SNAPPING TURTLE NOVEMBER. 1942 TEN CENTS OFFICIAL STATE VOL Xl-No. 11 PUBLICATION 'ANGLER? NOVEMBER, 1942 db PUBLISHED MONTHLY ARTHUR H. JAMES by the jOviTiior PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF FISH COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS Publication Office : J. Horace McFarlund Co., Crescent and Mulberry Streets, Harrisburg., Pa. Executive and Editorial Offices: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Board of Fish Com­ missioners, Harrisburg, Pa. CHARLES A. FRENCH 10 cents a copy — 50 cents a year Commissioner of Fisheries MEMBERS OF BOARD ALEX P. SWEIGART, Editor CHARLES A. FRENCH. Chairman CHARLES K. FOX, Acting Editor Ell wood City South Office Bldg., Harrisburg, Pa. JOHN L. NEIGER Scranton JOSEPH M. CRITCHFIELD NOTE Confluence Subscriptions to the PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER CLIFFORD J. WELSH should be addressed to the Editor. Submit fee either Erie by check or money order payable to the Common­ wealth of Pennsylvania. Stamps not acceptable* J. FRED McKEAN Individuals sending cash do so at their own risk. New Kensington MILTON L. PEEK Radnor CHARLES A. MENSCH PENNSYLVANIA ANCLER welcomes contribu­ Bellefonte tions and photos of catches from its readers. Proper credit will be given to contributors. EDGAR W. NICHOLSON Philadelphia H. R. STACKIIOUSE Secretary to Board All contributions returned if accompanied by first class postage. Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office C. R. BULLER of Harrisburg, Pa., under act of March 3, 1873. Chief Fish Culturist, Bellefonte IMPORTANT—The Editor should be notified immediately of change in subscriber's address. Please give old and new addresses. Permission to reprint will be granted provided proper credit notice is given. VOL. XI. No. 11 ^ANGLER/ NOVEMBER, 1942 ^ In This Issue: %ht "angler" for Christmas A. VISIT TO OUR NEIGHBORS Some of our friends and all the members of our families deserve more than a card JACK NEIGER for Christmas. The selection of a practical Christmas present, which will be enjoyed and appreciated, often presents a problem. The PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER is an ideal gift for a fisherman. This is particularly true of a fisherman in the United States ^HE FATHER OF THE FLY ROD Armed Forces and the property owners from whose land we angle. SPARSE GREY HACKLE An appropriate Christmas card advising the recipient of the gift will be mailed from this office shortly before Christmas for those desiring to give the ANGLER as a ESOX AND THE THING Christmas gift. The name and address of the donor will be placed on this card. THE OLD ANGLER Twelve times each year a friend can be reminded of your Christmas thought when an issue of the ANGLER arrives in the mail. ^HE LIEUTENANT PAYS DOC The magazine is written about Pennsylvania fishing, by Pennsylvanians, for Penn- FRED EVERETT sylvanians. The staff of contributors is composed of specialists in the respective branches of angling, all of whom qualify as authorities. Some are experts who enjoy a nation-wide reputation. Our goal is to make the magazine as instructive, interest­ THE FLY ROD FOR BASS ing, and entertaining as possible and to keep the fishermen well advised as to the BOD MCCAFFERTY activity of their Board. A week never passes that we do not receive enthusiastic letters from readers sing­ SUSQUEHANNA SALMON ing the praises of this publication. Many look upon it as the finest angling magazine CHARLIE FOX available even though it costs less than 5 cents a copy. PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER November, 1942 AMERICAN FLY TYPES ED LEONARD BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS HARRISBURG, PA. V | t ITE-TAILS AND AMBER-WINGS SUBSCRIPTION BLANK CARSTEN AHERNS Enclosed find Fifty cents ($.50) for one year's subscription to the 'Pennsylvania Angler," which is to be a Christmas present to *NSECTS THAT CATCH FISH N ame- N. R. CASILLO (Print Name) Street and Number- SYNTHETIC RUBBER KEN REID City SUNNY JIM AND DOROTHY From: Name- A. B. CHAMPLAIN Street and Number- NATURE IN THE RAW City RALPH STEWART PICTURES FOR THE ANGLER ^ *re are many men and women who secure comes the contribution for publication of ac­ data concerning them. Upon request credit will iC outdoor snapshots taken along Penn- tion snapshots, scenic views, and pictures of be given the person who made the picture. **% streams and ponds. The ANGLER wel­ exceptional fish, accompanied by interesting PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER NOVEM Bf'ka A Visit to Our Neighbors in the North By JOHN L NEIGER X/TONDAY, August 24th, I visited John L. purchasing program, outlined their plan as made for the stocking of food and game fis'1 -"-'-«- Ilalpin, Secretary New York Conservation follows: each stream. Commission, at Albany. Mr. Halpin was most "In 1934 $100,000 was set aside by the Legis­ "Tn setting up the program only such stre&'j e cordial and extended to me all the cooperation lature for the purchase of public fishing waters. as would be eligible for stocking at the ra' ,ir anyone would desire. I was particularly interested On receiving the money and authority to spend 1,000 legal fish per mile were considered . in the Trout Stream Purchasing program as it the department made a thorough study of acquisition. The department also laid out t'1 put into effect in the past years in New York water and stream conditions in their state. This programs so that at least 15 miles would State. study covered—fish population, food, parasites, considered eligible for purchase on each v?»*3 Mr. A. S. Hopkins, Asst. Director, Division pollution and water temperatures. As a result of shed where they considered purchasing fis'''' of Lands and Forests, who supervised this stream these studies definite recommendations were (Continued on Page 18) The New York fishermen own over 650 miles of excellent trout water, open of course, to public fishing. 1 IS' 8j PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER THE FATHER OF THE FLY ROD By SPARSE GREY HACKLE Reprinted from The ANGLER'S CLUB BULLETIN, Which Is Published By The Anger's Club of New York | SUNSHINE or storm, feasting or starving, 16 Was always good-hearted and willing to do re than his part. No man ever had a better *>Pmate." J'ouldn't any sportsman be proud to receive P a tribute? It was written, by an old friend, p» the inventor of the six-strip bamboo fly and you ought to know him better, for he was ,°nly a real genius but a most interesting in- 1(lual and a rare character. r> entlemen, meet Hiram Lewis Leonard. ne is known today only as the in- jS*°r> designer and first manufacturer of the tlern fly rod, he was also a genius in several 6r fields: a dead shot and an accomplished k r> a splendid woodsman, a talented musi- _*}• a student of the natural sciences, and a W®t and inspirer of men. And he had his full v e of that sharp individuality which gave the :.? °f the last century self-reliance, confidence, I 'nitiative, before mass education and regi- "tation existed. j/j*°nard iiad the soul of a poet, according to a i °ng acquaintance, although the active and :^P°seful nature of his life makes it clear that d ,as no dreamer. He was passionately fond of ,.| c. playing several instruments with talent, P this was apparently a family trait, for both jj daughter and his granddaughter were ac- ^Plished pianists. 1"fact, Leonard's musical nature is responsible ii m°st appealing and human glimpses of i Which remain on record. Manly Hardy, an k "WtDe associate of Leonard's during Ins years 1 Professional hunter, once said of him that •J the woods he always carried his flute, and Med it well. Many is the night when I heard [j. Wake the wilderness with Nellie Gray, The >RU Washerwoman, Old Kentucky Home, and J* times now seldom heard." sL°°> Leonard held the entertaining belief, w,1) expressed, that no man was capable of \] ln§ a g°°d fishing rod unless he loved music fL. could play at least one instrument. In the to .n ^S?e °f rodmaking, when lie was making |!.L ln Central Valley, New York, everybody in 1 slloP was musically inclined and they had |L an orchestra, which used to practice regu- |L* at the Leonard home with Leonard himself \'L . S on the violin and his daughter, Cora, j ^'ng the piano. ki Tiust have been the Golden Age of industrial i.,°ns, too, with the skilled workmen asso- |k 8 with their employer on terms of equality ;L °f them, Hiram Hawes, married Cora w^ard) and finding their diversion together in 1% theatricals, casting tournaments, and Hiram Lewis Leonard, the Father of the bamboo fly rod. K, amount of rifle shooting with the old- his food if it could be avoided. His old hunting member of Central Valley Lodge of the Independ­ 0 h{J? ned, heavy-barreled, Scheutzen rifles. One associates said that when he was camping, he ent Order of Odd Fellows, a Knight of Pythias, rn \\) > Ed Payne, was so famed for his song even cooked his beans without putting in any and a Red Man. It must be presumed that his ijj i dance about Old Black Joe that he was pork. evenings were actively occupied! 1 Earned Joe. Possibly it was the farm isolation of his boy­ He was a believer in spiritualism, a cult which hazard's health was somewhat frail in his hood, or his even more isolated existence as a in bygone years had a large number of followers 'ifi'V,'i s manhoodhabits. H, ean abhorred doubtlesd liquors influence, and "had somd noe market hunter and trapper that made Hiram in the United States.