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VNGLERT DECEMBER, 1934

VOL.3 No. 12 EDITORIAL

THE SPORTSMAN'S BACKING IS OF PRIMARY IMPORTANCE A THREE-WAY PROGRAM TO ANY CONSERVATION PROGRAM TO BETTER FISHING Now that the 1934 season for game throughout the state. Many of the creasing demand. We have installed fish in Pennsylvania is a matter of improvement devices installed were two additional units of ponds for the record our interest turns naturally to built for permanence and should prove raising of bass at the Pleasant Mount another season. What are the pros­ beneficial for trout in these streams hatchery, and a four-acre brood pond pects for the fishermen next year in in the future. for bass at this giant fish farm. And Pennsylvania ? In predicting a banner Nature during the past autumn pro­ trout? At Spring Creek in Center year of sport, I am taking into con­ vided the second factor for better fish­ County we are now holding over 300,- sideration three factors to back it- ing. During the past four years our 000 brook, brown and rainbow trout first, the wholehearted work of many streams and lakes in most sections of for distribution. These trout have of our anglers in stream improvement the Commonwealth were seriously af­ developed rapidly under ideal condi­ and their support of the fish laws; fected by drought. True, our stream tions and the Spring Creek site, in ad­ second, a general improvement in survey served to checkmate drought dition to being a model stream im­ stream conditions, the raising of conditions to some extent, but the provement project, looms as one of water levels in streams and lakes to summer of 1934 was marked by the greatest trout producing areas on make our present stocking program alarmingly low stages in many of our the Eastern seaboard. more effective, and third, increased outstanding trout and warm water But Spring Creek is not the only facilities for fish production. Linked streams. Then came unusually heavy plant that has boosted our trout pro­ together, these factors must weigh rainfall, and when our trucks carried duction. Huntsdale in Cumberland heavily in the balance for better fish­ trout and warm water species of fish County rivals it, in the rapid growth ing, which is the aim of the Fish Com­ to approved streams during Septem­ of trout retained at the ponds of this mission. ber and October, the fish were stocked new Cumberland County development. Let us consider these three phases under conditions that assured them In the brief period of one year, we of a comprehensive program to im­ better protection from natural ene­ have developed trout at Huntsdale prove fishing separately. Of primary mies during the winter months. In­ that attained a length of 12 inches. importance in this or any other con­ cluded in our stocking program were In girth and beauty of markings, servation movement is the backing thousands of trout over the legal size these Huntsdale trout are without a of the sportsman himself. Perhaps I of 6 inches, fingerling bass, sunfish, rival in Pennsylvania-produced fish. should term it "conservation-minded- catfish and yellow perch of sufficient It is our constant aim to increase pro­ ness," this apparently growing ten­ size to care for themselves when duction of all species of fish at our dency of our fishermen to fish more placed in wild waters. hatcheries for this increased output for sport and less with the ambition Increased production of fish at our is essential to the success of our for a full creel. Of the factors that hatcheries is a prime consideration if stocking program. presage better fishing in the future, we are to have better fishing. Curtail­ I feel confident in predicting that this is outstanding. Then there is the ment of our fishing waters by pollu­ 1935 will go down in fishing annals growing tendency to improve our tion and rapid increase in the number as one of the best years of sport for trout waters, bettering conditions of fishermen has made one thing ap­ Pennsylvania anglers. under which the fish must live. The parent. Our heavily fished streams sportsmen's stream improvement pro­ and lakes must be stocked abundantly gram gained remarkable momentum to provide good fishing. Let us now last year, and this year splendid prog­ consider just how the Fish Commis­ ress was made on many of the streams sion is meeting this constantly in­ Commissioner of Fisheries. PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER Pennsylvania Record Fish for 1934 EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article on record ftsli taken thin year in the Keystone State by our Pennsyl­ vania anglers is based on all reports aimilable at the Fish Commission for the 193'i fishing season.

HE 1934 fishing season in Pennsylvania T will go down in the records as producer of some of the greatest catches of giant game flsh in the history of the Fish Commission. In three classes particularly, brown trout, wall-eyed pike and smallmouth bass, marks have been set this season by fishermen that may go unchallenged for years to come. And yet, the record brown trout and record wall­ eye were given real runs for first honors in these divisions by other mammoth flsh of both species. Let us turn back the calendar to the trout season. A Record Brownie High water in many of the major trout streams of Pennsylvania greeted the trout fishermen in their initial invasion of the haunts of brook, brown and rainbow trout. Despite this fact, however, a number of brown trout were taken that topped 20 in­ ches in length. Then, on April 26th, William Zucuskie, of Tamaqua, caught the first of a trio of great brown trout that were to upset Pennsylvania records. Fishing for the first time in his life in the Still Creek dam on Pohopoco Creek, Zucuskie hooked a brown trout 27% inches in length, 16 inches in girth and weighing 8 pounds, 15 ounces. After a stiff battle, the big trout was conquered and its size caused a real stir with fishermen in that section of the state. A rather general belief existed that it would rank as the greatest trout to be taken during 1934. The catch was made on a night-crawler. Spring Creek, in Centre County, famous for the Bellefonte trout and the Fish Com­ mission's •"Fisherman's Paradise," was to provide its sensational brown trout catch a few weeks later. John Hobba, disabled war veteran living with his sister at Milesburg, caused a flurry of excitement in Central Pennsylvania trouting circles when, fishing live bait, he landed a brownie that measured 26% inches in length, had a girth of 16 in­ ches and weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces. His eatch was made on the stream near Miles­ burg. But even then real brown trout history for our Keystone State streams was in the mak­ ing in Pike County's famous Lackawaxen River. And a fly fisherman was destined to make it. Bill Pereival, who lives at Mata- moras, Pike County, knows the great Lacka­ waxen like a book. He has studied its pools and riffles and the mammoth brown trout that haunt them for many years—and he fishes for the big fellows almost exclusively. During the past season, he concentrated on Pennsylvania's record 1934 brownie several times, but each time \he mammoth fish proved too wary to be hooked. A number of other trout, three and four pounders, had FRANK SEAS WITH HIS RECORD WALL-EYED PIKE succumbed to the daintily floating dry fly presented by Pereival during the season, but the old timer he sought apparently was The mammoth trout struck and the battle Finally, the mammoth flsh was brought to destined for another year's grace. Then, in was on. Did we say battle? That's not a creel, and another unforgettable incident July, during the waning days of the season, strong enough word. For one hour, this had been imprinted in the thrilling saga of it happened, grandfather of Lackawaxen brownies surged the whippy fly rod and the men who fish it. against the frail bamboo rod and the com­ Percival's great catch weighed 9 pounds, 7 Pereival was fishing with a slender four- paratively frail line and leader. But be­ ounces. Its girth was 15% inches and length ounce fly rod, line, leader and fly to match. hind that tackle was an expert fisherman. 30 inches. PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

Angler Honor Roll Record Fish, 1934 RECORD BROWN TROUT Caught by William Percival, Mata- moras, in Lackawanna River, Pike County. Length, 30 inches; Girth, 15}£ inches; Weight, 9 pounds, 7 ounces. Lure used—Artificial Fly. RECORD BROOK TROUT Caught in Schrader Creek, Brad­ ford County, by Bert Haines, Powell. Length 16 }£ inches. (No weight or girth given.) Lure used—live bait. RECORD RAINBOW TROUT Caught in Jordan Creek, Lehigh County, by Allen Bear of Bethlehem. Length, 19 }£ inches, weight 4 pounds, girth not given. RECORD SMALLMOUTH BASS Caught in Conodoguinet Creek, Cumberland County, by Upton Glass, Carlisle. Weight, 5 pounds, 8 ounces. (Length and girth not given.) Lure used—live bait. RECORD LARGEMOUTH BASS Caught in Harvey's Lake, Luzerne County, by John Warzechowski of Nantlcoke. Length 24 inches, weight 8 pounds, 8 ounces. Lure used—plug bait. RECORD PICKEREL Caught in Peck's Pond, Pike County, by Archie J. Waidelich, Hamburg, Berks County. Length 28 inches, Weight 5 pounds (dressed). AND HERE'S BILL PERCIVAL WITH HIS MAMMOTH BROWNIE Lure used—not given. RECORD WALL-EYED PIKE Giant Bass in September and October. In the large­ Caught in Zimmerman's Eddy on Bass fishing during the summer months, mouth division, a number of fish weighing the Upper Delaware River by Frank up to six pounds were taken. Then, in Sep­ L. Seas of Easton. Length 34 inches; July and August, while it yielded a number Girth 18 U inches; Weight, 18 of fine smallmouth and largemouth bass, did tember, a largemouth was caught at Har­ pounds, 8 ounces. Lure used— not provide the exceptional catches that vey's Lake, in Luzerne County, that dwarfed spinner and lamprey eel combination. were to come with the cooling of the water many of the prior catches. Fishing plug in RECORD ROCK BASS the lake, John Warzechowski, of Nanticoke, Caught in Warrior's Ridge dam on had the fight of a lifetime on his hands when the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata ft largemouth bass, 24 inches in length and River by Charles Berkheimer of weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, struck the lure. Altoona. Length 14 inches; girth This fish topped, by four ounces, the record and weight not given. Lure used— largemouth reported during the 1933 season. plug bait. RECORD BLUEGILL SUNFISH Generally recognized as premier game fish Caught in Saylor's Lake, Monroe in Pennsylvania, the smallmouth bass this County, by Ernest Benning, Bethle­ year furnished great sport. A number hem. Length 11 inches. Weight weighing up to four pounds had been taken and girth not given. Lure used— during the summer months, when most rock not given. bottom streams and lakes, range of the RECORD YELLOW PERCH Caught in Allegheny River by Roy smallmouths, were extremely low. The Con­ Williams of Mapleshade. Length, odoguinet Creek, famous for the great girth 18 inches. Weight and girth not and weight of its smallmouth bass, was given. Lure used—live bait. destined to yield the surprise catch of the RECORD BULLHEAD CATFISH year in this division. Caught in Warrior's Ridge dam, Fishing in the Cumberland County stream Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River, by G. W. McCauley of Bell- in October, Upton Glass, of Carlisle, made wood. Weight, 3 pounds. Lure an unusual catch. Six smallmouth bass used—live bait. were taken, the largest weighing five and RECORD SUCKER one-half pounds, an unusual smallmouth in Caught in North Branch of the any body of water. Three other bass of the Susquehanna River near Rupert, catch each weighed 4% pounds, while two Columbia County, by Harry Hollen- exceeded two pounds apiece. bocks of Shenandoah. Length 24 inches, weight 4 pounds, 14 ounces. That Delaware Wall-Eye With Lake Wallenpaupack in Pike and Wayne Counties providing truly sensational In the rainbow trout classification, the wall-eyed pike fishing this year, fishing so largest fish reported was taken in Jordan extraordinary that it attracted sportsmen Creek, Lehigh County, by Allen Bear, of not only from many sections of Pennsylvania Bethlehem. His catch measured 19y2 inches but from neighboring states, it was reason­ in length and weighed 4 pounds. Incom­ able to suppose that here the record wall­ plete records as to weight and girth of the eye for the 1934 season would be taken. largest brook trout to be reported make this Five-pound pike were not at all unusual; class uncertain. A brookie measuring 1G% many six, seven and even eight-pounders inches caught by a boy angler, Bert Haines, were caught in the most amazing inland 0f Powell, in Schrader Creek, Bradford water fishing ever afforded in Pennsylvania. County, was the longest brook trout recorded. UPTON GLASS WITH HIS RECORD BASS CATCH (Continued on page 10) 4 ' PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER Elementary Fly Tying By CHAS. M. WETZEL WET FLIES

HIS and the following article are in­ No doubt some of you will consider It a the back—supposed to represent the partially Ttended as a supplement or continuation, waste of time and energy even to attempt developed wings in the pupa stage. From of Native Trout Flies, which appeared in the such a tedious operation as tying a fly; but conversations with other anglers who have August, September and October issues. .In I assure you that anyone who has the pa­ used them, and from my own personal ex­ those articles, the entomological side of our tience to follow the various illustrated steps perience, I believe that the old reliable common stream flies was treated, while these can, at the first attempt, turn out a fly hackles are equally as good. I hope that no will deal with tying the artificial. They are which, though probably crude in appearance, one may misconstrue the above statement, not intended as an elaborate treatise for the will nevertheless catch fish, and not until you for I do not mean to speak disparagingly of professional fly tier, but were rather actu­ have actually caught a trout on one of your these nymphs. Most of them will take trout ated by a desire to assist those anglers, who own creations have you experienced the and the one that I have had the best suc­ have never before tied a fly, and who have greatest possible thrill in fishing. cess with is the imitation of the drake or aspirations along these lines. The object of these articles is not so much May fly, which I shall describe in the next I am not a professional fly tier, though in close imitation of natural insects (though issue. These nymphs seem to work best regularly each winter, I tie a hundred or suggestions will be given from time to time) when there are no natural flies on the water. more—mainly from the fascination there Is as in mastering the technique necessary to I always prefer wet flies tied with a short about it and to keep my stock replenished. turn out a fly which will catch fish; and gut snell, as they are more readily attached Had I known in the beginning some of the everyone agrees that successful simulation to the leader. They have the objection of finer points which later only came through can only be judged by the fly's flsh-taking rusting and breaking off at the hook, but the bitter experience—how much trouble would qualities. The flies we are about to tie are convenience saved in attaching them, more have been saved. more or less suggestions of natural insects, than offsets this disadvantage. After all It is impossible to imitate exactly any as are most of our standard patterns. Many what do a few lost flies amount to, (that Is natural fly; the very thought is absurd and of these are creations of fancy and bear no unless they're fast to a trout) when a little even if it were possible, would the trout resemblance whatever to any known insect. later on you may be tying them by the dozen take them in preference to some of our old Fly tying is merely a mechanical process and at a cost of less than two cents apiece? reliable patterns, which are at best merely and is within the reach of everyone; though We will now proceed to form the loop in suggestions of natural insects? Sometimes I the ability to closely imitate a fly is some­ the short gut snell. First soak the gut in doubt it—then again after a successful day, thing that can only be acquired through ex­ water to soften it, then hold loop at point with a fly which I have simulated closely, as perience and a study of the natural insects. A, Fig. 1 with thumb and first finger of left to size, shape and color—former doubts are In Native Trout Flies, the entomological side hand. Grasp end B with thumb and first swept aside, and I became convinced, that a was treated; these will deal with tying the finger of right hand and form the second close imitation proves superior. artificial; and when these principles have loop, holding it at point A with the left There is far more back of this fly fishing been fully mastered—then it will be up to hand, see Fig. 2. This will be the size of the than mere surface Imitation. Light reflec­ you. With these thoughts in mind we will finished loop. Then again with thumb and tions of the natural fly may play an im­ proceed. first finger of right hand at B, take this re­ portant part, and who can tell how a fly ap­ We will first tie a grey hackle with a yel­ maining end and lay it across and between pears to the trout under water? I believe low body; and since I guaranteed your first the two loops previously formed, as shown that they can distinguish color, and I have fly would take trout, I am naturally picking in Fig. 3. Now from the back, reach through had them pick out differences in flies—dif• out one that has a good reputation, and at the first loop formed—grasp the second loop ferences so minute as not to be readily ap­ the same time, one of the simplest to tie. at point C, Fig. 3 and pull it through—mean­ parent to the human eye. Bass and pike are This yellow bodied hackle is tied as a wet while releasing point A and holding with known to be sensitive to red, as witness the fly and is good, during June and July, prac­ left hand at B and D until loop is tightened. success of such outstanding patterns as the tically throughout the state. Fig. 4 illustrates the second loop, being Red Ibis, Paramachene Belle and others; There are two types of hackle flies— pulled through the first. Trim off end B, and a small fleck of red on a trout fly, often hackles and Palmers. Palmer hackles are and the loop is complete. This is a good proves the turning point from failure to spirally wound full length around the body, knot; it will not slip and I also use it for success. Whether it arouses their fighting and made fuller at the head or shoulder, forming the loops on my wet fly leaders. instinct or appeals to their appetites, no while in the fly we are going to tie, the Now that we have snell all prepared, we one knows. hackle is only wound on the head. will also require a small vise (from the "5 After some twenty odd years fly fishing Izaac Walton, in The Complcat Angler, and 10") some wax (equal parts of bees­ experience, I am rather liberal in my views, makes repeated reference to the hackles and wax and shoemaker's wax kneaded together and can not criticize an artificial dun, drake Palmers which even today still go under is good) a spool of No. 00 silk thread, (from or spinner just because its body is not ele­ those names. From what I have been able the wife's sewing cabinet,) her scissors, a vated and reversed, like the natural insect— to gather, the Palmers were originally tied red feather (from one of her old hats) hook, for these flies will take trout, and take them to represent the caterpillar of the tiger moth, varnish or shellac, a strand of yellow wool, under such conditions that no unprejudiced while the regular hackles were designed to chenille or floss silk, some fine tinsel (prob­ angler can doubt that they" are taken for imitate the pupa or nymph of the natural ably off of last year's Christmas tree) and their natural prototype. stream flies as they were rising to the sur­ hackle, from a Plymouth Rock rooster. An illustration of this is the artificial of face, ready to take to flight. This seems I would not advise the purchase of any the drake which I described in the August natural, too, when we consider that the fly more equipment until after you have tied a issue. This fly has generally proved more has no wings. few flies; then if you are sufficiently en­ successful for me than the more exact imi­ Of late years, flies called nymphs have thusiastic about it, such articles as a more tation with its reversed body; yet I once had appeared on the market and are more exact elaborate vise, hackle pliers, etc., can be this latter fly torn into pieces by hungry imitations of the natural pupae. They are procured from time to time. I started out trout of Penn's Creek; which all goes to made in an endless variety, but the great with equipment similar to the above, and prove that theories built up over this moody majority are tied with a bulging thorax and now I have difficulty in getting all my "junk" fish should never be indulged in. have a smooth section of feather, flat over in a good sized grip. PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

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The hackles are the feathers found on a above reproach but not liking to extol my rooster's neck, and on the saddle just in past ability, I shall pass over this period front of the tail. The saddle hackles make briefly and hurriedly; yet there is a subtle the neatest appearing wet fly but I generally and pleasant satisfaction in basking in the use the neck feathers. Bantam roosters glow of past glories. furnish excellent hackles for small flies. The A few years ago, I bought a flsh basket. size of hook used determines the size of Not an ordinary basket by any means, but hackle. I usually select my hackles so that one of roomy and generous proportions, far the length of hook equals the length of fibres exceeding in size any which one ordinarily on the hackle, as shown in Fig. 6. The encounters. Among its other requisites, it hackles should always be selected from the was purchased with a critical eye to com­ male bird as they are stiffer and glossier in fortably house an immense trout which I appearance, though in the wet fly, stiffness have been fishing for for years. Should the of hackle is not essential. Select a fairly photograph of this creel with the old cannibal heavy hook as it sinks more readily, which trout draped over it, ever appear in the it should—this being a wet fly. Now that ANGLER—be slow in forming an opinion of everything Is in readiness we will start ty­ the fish's size. ing the fly. In search of extenuating circumstances First wax about fifteen inches of No. 00 which account for my present lamentable winding silk and with it make a few turns failure in "bringing home the bacon," I must around the hook as shown in Fig. 7. Run blame it first on a study of the natural in­ end of recently completed gut snell through sects ; and second, on concentrating on this eye of hook, and wind it securely fast to old brown trout, whose capture I fondly hope shank, ending at point E, see Fig. 8. Cut will restore my lost prestige, thereby mak­ out two fibres from the red feather for a ing my triumph complete and soul satisfying. tail and have a piece of fine tinsel about On the return from my last trout fishing three inches long ready. The yellow wool trip, this summer I was met at the door by strand should be thinned out at the end, to my seven year old son "Sklppy," who by the avoid an unsightly lump at point E. way deftly wields a fly rod with both hands With winding silk, lash tail fibres, ribbing and in my presence professes to be a purist tinsel and wool strand at point E, Fig. 9, THE HOME OF THAT "BIG —one of the purest of the pure; yet when making a few turns around the hook—then BASKET" TROUT out of sight and fishing with his mother continue with the winding silk back to first attempt may be somewhat ragged look­ stoutly affirms that "flies are no good, and point F, where the wax on it will usually ing, yet it will take fish; sometimes the more worms are the only way to catch 'em." hold it in place. bedraggled the fly, the more effective it is. The conversation as I recall it opened up Take the strand of yellow wool, between with the usual salutation: thumb and first finger of right hand and The Wet Fly (Professor) Since we have the body material available, "Well, what luck?" Skippy demanded wrap spirally around hook, forming body eagerly. and holding in place at point F, Fig. 10, we will now tie a wet fly, called the Profes­ with a few turns of the winding silk. Then sor; the only other things necessary are a Father talking: "Boy, I laid 'em low this fasten with a half hitch. A half hitch is mottled duck wing feather and the rich time!" simply a loop, turned in the silk, slipped chestnut brown hackle from a Rhode Island "Let's see them quick," he urged. "Did over the snell and pulled tight when in posi­ Red rooster. you get the big one?" tion. Be sure and keep body at least an To tie the fly proceed as in Figures 7 to 12 Here I assumed my most mysterious air eighth of an inch away from eye of hook, as inclusive; from the body, wind the brown and the suspense becoming terrible, he com­ hackle must be still wound on. Trim off hackle on sparingly, so that it will sink menced to unfasten the lid of the creel. surplus end of wool strand. more readily, as we are now adding wings Assisting him, I proudly withdrew from Its which make it more buoyant. Fasten hackle Next, with the ribbing tinsel, take a few spruce lined cavernous depths three small at F, Fig. 12, with a few turns of the wind­ trout who succumbed to the deadly dun I turns around point E, then wind spirally ing silk and a half hitch, leaving a space of around body, fastening at point F, Fig. 11 had labored long over during the past winter. about a sixteenth of an inch between hackle Disappointedly turning to his mother and with a few turns of the winding silk and and eye of hook, to fasten on wings. another half hitch. Clip off surplus tinsel. pointing an accusing finger at me, he ex­ I generally fasten hackle pliers to end of Smooth out a section of the mottled duck claimed : "There he is! He's been fooling winding silk letting it hang; this tension feather and strip the fibres between thumb with those flies again !" holds the wool and tinsel in place and the and first finger of right hand until they are half hitches may be avoided. The body of at right angles to the quill and present a the fly is now finished. flat surface when released. Cut out a sec­ tion as shown in Fig. 14, so that the length Strip the down from the hackle; then hold A Sudden Drop of fibres is equal to the length of hook; fold Everett Green, of Green Hill, ac­ tip of hackle in right hand and with thumb this over once, making it double, with eon- cording to Warden Del Broadbelt, and first finger of left hand strip down to­ cave sides in or together. Pocopson, is such an expert fisher­ wards the butt, so that the fibres will stand Grasp wing between thumb and first finger man that It may be possible his ang­ out at right angles to the quill or lean of left hand at point G, Fig. 15, so that butt ling ability could seriously affect the slightly back towards the base, as shown in of wing fibres rest above and slightly strad­ water supply of a southeastern Penn­ Fig. 12. Stripping the hackle makes it dle eye of hook; then hold wings firmly to sylvania community. easier to wind on and the fibres will not prevent slipping, and with winding silk take Del writes that Green secured per­ mat or double under so quickly. mission to flsh in a certain dam on a few turns around hook—lashing wings Chester Creek. He landed three Fasten tip of hackle with^ winding silk at securely in place and fastening with two largemouth bass In the grandaddy point F, Fig. 12, then wind hackle around half hitches. Trim off the excess butt end class. Two of the big fellows tipped the shoulder, fastening butt at point F with of wings at eye of fly; touch up the head the scales at 5 pounds apiece, the a few turns and two half hitches. Give the with shellac and the fly is finished. other at fl pounds. The next day, winding silk a sharp jerk and it will break Everett is said to have had word that off cleanly at the knot; but since it is quite he could no longer fish in the dam. "His taking those three flsh out," a trick—perhaps it would be best to cut it I trust that I will not bore my readers by opines Del, "had lowered the water off with the scissors. With a needle pick relating a personal incident which illustrates so much they were afraid if he kept out the fibres of hackle which were doubled the comparatively low esteem in which I Ashing there wouldn't be enough under while tying it on; and with a tooth­ am lately held as an angler by members of water there in case a fire broke out pick dipped in shellac, touch up the head. my immediate family. There was a time in town." Now the fly is complete and though your when my reputation as a fly fisher was PENNSYLVANIA ANGLKR 1

cess, then I did what any fly fisherman would Seth Says do—changed the fly. I put on a swift water streamer fly which requires quicker action 'Tain't alius fancy and the second cast quickly brought a rise, flshln' rigs thet takes a little fellow. But where there are little speckled trout. Mebbe ones there are big ones, too, so ten feet up I'm sort o' sot in my the creek a big fellow hit my fly—Boy, says I, here's my breakfast. 1 ways, but I reckon "He hit me so fast that I lost hold of my there's a heap o' fun slack line and before I could catch my hand an' fairness in goin' out on it again he leaped twice and threw the inter the gap. cuttln' a switch, an' ketchin' hook or fly from his mouth. The excitement a mess o' mountain trout. A feller don't need that I was waiting for had come and gone fancy riggin' ter git a kick out o' flshln' even with my words—'Boy, here's my breakfast,' ef his rig ain't new an' costly. Now, jest to but, in retrieving my line for another cast, back my say, look at old Jake Tolley thet I learned that this bass was again snagged lives over in Rattler Gap. in the belly by the hook on my fly and I I Agger there ain't many fellers kin touch brought him to my net. He weighed two old Jake when it comes ter knowin' the and three-quarter pounds and what a break­ mountains. He ain't missed many years fast he made my pal and me!" without his turkey, an' in trout flshin' he takes his share. I ain't never knowed him ter take more'n he needed, neither. Well, BUCK TAILS FIGHT STREAM sir, last spring along comes a feller thet POLLUTION knew Jake when he was a boy, and this From M. M. Kaufman, of Clarion, Pa., feller was all rigged out with the best o' comes word that the Clarion County Buck flshin' togs—new rod, reel, boots, an' all. Tails are taking an aggressive part in the Jake ain't much ter work when there's a drive against stream pollution. As chairman chance ter fish, so he goes with his buddy up ANDREW BULNA. PITTSBURGH. of the By-Laws Committee, Mr. Kaufman inter the gap. When they comes ter the CAUGHT THIS 7!/2 POUND PIKE reports that favorable replies were received run Jake asks his buddy which way he IN FRENCH CREEK from all of the candidates for state and na­ wants ter fish. Upstream, says he, but tional office this autumn to the following Where's yer tackle, Jake. Well, sir, Jake stream so close to a big metropolitan area resolution and questionnaire: fishes around in his pocket, pulls out a hook like Philadelphia and a number of fishermen "As soon as name is announced in news­ an' some heavy thread, cuts him a switch, know this secluded stream. Hence I paper or newspapers by any and all candi­ an' he's ready ter start. patrolled the stream many days the past dates for United States Senator or Congress­ 'Bout two hours later they meet, an' Jake s summer and fall in the late morning and man for this district; For Governor of Penn­ friend only hes two mountain trout. Jake afternoon to check up on who fishes, with sylvania ; State Senator for this district and hes ten dandies, plenty fer enny man. Now what, etc. There you will find men and boys Assemblyman from Clarion County, or candi­ mebbe thet other feller ain't goggle-eyed. who fish for sport, some to put meat on the dates for any other legislative, executive or 'Course, he can't flgger thet Jake could worm table and others who just pass time. I have law enforcement office, in this district, the his way inter those brushy holes jest about found most men on the stream Thursday and Secretary shall publish the following in the like a bobcat! Knowin' the water, I reckon, Friday to get fish for Friday's mealtime. Clarion Republican and the Clarion Demo­ is over half o' flshin', and a feller kin hev "At our club meeting, I have often heard crat, and mail a copy to such candidate or real sport no matter ef his outfit cost a few the remark, 'This guy Goepel is a warden candidates also mailing copies to the Oil City cents, er a hunderd dollars. but I never heard of him making an arrest.' Derrick, Sun-Telegraph or other daily in Well, I find kindness and sportsmanship go Pittsburgh and at least one daily or weekly hand in hand and the fellow who fresh water newspaper published in New Bethlehem, fishes is not a hardened criminal. My real Brookville, Tionesta, Ridgway, DuBois and BELIEVES EDUCATION IS KEY TO efforts have been to teach young America Kittanning, requesting publication without BETTER FISHING how to respect the law and others who don't cost to our association, to wit: know and should by taking away their tackle "Mr. (or Mrs.) The following interesting communication and fish. I give them a copy of the law and you have announced your name for the of­ is from Charles H. Goepel, Jr., special fish then if I ever catch them again the law must fice of warden of Philadelphia. He writes: take its course, and thus I have made a lot "If elected to the office will you at all times "As an ardent fly fisherman and a deputy of friends and no arrests. vote for and use your influence and best en­ warden, I have spent many warm days fish­ "I am of the firm opinion that education deavor to pass laws and aid in enforcing ing and wading the Little Neshaminy Creek will win more people who violate than ar­ present laws to stop pollution of the Lakes, from above Willow Grove outside of Phila­ rests. If every stream is patrolled at times Rivers, Brooks and Springs of the State and delphia down to where this creek empties during the season there will be more respect particularly the Clarion River and its tribu­ into the Big Neshaminy around Rushland. for the fishing laws and more fish in the taries? This stream is full of smallmouth bass and streams. The streams near a big city need "Please answer in the Clarion Democrat or offers unusual sport to the fly fisherman. some attention during the season and there­ the Clarion Republican in the next week's is­ "The smallmouth bass Is a real tempera­ fore I believe we should have more deputy sue, addressing your reply to the 'Buck Tails mental fellow and hard to lure on a fly but wardens—honest fishermen who are real Association of Clarion County.'" the little fellows are easier to attract and sportsmen. break the monotony from time to time. The "During the last season I have turned early morning and dusk fishing is the best many bait fishermen into fly fishermen by STOCKED TROUT SPAWN IN and altho the inexperienced angler will en­ showing them the simple art of fly fishing. TIOGA STREAMS deavor to cover a lot of ground at these Of course, bait fishermen will always remain Writing in November, Warden H. P. Boy- times, I have learned to work UP slowly with us since carp and catfish seldom rise den, of Wellsboro, Tioga County, reported casting cautiously into the ripples and pools to a fly and we must clean out those big trout waters in his section up to good levels and before moving to give the likely-looking carp that inhabit the deep pools. Also the for the winter months. Autumn rainfall pools one more try since the first or second suckers in the spring and fall will not jump proved a real boon to trout streams of the cast probably just about excited him enough at your fly but will suck up your dough bait. North Tier. to hit your fly on your last or final cast. If "The best catches in this creek have been Small game hunters, he reported, had ob­ any rise happened and you missed, go away reported in the late afternoon before dark served many trout spawning. Some of the and try again five or ten minutes later and when the bass feeds before dark. T did land trout are believed to have been stocked in he will hit again. some beauties, one in particular. I flyed a October and by the next month had joined "It's wonderful to know a small bass stretch

ROUT fishing in Pennsylvania has conditions confronting us today. An earnest daily creel limit is twenty, there are 92 days Treached a critical stage, as it has In effort was made during the last session of of open season and there is no season limit. practically all other populous states where the Legislature to have it modernized by the Each fisherman is legally entitled to take the fishing Is very intensive. Conditions are enactment of conservation measures badly 1840 trout from our streams each season. not the same as they were when we were needed to cope with the intensive fishing of With some 300,000 odd fishermen, this would boys and we might as well face this fact today, but in spite of the complete agreement mean a grand total of 552,000,000! Contrast squarely and act accordingly. Today there between the Pennsylvania Federation of with this preposterous number of trout that are at least twenty men on the streams for Sportsmen's Clubs and the Fish Commission our laws permit to be taken each season, each one of twenty years ago, and I believe on the needed changes, as embraced largely (if anything like this number could possibly the man days of fishing exceed this ratio, for in bill No. 1567, this bill was amended and be found) the annual output of our hatch­ many of these fishermen have more time to butchered so badly that in its final form it eries, which in trout of legal size and above fish on the streams throughout the season. was a liability rather than an asset and had is approximately 1,000,000—less than one- Contrasted with this tremendous increase in to be killed. fifth of one per cent! Also consider the fact fishing, the mileage of fishing water has been Under the Fish Code, your Board does not that each resident license will only pay for progressively decreased by pollution and have the power to change creel limits, size producing and planting from one to ten of other agencies of our so-called civilization limits, season limits, or to act on other con­ these fish per season, depending on the size. and much of that remaining Is so impaired servation measures as the need becomes ap­ Creel limits are supposed to be conserva­ that it is not capable of providing food and parent from time to time as does your Game tion measures by limiting the catch in keep­ cover for as many fish as it formerly did. Commission. If, for instance, we want to ing with the supply of fish and the intensity And finally, we have had five successive change the creel limit on trout, we must have of the fishing. When they are so ridiculous­ years of drought that has practically wiped an act of the Legislature to accomplish it. ly high that the angler is indeed fortunate many of our trout streams off the map. The This naturally puts the Board of Fish Com­ if he has the opportunity of reaching them result is a perfectly natural and logical one: missioners at a distinct disadvantage in once or twice during the season, they do fishing on the remaining mileage has become hampering action along lines that are ob­ more harm than good. They merely chal­ so intensive that the supply of fish is con­ viously necessary. Rather than seek specific lenge the uninformed fisherman to strive tinually kept down to a minimum. changes from the Legislature on each one of for this number as a false "par on the fish­ I have singled out trout streams in this these minor parts of the Code, it is vitally ing course," and failing miserably of attain­ discussion because the factors governing necessary that we seek to have passed in the ment, he is more disgusted with the fishing them are somewhat different from those gov­ next session a bill that will so amend the than if the limit were so low as to be easily erning bass waters. While very intensive Fish Code that the Board of Fish Commis­ attained. fishing will impair any type of fishing, it sioners may make these needed changes There is no use temporizing about the mat­ does not reduce the supply of bass and other themselves from time to time, as is now done ter. The simple fact stands out that we can­ warm water fish to the extent that it does by the Game Commission under Section 509 not continue to take from our trout streams trout. A mile or two of our larger bass of the Game Code. anything like the present number of fish if rivers like the North Branch of the Susque­ Getting back to trout fishing, let us look we would have decent fishing. Nature has hanna or the Allegheny will hold more fish at the provisions of the Fish Code. The placed defii.ite limits on the carrying capac- than the entire length of most of our trout streams. Furthermore, bass are not such persistent feeders as trout. There are often days at a time when for reasons best known to themselves they elude the angler's offer­ ings so that they are better able to take care of themselves under intensive fishing. Nat­ ural reproduction also seems to be higher and the drought seems to have had little adverse effect on our bass waters. What is the answer to this crisis in trout fishing that we are facing? Your Board is and has been producing and planting for many years all the trout that its funds, de­ rived from your license fees, will permit, and in inaiy cases this has been more than the streams could adequately provide with food and cover. The production and plant­ ing of trout is already far ahead of other factors in the problem. Intelligent stream improvement will help matters by increasing the carrying capacity of the streams and im­ proving their condition for both growth and natural reproduction of trout. But there are other factors in the prob­ lem, and one of vital importance is the Fish Code, which regulates both your fishing and the activities of the Board. This is an anti­ quated instrument drawn up years ago to suit conditions of a past generation and it is hopelessly inadequate to cope with the actual TWENTY MEN ARE ON OUR STREAMS TODAY TO ONE OF TWENTY YEARS AGO PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER »

sport of taking the fish without the necessity of killing it. There need be no curtailment either as to numbers or season in the catch­ Honesdale Fishermen ing of fish, but merely in the killing of these Rely on Barometer fish after one has enjoyed all the sport of Believe it or not, fishermen up in taking them. As a matter of fact our sport Honesdale, Wayne County, have the will be immeasurably improved if we omit jump on just about every other angler this anti-climax in the capture of trout, for in the state. Reason? They have there will be more and larger fish in the a fisherman's barometer, and Wal- stream to be taken. There is no valid ex­ tonians in this angling paradise in cuse for anyone claiming the classification Northeastern Pennsylvania are of sportsman to kill any considerable num­ staunch in their belief that it seldom ber of trout, when by this action he is fails. Briefly, this barometer is a plainly impairing the sport. gold fish pool located in Central Park across from the Court House in Mr. Trout Fisherman, the problem is Honesdale. Now let us visualize a squarely up to you. Your own behavior typical fishermen's confab. on the stream is a more potent factor than all others combined in determining the "Come on, Bill, let's go fishing this future quality of the trout fishing you will afternoon." enjoy. Bluntly stated, it is a question of "Well, Joe, I'd like to, and could, meat versus sport, and any sane person with in fact. But just a minute. Have trout fishing experience knows that there is you checked on the gold fish pool?" not enough trout meat to go around with­ Without further ado, Bill and Joe out keeping the sport down to bed rock. head for this unfailing guide. On After all, isn't it rather silly and unecoi om- this particular day, the fish are active, ical to catch and kill for food a game fish moving about in a lively manner. that is worth from $.~>.00 to $10.00 a pound There are 25 of them, big fellows ranging in size from 10 to 15 inches. The barometer is right so a-flshing go Bill and Joe. And chances are they'll return with good catches. DROUGHT AFFECTED RADICALLY MANY OF OUR MOUNTAIN Now, concerning the other side of STREAMS the picture. If those pet goldfish are huddled together and inactive, ity of the remnant of streams that man's chances are 20 to 1 that Bill and Joe selfish activities has spared, so that no will postpone their fishing trip to amount of additional stocking with large await more favorable omens. For trout would materially change the situation, years, this system has served the even if we had a $10.00 license to make anglers of Honesdale and, it is said, greatly increased stocking possible. With served them exceedingly well. the present limitations of the Fish Code Fishing, you know, in Wayne (which amount to practically no limitations County is a major sport, for with its at all as far as numbers are concerned) and many lakes and streams, this section with the bulk of the fishermen putting into of Pennsylvania is second to no other their creels all that they can catch, they will as an angler's happy fishing area. continue to take the trout out of our streams faster than Mother Nature and the Board combined can put them in. It is not enough merely to "obey the law." DYNAMITERS CAUGHT The real sportsman will go farther and obey Just about the lowest trick that can be the law of common sense which will tell termed contemptible is the dynamiting of a him that if he takes from the streams dur­ fishing stream. For dynamiting destroys ing the entire season a greater number than every vestige of life in a pool, and a man is now permitted in the daily creel limit, he who will resort to a practise of this kind is is taking more than his share of the annual an enemy to every sportsman in Pennsyl­ crop and in so doing is impairing the sport vania. for himself and his fellow anglers. He will It is therefore exceptionally good news not wait for the law to force him to reduce when any individual guilty of this crime, for his take, but will set an example for the law crime it is, is caught and penalized. H. P. and others to follow. He will fish with the Custard, Special Fish Warden, at Strouds- artificial fly so that the danger of injury burg, recently sent us the following clipping to the fish he returns will be minimized and from the Stroudsburg Sun: he will keep only an occasional exceptionally large fish. He will tolerate neither the pot Fines of $100 each, and costs of $18.50 fisherman, nor the vainglorious egotist who THREE NICE TROUT ARE A FAIR each, have been paid by two men who were delights in bringing home a "nice mess of DAYS CATCH found guilty, at a summary hearing before fish" as evidence of his prowess. He will Justice of the Peace Ralph Booth, of East realize that neither of these have any place Stroudsburg, on charges of unlawfully plac­ as sport, when we can buy equally good fish ing explosives in public waters in Monroe in the present day picture and through his food in the market for a few cents a pound? organizations will socially ostracise them as County. Sportsmen, we are facing a crisis that de­ The fines have been paid, records at Har- enemies of all true sportsmen and the worst mands intelligent leadership. Don't wait sort of vermin. risburg reveal, by both of the men, Calvin for others, but set an enlightened example Reeves Frantz, of Stroudsburg, R. D. 3, and Restrictions in the take of wild life are for others to follow to a higher standard of Alfred L. Miller, of 196 Brodhead Avenue, usually associated with curtailment of the sportsmanship—which after all must be the East Stroudsburg. sport. It is necessarily so in hunting, for a final ai;swer to improved fishing in Pennsyl­ The two were arrested September 5th, by piece of game to be shot and bagged must vania. Last year I carried a creel so shallow II. P. Custard, special fish warden, and given necessarily be killed and cannot be released that it would not hold more than four good a hearing September 6th. It was alleged they alive to furnish future sport. But it is not trout. This coming year, / am going to had dynamited Pocono Creek, about a mile so with fishing where one can have all the leave the creel at home! south of Bartonsville. 10 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

RECORD FISH another. Jackson finally netted the fish for topped the sucker catches. It was landed (Contii tied from page S) me after I had played him for 15 minutes." by Harry Hollenbocks, of Shenandoah, in the That this great fishing ground should furnish This giant of the wall-eyed pike or Susque­ North Branch of the Susquehanna River one of the largest fish in the wall-eye divi­ hanna salmon species was caught at Zimmer­ near Rupert, Columbia County. sion was therefore in the almost natural run man's Eddy on the Upper Delaware on Au­ of events. Fred Spogen, of Lehighton, gust 11th. When weighed at the W. T. Long MALE BASS "DADDIES" TWO caught it, a pike measuring 31 inches in Sporting Goods Store, in Easton, it tipped length, with a girth of 17 Inches and weight the scales at 13 pounds, 8 ounces. It was SEPARATE BROODS of 11% pounds. In the opinion of veteran 34 inches in length and had a girth measure­ Spawning habits of the black bass, game fishermen at Wallenpaupack, it was the larg­ ment of 18% inches. fish supreme of Pennsylvania's waters, are est game fish ever to be taken on the lake. Other Big Fellows studied with keen interest at Pleasant Mount Now let us turn to the Upper Delaware Good catches of pickerel were made in hatchery where thousands of the young bass River. Glancing through our records we are many waters during the season. Topping are raised to stocking size. At approach of almost tempted to adopt the slogan for this them all, reports Indicate, was a pickerel the spawning season, a certain number of stream—"When bigger wall-eyes are to be measuring 28 inches in length and weighing brood fish are allotted to each brood pond. taken in Pennsylvania, the Upper Delaware 5 pounds dressed. It was taken in Peck's Last year the bass were placed in these will provide 'em." Last year, for instance, Pond, Pike County, by Archie J. Waidelich, l>onds in three allotments with intervals of a great pike tipping the scales just one ounce of Hamburg. about five or ten days between each allot­ short of 12 pounds, topped the list of wall­ Some fine rock bass were caught. Largest ment. The first allotment had spawned, the eyes, and it came from the Upper Delaware. in this division was a rockie 14 inches in eggs had hatched, and the baby fish were And this year? Here's introducing Frank length, and old timers will tell you that a still on the nest when the last group of Seas, 1906 Butler Street, Easton, the angler rock bass of that size is some fish. So adult bass were released in the pond. who landed 1934's record-breaking wall-eyed broad and heavy in girth are these fish that The females of the second group were all pike from Pennsylvania waters. Following one of 14 inches is bound to arouse com­ fully ripe and little time was available for is his account of the catch, written to Fish ment in any fishing circle. No girth or them to choose a mate. Apparently they Warden Frank Brink, of Milford. weight was given for the fish, which was chose the first fish at hand, with a result "My brother, Ray Seas, of Martins Creek, iaken on a plug in the Warrior's Ridge Dam that one female extruded her eggs upon a told me recently that he was talking to you on the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata nest of young bass, and they were fertilized concerning the large pike that I caught in by Charles Gerkheimer, of Altoona. by the male which already had one family the Delaware this year. Believe me, it was A bluegill sunfish caught by Ernest Ben- under his care. some fish! I had lost several big fish in the ning, of Bethlehem, in Saylor's Lake, Monroe When the fry already hatched rose from past three years and I could not figure why County, measured 11 inches in length and the nest, they were removed by the care­ I could not land them or even get to see was the largest reported of this species. taker and placed in the nursery ponds. The them. I always used 30 pound test line, Girth and weight of the fish was not given. second family was also hatched in due time steel wire leader, the best of swivels, heavy A yellow perch taken in the Allegheny under protection of the male. It is a known hooks and strong spinners with lamprey River by Roy Williams, of Mapleshade, was fact that a female bass frequently mates eels for bait. However, after I landed that the largest reported. It was 18 Inches in with more than one male. This is generally fish and saw the size of him—well, then I leigth. The largest bullhead catfish weighed accomplished by extruding a portion of her knew why they always tore loose. 3 pounds. It was caught in the Warrior's eggs on the nest of one male bass, and then "I was with William Jackson and Clyde Ridge Dam by G. W. McCauley, of Bellwood, seeking another fish. However, the instance Hester, both of Easton, when it was caught; Blair County. A giant sucker, 24 inches in mentioned is the first observed where a fe­ Jackson and I were in one canoe. Hester in length and weighing 4 pounds, 14 ounces male sought a male bass that already had a brood of young fish under his care.

CONODOGUINET BASS Autumn fishing on the famous Conodogu- inet Creek, in Cumberland County, furnished some catches of unusually large smallmouth bass, according to Warden George James, of Carlisle. McClay Gibson, Carlisle, scored with a 4% pound bass, Ray Horn, Carlisle, with a bass weighing 4% pounds, and Clyde Gibson with a three-pounder.

AN OCTOBER CATCH Jake Babec, of Harrisburg, recently had an experience that typifies the run of luck of more than one bass fisherman. Early in the morning of October 17th, Jake maneuvered his boat into position in a favorite fishing pool of the Susquehanna River at Harris­ burg. He had with him a good supply of live bait and, as the day appeared ideal for fishing, expected a strike in short order. The strike, however, was not forthcoming. He fished until one o'clock in the after­ noon, and then anchored on the edge of a deep channel. Three hours packed with ac­ tion followed. He creeled in that time one iargemouth bass weighing 3 pounds 11 ounces, 8 smallmouth bass ranging in weight from 2% to 3% pounds, a 22-inch wall-eyed pike weighing 4 pounds 9 ounces, a sunfish and a riffle chub. When dressed, the entire catch weighed 22% pounds, according to MRS. FLOYD BAKER OF DUNMORE WITH A NICE CATCH OF Warden Frank Sanda, of Steelton, who re­ WALLENPAUPACK BASS AND PIKE ported the catch. PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 11

Strange Catches 1 When it conies to unusual catches, those reported recently by John Jess- cavage, secretary of the Thornhurst Sporting Club at Miners Mills just f about top the list. He writes: "I read PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER every month and find it interesting, helpful and entertaining. "At different times I notice ac­ i $i\ counts of unusual catches made by fishermen. This prompts me to send in a few accounts of unusual catches made by fellow club-members on the Lehigh River in Buck Township, Luzerne County, near our club- grounds. They were told around the club-house, and although they sound 'fishy' they were all proved to be true. "These unusual catches follow: "A member was fishing for brown v 1* \ m trout late one evening in June, using Vi m mm'* 1 a 5-inch chub for bait. After a short H. Ik-Sam time, he returned to camp for some forgotten article leaving his pole and m. VI line, with chub attached, on the bank of the river. On his return he found the tackle missing. Upon investiga­ tion, the pole was found wedged i *^JpA j«K ; ;. against a clump of brush, the line stretched taut and something pull­ ing on the other end. Calling me, we both made an inspection and to •_ ^J/Jki:H our great surprise found a large house-cat had swallowed the chub and FRED KING. WATERFORD. WITH hook. Deciding it was a stray cat A LAKE LEBOEUF MUSKIE HE we soon sent it where all bad cats CAUGHT belong. THIS BROWN TROUT BROKE LINE "One rainy day my brother was AND LANDING NET FOR RAY- MOND M1NICK, CAMP HILL. AND fishing around a shallow bend in the SOME CATCHES! WAS LANDED HALF AN HOUR river, using a minnow for bait. Sud­ LATER denly he felt a hard jerk on his line. Four brown trout averaging better He immediately set the hook and be­ than 18 inches apiece were taken from "SWUNK" gan reeling in the line. Finding it Fishing Creek, Columbia County, early "The fish that 'dry out' so much of their difficult to do this he pulled the line in May, writes Warden Myron Shoe­ weight before they get to the scales," says in hand over hand, and found a maker. Charles Mosteller, of Blooms- Dr. Thomas E. Winecoff, Game Commission crane on the end of the line. A difficult time was had freeing the burg, was the lucky angler, and official, "remind one of the darkey who caught bird. he staged his unusual catch in Ed- a forty pound catfish In a Mississippi Valley "On another evening, a member son's Dam at Benton. stream. Rastus staked out the monster on was casting his fly over the water. The big trout had a total length of a plough line In running water, and hurried Suddenly something grabbed the fly 69 inches, and the largest measured off to call his friends not only to see his in midair and fell to the ground. It 20y inches in length. Talk about uni­ flsh but to help him carry It home. proved to be a bat. 2 form size, it's hard to beat this catch "But while he was gone another fisherman, "But here is the best one: A friend was fly-fishing a long smooth stretch of brownies. with less luck but more muscle, took the of the Lehigh one July morning. But just to show you that Fishing big flsh and left on the line in its place a Heavy brush covered both sides of Creek also furnishes exceptional fish­ miserable little catfish some six inches long. the water. On one of his casts, just ing for brook trout, here's a catch of When Rastus got back with his friends and when he was about to place the fly brookies made at Grasmere Park, on with proper impressiveness pulled in his on the water, a deer bounded into June 11th, by Peter McHenry, also of fish all he could say was, My Lawd, but the water and in some unexplainable Bloomsburg. McHenry's creel of 20 ain't he 'SWUNK?'" manner the fly was imbedded in the deer's body. The deer did not stop brook trout ranged in size from 8 to to argue but kept on going for parts 14 inches, and many of them were 11 THE FIRST BIG ONE unknown with the fly, leader and the White clouds driftin' in the west, and 12 Inches in length. biggest part of the line." Bloomsburg anglers certainly are do­ Sun's up in the sky, ing their stuff this season. Swallows tip the water, With wings as they fly. Racin' for his very life Babbling brook flows gently on, Where you cannot follow. Now you draw him closer in, Shadflies are a mopin', Line goes a spinnin' out, Coaxin' and a-pcttin', OV trout hidin' neath the bank. Then it starts to slacken, Ripples start around again With his eyes wide open. 01' trout take it in his head As he goes to frettin'. Line goes curling thru the air, To do a little backin'. Now he's kickin' in your net, Fly lights on the water, Now ol' trout he's off again, A great big speckled rounder. OV trout makes a sudden, rise, You're tickled most to death—'cause Jes' like he oughter. This time at you comin'. Now he's off the other way, You've caught your first two pounder. Down thru a pool he goes, OV reel is a-hummin'. —H. B. SHATTO. Where the water's deepest, You follow'n after him, Back and forth he's playin' note; The heaviest brown trout taken on fishing Where the bank is steepest. Now he parts the water, tackle weighed 28% pounds, it is claimed, Down o'er a little fall, Ripples danein' all around, and the record rainbow trout caught on hook Then across the shallow, Jes' like they oughter. and line weighed 2CM; pounds. li." PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

OCTOBER STOCKING TOPS 2,600,000 The month of October marked a peak for the" year in the stocking program of the Fish Commission. A grand total of 2.625.431 fish and frogs were distributed to waters in ex­ cellent condition for stocking. Of this num­ ber, 58,250 were flngerling bass, 458.290 cat­ fish, from 2 to 9 inches, 1,350,200 flngerling sunflsh, 136,700 minnows, 2,716 adult pick­ erel, 7,755 yellow perch flngerlings. 27,360 brown trout from 8 to 11 inches, 15,300 brook trout, 6 to 12 inches, 1,860 suckers, averaging 5 inches,.in lepgth, and 558.000 frogs in the embrjJcM- *tavge. The various species stocked had a commercial value of $138,431.35. Following are the waters in the various counties to which the distribution was made: Adams—trout, Conococheague Creek, Cone- wago Creek, East Branch Little Antietam Creek, Toms Creek; catfish, Marsh Creek. Little Marsh Creek, Conewago Creek, Ber- JUNIATA RIVER ABOVE PORT ROYAL JUNIATA COUNTY mudian Creek, South Branch Conewago Creek; sunflsh, Bermudian Creek, Conewago Williamsburg Dam on Frankstown Branch Pond, Mahoning Creek, Lake Harmony, Creek, Little Marsh Creek, Marsh Creek, Juniata River, Frankstown Branch Juniata Kittaotinny Pond, Little Gap Ice Dam on South Branch or Little Conewago Creek; Aquashicola Creek. frogs, Marsh Creek, Little Marsh Creek, Ber­ River, Brush Creek; sunflsh, Williamsburg mudian Creek, Conewago Creek, South Dam on Frankstown Branch Juniata River, Centre—black bass, Bald Eagle Creek; Branch or Little Conewago Creek; suckers, Frankstown Branch Juniata River, Brush trout, Spring Creek, Penns Creek, Bald Eagle, Marsh Creek. Creek. Creek, Hosier Dam on Half Moon Run; cat­ Allegheny—catfish, Scott Pond No. 1, Scott Bradford—black bass, North Branch Sus­ fish, Cold Stream Dam; frogs, Cold Stream Pond No. 2, Scott Pond No. 3, Allegheny quehanna River; catflsh, North Brancli Sus­ Dam; sunflsh, Cold Stream Dam, Bald Eagle River; frogs, Allegheny River; sunflsh, Scott quehanna River, Mountain Lake, Herrick- Creek. Pond No. 1, Scott Pond No. 2, Scott Pond ville Rod and Gun Club Pond, Sugar Creek, Chester— catflsh, Chester Creek, Darby No. 3, Allegheny River. Wesauking Lake, Nephawin Lake; minnows, Creek, Fricks Lock, Delchester Farms Dam Armstrong—catfish, Allegheny River; Nephawin Lake; pickerel, Nephawin Lake; on Indian Creek, Delchester Farms Dam on frogs, Allegheny River; sunflsh, Allegheny sunflsh, North Branch Susquehanna River, Ridley Creek, French Creek, Mill Pond on River. Mountain Lake, Herrickville Rod and Gun Schuylkill Canal, Black Dam on Pine Creek; Beaver—catfish, Little Beaver River, North Club Pond, Sugar Creek, Wesauking Lake, sunflsh, Black Dam on Pine Creek, Mill Pond Fork Little Beaver River, Brush Creek; Nephawin Lake. on Schuylkill Canal, French Creek, Del­ frogs, Little Beaver River, North Fork Little Bucks—^catfish, Three Mile Run, Pidcock chester Farms Dam on Ridley Creek, Del­ Beaver River, Brush Creek; sunflsh, Little Creek, Brock Creek, Pine Creek, East Swamp chester Farms Dam on Indian Creek, Fricks Beaver River, North Fork Little Beaver Creek; sunflsh, Pine Creek, Three Mile Run, Lock, Chester Creek, Darby Creek; frogs, River, Brush Creek. Brock Creek, Pidcock Creek: frogs, Pidcock Fricks Lock, Chester Creek, Darby Creek, Bedford—trout, Wills Creek, Buffalo Creek, Creek, Brock Creek, Three Mile Run, Pine Delchester Farms, Dam on Indian Creek, Cumberland Valley Run, Raystown Branch Creek. Delchester Farms Dam on Ridley Creek, French Creek Mill Pond on Schuylkill Canal, Juniata River; catflsh, Bobs Creek, Dun- Butler—trout, Hogues Run, McMurry Run, Black Dam on Pine Creek; trout, Valley nings Creek, Wills Creek, Gordon Lake, Thorn Creek. Creek. Thomas W. Koon Lake; frogs, Bobs Creek, Cambria—catflsh, Clearfield Creek, Lake Dunnings Creek, Wills Creek, Gordon Lake, Rowena, New Borough Dam, Slatelick Creek, Clarion—trout, Big Piney Creek; catflsh, Thomas W. Koon Lake; sunflsh, Bobs Creek, Walters Dam on Beaverdam Run, Chest Licking Creek, Huefner Dam on Paint Creek; Dunnings Creek. Wills Creek, Gordon Lake, Creek, Shaft Dam, North Branch Little Cone- frogs, Licking Creek, Huefner Dam on Paint Thomas W. Koon Lake. maugh River, Edwards Dam; frogs, Clear­ Creek; suckers, Red Bank Creek; sunflsh, Berks—trout, Mill Creek, Furnace Creek; field, Lake Rowena on Howells Run, New Licking Creek, Huefner Dam on Paint Creek, catflsh, French Creek, Monocacy Creek, Naft­ Borough Dam, Slatelick Creek, Walters Dam Red Bank Creek. zinger Mill Dam on Mill Creek, Reisers Dam on Beaverdam Run, Chest Creek, Shaft Dam, Clearfield—black bass, Sandy Lick Creek; on* Seidels Run, Sacony Creek, Long Pond on North Branch Little Conemaugh River, Ed­ trout, Lick Run, Little Clearfield Creek, Lehigh Creek, Little Swatara Creek, Con- wards Dam; sunflsh, Clearfield Creek, St. Mosquito Creek; catflsh, Helveta Dam, Sandy estoga Creek, Cacossing Creek, Maiden Creek, Francis Lake, Lake Rowena on Howells Run, Lick Creek, Chest Creek, Kneedlers Dam, Pidcock Creek; sunflsh, Monocacy Creek, New Borough Dam, Slatelick Creek, Walters Beaver Run, Berwindale Lake, Little Clear­ French Creek, Maiden Creek, Tulpehocken Dam on Beaverdam Run, Chest Creek, Shaft field Creek, Tannery Dam; frogs, Helveta Creek, Cacoosing Creek, Sacony Creek, Long Dam, North Branch Little Conemaugh River, Dam, Sandy Lick Creek, Chest Creek, Kneed­ Pond on Lehigh Creek, Conestoga Creek, Lit­ Edwards Dam, Howe Run; yellow perch, lers Dam, Beaver Run, Berwindale Lake, tle Swatara Creek, Naftzinger Mill Dam on Howe Run. Little Clearfield Creek, Tannery Dam; sun- Mill Creek, Reisers Dam on Seidels Run; Cameron—trout, Sterling Run; catfish, Mix fish, Sandylick Creek, Helveta Dam, Chest frogs, Naftzinger Mill Dam &n Mill Creek, Run Pond, Bowers Pond, Devling Pond; Creek, Kneedlers Dam, Beaver Run, Ber- Reisers Dam on Seidels Run, Little Swatara frogs, Mix Run Pond, Bowers' Pond, Devling winsdale Lake, Little Clearfield Creek, Creek, Conestoga Creek, Long Pond on Le­ Pond; sunflsh, Mix Run. Bowers Pond, Dev­ Tannery Dam. high Creek, Sacony Creek, Monocacy Creek, ling Pond. Clinton—black bass, Bald Eagle Creek, French Creek, Cacoosing Creek, Tulpehocken Carhon—black bass, Mahoning Creek; cat­ Pine Creek; trout, Big Fishing Creek, Lick Creek, Maiden Creek; yellow perch, Sacony fish, Lake Harmony, Lizard Creek, Tippet Run; catflsh, Lick Run, West Branch Run, Creek, Long Pond on Lehigh Creek, Cacoos­ Swamp on Nesquehoning Creek, Mahoning Bald Eagle Creek, Bald Eagle Canal; frogs, ing Creek, Tulpehocken Creek. Creek, Poliopoco Creek, Moses Wood Pond, Bald Eagle Creek, Bald Eagle Canal; sun­ Blair—trout, Piney Creek, Clover Creek, Little Gap Ice Dam on Aquashicola Creek, flsh, Bald Eagle Creek, Bald Eagle Canal, Pine Creek, Frankstown Branch Juniata Kittaotinny Pond; pickerel, Lake Harmony; Pine Creek. River; catflsh, Williamsburg Dam on Franks- sunflsh. Lake Harmony, Lizard Creek, Tip­ Columbia—black bass, Fishing Creek; cat­ town Branch Juniata River, Frankstown pet Swamp on Nesquehoning Creek, Ma­ flsh, Roaring Creek, Fishing Creek, Green Branch Juniata River, Brush Creek; frogs, honing Creek, Pohopoen Creek. Moses Wood Creek. Huntingdon Creek, Little Fishing PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER J3

Creek; sunfish, Roaring Creek, Fishing Lake LeBoeuf, West Branch French Creek, Jefferson—black bass, Red Bank Creek, Creek, Green Creek, Huntingdon Creek, Lake Pleasant, Lake Erie Bay. Little Sandy Creek; catfish, Red Bank Creek, Little Fishing Creek. Fayette—sunfish, Upper Star Junction Little Sandy Creek, Elnora Dam, Bath Pond, Crawford—black bass, Conneaut Lake; Dam on Washington Run, Lower Star Junc­ Falls Creek Borough Storage Dam, Reeds catfish, Conneaut Lake, Crooked Creek, Oil tion Dam on Washington Run, Smock Dam, Dam; frogs, Elnora Dam, Little Sandy Creek, Creek, French Creek, Conneaut Creek, Clear Crabapple Dam, Dunbar Corp. Dam No. 1 Bath Pond, Red Bank Creek, Falls Creek Lake, Lake Canadohta, Conneautte Creek, on Dunbar Creek, Dunbar Corp. Dam No. Borough Storage Dam, Reeds Dam; suckers, Cussewago Creek; frogs, Crooked Creek, 2 on Dunbar Creek, Brownfield Dam, Cool Red Bank Creek; sunfish, Elnora Dam on Oil Creek, French Creek, Conneaut Creek, Springs Dam, Layton Reservoir. Bug Run, Falls Borough Storage Dam, Reeds Clear Lake, Lake Canadohta, Conneautte Forest—black bass, Allegheny River; Dam, Red Bank Creek, Little Sandy Creek, Creek, Conneaut Lake, Cussewago Creek; trout, Little Salmon Creek, Big Salmon Bath Pond. sunfish, Oil Creek, Conneaut Lake, Crooked Creek; yellow perch, Allegheny River. Juniata—black bass, Pomeroy Dam on Creek, French Creek, Conneaut Creek, Clea'r Franklin—black bass, Conodoguinet Creek, Tuscarora Creek, Juniata River; catfish, Tus- Lake, Lake Canadohta, Conneautte Creek, Conococheague Creek; trout, Red Run ; cat­ carora Creek, Pomeroy Dam on Tuscarora Cussewago Creek. fish, Muddy Run, Indian Lake, Conococheague Creek, Cocolamus Creek; frogs, Tuscarora Cumberland—black bass, Yellow Breeches Creek, Goods Dam on East Branch Little Creek, Pomeroy Dam on Tuscarora Creek, Creek, Conodoguinet Creek; catfish, Cono­ Antietam Creek, East Branch Little Antie- Cocolamus Creek; sunfish, Tuscarora Creek, doguinet Creek, Fuller Lake, Laurel Ore Pit, tam Creek, West Branch Conococheague Pomeroy Dam on Tuscarora Creek, Cocola­ Henry Clay Ore Pit, Hairy Spring Run, Creek; frogs. Muddy Run, Indian Lake, Con­ mus Creek, Juniata River. Means Run, Carlisle Water House Dam on ococheague Creek, Goods Dam on East Lackawanna—catfish, Mud Pond, Baylor Conodoguinet Creek, Harrisburg Sportsmen's Branch Little Antietam Creek, East Branch Pond, Windfall Pond, Ford Pond, Handsome Pond No. 1, Harrisburg Sportsmen's Pond Little Antietam Creek, West Branch Cono­ Lake, Whippoorwill Pond, Sicklers Pond, No. 2, Yellow Breeches Creek; frogs, Fuller cocheague Creek; sunfish, Muddy Run, In­ Sheridan Lake, Mountain Lake, Lower Klon- Lake,' Laurel Ore Pit, Henry Clay Ore Pit, dian Lake, Conococheague Creek, East dyke Lake, West End Lake, Johnson Lake; Hairy Spring Run, Means Run, Carlisle Branch Little Antietam Creek, Goods Dam minnows, Mountain Lake; sunfish, Mud Pond, Water House Dam on Conodoguinet Creek, on East Branch Little Antietam Creek, West Baylor Pond, Windfall Pond, Ford Pond, Harrisburg Sportsmen's Pond No. 1, Harris­ Branch Conococheague Creek, Conodoguinet Handsome Lake, Whippoorwill Pond. Sick­ burg Sportsmen's Pond No. 2, Yellow Creek; suckers, Indian Lake. lers Pond, Sheridan Lake, Mountain Lake, Breeches Creek, Conodoguinet Creek, Fuller Lake, Laurel Ore Pit, Henry Clay Ore Pit, Hairy Spring Run, Means Run, Carlisle Water House Dam on Conodoguinet Creek, Harrisburg Sportsmen's pond No. 1, Harris­ burg Sportsmen's Pond No. 2; yellow perch, Mountain Creek. Dauphin—trout, West Branch Rattling Creek, Manada Creek; catfish, Susquehanna River,' Wildwood Lake, Manada Creek, Aber­ deen Dam on Conewago Creek, Conewago Creek, Tresslers Dam on Stony Creek, Powells Creek, Pa. Canal Reservoir; sun­ fish, Wildwood Lake, Susquehanna River, Manada Creek, Swatara Creek, Penn Canal, Tresslers Dam on Stony Creek, Powells Creek, Aberdeen Dam on Conewago Creek, Conewago Creek; frogs, Manada Creek, Swatara Creek, Tresslers Dam on Stony Creek Powells Creek, Aberdeen Dam on Conewago Creek, Conewago Creek, Susque­ hanna River, Wildwood Lake, Penna. Canal; yellow perch, Aberdeen Dam on Conewago Creek, Conewago Creek, Tresslers Dam on LITTLE LOYALSOCK CREEK. SULLIVAN COUNTY Stony Creek, Powells Creek, Wildwood Lake, pa. Canal Reservoir. Fulton—black bass, South Fork Ten Mile Lower Klondyke Lake, West End Lake, John­ Delaware—trout, Ridley Creek; catfish, Creek, Dunkard Fork; catfish. South Fork son Lake, Neshannock Creek. Kaolin Quarry Hole, Ridley Creek, Crum- Ten Mile Creek, Dunkard Fork Creek, Dun­ Lancaster—catfish, Hammer Creek, Octo­ lynne Lake on Little Crum Creek; sunfish, kard Creek, Browns Fork Creek, Penna. Fork, raro Creek, Conowingo Dam, Big Chickies Kaolin Quarry Hole, Ridley Creek, Crum- Whitley Creek, Wheeling Creek, North Fork Creek, Middle Creek, Stovers Dam, Mill Dunkard Fork Wheeling Creek, South Fork lynne Lake on Little Crum Creek; frogs, Rid­ Creek, Little Conestoga Creek, Werners Dam. Wheeling Creek; frogs, Dunkard Creek, West Branch Octoraro Creek, Little Chickies ley Creek, Kaolin Quarry Hole, Crumlynne Browns Fork Creek, South Fork of Ten Creek, Cocalico Creek, Muddy Creek, Pequa Lake on Little Crum Creek. Mile Creek, Penna. Fork of Fish Creek, Creek, Conowingo Creek, Safe Harbor Dam; Elk—tTout, East Branch Millstone Creek, Whiteley Creek, Wheeling Creek, North Fork sunfish, Conowingo Dam, Safe Harbor Dam, Big Mill Creek; catfish, Straight Creek Pond, Dunkard Fork Wheeling Creek, South Fork Pequa Creek, Muddy Creek, Cocalico Creek, Ridgway Water Works Reservoir; frogs, Wheeling Creek; sunfish, Dunkard Creek, Little Chickies Creek, Conestoga Creek, Little Straight Creek Pond, Ridgway Water Works Browns Fork Creek, South Fork Ten Mile Conestoga Creek, Octoraro Creek, West Reservoir; sunfish, Straight Creek Pond, Creek, Penna. Fork, Whiteley Creek, Wheel­ Branch Octoraro Creek, Mill Creek, Stovers Ridgway Water Works Reservoir. ing Creek, North Fork Dunkard Fork Wheel­ Dam, Middle Creek, Hammer Creek, Big .Erie—black bass, French Creek, Lake Erie; ing Creek, South Fork Wheeling Creek. Chickies Creek, Wengers Mill Dam on Cones­ catfish, French Creek, Elk Creek, Lake Erie Huntingdon—black bass, Raystown Branch toga Creek; frogs, Big Chickies Creek, Ham­ Bay, Conneaut Creek, Runion Creek, Miller Juniata River, Juniata River; trout, Lick­ mer Creek, Middle Creek, Stovers Dam, Mill Pond, Edinboro Lake, Lake LeBoeuf, West ing Creek, Standing Stone Creek; catfish. Creek, Octoraro Creek, West Branch Octo­ Branch French Creek, French Creek, Lake Sideling Hill Creek, Aughwick Creek, Juniata raro Creek, Wengers Mill Dam on Conestoga Pleasant; frogs, Elk Creek, Lake Erie Bay, River; frogs, Sideling Hill Creek, Aughwick Creek, Conestoga Creek, Little Conestoga Conneaut Creek, Runion Creek, Edinboro Creek, Juniata River; sunfish, Raystown Creek, Little Chickies Creek, Cocalico Creek, Lake, Lake LeBoeuf, West Branch French Branch Juniata River, Juniata River, Side­ Muddy Creek, Pequa Creek, Conowingo Creek, French Creek, Lake Pleasant; sunfish, ling Hill Creek, Aughwick Creek. Creek; yellow perch, Pequa Creek, Muddy French Creek, Elk Creek, Conneaut Creek, Indiana—black bass, Yellow Creek; trout, Creek, Cocoalico Creek, Little Chickies Creek. Runion Creek, Miller Pond, Edinboro Lake, Yellow Creek; sunfish, Yellow Creek. Lawrence—black bass, Neshannock Creek; 14 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

trout, Jameson or Elliott Run; catfish, Lake, Westcolang Lake, Lower Shohola Falls Quarry Hole No. 5, Shenango River, Clarks Dam, Bruce Lake, Taminent Lake, Forest Pond, Municipal GflM Course Pond, Hotten- Lake, Sawkill Pond, Big Tink Lake, View beugh Creek. Neshannock Creek, Offutts Lake, Welcome Lake, White Deer Lake, Dam, North Fork Little Beaver River, Little Mud Pond, Lake Minisink, Lake Wal- Ceinent. Dam on Big Run; frogs, Quarry lenpaupack; minnows, Big Tink Pond ; pick­ Hole No. 6, Shenango River, Clarks Pond. erel, Promise Land Pond, Pecks Pond; sun­ Municipal Golf Course Pond. Hotfenbaugh fish, Promise Land Pond, Delaware River, Creek. Neshannock Creek, Offutts Dam, Pecks Pond, Big Walker Lake, Mud Pond, North Fork Little Beaver River, Ceinent Twin Lakes, Elicks Pond, Fairview Lake, Dam on Big Run; sunfish. Quarry Hole No. 5, Greeley Lake, Westcolang Lake, Lower Sho­ Neshannock Creek, Shenango River, Hotten- hola Falls Dam, Bruce Lake, Taminent Lake, baugh Creek. Municipal Golf Course Pond, Forest Lake, Sawkill Pond, Lake Minisink, Clarks Pond. Little Mud Pond, White Deer Lake, Big Tink Lebanon—cattish. Water Works Dam, Lake, View Lake, Welcome Lake, Lake Wal- Little Swatara Creek, Conewago Creek, lenpaupack; yellow perch, Twin Lakes, Lights Dam, Stracks Dam. Stavers Dam, Elicks Pond, Lower Shohola Falls Dam. Swatara Creek, Strauss Dam; sunflsh, Potter—trout, Lyman Run, West Branch Strauss Dam, Swatara Creek, Stavers Dam, Pine Creek, Allegheny River; catfish, sunflsh Stracks Dam, Lights Dam, Water Works and frogs, Rose Lake. Dam, Little Swatara Creek, Conewago Creek; frogs, Conewago Greek, Little Swatara Creek, SHELDON HOFFMAN. BELLEFONTE. Schuylkill—trout, Bear Creek, Locust Water Works Dam, Stracks Dam, Lights EXHIBITS A 19H INCH BROWNIE Creek; catfish, Cats Pond, Slack Pond, Suck­ TAKEN ON A DRY FLY IN BALD EAGLE ers Pond, Mahoning Creek, Lizard Creek, Dam, Stavers Dam, Swatara Creek. Strauss CREEK Dam. Pattersons Dam No. 1, Pattersons Dam No. 2, Pattersons Dam No. 3, Old Union Canal, Lehigh—catfish, Ontelaunce Creek. Smoyer Deep Creek, Long Run, Old Union Canal Milling Co. Dam, Orn Rod Mine Hole; sun­ Mifflin—black bass. Juniata Country Club Dam on Juniata River, Juniata River; trout, Basin, Mahantango Creek, Pine Creek, Hos- flsh, Smoyer Milling Co. Dam, Orn Rod Mine ensock Creek, Dock Pond, Deer Lake Dam Kishucoquillas Creek; catfish, Juniata Coun­ Hole, Ontelaunce Creek; frogs. Omrod Mine on Pine Creek, Cumbola Dam on Schuylkill Hole, Smoyer Milling Co. Dam, Ontelaunce try Club Dam on Juniata River. Juniata River, Sweet Arrow Lake on Little Swatara Creek; yellow perch, Ontelaunce Creek. River; frogs, Juniata Country Club Dam on Creek ; sunfish, Dock Pond, Deer Lake Dam Luzerne—black bass, North Branch Sus­ Juniata River, Juniata River: sunflsh, on Pine Creek, Mahoning Creek, Hosensock quehanna River ; trout, Bear Creek; catfish, Juniata River, Juniata Country Club Dam Creek, Pine Creek, Mahantango Creek, Old North Branch Susquehanna River, Harveys on Juniata River. Schuylkill Canal Basin, Long Run, Deep Lake, Mud Pond, White Haven Dam on Le­ Mot.roc—black bass, Delaware River; Creek, Sweet Arrow Lake on Little Swatara high River, Ice Lake, Perm Lake on Wrights trout, Pocono Creek, Paradise Creek; cat­ Creek, Old Union Canal, Pattersons Dam No. Creek, Paper Mill Dam on Huntingdon Creek, fish. Delaware River, A. L. Rakes Dam, 1, Pattersons Dam No. 2, Pattersons Dam Silver Lake, Mountain Spring Ice Co. Dam Echo Lake, Arlington Lake, Little Saylor No. 3, Lizard Creek, Cats Pond, Suckers No. 1 on Bowmans Creek. North Pond, Grassy Lake, Echo Lake. Weir Lake, Youngs Pond, Pond, Black Pond, Cumbola Dam on Old Pond, Nuangola Lake, Three Cornered Lake, Loi g Pond, Mountain Ice Company Dam No. Schuylkill Canal; frogs, Lizard Greek, Sweet Perrins Marsh, Beech Lake; sunflsh, North 1, Pocono Summit Lake, Deep Lake, Hawk- Arrow Lake on Little Swatara Creek, Pat­ Branch Susquehanna River, Harveys Lake, eye Pond, Gilmer Swamp Run, Leavitts tersons Dam No. 1, Pattersons Dam No. 2, Mud Pond, Penn Lake on Wrights Creek, Branch, Goose Pond Run; minnows. Deep Pattersons Dam No. 3, Suckers Pond, Old White Haven Dam on Lehigh River, Ice Lake, Hawkeye Pond; sunflsh, Delaware Union Canal, Black Pond, Cats Pond, Deep Lake, Paper Mill Dam on Huntingdon Creek, River, A. L. Rakes Dam, Echo Lake, Arling­ Creek, Long Run, Old Schuylkill Canal Silver Lake on Huntingdon Creek, Mountain ton Lake, Little Saylor Lake, Weir Lake, Basin, Mahantango Creek, Pine Creek, Hos­ Spring Ice Co. Dam No. 1 on Bowmans Creek, Echo Lake, Youngs Pond, Long Pond, Pocono ensock Creek, Cumbola Dam on Old Schuyl­ North Pond, Grassy Pond, Nuangola Lake, Summit Lake, Mountain Ice Co. Dam No. kill Canal, Mahoning Creek, Dock Pond, Three Cornered Lake, Beech Lake, Perrins 1, Deep Lake, Hawkeye Pond. Deer Lake Dam on Pine Creek, Little Marsh. Montgomery—catfish, Perkiomen Creek, Swatara Creek; yellow perch, Hosensock Lycoming—-black bass, Loyalsock Creek, Manatawney Creek, Gulf Mill Creek; sun­ Creek, Cumbola Dam on Old Schuylkill Muncy Greek, Lycoming Greek; trout, Ly­ fish, Perkiomen Creek, Manatawney Creek, Canal, Mahoning Creek, Deer Lake Dam on coming Creek, Slate Run, Rock Run; cat­ Gulf Mill Creek; frogs, Manatawney Creek, pine Creek, Dock Pond. fish, Muncy Creek, Loyalsock Creek, Little Perkiomen Creek, Gulf Mill Creek. Muncy Creek, Mill Creek; frogs, Mill Creek, Montour—black bass, Chillisquaque Creek; Snyder—black bass, Middle Creek; catfish, Loyalsock Creek Lycoming Creek, Muncy catfish, Chillisquaque Creek; Mahoning Middle Creek, North Branch Middle Creek, Creek, Little Muncy Creek; minnows, High­ Creek; sunflsh, Chillisquaque Creek; yellow Freeburg Fire Pond No. 1, Freeburg Fire land Lake; sunflsh, Muncy Creek, Little perch, Mahoning Creek. Pond No. 2, Penns Creek; sunflsh, Middle Muncy Creek, Lycoming Creek, Mill Creek, Northampton—black bass, Delaware River; Creek, North Branch Middle Creek, Free­ Loyalsock Creek. catfish, Delaware River, Bowers Dam on burg Fire Pond No. 1, Freeburg Fire Pond McKean—catfish, Mellander Pond; frogs, Bushkill Creek, Paint Mill Dam on Monocacy No. 2, Penns Creek. Mellander Pond; sunflsh, Mellander Pond, Greek; sunflsh, Bowers Dam on Bushkill Somerset—b lack bass, Youghiogheny Kushequa Pond; trout, Chappell Fork. Creek, Paint Mill Dam on Monocacy Creek, River; trout, Flaugherty Creek, Laurel Hill Mercer—black bass, Little Shenango River; Delaware River; frogs, Delaware River, Creek, Whites Creek, Clear Shard Creek; trout, Lackawannock Creek, Deer Creek, Bowers Dam on Bushkill Creek, Paint Mill catfish, Youghiogheny River, Middle Creek, Swamp Run; catfish, Little Shenango River. Dam on Monocacy Creek. Rowena Lake, Bigby Creek, McDonaldson Wolf Creek, Tingley Dam No. 1, Tingley Dam Perry—black bass, Juniata River, Buffalo Bros. Valley Coal Co. Dam, Kimberly Run, No. 2, Shenango River, Furnace Pond, Otter Creek, Shermans Creek; catfish, Juniata West Branch Coxes Creek; frogs, Youghio­ Creek, Sandy Creek, Cool ''Spring Creek, River, Buffalo Creek, Cocolamus Creek, Lit­ gheny River, Middle Creek, Rowena Lake, Pymatuning Creek; frogs, Little Shenango tle Buffalo Creek, Shermans Creek; frogs, Bigby Creek, McDonaldson Bros. Valley Coal River, Wolf Creek, Tingley Dam No. 1, Ting­ Cocolamus Creek, Buffalo Creek, Little Buf­ Co. Dam, Kimberly Run, West Branch of ley Dam No. 2, Shenango River, Furnace falo Creek, Juniata River, Shermans Creek; Coxes Creek; sunflsh, Youghiogheny River, Pond, Otter Greek, Sandy Creek, Cool sunflsh, Cocolamus Creek, Buffalo Creek, Middle Creek, Rowena Lake, Bigby Creek, Spring Creek, Pymatuning Creek; sunfish, Little Buffalo Creek, Juniata River, Sher­ McDonaldson Bros. Valley Coal Co. Dam, Tingley Dam No. 1, Tingley Dam No. 2, mans Creek (Loysville Hydro-Electric Dam). Kimberly Run, West Branch Coxes Creek; Shenango River, Furnace Pond, Otter Creek, Pike—black bass, Delaware River; catfish, suckers, Lake Rowena. Sandy Creek, Cool Spring Creek, Pymatuning Promise Land Pond, Delaware River, Pecks Sullivan—trout, West Branch Fishing Creek, Shenango River, Little Shenango Pond, Twin Lakes, Mud Pond, Big Walker Creek, Loyalsock Creek; catfish, Little Loyal­ River, Wolf Creek. Lake, Fairview Lake, Elicks Pond, Greeley sock Creek, Marsh Creek, Little Lick Creek, PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 15

Painters Den Pond, Eagles Mere Lake, Hunt­ Lake, Coxton Lake, Duck Harbor Lake; sun­ ers Lake, Splash Dam on Mehoopany Creek, fish, Shehawken Lake, Island Lake; Coxton Mud Lake, Williams Lake, Elk Lake; sunfish, Lake, Duck Harbor Lake, Seelyville Pond, Painters Den Pond, Eagles Mere Lake, Lake Como, Snag Pond, Ice Pond, North Hunter Lake, Splash Dam on Mehoopany Jersey Lake, Kizers Pond on Middle Creek, Creek, Mud Lake, Williams Lake, Elk Lake; Elk Lake, Beech Lake, Bunnells Pond, Sly yellow perch, Painters Den Pond. Lake, Starlight Lake, Fourmile Pond, Inde­ Susquehanna—black bass, North Branch pendent Lake, poyntelle Lake, Bone Lake. Susquehanna River; catfish, Laurel Lake, Westmoreland—trout, Lynn Run ; catfish. North Branch Susquehanna River, Round Margarete Reservoir, Mammoth Dam, Car- Pond, Forest Lake, Lowe Lake, Comfort pentertown Dam No. 1 on Boyer Run, Car- Pond, Upper Lake, Lower Lake, Middle pentertown Dam No. 2 on Boyer Run; frogs, Lake, Tingley Lake, Tyler Lake, Beaver Margarete Reservoir, Mammoth Dam, Car- Pond, Pages Pond, Quaker Lake, Card Pond, pentertown Dam No. 1 on Boyer Run, Car- Lords Fond, Lakeside Pond, Ely Lake, Jones pentertown Dam No. 2 on Boyer Run; sun­ Lake, Heart Lake, Tuscarora Lake, East fish, Maragarete Reservoir, Mammoth Dam, Lake, Butler Lake, Laurel Lake, Quaker Carpentertown Dam No. 1 on Boyer Run, Lake, Schoolys Pond, States Pond; minnows, Carpentertown Dam No. 2 on Boyer Run. Quaker Lake, Tuscarora Lake, Laurel Lake; Wyoming—black bass, North Branch Sus­ pickerel, Laurel Lake, Round Pond, Quaker quehanna River; catfish, Carley Lake, Mud Lake; sunfish, Laurel Lake, North Branch Pond, North Branch Susquehanna River, Susquehanna River, Round Pond, Forest Nigger Pond, Chamberlin Pond, Winola Lake, Lake, Lowe Lake, Ixwis Lake, Comfort Poud, Edinger Pond; minnows, North Branch Sus­ Upper Lake, Lower Lake, Middle Lake, Ting- quehanna River; sunfish, Carley Lake, Mud ley Lake, Tyler Lake, Beaver Pond, Pages Pond, North Branch Susquehanna River, Pond, Quaker Lake, Card Pond, Lords Pond, Nigger Pond, Chamberlin Road, Winola Lake, Lakeside Pond, Ely Lake, Jones Lake, Heart Edinger Pond. Lake, Tuscarora Lake, East Lake, Butler York—catfish, North Branch Bermudian Lake, Schoolys Pond, States Pond. Creek, West Branch Codorus Creek, Wrights- Union—black bass, Buffalo Creek, Penns ville Quarry Hole, Broad Water Lake, Cone- Creek; trout, Block Run, Buffalo Creek, wago Creek, Feiglers Ore Hole, Dunkard White Deer Creek, Buffalo Creek, Penns Valley Ore Hole, South Branch Codorus Creek, Millmont Dam on Penns Creek, New Creek, Silver Lake, on Bennetts Run, Ber­ Berlin Dam on Penns Creek, Little Buffalo mudian Creek, Little Conewago Creek; sun­ Creek, White Deer Hole Creek, Turtle Creek; fish, Silver Lake on Bennetts Run, Bermud­ minnows, Turtle Creek, White Deer Hole ian Creek, Kohlers Mill Dam, South Branch WALLENPAUPACK PICKEREL Creek; sunfish, Buffalo Creek, Penns Creek, Codorus Creek, Conowingo Creek, North New Berlin Dam on Penns Creek, Millmont Branch Bermudian Creek, West Branch Dam on Penns Creek, Little Buffalo Creek, Codorus Creek, Conewago Creek, Little Cone­ North Branch Bermudian Creek, Little Cone­ White Deer Hole Creek, Turtle Creek. wago Creek, Feiglers Ore Hole, Dunkard wago Creek; yellow perch, East Branch Venango—catfish, Lake Creek, Polk Sani­ Valley Ore Hole; frogs, Conewago Creek, Codorus Creek, West Branch Codorus Creek. tarium Dam, French Creek, Allegheny River; Silver Lake on Bennetts Run, Bermudian frogs, Lake Creek, Polk State Sanitarium Creek, South Branch Codorus Creek, West A muskellunge weighing 100 pounds was Dam, French Creek, Allegheny River; sun­ Branch Codorus Creek, Kohlers Mill Dam, the largest known to be taken on hook and fish, French Creek, Allegheny River, Lake Feiglers Ore Hole, Dunkard Valley Ore Hole, line, report has it. Creek, Polk State Sanitarium Dam. Warren—black bass, Conewango Creek, Allegheny River; catfish, Allegheny River, Columbus Pond, North Warren Dam, Broken- THE ANGLER FOR CHRISTMAS straw Creek; frogs, Columbus Pond, North Warren Dam on Conewango Creek, Allegheny PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER is just what its name indicates— River, Brokenstraw Creek; sunfish, Colum­ a magazine devoted to fish conservation and fishing in Pennsylvania. bus Pond, Bear Lake, North Warren Dam, Each month it brings to its readers happenings on the streams and Allegheny River, Brokenstraw Creek, Cone­ lakes in their home state, articles concerning the art of fishing and wango Creek. the various species of fish inhabiting our inland waters, and re­ Washington—black bass, Cross Creek, Buf­ ports on hatchery activities. Most important of all, it advocates falo Creek; catfish, Kings Creek, Aunt Clara conservation, the saving of this fine sport of angling for future Fork, Laughloth Mill Dam, Krewers Dam, generations. Harmony Coal Co. Dam, Rankin Run, Little Ten Mile Creek, Ten Mile Creek, Little Char- By way of suggestion, the ANGLER as a Christmas gift will tiers Creek; frogs, Kings Creek, Aunt Clara keep one who receives it in touch with fishing in the Keystone State Fork, Laughloth Mill Dam, Krewers Dam, during 1935. Harmony Coal Co. Dam, Rankin Run, Little Ten Mile Creek, Ten Mile Creek, Little Char- BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS tiers Creek; sunfish, Cross Creek, Buffalo HARRISBURG, PA. Creek, Kings Creek, Aunt Clara Fork, Laugh­ loth Mill Dam, Krewers Dam, Harmony Coal SUBSCRIPTION BLANK Company Dam, Rankin Run, Little Ten Mile Creek, Ten Mile Creek, Little Chartiers Enclosed find fifty cents ($.50) for one year's subscription to PENN­ Creek. SYLVANIA ANGLER. Wayne—catfish, island Lake, Shehawken Lake, Coxton Lake, Duck Harbor Lake, Name geelyville Pond, Lake Como, Snag Pond. Ice (Print Name) Pond, North Jersey Lake, Kizers Pond on Middle Creek, Elk Lake, Beech Lake, Bun­ Street and Number nell Pond, Sly Lake, Starlight Lake, Four- mile Pond, Coxton Lake, Independent Lake, Poyntelle Lake, Bone Lake; minnows, Cox­ City ton Lake; pickerel, island Lake, Shehawken 16 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER HERE \ THERE •• ANGLERDOM

A report has just reached the ANGLER from Warden Link Lender, of Bellwood, Blair County, that a bass taken on the Juniata River, at Petersburg during the past season, measured 26% inches in length and weighed 8% pounds, tying the record largemouth caught In Harvey's Lake by John Warzech- owskl of Nanticoke. It was landed by Charles Patterson, of Johnstown.

Fishing is a favorite pastime with William B. Newman, of Waterfall, according to Warden Link Lender. Recently, Lender met Newman, who is 36, while he was fishing in the Juniata with his father and two broth­ ers. Totally blind, he still derives pleasure from the sport. According to Lender, when Newman was six years old, he and another boy were digging fishing bait, and he lost the sight In one eye when struck by the pick being used. When 12 years old, he lost the sight in the other eye, but the call of fishing waters still Is as strong as ever. WILFORD ROBINSON, AMBLER. AND HERB PHILLIPS, MANOA. AND THEIR CATCH OF WALLENPAUPACK PIKE AND BASS. LARGEST PIKE. LENGTH 25 INCHES. WEIGHT B% POUNDS Charles Patterson, of Johnstown, whose big bass tied the season record, made a number famous North Branch of the Susquehanna the surface. He hooked the fish, a large red- of other good catches in the Juniata this was at its best this year. In five days' fish­ fin, and was permitting it to play about on year. An autumn catch consisted of five ing, Fay Refenbury, of Laceyville, caught 10 the surface of the water before pulling it in. smallmouth bass from 10 to 14 inches In bass each day. On Tuesday, he landed one Suddenly a whopper of a bass decided that length and a wall-eyed pike measuring 18 bass weighing 3% pounds and measuring the redfln would make a good meal and Inches. 19% inches; and on Wednesday, an 18-inch struck savagely. This unusual turn of events smallmouth weighing 3 pounds. Charles Cox so surprised Kunkle that he pulled too Late October fishing in the Raystown of Towanda caught a 3-pound smallmouth quickly and the bass stripped the minnow Branch of the Juniata yielded two big wall­ and 6-pound pike on flies. Grover Marcey, of from the hook. eyed pike to George Dewey, of Williamsburg, Towanda, caught a 3%-pound smallmouth on one of the most expert fishermen in central flies. Plug-fishing, Cecil Smith, of Sayre, Clyde Carlton, of the Canonsburg Daily Pennsylvania. His catch consisted of two caught some fine bass. One 19 inches topped Notes recently sent us a report of a big bass pike, sometimes called Susquehanna salmon, his catches, one measured 17 inches, two 13% caught by Frank Norwood, of Canonsburg. one measuring 24% inches and weighing 4 inches and one 13 inches. When Frank caught a five-pound bass this pounds 7 ounces, the other, 25 Inches and autumn in the Citizens Water Company dam, weighing 5 pounds. One of those big bass of the Brandywine it was generally believed that the big fish Creek considerably upset Fisherman Kunkle would top catches made in that section of A carp-fishing record to shoot at is that of recently, according to Warden Del Broadbelt, the state. A short time later, however, Tom D. F. Appleman, known to his many friends of Pocopson. It seems that Kunkle was still- Hirst, Jr., proved that old adage about "big­ as 'Apple," of Williamsburg. According to fishing and suddenly had the satisfaction of ger fish in the water than ever were caught" Warden Link Lender, of Bellwood, "Appie" seeing the cork on his lino disappear below by landing an old-timer of the bass clan caught 171 carp from the Frankstown Branch weighing 5% pounds. An'd they're real bass of the Juniata during 1933. The fish had a in any company. total weight of 850 pounds. The Williamsburg Rapid-Fire Catches fisherman, who is 74 years old, pins his faith When the great North Branch of Pine Creek smallmouth bass were striking on small pieces of potatoes as bait. the Susquehanna is right, the bait is well in September, according to Warden Hor­ right, and you happen into a school ace Boyden, of Wellsboro. L. F. Brown, of The Upper Delaware River, writes Warden of those battling smallmouth bass for Wellsboro, caught a bass measuring 17% which this stream is famous—well, inches, using crawfish for bait. On Septem­ Frank Brink, of Milfosd, furnished its usual chances are you'll have the kind of great wall-eyed pike fishing this autumn. Jay action described in a recent letter ber 21st, Angelo Bloise, of Wellsboro, landed Klntner, of Dingman's Ferry, landed a from Warden Myron Shoemaker of 8 nice bass ranging in size from 10 to 15 whopper weighing 9% pounds. Eight pike, Laceyville. inches during two hours' fishing. each weighing over 6 pounds, and one weigh­ Stanley Aston and Charles Wel- ing 5 pounds were taken in a day's fishing by teroth, Kingston anglers, made a great catch one day in October, ac­ Warden D. K. Broadbelt reports that cov­ Everett Leicht, Milford guide. Levi Jagger ering the period from October 1st to 15th, of Dingman's Ferry made a big catch on cording to Myron. In rapid-fire order they creeled four big bass on hel- Sam Entreckin, of West Chester, caught eight October 26th. gramites, 15 inches, 16 inches, 18 fine bass of the smallmouth variety from the inches and 19 inches respectively. Brinton Quarry hole. The fish, ranging in From Warden Myron Shoemaker, of Lacey­ The largest bass weighed 3% pounds. size from 15 to 18 inches, were taken on ville, comes word that autumn fishing on the minnows. Our Laurel Lake Meetin

Laurel Lake has got a fish club, By CLARENCE A. HAMMOND Then the white man in his wisdom, Or some such sort of crowd. And his travels found a dish, That appealed unto his likin Don't know the right name for it, A feller there knowed more than Doc, Then his pond held foreign fish. But I'm a member and I'm proud. An tried to stick him for the crowd, Cause the aim as I can see it, But Doc just laffed & showed him up This upsot the whole darn balance Is to make a guy play fair An never raised his voice up loud. Took the Lord so long to build, With the State of Pennsylvanny And the fishin gettin poorer "Why soft clams die an raise on top? Fishbags now can't half be filled. Who stocks the waters there. Now tell us that, it's our wish?" We don't stand for ary fish hog, You ask the clam man Doc replied Now we back track on the matter "'I'm spending all my time on fish!" "Gosh, I sure do hate that name Stock the pond in nature's way, An I hope we'll all be sportsmen Then get shet of all the fish hog Doc he stated way back yonder So, good fishins come to stay. Who will fairly play the game. While the red man had his play, The Almighty stocked the waters Our fishin's gettin poorly Was I a fish and herd Doc Buller In his own unerring way. Been right ailin for a spell, Scairt of him I sure would be, So we called in Doctor Buller For he'd know what I'd be doin Placed the fish an all the foods Just about as quick as me. To make the patient well. Balanced up the different breeds Foods for all the times & seasons So the President called a meetin Fishin groups now do your duty, To supply their native needs. Of every go'l darn fishin man. Take a trip to Pleasant Mount. While Buller told fish history See this fish man and his fishes From fish eggs to the pan. Tips he gives you SURE DO COUNT. PAUL L. SWANSON R. D. NO.2, POLK, PA. Sec. 562, P.L.&R. P-A U. S. POSTAGE PAID Harrisburg, Pa. Permit No. 270

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