grove Inn, Beaver Run, Taylor Run, Big Run tributary Shenango River; tango Creek North Branch, Richfield Dam on y'eek, Little Clearfield Creek, Chest Creek, catfish, North Fork Beaver River, Neshannock West Branch Mahantango Creek, Pennsylvania ^•heedlers Dam. Creek, Youngstown Quarry Hole, Lower Power Power & Light Co. Dam on Middle Creek; sun­ _ Clinton County—brook trout, Big Fishing House Dam, Quarry Hole No. 5, Cement Dam flsh, Penns Creek, North Branch Mahantango S-reek ; catfish, Kettle Creek; pickerel, Big Fish- on Big Run, Dam at Lake Beachon, Big Run, Creek, Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Dam on "•S Creek. Municipal Golf Course Pond. Middle Creek, Mahantango Creek West Branch. ttm 112?' Ma County—catfish, Fishing Creek, Lebanon County—catfish and sunfish, Water Somerset County—brown trout, Beaver Dam £;ittle Fishing Creek, Green Creek, Roaring Works Dam, Swatara Creek; brook trout, In- Creek, Stony Creek ; sunflsh, Bigby Creek, Elklick ^reek; sunfish, Fishing Creek, Green Creek, diantown Creek. Creek, McDonaldson Dam, Rowena Lake, West soaring Creek. Branch Coxes Creek, Middle Creek, Kimberly Lehigh County — catfish and sunflsh, Hen- Run, Youghiogheny River; catfish, Bigby Creek, fi Crawford County—brook trout, McLaughlin ninger Mine Hole, Swartz Mine Hole, Ormrod 2-Un; catfish, Oil Creek, French Creek, Crooked Mine Hole, Ironton Mine Hole, Indian Creek McDonaldson Dam, Rowena Lake, West Branch yreek, Conneaut Creek, Cussewago Creek, Park Dam on Indian Creek, Smoyer Milling Coxes Creek, Middle Creek, Kimberly Run, /"rakes Dam, Canadohta Lake, Clear Lake; Co. Dam, Rockdale Dam on Rockdale Creek, Youghiogheny River; frogs, Bigby Creek, Mc­ KJack bass, Pymatuning Reservoir; pike perch, Green Ore Hole or Thomas Lake, Jordan Creek Donaldson Dam, West Branch Coxes Creek, fTmatuning Reservoir; frogs, Goodwell Dam; tributary Little Lehigh River, Ontelaunce Middle Creek, Kimberly Run, Youghiogheny "Uow perch, French Creek. Creek, Alburtis Mine Hole. River; minnows, Youghiogheny River. ^Cumberland County — black bass, Carlisle Luzerne County—catfish, Ider Pond or Berney SitHi»a»i County—catfish, Eagles Mere Lake, J^ater Dam on Conodoguinet Creek; yellow Pond, Sugar Noch or Boyles Dam, North Pond, Elk Lake, Williams or Little Lake, Mud Pond; fterch, Mountain Creek, Carlisle Water House Mountain Ice Co. Dam No. 1 on Bowmans Creek, sunflsh, Elk Lake, Williams Lake, Mud Lake; Cvm,' YeHow Breeches Creek, Conodoguinet Andes Pond, Three Cornered or Silkworth Lake, yellow perch, Williams Lake. ,,,=|k. Hairy Spring Hollow Creek; catfish and Harveyville Dam on Huntingdon Creek, White Susquehanna County—catfish, Cottrell Pond, ih "wash. Hairy Spring Hollow Creek, Yellow Haven Dam on Lehigh River, Penn Lake, Lewis Lake, Tingley Lake, Tyler Lake, Lord Seeches Creek, Conodoguinet Creek, Carlisle Nuangola or Triangular Lake, Susquehanna Pond, Lakeside or Tarble Pond, Pages Pond, ,":ater House Dam, Means Run; pickerel, River North Branch Susquehanna River, Cum- Hells Half Acre Lake, Wrighter Lake, Com­ fountain Creek. mings Pond, Browns Pond, Grassy Pond, forts Pond, Quaker Lake, Upper Lake, Middle „ Dauphin County — yellow perch, Swatara Bryantz Ice Dam; sunflsh, Three Cornered Lake, Lake, Lower Lake; sunflsh, Hells Half Acre pfeek, Monada Creek; catfish and sunflsh, Mountain Ice Co. Dam No. 1 on Bowmans Lake, Pages Pond, Tingley Lake, Tyler Lake, g°newago Creek, Monada Creek, Swatara Creek, Creek, Harveyville Dam on Huntingdon Creek, Lord Pond, Lakeside or Tarble Pond, Middle Susquehanna River, Wildwood Lake, Powells North Branch Susquehanna River, Cummings Lake, Upper Lake, Lower Lake, Round Pond, vnf • stony Creek, Pennsylvania Canal Reser- Pond, Browns Pond, Grassy Pond, Bryants Ice Alford Pond ; yellow perch, Alford Pond, Round c,0";; black bass, Stony Creek; brook trout, Dam, Penn Lake, White Haven Dam on Lehigh Pond. ^uth Fork Powells Creek. River; yellow perch, Andes Pond; pickerel, Tioga County—catfish, Blacks Pond, Marsh aware Nuangola Lake, Sylvan Lake, Three Cornered Creek, Longwell Pond, Gray Valley or Bullards Lake Creek, „ Brie County—rainbow trout, Little Conneaute French Creek, Sandy Creek; blue gills, Sandy r McKean County—catfish, Community Park Creek, French Creek; brook trout, Cherry Run, X eek, Conneaute Creek, South Branch French Lake, Gifford Pond, Allegheny River, Mellander South Branch Sandy Creek, East Sandy Creek, j£eek; catfish. West Branch French Creek, Pond; frogs, Gifford Pond; brook trout, Kinzua Little or North Sandy Creek, North Branch 'rench Creek, LeBoeuf Lake, Dam on Runion Creek, Comes Creek, Chappel Fork, North '-reek, Conneaut Creek. Sugar Creek, East Branch Sugar Creek, Horse 0rest Branch Sugar Creek, Seven Mile Run, Fife or Creek, Porkey Creek, Panther or Prather Creek; yj)l w County—-sunflsh, catfish, frogs and Mead Run, North Branch Tunenugwant Creek. brown trout. West Pithole Creek, Scrubgrass Sol Perch, Allegheny River; brook trout, Mercer County—brook trout, East Branch Creek. Salmo1n creek, Little Salmon Creek, Hemlock Wolf Creek, North Branch Wolf Creek; catfish, Warren County—blue gills, Columbus Pond; CW* Little Coon Creek, Coon Creek or Big sunflsh and frogs, Shenango River, Pymatun­ yellow perch, Columbus Pond on Brokenstraw goon Creek, Little Hickory Creek, Tubbs Run, ing Creek, Furnace Pond. Creek; brook trout, Arnot Creek, West Branch vwnng Creek, Branch of North Salmon Creek, Mifflin County—brook trout, Treaster Valley Tionesta Creek, Lamb Run Creek, Wilson Run •parsoy n Branch, Blue Jay Creek, Bobbs Creek, Run, Havis Creek; catfish, Juniata Country Creek, Ben Jorge Creek, Little Brokenstraw est Branch Blue Jay Creek. Club Dam on Juniata River; yellow perch, Juni­ Creek, North West Branch Spring Creek, Hem­ j Franklin County—sunfish, catfish and frogs, ata Country Club Dam on Juniata River. lock Creek, Six Mile Run Creek, Minister Run pQuian Lake on West Branch Conococheague Monroe County—pickerel, Coleman Pond; cat­ Creek; rainbow trout, Brokenstraw Creek, geek, Conodoguinet Creek, Muddy Run, West fish and sunflsh, Coleman Pond, Gregory Ice Farnsworth Creek; catfish, Columbus Pond, planch Conococheague Creek, Conococheague Pond, Half Moon Pond, Arlington Lake. Conewango Creek, Allegheny River. f/eek, Goods Dam, Bast Branch Little Antietam Washington County—sunflsh, Mingo Strip Mine ^-reek, East Branch Little Antietam Creek, Montgomery County—yellow perch, Terwood Holes No. 1, 2, 3 and 4, No. 53 Reservoir Coke- j . &ulton County — sunflsh, catfish and frogs, Pond, Pennypack Creek, Skippack Creek, North burg, Little Chartiers Creek or Linden Creek, kicking Creek, Cove Creek. East Branch Perkiomen Creek, Perkiomen Ten Mile Creek, Little Ten Mile Creek, Lan- t>?untinO and sunflsh, Shaver Creek, Raystown pack Creek, Towamenien Creek, Ridge Valley fish Little Chartiers Creek, Ten Mile Creek, SWn?h J«^ata River, Penn Central Dam on Creek, Macoby Creek, Perkiomen Creek, North Little Ten Mile Creek, Rankin Run, Langeloth at East Branch Perkiomen Creek, Skippack Creek, 3t. n' Jkstown Branch Juniata River, Aughwick Terwood Pond. Mill Dam, Krewer3 Dam, Aunt Clara Fork, ",o- tip <*r• Sideling Hill Creek, Juniata River, Lit- Kings Creek, Mingo Strip Mine Holes No. 1, 2, X' tnL,r Br°ugh Creek; frogs, Shaver Creek, Rays- Montour County — catfish, Mahoning Creek, 3 and 4, No. 53 Reservoir Cokeburg; frogs, m, »h w a-neh Juniata River, Penn Central Dam Seiberts Pond, Chillisquauque Creek; sunflsh, Little Chartiers Creek, Ten Mile Creek, Little !St lint, i^kstown Branch, Aughwick Creek, Side­ Seiberts Pond, Chillisquauque Creek, Mahoning Ten Mile Creek, Rankin Run, Langeloth Mill 's Hill Creek. Creek. Dam, Krewers Dam, Aunt Clara Fork, Kings in Y Indiana County—catfish, sunfish and frogs, Creek. cH- Northampton County—brown trout, Hoken- •niow Creek, Little Mahoning Creek. dauqua Creek; catfish and sunflsh, Hokendauqua Wayne County—brown trout, Dyberry Creek; it, rson catfish, Kenns Lake, Elk Lake, Four Mile Pond er hdt^S.Creek CountyR —catfish, Reeds Dam, Sandy Creek, Hellertown Reservoir Park Dam No. 1 :h, Su£, . ed Bank Creek, Brookville Water and 2, Hyers Dam on Bushkill Creek, Bowers or Hiawatha Lake, Starlight Lake, Poyntelle Softi- y D™. Soldier. Dam ; frogs, Reeds Dam, Dam on Bushkill Creek, Brays Lake, Jacabus Lake, Scotdale or Waidler Pond, Coxton Lake, la>er Dam, Brookville Water Supply Dam. Creek, Delaware River. Howell or Rude Pond, Bone Lake, Long Pond, Un Sly Lake, Bunnells Pond, Henry Lake or Maple- flsh «ataa County—pickerel, Licking Creek; cat- Northumberland County—catfish and sunflsh, wood Lake, Rose Pond, Duck Harbor Pond, lja' hmad n sunfish, Lost Creek, Juniata River, Mahantango Creek. Lower Woods Pond, Snag Pond ; sunflsh, Four Crep^: Dam, pomeroys Dam on Tuscarora Perry County—catfish and sunfish, Shermans Mile Pond, Starlight Lake, Bigelow Lake, Cline brnSi • Cocolamus Creek, Tuscarora Creek; Creek, Juniata River, Cocolamus Creek, Buffalo . Pond, Adams Pond, Bene Lake, Long Pond, °°K trout. Willow Run. Creek, Little Buffalo Creek; pickerel, Shermans' Sly Lake, Lower Woods Pond, Bunnells Pond, Creek. Rose Pond, Snag Pond, Howells Pond; pickerel, ^J^fkawannawton County—catfish, Crystal Lake, Cadjaw Pond, Lake Como, Howells Pond; tal Lake, Heart Lake, Moosic Lake, Moun­ Pike County—catfish, Wallenpaupack Lake, minnows, Long Pond, Sly Lake, Poyntelle Lake, ts" Mud Pond, Mud Pond tributary, Windfall Egypt Meadow Dam, White Deer Lake, Tami- Scottdale Pond. p0h2> Handsome Lake, Sheridan Lake, Sicklers nent Lake, Minisink Lake, Delaware River, sun)?' West End Lake, Lower Klondyke Lake; Westmoreland County—sunflsh, St. Vincents K]„„5 ' Mud Pond tributary, Moosic Lake, Lower View or Panther Lake, Pecks Pond, Big Tink Lake, Beatty Reservoir, Bagley Reservoir, Four j^undyice Lake, West End Lake, Crystal Lake, Lake, Sawkill Pond, Mud Pond, Twin Lakes, Mile Run Creek ; catfish, Four Mile Run Creek, H „ton Lake, ,Heart- Lake, Windfall Lake, Kleinhans Mill Pond on Blooming Grove Creek, Cline Pond, Adams Lake, Bigelow Lake ; frogs, a as Bruce or Roots Lake, Westcolang Lake, Big Four Mile Run. t>er" °me ' Lake, Mountain Mud Pond ; yellow Walker Lake, Promise Land Pond, Greeley w. Mountain Mud Pond. Lake, Little Mud Pond; sunflsh, Welcome Lake, Wyoming County—catfish, Susquehanna River North Branch, Mud Pond; sunflsh, Mud Pond. ionc aster County—minnows, Safe Harbor View Lake, White Deer Lake, Taminent Lake, t>a m on Minisink Lake, Sawkill Pond, Mud Pond, Twin °ft «? Susquehanna River, Conowingo Dam Lakes, Kleinhans Mill Pond on Blooming Grove York County — yellow perch, Silver Lake, b0r. usquehaiina River; yellow perch, Safe Har- Broad Water Lake, South Branch Codorus 5„ Dam on Susquehanna River, Conowingo Creek, Bruce or Roots Lake, Westcolang Lake, Creek; catfish and sunflsh, Silver Lake, North otl Promise Land Pond, Egypt Meadow Dam, Big Branch Bermudian Creek, South Branch Codor­ BOot? ar SusquehannCreek a River, Conestoga Creek, Tink Lake, Delaware River, Wallenpaupack 'errl ^ : catfish, Holtwood or McCalls Lake, Big Walker Lake, Pecks Pond, Greeley us Creek, Fishing Creek. Jlj]]* aDam on Susquehanna River, Wengers Lake, Little Mud Pond; yellow perch, Pecks Con,,s Poghia , Conestoga Creek, Cocalico Creek, Waters Stocked During November Include: B S J, Creek, Conowingo Creek, West Pond, Egypt Meadow Dam, Promise Land ra c Pond; pickerel, Greeley Lake, Pecks Pond, Adams County—catfish and sunfish, Bermu­ Win"0 "D Octoraro Creek, Octoraro Creek, Cono- Promise Land Pond, Minisink Lake; minnows; DatS am on Susquehanna River, Safe Harbor dian Creek, West Branch Conewago Creek, CrepV °n Susquehanna River; sunflsh, Cocalico Twin Lakes, Bruce Lake. Conewago Creek, Chambersburg Water Co. safo Vj wengers Mill Dam, Conestoga Creek, Potter County—rainbow trout, West Branch Reservoir; brook trout, Conewago Creek, Little Harbor Dam on Susquehanna River, Holt- Genesee River, Genesee River. Marsh Creek. 18 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

Allegheny County—catfish, sunflsh and frogs, Horam Run Creek, Cedar Run Creek, Laurel Tioga County — brook trout, Right Branch Allegheny River. Run Creek, Clear Run Creek, Callens Run, Mill Straight Run, Left Branch Straight Run, Armstrong County—catfish, sunflsh and frogs, Creek, North Fork Red Bank Creek; rainbow Straight Run, Kettle Creek, Big Run, Long trout, Little Mill Creek, East Branch Mahon­ Run. Buffalo Creek. ing Creek, Cathers Run, Clear Creek, Mill Berks County—sunflsh, Conestoga Creek; cat­ Union County—brook trout, Rapid Run I Creek; catfish, Municipal Water Works Dam brown trout, Laurel Run; catfish, Penns Creek, fish, North West Branch Perkiomen Creek or at Falls Creek. Branch Creek, Conestoga Creek; brook trout, Buffalo Creek, Little Buffalo Creek, White Deer Mill Creek Bethel Township, Furnace Creek or Juniata County—catfish and sunflsh, Juniata Hole Creek. Blue Creek, Swamp Creek, Back Creek, Raush River, Licking Creek or East Licking Creek. Venango County—brook trout, Middle Branch Creek, Pine Creek; rainbow trout and brown Lackawanna County — pickerel, Deer Lake, Sugar Creek, Cherry Run, Horse Creek, Little trout, North West Branch Perkiomen Creek. Johnson Lake; yellow perch, Deer Lake; cat­ or North Branch Sandy Creek, Pithole Creek, Blair County—brook trout, Bobs Creek. fish, Johnson Lake, Baylors Pond, Newton Henlock Creek, Tarr Kill Creek, South Sandy Lake, Deer Lake, Crystal Lake, Hoosic Lake, Creek, East Sandy Creek, Upper Two Mile Bradford County—catfish, North Branch Sus­ Lower Klondyke Lake, West End Lake. Deer Creek ; rainbow trout, Scrubgrass Creek, Upper quehanna River, Blakeslee Pond, Moody Pond, Lake, Chapman's Lake; brook trout. West Two Mile Creek, West Pithole Creek. Stonwell Pond, Nephawin Lake, Towanda Branch Wallenpaupack Creek, Gardners Creek, Warren County—brook trout, Farnsworth Creek, Minnequa or Ketchum Creek, Sunflsh Choke Creek; black bass, Deer Lake. Pond, Mountain Lake, Warren Pond; pickerel, Creek, Four Mile Run, Lower Sheriff Creek, Nephawin Lake ; yellow perch, North Fork Ten Lancaster County—sunflsh, Mill Creek, Muddy Phelps or Spencer Run, Little BrokenstraW Mile Creek, Sycamore Creek. Creek; catfish, Pequea Creek, Middle Creek, Creek, Pine Creek, Tidioute Creek, East or Big Stovers Dam on Indian Creek, Hammer Creek. Hickory Creek; catfish, sunflsh and frogs, Bucks County — minnows (shiners), Warren Muddy Creek, Mill Creek, Little Chickies Creek, Columbus Pond. Lake; catfish, Warren Lake, Tohickon Creek, Big Chickies Creek, Cocalico Creek, Little Washington County—catfish, Ten Mile Creek Pidcock Creek, Neshaminy Creek; pickerel, Conestoga Creek. Tohickon Creek; black bass, Unami Creek, or North Ten Mile Creek, Cross Creek, Buffalo Warren Lake; brook trout, Cooks Creek or Dur­ Lebanon County—sunflsh and catfish, Cone- Creek, Kings Creek, Aunt Clara Fork or Middle ham Creek. wago Creek, Stracks Dam, Little Swatara King Creek, Krewers Dam, Langloth Mill Dam, Creek; brook trout, Bachman Run Creek, Snitz Little Chartiers Creek or Linden Creek, Mingo Butler County—catfish, sunflsh and frogs. Creek, Hammer Creek, West Branch Hammer Strip Mine Holes No. 1, 2, 3 and 4, No. 53 Wolf Creek, Glade Run; brook trout, Little Creek. Reservoir; frogs and sunflsh, Cross Creek, Buf­ Connoquenessing Creek; rainbow trout, Thorn falo Creek. Creek. Lehigh County—brook trout, Swabia Creek, Iron Run Creek, Spring Creek; rainbow trout. Wayne County—brook trout, Big Branch Dy- Cambria County—brook trout, Spring Creek, Mountain Creek. berry Creek, Shehawken Creek, Shad Pond Benns Creek, Beaverdam Run, East Branch Luzerne CoiMrty^-catftsh, Harveys Lake, Line- Creek; pickerel, North Jersey Lake, Lake La- Hinckstown Run, Hinckstown Run, Noels Creek, dore, Bunnells Pond ; catfish, North Jersey Lake, Saltlick Run, Big Laurel Run, Duclos Run. ville Creek, Nuangola Lake, Mountain Ice Co. Dam No. 1 on Bowmans Creek, Silkworth Lake ; Dick Harbor Pond, Long Pond, Independent Cameron County—brook trout, Wykoft' Run, brook trout, Nescopeck Creek; black bass, Nu­ Lake, Watawgo Lake, Lake Ladore, West Lushbaugh Run, Lick Island Run, Portage angola Lake, Lake Silkworth. Branch Delaware River, Delaware River, Spruce Creek, Mix Run, Upper Jerry Run, Hunts Run, Lake, Seeleyville Pond, Shehawken Lake, Island Sterling Run, Hicks Run. Lycoming County—brook trout, Roaring Lake, Lake Como, Poyntelle Lake, Scotdale Branch, Trout Run, Hogland Run, Grays Run, Pond, Coxton Lake, Lake Henry, Snag Pond, Carbon County — brook trout, Pine Creek, Trout Run, West Mill Creek. Buckwa Creek, Hays Creek, Mauch Chunk Goose Pond, Bunnells Pond, Cadjaw Pond. Creek, Hunter Creek, Aquashicola Creek; cat­ McKean County—brook trout, Two Mile Run, Westmoreland County—catfish, sunflsh, frogs fish. Black Creek, Leslie Run, Harmony Lake. Seven Mile Run, West Branch Tunenugwant and black bass, Mammoth Dam, Carpentertown Creek, West Clarion Creek, Kenzua Creek, Center County—catfish, Penns Creek, Dam on Sugar or South Sugar Run. Dam No. 1, No. 2; brook trout, Mill Creek, Bald Eagle Creek, Moshannon Lake; brook South Fork Mill Creek, Shannon Run, Powder trout, Six Mile Run Creek, Little Fishing Creek, Mifflin County—catfish, Juniata River, Jacks Mill Run, Roaring Run, Camps Run, North South Pork Beech Creek, Pine Creek; rainbow Creek ; brook trout, Tea Creek, Treaster Valley Fork Mill Creek, Middle Fork Mill Creek. trout and black bass, Bald Eagle Creek. Run, Havice Creek, Laurel Run. Wyoming County — brook trout, Meshoppen Chester County—brown trout. White Clay Monroe County—pickerel, Mountain Ice Co. Creek, North Branch Mehoopany Creek, West Creek, Middle Branch White Clay Creek ; rain­ Dam No. 1, Echo Dam, Youngs Pond; black Branch Mehoopany Creek, Bowmans Creek, bow trout, Officers Run Creek, East Branch bass, Delaware River; catfish, Youngs Pond, Leonards Creek. Octoraro Creek; brook trout, Valley Creek, Lake Mineola, Delaware River, Echo Lake Mountain Ice Co. Dam No. 1, Arlington Lake, York County—sunflsh, Krentz Creek, Feiglers White Clay Creek; catfish, East Branch Brandy- Half Moon Pond, Snow Hill Lake ; brook trout Ore Hole, Kohlers Mill Dam, Codorus Creek, wine Creek, Brandywine Creek. Pohopoco Creek, Kettle Creek, Lake Creek, Big Bermudian Creek, Susquehanna River, Bechtel Clearfield County — brook trout, Mosquito Bushkill Creek, McMichaels Creek, Leavitts Pond, Conewago Creek; catfish, Susquehanna Creek, Moshannon Creek, Bennetts Branch Sin- Branch, Cherry Creek, Aquashicola Creek, For­ River, Codorus Creek, Bechtel Pond, Conewago nemahoning Creek, Hazlett Run, Curry Run, es,. Hill Creek, Doters Creek, Pensyl Creek, Creek, Kohlers Mill Dam, Feiglers Ore Hole, Gifford Run, Trout Run, Whiskey Run, Moun­ Pohopoco Creek. Krentz Creek, Bermudian Creek. tain Run; catfish, Sabula Dam in Sandy Lick Township, Tannery Dam. Montgomery County—catfish, North East Branch Perkiomen Creek, Perkiomen Creek; Clinton County—catfish, Pine Creek, Bald black bass, Perkiomen Creek North East Waters Stocked During December Eagle Creek, Bald Eagle Creek, Axe Factory Branch. Dam on Big Fishing Creek; brook trout, Big Include: Fishing Creek, Long Run Creek, Kettle Creek. Northampton County—brown trout, Bushkill Creek; brook trout, Saucon Creek, Jacubus Columbia County—brook trout, Roaring Creek, Creek, Little Bushkill Creek, Bertsch Creek, In­ Adams County—brook trout, Carbaugh Run, Little Fishing Creek. dian Creek, Monocacy Creek, Waltz Creek or East Branch Little Antietam Creek, ToroS Crawford County—sunflsh, frogs and min­ Delabo Creek, Martins Creek. Creek ; rainbow trout, Chambersburg Water Co- nows, French Creek; catfish, French Creek, Reservoir. Pen-y County—catfish and sunflsh, Shermans Beaver County—brown trout. Big Traverse Pymatuning Reservoir, Sugar Lake, Conneaut Creek, Susquehanna River; brook trout, Green Lake, Pymatuning Dam; black bass, French Valley Run. Creek. Creek. Bedford County—brown trout, Deeters Run, Cumberland County—brook trout, Trindle Pike County—brook trout, Big Bushkill Creek, Cumberland Valley Run, Raystown Branch, Im- Spring. Indian Ladder Creek, Middle Bushkill Creek, lertown River; rainbow trout, Thomas W. Kooij Dingmans Creek, Raymondskill Creek, Shohola Lake. Dauphin County—brook trout, Stoney Creek. Creek, Twin Lakes Creek, Mill Raft Creek, Berks County—brook trout, Moselem CreeK, Delaware County—black bass, Ridley Creek. Sawkill Creek; catfish, Pecks Pond, Egypt Meadow Dam, Promise Land Pond, Westco- Cold Run, Indian Creek, Northkill Creek; brow" Elk County — brook trout, Straight Creek, lang Lake, Wallenpaupack Lake, Minisink Lake, trout. Mill Creek. Medix Run Creek, Wolf Lick Run, Wilson Run. Taminent Lake, White Deer Lake ; pickerel, Big Blair County—brook trout, Big Fin Creek, Erie County—catfish, South Branch French Tink Lake, Wallenpaupack Lake; minnows, Vanscoyce Run, Canoe Creek, Bells Gap Run, Creek, Edinboro Lake, Lake Erie. Promise Land Pond. Plum Creek. Fayette County—brook trout, Buck Run, Potter County—brook trout, Eleven Mile Bradford County—brook trout, Daggett CreeK' Laurel Run, Mill Run, Back Creek; brown trout, Creek, South Fork of First Fork Sinnemahon- Seeley Creek, South Creek, Millstone Creek. C Big Meadow Run. ing Creek, Reynoldstown Brook, East Fork of Bucks County—minnows (shiners), Nesham" P Forest County—brook trout, Watson Branch, First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek. ing Creek, Pine Creek; rainbow trout, Mil' i. Beaver Run, Otter Creek, Hunter Run, Little V Schuylkill County—brook trout, Rattling Run, Creek; brown trout. Pine Creek, Mill Creek. Salmon Creek, Spring Creek, Branch Creek, 1 b< Salmon Creek; rainbow trout, Coon Creek, Hem­ Baer Creek, Kombs Creek, Beaver Creek; brown Cambria County—brook trout, North Brand lock Creek, Salmon Creek. trout, Little Catawissa Creek; sunflsh, Patter­ Little Conemaugh River, South Branch Black" son Dam No. 1, 2 and 3, Deep Creek; catfish. lick Creek, Beaver Dam Run, North BrancB t> Franklin County—brook trout, Trout Run. Deep Creek, Cumbola Dam, Hosensock Creek, Blacklick Creek; brown trout, Clearfield Creel'' ni Rabbit Run, Pine Creek, Reinerton Mine Holes Chest Creek. 1: Greene County — catfish, AVheeling Creek, t> South Fork Wheeling Creek, North Fork Wheel­ No. 1, 2 and 3, Patterson Dam No. 1, 2 and 3. Cameron County—brook trout, Clear CreeK' ing Creek, Pennsylvania Fork Creek, Brown's Snyder County—catfish, Middle Creek; brook brown trout, Driftwood Branch, Sinnemahoning Portage Creek. L Fork Creek, South Fork Ten Mile Creek, Muddy trout, North Branch Mahantango Creek. Ci Creek, Whiteley Creek, Pennsylvania Fork Fish Carbon County—brook trout, Big Bear CreeK' Creek, Sycamore Creek, North Fork Ten Mile Somerset County—brook trout, Breast Works Fawn Run ; brown trout, Pohopoco Creek, Haye5 Li Creek; sunflsh and frogs, Wheeling Creek, Run, Sandy Run, Shafer Run, Beaverdam Run, Creek; rainbow trout, Wild Creek, QuakaKc North Fork Wheeling Creek, South Fork Wheel­ Brush Creek; brown trout, Wills Creek, Piney Creek. ing Creek, Brown's Fork or Brown's Creek, Creek, Raystown Branch Juniata River, Big South Fork Ten Mile Creek, Muddy Creek, Piney Creek, Laurel Hill Creek. Centre County — brook trout, Laurel Ru"' Li Black Bear Run, Penns Creek, Little SandS Whiteley Creek, Pennsylvania Fork Fish Creek; Sullivan County—catfish, Hunter Lake, Splash black bass. Ruffs Creek; yellow perch, North Creek, Big Sandy Run, Sinking Creek, Laure' Dam on Mehoopany Creek, Eagles Mere Lake ; Run, Mountain Branch, Flat Rock CreeK' Fork Te,n Mile Creek, Sycamore Creek. 11 pickerel, Hunter Lake, Splash Dam on Mehoop­ brown trout, Penns Creek, Little Moshanno any Creek. Creek; rainbow trout, Spring Creek, Penn- & Huntingdon County—brook trout, Laurel Run, 1 Shavers Creek; black bass, Raystown Branch Susquehanna County—brook trout, Tunkhan- Creek, Little Moshannon Creek, Bald Eag ' Juniata River; catfish, sunflsh and frogs, nock Creek, Starrucca Creek, Riley Creek, Hard­ Creek. Ct Standing Stone Creek, Penn Central Dam on ing Creek; pickerel, Butler Lake ; catfish, But­ Chester County—brook trout. Doe Run Bird' tr, Raystown Branch Juniata River. ler Lake, Carr Lake, North Branch Susque­ Run, Rock Run ; brown trout, French Creek. hanna River, Bigsby Pond, Ely Lake, East Clarion County — brown trout, Mill CreeK' «'. Indiana County—brook trout, Little Yellow Lake, Stearns Lake, Tuscarora Lake, Big Elk Hi Creek, Laurel Run Creek. rainbow trout. Mill Creek. Lake, Schooly Pond, States Pond, Forest Lake, 6 Jefferson County—brook trout. South Branch Quaker Lake, Comfort Pond, Wrlghter Lake, Clearfield County—brook trout. Little Law ' North Fork Red Bank Creek, Cather Run Creek, Alford Pond, Beaver Pond, Round Pond. Run, Montgomery Creek, Upper Three Run' Cr PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 19

Deep Creek, Anderson Creek, Medix Run, Wil­ Perry County—brook trout, Hunters Run, During the big game season two deer son Run, West Branch Montgomery Creek, Bell Laurel Run, Houstons Run, McCabes Run, Mon­ Run, Bilger Run, Hackenberry Run, North tour Run. were found in the neighborhood of Neiffer, branch Wilmer Run; brown trout, Lick Run, Pike County—brook trout—Little Bushkill one of which was an eight-point buck and Little Clearfleld Creek, Sugar Camp Run, Laurel Creek, Dwarfkill Creek; brown trout, Wallen- Run, Mosquito Creek. paupack Creek, East Branch Wallenpaupack the other a doe, both shot with a bullet from Clinton County—brook trout, Cherry Creek, Creek. a .22 calibre rifle. This incident has aroused Wyner Run, Twin Run, Monument Run, Beaver- Potter County—brook trout, Sartwell Creek, Jam Run, Hammersley Pork Creek, Baker Run; Genesee Fork Pine Creek, Cushing Creek, East great concern among local sportsmen and brown trout, Tangascootack Creek, North Branch Fishing Creek, West Branch Fishing the Perkiomen Association has instructed Rranch Tangascootack Creek, Lick Run; rain­ Creek, Dry Run, Nine Mile Run, Lyman Run, bow trout. Big Fishing Creek, Kettle Creek. Dingman Run; brown trout, Kettle Creek, Cross its delegates to notify the County Federa­ Columbia County—brook trout, West Creek, Fork Creek, First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek, tion of Sportsmen at its annual meeting to •Mugser Run, Lick Run, Coles Run. Genesee River, West Branch Pine Creek, West Crawford County—brown trout, Little Sugar Branch Genesee River, Middle Branch Genesee be held next month in Norristown, that this •-reek, Thompson Run. River, Pine Creek, Oswayo Creek, Mill Creek; club goes on record in prohibiting the use rainbow trout, Genesee River, West Branch Cumberland County — brook trout, Cockley Genesee River, Middle Branch Genesee River. of .22 calibre bullets for big game. Juan, Mountain Creek, Green Springs, Alexan- ,aJ"lz Springs Run, Oldtown Run; rainbow trout, Schuylkill County—brook trout, Black Creek, *wnace Run, Means Run. Pine Creek._ Harry Cole, district fish warden, an­ Dauphin County—brown trout, Manada Creek, Somerset County—brook trout, Iser Run, nounced that one of the Federation's propa­ "attling Creek, West Branch Rattling Creek; Drakes Run, Jones Mill Run, Blue Hole Run; •ainbow trout, Clarks Creek. brown trout, Flaugherty Creek, Whites Creek, gation dams on the Biedler farm near Laurel Hill Creek; rainbow trout. Laurel Hill Bridgeport, is completed and 300 catfish Delaware County—brown trout, Ridley Creek. Creek. Elk County—brook trout, South Pork Straight Sullivan County — brook trout, Sullivan have been stocked in this pond. According ^reek, Paige Run, Laurel Run, Kersey Run, Branch, Glass Creek, Pigeon Creek, East Branch to Mr. Cole's report the Bergey dam has gear Creek, Crooked Creek, Mix Run, Hicks Fishing Creek, Lewis Creek, Elklick Run, West •Sun, East Branch Spring Creek; brown trout, Branch Fishing Creek, Pole Bridge Run, Black been repaired and next in line is the Mingo j°'g Mill Creek, Driftwood Branch; rainbow East Branch Creek, North Branch Mehoopany Creek, Double dam. The workers on this project have been Crv Clarion River, West Clarion Run; brown trout. Kettle Creek, Little Loyal- sock Creek, Little Loyalsock Creek, Ogdonia hampered a great deal due to the weather ^Fayette County—black bass. Smock Reservoir, Creek, Muncy Creek, Elk Creek, Hogland ^°wer Star Junction Reservoir, Upper Star Branch. conditions, but in spite of this the work is n< tlon tw, i Reservoir, Bridgeport Dam; brook Susquehanna County—brown trout, Starrucca progressing nicely. The repairing of these j£°ut, Mill Run, Mountain Creek, South Fork Creek; rainbow trout, Starrucca Creek. r>,,Ptain Creek, Beaver Creek; rainbow trout, dams is being done through WPA projects. JU Tioga County—brook trout, Long Run, Sandy «bar Creek, Big Meadow Run. Run ; brown trout, Cowanesque Creek, Towanda Tjrf0.''es* County — brown trout, Maple Creek, Russel Krupp, chairman of the fish com­ Hickorv Creek; rainbow trout. Pine Creek. Crl i Creek, West Branch Millstone Union County—brook trout, Halfway Dam, mittee of this association reported a long •Crt , • rainbow trout, Spring Creek, Salmon aSt Hickory Creek Buffalo Creek, Spruce Run; brown trout, North list of distribution of fish assignments and ^aple c . West Hickory Creek, Branch Buffalo Creek, White Deer Creek, Spring Creek. which included the following: Skippack C(^ranJclin County—brown trout, West Branch •cW„cocheague Creek; brook trout, Conoco- Venango County—brown trout, Little Scrub- creek—200 catfish, 6 to 12 inches long; 1000 Rii«euS. Creek, R°e Run, Trout Run, Carbaugh grass Creek; rainbow trout. Little Scrubgrass rai^S, Dennis Creek, Falling Springs Creek; Creek. sunfish, one inch long; 1000 perch, 2 inches CvTJ?ow^trm't' East Branch Little Antietam Warren County—brown trout, Brokenstraw long; 200 sunfish, 6 to 8 inches long; 300 StonS' Weft Branch Little Antietam Creek, Creek, East Branch Spring Creek, Tionesta "ny Point Dam (2 Acres on Furnace Run). Creek, Caldwell Creek, West Branch Caldwell bass, 5 inches long. North East Branch— Vrf^lt¥?odon bounty — brown trout, Spruce Creek, West Hickory Creek, East Branch Tio­ 250 catfish, 6 to 12 inches long; 1000 sun­ low r! ,st Branch Standing Stone Creek, Yel- nesta Creek, Brown Run; rainbow trout. Min­ ister Run, East Branch Spring Creek, Broken- fish, one inch long; 1000 perch, 2 inches ™ "-reek; brook trout, Spruce Creek. straw Creek, Pine Creek. long; 200 sunfish, 6 to 8 inches long; 300 Littif*^" County — brook trout, Mardis Run, Wayne County—brook trout, Equinunk Creek, bass, 5 inches long. Towamenein—200 sun­ «ie Mahoning Creek, Downey Run. Little Equinunk Creek, Middle Creek, North ifah&eraon County—brown trout, East Branch Branch Calkins Creek, West Branch Dyberry fish, 6 to 8 inches long. Deep Creek—40 Ba^i0n^n& Creek, Clear Creek, North Fork Red Creek, South Branch Equinunk Creek; brown Creeb trout, Little Equinunk Creek, West Branch cans brown trout. rai£L - Big Mill Creek, Little Mill Creek; Lackawaxen River, Lackawaxen River, Equi­ •nbow trout, East Branch Mahoning Creek. nunk Creek; rainbow trout, West Branch Lack­ SrookfcaWC"Wa County—rainbow trout, Roaring awaxen River, West Branch Wallenpaupack President Shallcross reports the release Creek. of 73 cock birds throughout the county. to£>aii?aster County—brook trout, Little Cones- iTnii Creek, Tucqua Creek, Donegal Creek, Tilt These particular birds are those which were un, W Run Pea Westmoreland County — brook trout, Right •mS MM ?i ' .uea Creek, Gladfelters Run, Branch Furnace Run, Furnace Run, Furnace Co- art« -D Creek' Hammer Creek, Swarr Run, Stew- Run, Powder Mill Run; brown trout Jacobs raised at the Eastern Penitentiary at Grat- Sin; „ "> Climbers Run, Trout Run, Wisslers Creek, Tub. Mill, Lynn Run, Loyalhanna Creek. erford and are not part of the Game Com­ brn« SeS'ock Creek, Charles Run, Long Run; :rs« "wn trout, Big Chickies Creek, Fishing Creek. Wyoming County—brown trout, Mehoopany mission assignments. Five of these birds Creek; rainbow trout, Bowmans Creek. lJn„?1(""ence County — rainbow trout, Little were released in our immediate territory. un. York County — rainbow trout, Halderman [rn- neshannock Creek. ehi h Pond; brook trout, Otter Creek, Orson Run, According to Mr. Shallcross there were also DOfl &a^ ° County—brook trout, South Branch Toms Run, Leibs Creek, Furnace Run. "eon Creek; brown trout, Jordan Creek, 850 rabbits released in Montgomery county, selfi jjifcseme County—brook trout, Phillips Creek, 71 of which were released in the territory wn purveys Creek, Wrights Creek, Arnolds Creek, SniPwallopen Creek, Pine Creek, Maple Creek, covering between Graterford and Upper ts :eK. Crpi? Run, Shades Creek, Little Shickshinny Frederick Township. These rabbits were re­ >rown BOY SCOUTS TO BUILD UP' ehen r> * trout, Wapwallopen Creek, Kit- n Run ; rainbow trout, Wapwallopen Creek. ceived from the Game Commission who also Uco n FEED SHELTERS :eV, fir,t< "" fl' County—brook trout. Upper Pine promised more shipments in the near future. Cro im Run> Little Bear Creek, Little Muncy SJ°«i English Run, White Deer Hole Creek, The Perkiomen group also took action and Lat5 > ts Creek ; brown trout, Lycoming Creek, At the December meeting of the Perkio- instructed its delegates to the Federation Jil> "tor.\r.v s Creek,. MunoMuncyv Creek,. LovalsonLoyalsock Creek,. men Valley Sportsmen's Association it was bote'V Run> slate Run- Little Pine Creek; rain- meeting to be held in January to make ncti "J trout. Rock Run. announced that the Boy Scouts of Schwenks- known that this club opposes Sunday fish­ cK P0St ean County—brown trout, Marvin Creek, ville are now building feeding shelters in- nc» e ing. ieH. lest % Creek, Potato Creek, East Branch Tio- firan .Creek' South Fork Kinzua Creek, West order that the birds may get acquainted Port., Tuneungwant Creek; rainbow trout, with these stations before snow covers their They approve of a 50 cent increase in ",cage Creek. ini ce natural feeding grounds. fishing license fees and which is to be used Littl '' County—brown trout, West Branch Cfe'J; Neshannock Creek, Little Neshannock entirely by the Fish Commission to purchase teV- The Scouts who are devoting a great deal ye! LitH*t' Mill Creek; rainbow trout, West Branch lands which would provide public fishing •"e Neshannock Creek. of their time in this work are highly com­ lin grounds. The Game Commission increased a*' l Deep Creek. Qve<^tha.mPton County—brown trout, Bushkill pervisors have been appointed in different the courtesy of the Game Commission were br eB: ftun. • °ok trout, Coffeetown Creek, Mud localities to distribute this feed in proper shown before the meeting adjourned which Cr pu'a<2e'p?iia County—minnows, Wissahlckon e K proportions. was held in the Schwenksville Borough Hall. ir«' " : rainbow trout, Wissahlckon Creek. in* 20 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

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It isn't safe for watersnakes to tackle Wallenpaupack: "Lake Wallenpaupack has water by Joseph Woodring of Easton and pickerel, according to Anthony Boxer, pres­ afforded very good fishing to date this sea­ other fishermen. ident of the Shenandoah Sportsmen's Asso­ son. All boat landings are doing good busi­ ciation. Take his word and that of Harry ness so far. During week ends there are Salamy, a trustee of the association, that hundreds of boats out. Catches of wall-eyed Two of Bangor's most enthusiastic fish­ this incident actually occurred on Mowery pike, largemouth bass and smallmouth bass ermen are Hugh L. Price, 79, and his have been excellent." brother, John, 76 years old. Their favorite Dam, a pickerel pond in Ringtown Valley, angling is for smallmouth bass in the upper Schuylkill County. Delaware. It seems that Salamy first saw the three- foot watersnake carrying a pickerel that Word comes from J. Richard Stover, measured 13% inches in its mouth. He no­ chairman of the Fish Committee of the Writes John D. Rothermel, of West Lawn, ticed a swirl near the tail of the snake, and York and Adams County Game and Fish near Reading: "Reading your article on then to his amazement, noticed that another Association at Hanover, that this group is watersnake control, I began wondering pickerel of the same size had seized the tail planning another fishing contest this year. whether the average fisherman realizes of the snake. Salamy killed the snake and He writes: "At the present time we are what damage this reptile actually does to recovered it and the pickerel which it had engaged in planning our contest for this our sport. Having charge of the stream im­ killed. year. We have decided to increase the num­ provement on Hay Creek in Berks County, ber of prizes for bass, and to include prizes I have seen some of the damage done by these predators. Just a week ago (the lat­ Why do they do it? That is the thought for sucker fishermen. As an inducement for ter part of last July), we found a water­ that comes to mind with receipt of this the more extensive use of artificial bait by snake with a 15% -inch brown trout, which report from Warden C. A. Bidelspacher of anglers, an extra prize will be awarded to every angler whose prize-winning fish is it had worked up on the bank and had Williamsport. He writes: killed. The snake was slightly less than "On the first day of the bass season, we taken on an artificial lure. Entries will be restricted to include only fish taken in four feet long. It had the trout by the rear conducted a car search on Pine Creek. Two part of the belly. After killing the snake, fellows came down and when I looked at York, Adams, Franklin and Cumberland Counties." we examined the trout, which was real their creels, I thought 'here is a story for heavy, and seemed to have been in very the ANGLER.' They each had three black good condition before having been killed by bass from 16 to 19 inches in length, five From Special Warden S. W. Hobson of the snake. From what I have seen since that ran from 12 to 15 inches and several Easton comes word of good fishing for being on this job, I fully believe that these nice rock bass apiece. But in the bottom of bass in waters in that section of the state reptiles take more fish than the fishermen the basket of each fisherman was a black last season. Hobson reports that while fish­ land. With our turtles and birds also to bass measuring less than 8 inches in length ing in Brown's Lake near Canadensis on consider, I doubt if the fishermen get one- Y which spoiled the story. I prosecuted both July 4, Mr. Chase of Wilkes-Barre caught third of the fish a stream produces. Haj of them with pleasure." a largemouth bass measuring 19 V inches in Creek produced good sport this season, a* 2 1 length. It was taken on a hair mouse. least much better than our average streaB George Kitchen of Saylorsburg landed a in Berks County. What sport we would Talk about your tough breaks and then 19-inch largemouth bass in Saylor's Lake have, should our vermin be under control- sympathize with Joe Hoben, Cumberland, on opening day of the 1936 season. Other only one who spends most of his time o» Md., fisherman. Joe, according to Warden good catches were made in this body of the streams can appreciate." Harry Moore, was fishing in Koons Dam above Lake Gordon in Bedford County foi suckers prior to the opening of the trout season. He hooked and landed the biggest rainbow trout to be taken from Pennsyl­ vania waters last year, a 29-inch giant of the rainbow clan. Being a true sportsman, Joe immediately and carefully released his catch. May his tribe increase!

Some mighty fine brown trout were caught j^n the Lackawaxen River at Glen Eyre last season by Dewey White, of Blooming Grove, according to Warden Frank Brink of Milford. White made his catches via the dry fly method. His largest brownie measured 24 inches in length, and was caught during the evening on May 20. Writing on July 24, Warden Brink had Earl Wilson, 12, of Ansonia, with catch of brown and rainbow trout taken in this to say about the fishing on Lake Pine Creek at Owassie Seining Brood Rainbow Trout from Ponds at Bellefonte Hatchery, Preparatory to Stripping Last Autumn Sec. 562, P. L . & R. U. S. POSTAGE PAID Harrisburg, Pa. Permit No. 270

Fellow Fisherman:

There is probably a boy right near home who is eager to learn everything he can about Fish and Fishing. Why not a little coaching For him along conservation lines this winter? Your teaching may mean another convert to the ranks of Fishermen who fish for sport.