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"Pennsylwmia i AUGUST, 1967 £ \|llCj|9 l 1 ^^r«^*' • • •*"'&*^^M 1 ^^ ^flr ft ''- ' ^^k # ^Wn> • * ^^ . GOVERNOR RAYMOND P. SHAFER signing "Let's Go Fishing In Pennsyl­ vania Week" proclamation as Pennsylvania Fish Commission member Clarence Dietz, left, and Robert J. Rielo, executive director, on right, approve. PROCLAMATION LET'S GO FISHING IN PENNSYLVANIA WEEK-JUNE 17-23,1967 VtSSLB, Fishing is Pennsylvania's number one family outdoor sport, and Pennsyl- vanians are well aware of its aesthetic and economic values; and PtpaH, Pennsylvania is blessed with an abundance of scenic waters and thousands of acres of lakes and ponds abounding with native and stocked fishes; and Pfpaa, Pennsylvania has a clean streams program second to none in the Nation and a fish management and conservation program that permits its citizens to obtain the optimum in fishing enjoyment; and PfTaa, Thousands of persons visit our Commonwealth each year solely for the pur­ T pose of enjoying these excellent fishing opportunities, thus bringing to our 'on, State considerable economic benefits; HniU, HHfSttftttS, I, Raymond P. Shafer, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl­ H vania, do hereby proclaim the week of June 17-23, 1967, as LET'S GO R° r FISHING IN PENNSYLVANIA WEEK. GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the State, at the City of Harrisbnrg, this ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and ninety-first. PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER DIRECTORY Published Monthly by the EXECUTIVE OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION Box 1673—Harrisburg, Pa. 17120 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ROBERT J. BIELO Raymond P. Shafer, Governor Executive Director GORDON TREMBLEY • Assistant Executive Director Fisheries PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION EDWARD R. THARP GERARD J. ADAMS, President Hawley Assistant Executive Director WALLACE C. DEAN, Vice President Meadville Watercraft Safety CLARENCE DIETZ Bedford FRANK E. MASLAND JR Carlisle WARREN W. SINGER HOWARD R. HEINY Williamsport ROBERT M. RANKIN Galeton Assistant to Executive Director DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS Bear Gap R. STANLEY SMITH Waynesburg RALPH PUTT RAYMOND M. WILLIAMS East Bangor Administrative Secretary JOHN M. SMITH Comptroller AUGUST, 1967 VOL. 36, NO. 8 DIVISION DIRECTORS KEEN BUSS Research and Fish Management IN THIS ISSUE . ~-t: R. D. 1-Box 200-C Bellefonte, Pa.-16823 2 NIGHT WATCH—Jim Bashline HOWARD L. FOX 3 FLYING FINGERLINGS—Tom Eggler Propagation and Distribution 6 FISH'N FEMALE—Pat Eisenhart Bellefonte, Pa., R. D. 3-16823 8 MORRIS ROD AND GUN— PAUL F. O'BRIEN 9 SEWING THREAD—Ed Koch Real Estate Harrisburg 10 THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY—Eugene R. Slatick EDWARD MILLER 12 FISHING CONTESTS—Tom Eggler Engineering 14 CAMOUFLAGE FOR TROUT—Ed Atts Bellefonte, Pa., R. D. 3-16823 15 DELAWARE SHAD—Tom Eggler and Bob Parlaman HAROLD CORBIN 16 CITY FISHING—Bruce Whitman Law Enforcement Harrisburg 18 STREAM NOTES—The Warden Staff ARTHUR BRADFORD 20 HAPPINESS IS A SMALL BOAT—Al Shimmel Pathology 23 BOATING—Robert G. Miller bellefonte, Pa., R. D. 1-Box 200-C 24 MODERN CAMPING—Del and Lois Kerr 16823 30 FISH TALES—Pennsylvania Fishermen GEORGE FORREST Public Relations Editor Cover Art—Ron Jenkins Harrisburg TOM EGGLER Staff Writer-Photographer POSTMASTER: All 3579 forms to be returned to The Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., • 1001 Wyoming Ave., Scranton, Pa. 18509. REGION ONE The PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER is published monthly by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, South Office Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Subscription: One year—$2.00; three years—$5.00; 25 cents Ttan,?' SHORTESS Warden Supervisor per single copy. Send check or money order payable to Pennsylvania Fish Commission. DO NOT ne "a 16353 Phone: 814-755-8811 SEND STAMPS. Individuals sending cash do so at their own risk. Change of address should reach us promptly. Furnish both old and new addresses. Second Class Postage paid at Harrisburg, Pa. REGION TWO Neither Publisher nor Editor will assume responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or illustrations i°HN while in their possession or in transit. Permission to reprint will be given provided we receive '• BUCK Warden Supervisor marked copies and credit is given material or illustrations. Communications pertaining to manuscripts, A Somerset, Pa Phone: 814-445-4913 material or illustrations should be addressed to the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, Harrisburg, Pa. NOTICE: Subscriptions received and processed the 10th of each month will begin with the REGION THREE second month following. CL 8OI'\OFLEEGER Warden Supervisor •>». Sweet ValleValleyv , PPaa . Phone: 717-477-6611 HATCHERIES AND MANAGERS REGION FOUR BELLEFONTE—J. L. Zettle, superintendent LINESVILLE—Shyrl Hood, superintendent BENNER SPRINGS RESEARCH STATION, PRO­ PLEASANT MOUNT—Merrill Lillie, superintendent DUCTION UNIT—Ray McCreary, superintendent REYNOLDSDALE—Warren Hammer, acting fore­ 2, Annville, Pa., CORRY-UNION CITY—Le Roy Sorenson, superin­ I. n ,.' ' Phone: 717-273-2601, Ex. 86 tendent man G- M. R. 17003 HUNTSDALE—George Magargel, superintendent TIONESTA—Albert Carll, foreman THE by L. JAMES BASHLlNi NIGHT WATCH Outdoorsman and outdoor writer L. James Bashline grew up in Coudersport in Pennsylvania's Potter County. It was here that he started fishing, a lot of the time on the Allegheny River which headwaters in this country. But of all the spots along the river one stands out—The Goodsell Hole, fa­ mous for big trout and a lot of them. Bashline, a former editor of the Pennsylvania Game News and now assistant managing editor of Field & Stream, tells about his early fishing experiences with some of the "old timers" of the area in this two-part serial which will be continued next month. The sun was down. The light which illuminated the In the center of this maple shadowed little village, whtf1 huge clock in the Court House steeple was turned on. is located near the New York State border, the headstre3'' From several directions came figures carrying flyrods, al­ of the Allegheny River and another stream with the ove[ ready strung up, with jiggling wet fly droppers dancing in used name of Mill Creek joined forces. The pool form61 cadence with each step. For this group the evening meal by their junction has been known as the Goodsell Hoi' was over, any of today's worries had been carefully laid since 1865. During this year a carpenter and builds aside for tomorrow, the important business was coming up. Nelson H. Goodsell by name, erected a planing mill The script might change a bit this night, but the setting the edge of the pool. A Splash dam and a series of wat^ of the stage would not vary in sequence. Mr. Grennels locks provided hydraulic power for the operation. Exactt was the first to arrive and he would take his place at the what year the mill ceased to operate is not certain, but I flagstone wall on the Mill Creek entrance to the pool. was lost forever in 1928 as the result of a fire. NelsO1 Bob Pinney would make his appearance on the south side Goodsell did not know what would be in store for the po" of the Allegheny, survey the pool momentarily and then which would bear his name, but he was a fisherman ° carefully wade across the slick tail water to his driftwood sorts. Old newspaper records reveal that he did catch bench on the opposite side of the stream. Specked trout weighing two pounds and ten ounces >' P. C. Caufflel, the angling lawyer who never, or hardly June of 1876 in the pool behind his mill. Brown trot* ever, fished could be counted on to show up just at dark being unknown at that time, this fish for Pennsylvani' to offer his advice on all and sundry questions. P. C. lived waters was certainly something to talk about. nearby and through the years became known as a sort of "(Father used to do some night fishing for speckle Goodsell Hole gillie emeritus. trout before 1900 and he made out all right. Wasn't muC' Others soon followed and their appointed locations were point to it though—the brook trout were so plentiful I occupied with a minimum of conversation. Darkness that time a man could catch any amount of them durirf would now come with finality, and while other fishermen the day on wet flies.)" were reeling up, this silent entourage prepared to play the The exact date that brown trout first appeared on tbl game that was their speciality. Trout, big trout, was what Pennsylvania angling scene is difficult to establish. Son'1 they sought, and frequently their search was not in vain. private ponds and independent trout culturists had smaj The pool they fished, known as the Goodsell Hole seemed numbers of them sometime before they were stocked >'' to be made for night fishermen. any quantity by the conservation agencies; but it is gel' Night fishing for trout undoubtedly was practiced in erally accepted that about the period of the first worl1 other parts of the U. S. and the world, prior to 1918, but war the big black spotted fish started to make their ap conversations with historically inclined fishermen lead me pearance. to believe that Coudersport, Pennsylvania was a most They were viewed with a great deal of suspicion by mo$ unique fishing town. trout fishermen. They reproduced well, grew fast, fougl' hard—but were much more difficult to catch than the' brook trout cousin. (The material set in parenthesis are quotes from R. H. Three small wet flies cast haphazardly down stream w**5 Pinney's diary or remarks attributed to him by other fisher­ men who knew him well.) continued on page ™ PENNSYLVANIA ANGLE# KINZUA AIR DROP STOCKING GOES SKY HIGH EVERYBODY HAD A CAMERA- That's how we managed to get pictures from the ground as well as from the air of this newsworthy stocking of the giant Kinzua Dam.
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