<*p; i. iENNSSiraiPj .*,^r **1 S£SB?4^ '' >1p The Term "Wise Use" Needs Broadening In a recent editorial, entitled "Waste Beyond Meas­ Swift then points out that we have made, and are ure," a Cheyenne newspaper asked some questions still making, great strides in the conversion process which perhaps we, and almost certainly our children, and asks: will have to answer sooner or later: "But I raise the question, what uses are made of the "Do we have so much that we can waste so reck­ lumber, paper, plastics or other products after they lessly? leave the mill? "The thought occurred to us after visiting, of all "The plain truth of the matter is that the Amer­ places, the Cheyenne municipal dump. You ought ican economic system is not based on wise use or the to see the stuff that gets covered up, apparently to be conservation of natural resources. It is based on lost forever. consumption. "Fence posts—including four by four's—wiring, lum­ "It is not wise use to curtail the use of steel for ber, firewood, toys, fencing, packing, cardboard, gears, whatever use it may be put, but it IS wise use to run fabricated metal and sheeting of all sizes and de­ a car a couple of years and then park it in a junk scriptions. mortuary. "How much longer can we, as a nation and in "It is not wise use to regulate the domestic or indus­ virtually all facets of the American way of life, con­ trial use of water but it IS wise to dam all the free- tinue to make, use and waste so casually?" running rivers so people individually or collectively Writing along the same lines, Ernest Swift, exec­ can waste it in any manner they see fit. utive director of the National Wildlife Federation, "It is not wise use to deny water for irrigation, but recently made some rather pointed statements: it IS wise use to raise crops by irrigation and then "Today it is popular to express the opinion that con­ destroy the crops to control the price. servation should not be a philosophy that keeps re­ "It is not wise use to place restrictions on the use of sources locked up, that idea being mouldy and out­ the land, but it IS wise use to let a landowner burn his dated; but that today's progressive view means strict forest, let his soil erode and to destroy the tax base. adherence to the 'wise use' of every part and parcel, "Conservation leaders have got to broaden the base spice and element of nature's bounty. of the term, 'Wise Use,' to include the consumer. The "Just what did the first person to express this thought consumer means the public who, in the long run, will have in mind? Did he mean technological efficiency in suffer most when the rationing of resources becomes the conversion of raw materials, or use after con­ necessary." version?" —Virginia Wildlife PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION PE SYLVANIA DIRECTORY EXECUTIVE OFFICE ANGLER WILLIAM VOICT, JR. Executive Director Published Monthly by the DR. ALBERT S. HAZZARD Asst. Director PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA H. R. STACKHOUSE Administrative Secretary David L. Lawrence, Governor PAUL J. SAUER Comptroller • DIVISIONS PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION Aquatic Biology JOHN W. GRENOBLE, President Cur'.sle GORDON TREMBLEY — Chief ALBERTR.HiNKLE,jR.,V.Pres.,Clearfield R. STANLEY SMITH Waynesburg Fish Culture WALLACE DEAN _ Meadville JOSEPH M. CRITCHKELD Confluence DEWEY SORENSON Superintendent GERARD J. ADAMS Hawley MAYNARD BOCART Danville Engineering THOMAS F. O'HARA _ Chief Engineer Real Estate CYRIL G. REGAN Chief JULY, 1959 VOL. 28, NO. 7 Law Enforcement WILLIAM W. BRITTON Ciief Conservation Education-Public Relations J. ALLEN BARRETT, Editor JOHNNY NICKLAS, Photographer C. ROBERT GLOVER Chief • REGIONAL OFFICES Contents Northwest Conneautville Phone 3033 2 SPINNING COMES OF AGE-Ray Ovington S. CARLYLE SHELDON Warden Supervisor WILLIAM E. DAUGHERTY, Fishery Manager 4 CALL HIM PIKE, 'JACK' OR LUCE-Frank \. King Southwest 8 GETTING ABOARD BOAT R. D. 2 9 ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION ELECTS BRITTON Somerset Phone 6913 11 DANGEROUS SUNBURN-Archie Black MINTER C. JONES Warden Supervisor DAN HEYL - Fishery Manager 12 WHAT'S WRONG HERE? Northeast 13 COUNTERFEIT CATCHABLES-Paul R. Needham 546 Main Street Honesdale 17 ORGAN GRINDING AND JIGGING IN THE ALLEGHENY RIVER- Phone 1485 Steve Szaleweicz BRYCE M. CARNEL, (acting) Warden Supervisor 20 ANYONE FOR CAMPING?-John F. Chirk VACANT Fishery Manager 22 WHAT DO GAME FISH EAT?-Dr. Leon A. Hmisman Southeast 25 CONSERVATION ACROSS THE NATION Box 145 Hellam Phone York 47-2463 THE COVERS-FRONT: "School's Out" JOHN S. OGDEN Warden Supervisor BACK: "Man-oh-Man!" ROBERT BIELO Fishery Manager Photos by Johnny Nicklas North Central 644 W. Main Street Lock Haven Phone 6497 The PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER is published monthly by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, JOHN I. BUCK Warden Supervisor South Office Building Harrisburg, Pa. Subscription: $1.00 per year, 10 cents per single copy. Send check or money order payable to Pennsylvania Fish Commission. DO NOT SEND STAMPS. VACANT _ Fishery Manager Individuals sending cash do so at their own risk. Change of address should reach us promptly. Furnish both old and new address. Second Class Postage Paid at Gettysburg, Pa. Neither Publisher nor Editor wl'J assume responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or illustra­ South Central tions while in their possession or in transit. Permission to reprint will be given provided we 201 Ridge Road receive marked copies and credit is given material or illustrations. Communications pertaining to Huntingdon manuscripts, material or illustrations should be addressed to the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, Phone Mitchell 3-1321 Harrisburg, Pa. HAROLD CORBIN Warden Supervisor NOTICE: Subscriptions received and processed after the 10th of each month will begin with the CURTIS SIMES _ Fishery Manager second month following. Spinning Comes of Age By RAY OVINGTON Quit "Throwing" ... and Start "Fishing" gear, when directed in pin point accuracy to a specially selected run or area of the stream, will pull a fish, usually on the first cast. This, then, is the epit­ ome of spinning, the art that is in the same league with the dry fly purist, the nymph artist and the expert wet fly or streamer man. "Calling your shots" might be a saying that belongs to the accurate spincaster. In order to accomplish this, the same knowledge of the stream is needed as in any form of angling, if we are to avoid the "chuck and chance it" type of angling. Here is a long_ pool, headed by a charging rapids. Some fish are feeding just under the surface just where the water slows down into the glide. The angle of approach must be considered, for a wrong cast and a drag through the feeding area will put them all down for yourself and others. In this situation, try and cast from an upstream position to a point just ahead of where the fish are seen feeding or bulging. In this way, the actual area where they are active will be un­ touched, yet, by the mere fact that they are looking upstream into the current, they will see the flash of your ultra light lures selected for the specific topwater assignment. Shallow running lures are called for. since the fish are on or near the surface. Work both sides of the feeding area and then gradually work down into the fish. Conversely, if it is impossible to cast to them from the upstream angle, take a position below and work up to the feeders, rather than cast over them and drag SWIFT WATER action! the line and lure through them. In this way, again, they will not be put down unnecessarily. With most of us, spinning has come of age. We have Another example: Here is a big midstream boulder risen over the novelty of the long, effortless cast, the with its long wake. Haphazard criss-crossing, and in­ fact that we can pitch a lure hither and yon and, by discriminate coverage may disturb a lunker and drive indiscriminate casting, cover all the water of the him to cover unknown. Pick your angle of attack and stream. Quite naturally we caught a lot of fish and keep your powder dry. Use the same up or down big ones, purely from a percentage of casts, bad or stream strategy as described above, or if both are an good, and the subsequent delivery of the lure across impossibility, cast well ahead of the rock, from the side enough fish-producing water. first on the near side and then the center and finally While this was a revelation of sorts, the most im­ the other side, working ever closer to the rock in an portant discovery, and consequently, the greatest value effort to bring a fish out from under its cover. of spinning is evolved when the angler realizes that Remember, that even though the monofilament line the old adage, look first and act later pays off, par­ is almost invisible, it is still dragged over the area ticularly in the over-fished, over-spun streams of the and is bound to disturb the fish, so work the close twentieth century. area first, all down the near side of the rock's wake, Going forth to the stream armed with spinning tackle, leaving the center strip alone for the moment. Then the angler KNOWS that he has a lethal weapon. The wade to a point below the rock, spot cast to the lower question of catching fish is no longer in the books. It side of the rock, then place several casts right down has been replaced by the knowledge that this spinning the center, allowing the lure as slow an action as 2 ' PENNSYLVANIA AN Q I.