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JUNE, 1964 •** * "*-% "* "% «*-%>w- < r*f K'a* *t «r gW* SeoAott Often* tycute 20, 1964 PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION (P&nnAyluania (inqkh DIRECTORY Published Monthly by the PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION EXECUTIVE OFFICE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ALBERT M. DAY Executive Director William W. Scranton, Governor ROBERT J. BIELO • Assistant Executive Director PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION EDWARD R. THARP Assistant Executive Director WALLACE C. DEAN, President Meadville Watercraft Safety Division JOSEPH M. CRITCHFIELD, Vice President Confluence WARREN W. SINGER GERARD J. ADAMS Hawley ROBERT M. RANKIN Galeton Assistant to Executive Director MAYNARD BOGART Danville R. STANLEY SMITH Waynasburg JOHN W. GRENOBLE Carlisle RAYMOND M. WILLIAMS East Bangor PAUL F. O'BRIEN HOWARD R. HEINY Williamsport Administrative Officer JOHN M. SMITH Comptroller • JUNE, 1964 VOL. 33, NO. 6 DIVISIONS Aquatic Biology GORDON TREMBLEY Chief GEORGE W. FORREST, Editor Fish Culture HOWARD L. FOX Superintendent fontsurfA Real Estate and Engineering CYRIL G. RECAN Chief COMPANY'S COMING TO THE SUSQUEHANNA BASIN-William EDWARD MILLER Asst. Chief Voigt, Jr., Executive Director—Interstate Advisory Committee on the Law Enforcement Susquehanna River Basin WILLIAM W. BRITTON — Chief PENNSYLVANIA'S LARGEST FISH-Keen Buss, Fishery Biologist, Ben- Conservation Education-Public Relations ner Spring Fish Research Station, Pennsylvania Fish Commission RUSSELL S. ORR Chief 6 THE SINKING LINE-L. James Bashline • 8 BIKE RIDE TO FISHING-Walter Smerconish NORTHWEST REGION 10 MUSKY MELEE-Thad Bukowski S. CARLYLE SHELDON Warden Supervisor 1212 E. Main St., Conneautville, Pa., 17 SURFACE FISHING FOR SMALLMOUTHS-Edwin L. Atts Phone: 3033 18 BOATING-Robert G. Miller 20 BUILD A MOTOR STAND AND STORAGE BOX-John F. Clark SOUTHWEST REGION MINTEH C. JONES Warden Supervisor 22 A NEW BREED OF WORMS-Albert G. Shimmel R. D. 2, Somerset, Pa Phone: 445-4913 23 BASS WITH PANFISH-Gordon L. Strobeck 23 INSTANT TACKLE-Grier Lowry NORTHEAST REGION 24 H. Cum FLEECER Warden Supervisor NOTES FROM THE STREAMS 351 Terrace St., Honesdale, Pa., 26 THE ART OF DUNKING-Marion Lively Phone: 253-3724 29 SCHOOL'S OUT-Ned Smith SOUTHEAST REGION Cover—Action as the bass season opens in Pennsylvania JOHN S. OGDEN Warden Supervisor 1130 Ruxton Rd., York, Pa. Phone: 854-3474 POSTMASTER: All 3579 forms to be returned to Dunlap Printing Co., /««•> Cherry and Juniper Sis.. Philadelphia 7, Pa. NORTH CENTRAL REGION The PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER Is published monthly by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission- South Office Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Subscription: One year—$2.00; three years-$5.00; 25 cents JOHN I. BUCK Warden Supervisor per single copy. Send check or money order payable to Pennsylvania Fish Commission. DO NO* P. O. Box 5, Lock Haven, Pa., SEND STAMPS. Individuals sending cash do so at their own risk. Change of address should read1 Phone: 748-7162 us promptly. Furnish both old and new addresses. Second Class Postage paid at Harrisburg, ""•' and at additional mailing offices. Neither Publisher nor Editor will assume responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or illustration while in their possession or in transit. Permission to reprint will be given provided we recelj' SOUTH CENTRAL REGION marked copies and credit is given material or illustrations. Communications pertaining to manuscript' a HAROLD COHBIN Warden Supervisor material or illustrations should be addressed to the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, Harrisburg, * ' 521 13th St., Huntingdon, Pa., NOTICE: Subscriptions received and processed after the 10th of each month will begin with tn Phone: 643-0355 second month following. y^ompanu $ Ccomm Jo^l^Jhe S^viSaviehavina By WILLIAM VOIGT, JR. Executive Director, Interstate Advisory Committee on ^e Susquehanna River Basin, Harrisburg. & U6m 0 Approximately 32 million people live in the crowded ANGES are coming to the comparatively remote and stretch of seaboard from Boston to Washington that is sPoiled hinterlands of the Susquehanna basin, and some ar sometimes called Megalopolis. Most of them like the out- e coming fast. of-doors, and seem to have the time and money to pursue i «rt will occur by reason of government action; others their desires, but they've overrun the places now readily thp'USe °^ Pr'vate enterprise. All will be influenced by accessible to them. Pressures created by the growing recreation de- "is: c p0' 's of an alreadv huge and increasing nearby human They can't go east; there's an ocean in the way. New Nation. England can't handle many more. New York's state con­ If we look at those .influences first, this is what we see: stitution says the Adirondacks must remain forever wild; COOPERSTOWN they may not be developed for intensive use. The Catskills Pennsylvania Turnpike already puts much of the b'iS and northern New Jersey are overflowing. Pennsylvania's within easy reach of Greater Philadelphia and adjac6 Poconos are bulging with people wherever there's water. points. State Boute 17, which runs from Meglapolis we I And nearly every inch of shoreline along Maryland's Chesa­ ward across New York's southern tier of counties r j peake Bay is occupied. About the only direction left for above the Pennsylvania border, is being four-laned a®0 them to find a nearby place where they can stretch their as fast as the construction crews can work. U. S. 6, cf arms without poking somebody in the eye is westward— ing Pennsylvania's northern tier, has a lower priority and the Susquehanna basin with its fine recreation poten­ major improvement but is already being touched up lief tial is squarely in their path. and there, and more will surely be done as traffic press11' increases. FinallyT-,. ii , there'.i >s strong agitation to ihav e' U-TT , 3' The Keystone Shortway will bisect the state—and the 220 widened to four lanes from its Shortway connec" , basin—east-west by 1968, and a regular rash of multiple- e in Centre County southwestward to the Turnpike at B rf lane expressways feeds into the Shortway from Greater ford, which will put choice basin areas no further fr°... New York. Interstate 84 gives direct access to the region Greater Pittsburgh than the four hours it now takes from lower New England by way of Scranton. Interstates travel between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. 81 and 83, due to be completed by 1969, will open the basin door wide to travelers from the Baltimore-Washing­ ft ton metropolitan areas. The Northeast Extension of the is a critical element in the behavior of people who efl.JO - ] PENNSYLVANIA ANG L$ utdoor recreation. They seem less concerned about how ma «v miles thev must go than about how many minutes The Interstate Advisory Committee on the Sus­ hours they have to spend on the road. This means that quehanna River Basin has asked for reader com­ . °se folks from the urban and suburban apartment build- ment on the accompanying article. Those who gs and row houses and subdivisions are going to head have information or who wish to express , r still relatively wide open spaces as soon as the improved opinion on its contents are requested to write gnways will let them get there in equivalent travel time. their views directly to the Interstate Advisory ,,nc' their kinfolks and neighbors and friends and all the Committee, 2101 North Front Street, Harrisburg, lds vvill be riding with them. Pennsylvania. u°es the picture begin to come into focus? , Right now travel agencies, chambers of commerce, pri- i e'y operated recreational enterprises and others are Siting the drums all over the place urging people from tion and utilization receives adequate attention, and to ^"lewhere else to come spend a day or a vacation week promote harmony and coordination in achieving the ulti­ or "lore. This is fine; no complaint. While they are doing mate goals. so 11 is equally important that they plan adequately to In all that is being done, outdoor recreation has a sig­ Ret ready for the coming influx—so they won't be over- nificant part. New York and Maryland are taking a pene­ helmed, so the very back country conditions that lure trating look into the recreational future of their respective ern in the first place aren't themselves overrun, and so segments of the Susquehanna basin, and by the time this j Can prevent the conversion of our pleasuring places reaches print something similar will be under way in 0 recreational slums. Believe me, recreational slums Pennsylvania. With the assistance of the Department of ., n be just as deadly and degrading and depressing as any Forests and Waters, the Fish and Game Commissions, and th at exist in the big cities. no doubt other agencies, the State Planning Board is to i °rtunately, we have things going for us in the Susque- conduct a study intended to produce a comprehensive .' nna basin that give promise of helping to guide the com- recreational plan not only for the Susquehanna basin but i a development so the ultimate outcome can be more for the entire Commonwealth. eht than loss. A great many agencies of government Meanwhile, in a growing number of counties and other ci concerned, and the numbers of interested private political subdivisions, intensive planning is being done by '•tens are increasing. professional staffs helped along with both federal and he first comprehensive survey of the Susquehanna ln s state tax money—and recreational factors have an impor­ p water and related land resources is to be com- tant part in their thinking. Wd ii n 1968 or '69. This is being carried out by a 0t) Right now a traveler can drive for miles along some mb 'nation of federal departments and commissions, of the public roads in Susquehanna back country without 'hclu. i dlrd ig the Corps of Engineers, the Departments of Agri- c passing another car, except maybe at the opening of the .

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