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PENNSYLVANIA SEPTEMBER 1951 Do You Read the VENTVSYUVATSflA AJVGLER NO? Well, Sir, THERE'S YOUR TROUBLE.' Don't you know that for less than a nickel, five cents, per issue you can learn how, when and where to fish . NOT in Timbuctoo . but in the well stocked waters of our good old Keystone state, right around home! SOLD? OK, now get that dollar bill out of your pocket, wrap it around the subscription blank on page 23 and send it in right now. TWENTY- FOUR (24) issues of the finest value in fishing magazines you ever received will immediately be coming your way. AJVD THEJV GOOD LUCK! COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA HON. JOHN S. FINE GOVERNOR Division of Public Relations J. Allen Barrett—Director PENNSYLVANIA SEPTEMBER—1951 VOLUME XX, No. 9 FISH COMMISSION BERNARD S. HORNE, President PITTSBURGH CONTENTS PAUL F. BITTENBENDER, Vice-Pres. WILKES-BARRE CRUSADE FOR CLEAN STREAMS 4 By Richard F. Williamson MILTON L. PEEK RADNOR GOOD FISHIN' STREAM? 8 By Edward f. Westlake—Asst. Aquatic Biologist Pennsylvania Fish Commission WILLIAM D. BURK MELROSE PARK AMERICAN FISHING BOOKS (Conclusion) 13 GEN. A. H. STACKPOLE By Charles M. Wetzel DAUPHIN SING, YOU SPINNERS 14 LOUIS S. WINNER By Don Shiner LOCK HAVEN PHILIP E. ANGLE AUTUMN WINDS AND WHITE SAILS 16-17 SHARON By Robert Motter SWAMP INTERLUDE 18 By Carsten Ahrens EXECUTIVE OFFICE POPPING BUG BASS 20 C. A. FRENCH By Keith Schuyler EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ELWOOD CITY MEADOW BROOK SURPRISES 21 By William Boyd H. R. STACKHOUSE Administrative Secretary INDEX TO ANGLER ARTICLES FOR ISSUES OCTOBER 1950 THROUGH SEPTEM C. R. BULLER BER 1951 31-32 Chief Fish Culturist THOMAS F. O'HARA Construction Engineer The Cover . LAST FLING at the WILLIAM W. BRITTON finny customers before the first school Chief Enforcemenf Officer bell calls all young fellows away from ROBERT P. DEITER Comptroller the old fishin' hole back to readin', writin' and arithmetic. And so it's farewell to another grand summer filled with lazy, carefree days that GORDON L. TREMBLEY linger long in the memories of youth. Chief Aquatic Biologist ARTHUR D. BRADFORD Pathologist —Photo by Robert A. Young, Sr. EDWARD F. WESTLAKE, JR. Asst. Aquatic Biologist GEORGE H. GORDON Official Photographer George W. Forrest, Editor 1339 East Philadelphia Street, York, Pa. HATCHERY SUPERINTENDENTS Dewey Sorenson—Bellefonte The PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER is published monthly by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, Merrill Lillie—Corry & Union City South Office Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Subscription: 50 cents per year, 10 cents per single Edwin H. Hahn—Erie copy. Send check or money order payable to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. DO NOT SEND T. J. Dingle—Huntsdale STAMPS. Individuals sending cash do so at their own risk. Change of address should reach Fred K. Rxdei—Linesville us promptly. Furnish both old and new addresses. Entered as Second Class matter at the J. 1. Z*ttle— Pleasant Mount Post Office, Harrisburg, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1873. George Magargel—Reynoldsdale Neither Publisher nor Editor will assume responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or Il Bernard Gill—Tionesta lustrations while in their possession or in transit. Permission to reprint will be given pro John J. Wopart—Torresdale vided we receive marked copies and credit is given material or illustrations. Only communi cations pertaining to manuscripts, material or illustrations should be addressed to the Editor at the above address. ! » ^ M Frown the Editor^ Angle The ANGLER always appreciates Dear Editor: WHAT ... IN 1598 TOO? I sure enjoyed the last issue. The getting letters from the readers Fishing, if I, a fisher protest, especially when they write and tell articles were all very interesting. The article, "Search For A New Trout Of pleasures is sweetest, of sports the us what they want in articles, Stream" was especially interesting. best, features and stories. If you have Harry A. Johnson Of exercises the most excellent, something special you want in Pittsburgh, Pa. Of recreation the most innocent; But now the sport is marred, and wot cluded in future issues of the ye why? magazine write to the editor. Dear Editor: May I extend hearty congratulations Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply. on the new and better ANGLER. It is the Written by Dear Sir: biggest and best fifty cents value that Thomas Bastian in the year 1598 This evening I read your magazine can be purchased today. Keep up the from cover to cover (July), and I don't good work. ever remember having enjoyed any Donald S. Reichard magazine as much. My blood is prac York, Pa. tically boiling with the desire to get out on the river in the morning. Dear Editor: So if my reaction is anything like I Congratulations on your splendid mag believe every Pennsylvania fisherman's azine especially the new type of cover. will be, your magazine will be a whop I have enjoyed the same Pennsylvania ping success. ANGLER quite some time and it is a relief Clair A. Grove to find at least one sporting magazine Red Lion, Pa. that has not gone overboard and filled with commercial advertisements. Mr. Editor: I look forward to receiving same every month . well, I could go on Congratulations on the July issue. raving about it but will just say . Read every page with interest. Keep "keep her the way she is!" If cost of them coming that way. printing and paper, etc., forces the price Enjoyed reading "Doc Henshall and up a little, I am sure we subscribers the Black Bass" by Jim Hayes, also will always find enough money to pay "Big Water for Big Bass" by John Alden for it as I truly believe it is the best Knight. I have fished many times over investment today. the waters referred to as the "Flat" or With all good wishes to everyone con "Level" above Wyalusing. nected with publishing this fine maga Mr. Knight was on the right track zine. Joe Barkley, Veep of the Pa. Federa in using artificials in the North branch Percy A. Hall tion of Sportsmen's Clubs sends in this of the Susquehanna. Fishing this river Lancaster, Pa. pix of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. DeFibaugh for the past 18 years I am strictly an of Summerville, Jefferson county. Joe artificial man. But there are days and claims this doesn't tell the true story reasons when the artificial man will Dear Editor: about the "Pres" of the Jefferson County take his hat off to the live bait fisher Congratulations . we like the new Sportmen's Assoc, because CH usually man. ANGLER very much. I am sure your new catches his share, returns most to the draperies will impress the women of the George T. Sutton water, a true sportsman. Mrs. DeFi house enough for them to take a good Wyoming, Pa. baugh doesn't seem too disappointed look inside the cover. It is a big im about the empty frying pan. provement over the old ANGLER. Dear Editor: Tackle Tips in the June issue for a The July issue was the best I have practical line dryer may be a little received since subscribing to your pub complicated for those who are not handy lication. with a saw and hammer. My son uses U. S. GEOLOGICAL STREAM Hope there will be more articles like, a wire coat hanger and reshapes it with SURVEY MAPS "Spawning Habits of the Bass," "Fish a pliers . always carries several in Gills," and "Some Fish Grow Horns." the car and winds the lines as soon as The editor has been deluged with re In other words, more technical articles. he was finished fishing. quests for stream maps as mentioned in H. F. Padenfus Anyone can use a pliers to make sev the July issue, article, "Search For A Chicago, 111. eral of these line dryers to carry with New Trout Stream," by Don Shiner. their fishing equipment. Good luck and A letter, in part, from Washington Dear Sir: hope to read more about spinning for addressed to Mr. Shiner should give all trout and bass. I should like to take this opportunity the information necessary: Helen Anderson to express my appreciation for the fine "In your article, please explain that Scranton, Pa. job which the ANGLER is doing each the topographic quadrangle maps are month. The ANGLER takes preference in sold at 20 cents a copy by the Geological all my piscatorial reading. Incidentally, To the Editor: Survey. An index showing them will how about something on Montgomery Congratulations on the new ANGLER. be supplied free upon request to:" county! There is a fair amount of fish It is better than ever and I am happy Jule E. Andre, Chief of Distribution ing done here too. to see it grow bigger and better. United States Department of the Interior Gerald F. Hartzel Harold Robinson Geological Survey Lansdale/Pa. Palmyra, Pa. Washington 25, D.C. 2 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER We are happy to be receiving The Editor: To the Editor: nice letters from our readers from Enclosed you will find a copy of a Enclosed is a picture taken in the poem I have composed for my father in early Spring this year of Barry Fultz, all over the nation. We thank the Pennsylvania. I sent this to him on aged 8 years, holding a 13V2-inch sucker. writers of the letters published on Father's Day of this year. He is an ardent fisherman, recently these pages for their kind interest I was born in Pennsylvania and spent caught a 16-inch sucker and another in the new ANGLER. my childhood and a good part of my 12% inches. I should like so much to life there.