"1 CENTENNIAL 1866-1966 0 m ylvani PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION'S OFFICIAL FISHING AND BOATING MAGAZINE * NATIONAL ill Sent feels February 7-13 s. Ti, Joi R. Help Scouting • Help Conserve 3S HA Our Natural Resources... R. PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION Jptetmsijluattta: Angler DIRECTORY Published Monthly by the PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVE OFFICE ROBERT J. BIELO William W. Scranton, Governor Executive Director • GORDON TREMBLEY PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION Assistant Executive Director ROBERT M. RANKIN, President Galeton EDWARD R. THARP HOWARD R. HEINY, Vice President .Williamsport Assistant Executive Director GERARD J. ADAMS Hawley JOHN W. GRENOBLE Carlisle Watercraft Safety JOSEPH M. CRITCHFIELD Confluence DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS Bear Gap WALLACE C. DEAN Meadville R. STANLEY SMITH Waynesburg WARREN W. SINGER RAYMOND M. WILLIAMS East Bangor Assistant to Executive Director PAUL F. O'BRIEN Administrative Officer JOHN M. SMITH FEBRUARY, 1966 VOL. 35, NO. 2 Comptroller • DIVISION DIRECTORS n KEEN BUSS Research and Fish Management R. D. 1-Box 200-C Bellefonte, Pa.-16823 HOWARD L. FOX Propagation and Distribution 2 THE FISH COMMISSION AT THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION BeHefonte, Pa., R. D. 3-16823 GLEN SPENCER 4 JIG-FISHING COMES OF AGE-Don Shiner Real Estate Harrisburg 7 ANGLER'S SHOPPE-Don Shiner EDWARD MILLER T, ,, . Engineering 9 MOBY DICK WEATHER VANE-Hi Sibley bellefonte, Pa., R. D. 3-16823 WILLIAM W. BRITTON 10 BIDE A WEE-A1 Shimmel Law Enforcement Harrisburg 12 GETTING DOWN TO TROUT-A. I. "Pal" Alexander ARTHUR BRADFORD Roll r Pathology 16 BOATING WITH ROBERT G. MILLER °euefonte, Pa., R. D. 1-Box 200-C 16823 18 MODERN CAMPING-Del and Lois Kerr GEORGE FORREST Public Relations Editor 19 MIDGES-FOR TOUGH TROUT, Part II-Ed Koch Harrisburg • 22 NOTES FROM THE STREAMS s c REGION ONE 28 TIP-O'-THE-MONTH-C. Boyd Pfeiffer 1 t V I E SHELD N "ionest ' 1 ' ° Warden Supervisor a I6353 Phone: 814-755-8811 29 SCHOOL'S OUT-Ned Smith w REGION TWO Cover art by Ned Smith I. B UCK R. D j C Warden Supervisor ' Somerset, Pa Phone: 814-445-4913 POSTMASTER: All 3579 forms to be returned to Dunlap Printing Co., Inc., Cu REGION THREE Cherry and Juniper Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. 351 T»!!.LEEGER Warden Supervisor The PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER is published monthly by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, err South Office Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Subscription: One year-$2.00; three years-$5.00; 25 cents »<* St., Honesdale, Pa., per single copy. Send check or money order payable to Pennsylvania Fish Commission. DO NOT Phone: 717-253-3724 SEND STAMPS. Individuals sending cash do so at their own risk. Change of address should reach us promptly. Furnish both old and new addresses. Second Class Postage paid at Harrisburg, Pa., and at additional mailing offices. H , REGION FOUR Neither Publisher nor Editor will assume responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or illustrations 4 while in their possession or in transit. Permission to reprint will be given provided we receive s • t> 2 \°* ™ Warden Supervisor marked copies and credit is given material or illustrations. Communications pertaining to manuscripts, «• Annville, Pa., material or illustrations should be addressed to the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, Harrisburg, Pa. G Phone : 717 NOTICE: Subscriptions received and processed the 10th of each month, will begin with the ' M R i70 ' "273-2601, Ex. 86 second month following. The Fish Commission at th COLUMBIAN EXPOSITIO! This is the season of the year when thousands of per­ "Behind the waterfall and under the bank over whic'1 sons visit the Pennsylvania Fish Commission's exhibit at it tumbled was constructed a tunnel, lined with 03? the Pennsylvania Farm Show, and the major sportsmen's bark and adorned with twisted laurel roots and in tbf shows throughout the state. With a few exceptions, the sides were arranged part of the 20 aquaria containing tn' exhibit is displayed at various functions within the state, various food fishes of the State. The only light in the tul however, according to an article taken from the Report nel was that which came through the waterfall, afl of the State Commissioners of Fisheries for the years 1892- through the water of the aquaria; thus the movements "' 93-94, "Among the acts of the Legislature of 1892-93 was the fish as they swam about could be observed to tW an appropriation of $8,000 to the Pennsylvania Fish Com­ best advantage. There were altogether twenty aquari* missioners in order that they might make a creditable the largest of which were each six feet long and thr$ exhibit of its work at the Columbian Exposition in Chi­ feet deep, and the water which sustained the fish li" cago. As soon as the measure became a law, the Com­ within was all filtered lake water and constantly change'' missioners began to prepare for an exhibition which would "The aquaria around the sides of the exhibit, like thoS* be a credit to themselves and the great Commonwealth in the tunnel, were with the exception of their face* which they represented. A kite-shaped space of 1701 buried within masses of oak and cedar bark, so that tM square feet was allotted them in one end of the Fisheries machinery of the exhibit was hidden from the view °| building adjoining the space given the state of Wisconsin. the visitor. In the aquaria were shown trout from at Contracts were made for a number of aquaria of French ages from babyhood to maturity. There were broS plate glass and iron with J. W. Fiske of the Variety Iron 5 trout, brown trout, California trout and a few hybrid ' Works, of York, Pa.; for plumbing with E. Baggot & Son of There were besides five specimens of nearly all the vaH Chicago, and for decorative work with J. J. Stoberniche & able food fishes which thrive in the fresh waters <% Son, of Philadelphia. The management of the whole ex­ Pennsylvania. hibit was placed by the Commissioners in the hands of Col. John Gay of Greensburg. When the exhibit was in "To keep these fish alive and healthy was one of ffl place there was an artistic presentation which for the most difficult tasks of those entrusted with the care "' money expended, in the opinion of many, rivalled the the exhibit. The least carelessness in handling or aw work of some of the other states whose commissioners had abatement of vigilance in other particulars would resiw at their command nearly or quite double the funds of the in the appearance of a fungus on the eyes and bodies " 1 Pennsylvania Commissioners. the fish, which, unless checked would speedily cause the ' death. It is to the credit of those in charge that there vm "The entrance to the exhibit, which was at the narrow comparatively little mortality from this cause, and in coff end of the kite-shaped space, was surmounted by a cedar sequence, the Pennsylvania exhibit was particularly notice' and oak bark rustic arch, bearing the Keystone State coat able for the fine, healthy appearance of the living fish I of arms. Directly inside the inclosure were two limpid the aquaria. pools of water fed by the streams of a waterfall which fell from among a realistic grouping of rocks, moss, fern "In a little corner back of the exhibit was the office ° and plants covered to the top of the exhibit. Within the Col. John Gay and his two assistants, Mr. Buller aM two pools, connected by a model of the Roger's fishway, Mr. Brady. were many small fish and the ease with which these "For visitors to the World's Fair who were particular" fS finny inhabitants of the water constantly passed from one interested in the work of fish culture, the Commissione pool to another by means of this ingenious contrivance employed Mr. William E. Meehan, an associate editor ° was a perfect object lesson of its utility. the Philadelphia Public Ledger, to compile a pamphl6 on the 'Fish, Fishing and Fisheries of Pennsylvania.' Th1 "In front of the lowermost pool were models of the 1 State hatcheries at Allentown, Cony and Erie, and the pamphlet was profusely illustrated and gave an interesti' " sides of the arch at the entrance were ornamented with history of the Indian methods of catching fish; the cause' s large photographs of the interior and exterior of the hatch­ which led to the depletion of our streams of their m° 1 eries and by fifteen beautifully executed colored drawings valuable food fishes, and an exhaustive account of t' of fish which frequent the waters of the State. work of restoration by the Fish Commissioners." 2 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLE11 PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION EXHIBIT COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION FER RUARY-1966 ^iq^Ltkhinq QOWMA oft &CJ& By DON SHINE* ICE-FISHING is attracting vast numbers of anglers each winter. The majority are swinging toward "jig-fishing" method. riSHERMEN dressed in warm winter duds dotted the the newer jig-fishing method. At least this swing is notic^' ice bound Hunters Lake in northcentral Pennsylvania able in the folded Appalachian ridge section, located be like mesquite plants in a glaring white desert landscape. tween the Blue Ridge on the east and the Appalachia11 Most were jig-fishing. They stood beside ice holes, or Plateau on the west. squatted on sleds or seat warmers, in closely knit circles, This shift toward jigging as the most popular form ° jigging lines in freshly chipped holes while biding time ice fishing stems, in part, from the phenomenal catche swapping yarns or grilling steaks. A variety of fish—trout, of fish, coupled to the variety of new equipment that h'1' pickerel, perch, bluegills—lay frozen like chunks of fire­ only recently, say the last five or six years, become aval'' wood on the ice beside the fishermen.