.# JS '- »Ha^yf.A/r iW****- -.;.--Y, 4ft*'? •: '• ' '•'" >••-,'• * ' ' ANNUAL TROUT NUMBER TEN CENTS OFFICIAL STATE VOL. XII - No. 4 PUBLICATION ^ANGLER* APRIL, 1943 db PUBLISHED MONTHLY EDWARD MARTIN by the G overnor PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF FISH COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS Publication Office : J. Horace MeFarland 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 ANGLEK CLIFFORD J. WELSH should be addressed to the Editor. 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No. 4 ^ANGLER/ APRIL, 1943 LIKE WILDLIFE-LIKE MAN Great emergencies, like great emotions, create similar reactions in Wildlife and Man. There should be one fundamental difference—Man's ability to control those reactions by virtue of his superior mental powers and his consciousness of morality, justice and the fitness of things. There should be, but often Man fails to use those mental powers or heed his consciousness after the great emergency is over. Instead, like Wildlife, he gives way to animal instincts. Thus it becomes every one for himself and the devil take the hindmost. In many respects, that is what happened after the first world war with the fathers of those fighting the war today. Among Wildlife, a great emergency filled with overwhelming danger, such as a forest fire or a raging flood, creates fear; a fear that obliterates all love or hate or hunger or competition among the species. In their hour of need, Wildlife huddles together, seeking safety and pro­ m tection in each other's company. The Lion and the Mouse, the Wolf and the Lamb turn to each other in mutual tolerance. Like Wildlife; like Man! In the first world war and this war, Man was drawn together by a great fear of impending danger. The mighty and the weak, the rich and the poor, nations of different faiths and ways of life, men of all colors, races and creeds. All huddled together, seeking safety and protection in each other's company. The Father then, the Son now. Like Father; like Son. Some years ago, to study fish and their reactions, I built a big pool and divided it into many sections of different depths and sizes, using stones for partitions. In it I placed many kinds and sizes of fish. Very soon each fish, by virtue of its abilities, had claimed a section as its home. It fought any fish which came near. It was an individualist and isolationist. Often I created a great emergency by draining the pool. A.s the danger of lowering waters threatened, the fish lost their isolationism and sense of ownership. They all gathered together in mutual fear and swam around and around in the lowering water until at last they were all confined in the deepest pool. There was no fighting—only a huddling together so long as lower­ ing waters created fear. Then I would close the outlet and start filling the pool again. The danger would be past. For a few moments, the fish seemed to be breathing hard, recovering from their fear. All at once, the biggest fish would turn on those near it, as though bitterly blaming them for the danger. The next in size would turn on those near them and so on, in turn, until the whole pool became a boiling turmoil of crazily fighting fish. As the waters rose in the pool, the mightiest fish drove all others from the best spots and once more became an individualist, lord of all it could grab out of the chaos. By the time the pool was filled again each fish once more had become master of its own little section. The emergency had brought no change in their world. Isolationism and self sufficiency were again supreme. Because they did not have brain power, the same thing happened over and over again with each emergency. After the first world war, the end of the great emergency for the Father of today's Son, it was—Like Wildlife; like Man! After this war, will the Son make use of his superior mental powers and his consciousness of morality, justice and the fitness of things? Or will it be—Like Father; like Son? Let us hope and pray for morality and justice and the fitness of things! PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER 0 b, Trout Streams Stocked with Legal Trout St ?1 In answer to numerous requests, The ANGLER brown trout: N. Br. Blacklick Creek, Chest Columbia County "n lists the following streams in Pennsylvania Creek, Clearfield Creek, and Slatelick Run; rain­ Brook trout: Coles Creek, Lick Run stocked with legal size trout for the coming sea­ bow trout: Curtis Run and Ebensburg Water West Creek; brown trout: Mugser Run; b' son. This covers only major waters in the various Co. Dam. and brown trout: Roaring Creek; brown counties. Other smaller streams are also sched­ Cameron County rainbow trout: Fishing Creek. uled for stocking. Brook trout: Brookes Run, Clear Creek, Hicks Adams County Run, E. Br. Hicks Run, Hunts Run, Upper Jerry Crawford County Run, Lick Island Run, Lushbaugh Run, Mix ,in Brook trout: Carbaugh Run, Toms Run, Little Run, Portage Creek, Sterling Run and WykofT Brook trout: McKaughlin Run; brown tn Marsh Creek; rainbow trout: Chambersburg Run; brown trout: Driftwood Br. Sinnemahon- Lt. Sugar Creek and Thompson Run. ft Reservoir; brown trout: Conewago Creek, Mid­ ing, Portage Creek. B dle Creek and Conococheague Creek, Cumberland County B b, Carbon County Brook trout: Alexandra Run; brown 8 ,| Forest, Warren, Elk and McKean b, Brook trout: Aquashicola Creek, Drakes Creek, rainbow trout: Big Spring, Letort Spring, *,j IV (Allegheny National Forest) Fawn Creek, Hunter Run, James Run, Lesley Yellow Breeches; brook and brown tr° j Brook and rainbow trout: Bear Creek and Run, Mauch Chunk Creek, Pine Run, and Stoney Mountain Creek; brook and rainbow tr£' 1 Big Mill Creek; brook trout: Beaver Run, Blue Creek; brown and rainbow trout: Mud Run, and Trindle Spring: rainbow trout: Furnace ' i Jay Creek, Brown Run, Little Coon Creek, Pohopoco Creek; brook and rainbow trout: Big Dam. Farnsworth Creek, Four Mile Creek, Minister Bear Creek and Quakake Creek; brook and brown Dauphin County Creek, Ross Run, Six Mile Run, N. Br. Sugar trout: Hayes Creek. Run, Two Mile Run and Wilson Run; brown Brown trout: Manada Creek, N. Fk. Po*c a trout: East Hickory Creek, E. Br. Tionesta Centre County Creek, and S. Fk. Powells Creek; brook ! Creek, S. Br. Tionesta Creek, W. Br. Tionesta rainbow trout: Stoney Creek; brown and ra Creek, W. Br. Tunenegwant Creek; brown and Brook trout: Benner Run, W. Br. Big Run, bow trout: W. Branch Rattling Creek. rainbow trout: Salmon Creek; rainbow trout: Black Bear Run, Fields Run, Lt. Fishing Creek, Chappell Fork, Millstone Creek, and Spring Laurel Run, Big Sandy Run, Lt. Sandy Run, Delaware County Creek. and White Deer Creek; brown trout: S. Fk. Beech Creek, Cold Stream, Marsh Creek, Poe Brown trout: Ridlev Creek. Beaver County Creek, Sinking Creek, and Six Mile Run; rain­ Rainbow trout: Brady Run; brown and rain­ bow trout: Poe Valley Dam; brook, brown and Elk County bow trout: Big Traverse Creek. rainbow trout: Elk Creek, Lt. Moshannon ,f Creek, Penns Creek, and Spring Creek; brook Brook trout: Belmuth Run, Big Run, Crooks Creek, Hicks Run, E. Br. Hicks Run, Is'^J Bedford County and brown trout: Pine Creek; brown and rain­ 11 bow trout: Bald Eagle Creek and Logan Branch. Run, Kersey Run, W. Br. Kersey Run, La !; Brook trout: Beaver Creek, Deaner Gap Run, Run, Maxwell Run, Medix Run, Mix PL Flintstone Creek, Maple Run, Potter Creek, and Paige Run, Spring Creek, Straight Creek, S• 3 Beaver Run; rainbow trout: Koon Lake; brown Chester County Straight Creek, Vineyard Run and Wolf ^J trout: Bobs Creek, Cove Creek, Cumberland Brook trout: Beaver Run, Lt. Broad Run, Run; brown trout: Driftwood Branch; br°.•> Valley Run, Imlertown Run, Raystown Br. of Doe Run, Indian Run, Mathews Run, and West and rainbow trout: E. Br. Clarion River, Juniata River, Shermans Valley Rim, Yellow Valley Creek; brown trout: French Creek, and Clarion Creek and Trout Run. Creek and Wills Creek. M. Br. White Clay Creek; brook and rainbow trout: Birch Run, and Valley Creek; brook and Erie County Berks County brown trout: White Clay Creek; brown and rainbow trout: Officers Run. Brown and rainbow trout: Beaverdam P j Brook trout: Back Creek, Mill Creek, Moslem Conneautee Creek, Lt. Conneautee Creek * j Creek, Mill Creek, Northkill Creek, W. Br. Pine S.