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The Angler

%4#e . . -i5ATURE_S

of

By Albert G. Shimmel

h e B ° « of Red Bank

4, p. IScatorial Revival 4

By N . R. Cas i l lo

S h i n ' Under Difficulties 6 By W i l l i a m Boyd

J r ^ Technicalities 9 es "Y G . Earle Thompson

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erman's Paradise Opens . . . 8

o'l lss fisherman's Paradise, 1951 10

a coat at Home Center is' By Don Shiner

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^ t h e Pollution Front 17

"• Ti,Paradise Regula- 2.

Ur Ang|

* h a f erettes 16

. , s New In Fishing Books 20

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&HWI . . . A Maid on a morning

in May.

EL oddom 3 tme

Along the stream, in uplands and lowlands, it's that time again when the

pink and white color scheme of the countryside stirs the sense of the

esthetic. Apricot, peach, cherry and apple blossoms, in that order, parade

their gorgeous floats through the month of May, announcing the debut of

another summer.

Snow again covers the mountains but it's a blizzard of white dogwood

blossoms that swirls through the woods, In the lowlands, meadows clothed

with wild flowers, cause anglers to pause in admiration along the way.

Everyone has an allergy for beauty when all the world's in bloom.

THE SUN fought a losing battle with the thickening mass of cumulus

clouds piling above the crest of Baugh-ker Mountain. Already the shadows of the hemlocks swept long dark spires across one side of Red Bank Pool. Only the reflected image of the white birch glowed dully against the still green depths. To the left the colder waters of a sand spring brook mingled with those of the pool. Foam patches and cloud shadows followed each other down the pool. A boulder set deep in the bank, deeply under cut by a freshet and overhung by fern formed a dark cav­ern cool and protected.

A hunting mink followed the brook testing the sultry air with its sensitive nostrils. Carefully it investigated a cavern beneath the hemlock roots, then slipped under the water to appear a moment later on the downstream side of an overhanging clump of wood fern. The cavern under the boulder drew the little hunter like a magnet. Slowly the snakey head with the beady eyes turned as if pondering a problem and again the mink submerged and began swimming down the scant two yards that would bring it to the hidden lair. A streak of silver, crimson, and green set the mink twisting in pursuit, but the trout flashed toward the turbu­lent water at the head of the pool where none but the swiftest of the water creatures could find sanctuary. Reluctantly the mink gave up the chase, came to the surface and swam across to a projecting hemlock root and shook the water from its fur. A kingfisher guarding the shallows from its perch on a dead branch, rattled his harsh laughter at the disturbance of the pool. At the sound the mink half turned and snarled its disappointment before disappearing into the tangle of roots and driftwood.

The Boss usually knows what he's

doing but even the best of 'em get

fouled up now and then!

she dipped the tip of her abdomet °J

the silvery brightness then wr2\a" her wings closely so as to trap sPu! air bubbles next to her body^ec

slowly and cautiously crawled hefi the surface and feeling carefully , * the tip of her abdomen began t<~Jle

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fch lfoi tas

The Bos i

The kingfisher kept his place with the infinite patience that is the strength of the wild. His sharp eye saw the drifting shadow of an enormous native trout. Perfect in every respect with the exception of the bottom half of the tail which had a torn ragged appear­ance of healed lacerations. The same kingfisher could have told of the time two summers before when the mink and trout had stirred the cloudy sedi­ment of the pool's floor with their vio­lent contortions. The one twisting and turning for life itself while the other equally savage to procure the food that sustains life. The mink had been cheated of his prey when the trout had fought its way into the fast water and had battered the mink against one of the sunken stones just as it had reached the limit of breath. From that day forward the Boss of Red Bank became a marked creature.

The shadows crept farther and farther into the pool until only the silvery mirror of the unbroken surface glowed against the sky. A Cinnamon Caddis dripped to the gray rock that guarded the Boss' home. Running down the steep side to the water's edge

> posit row after row of her prfl eggs. Another and another of he ters followed until a number clambering here and there in the urgency of their duties. The glo" momentarily by the flashes of d1' lightning showed that the storfl' had been threatening all afternoo1

moving nearer and nearer. A fok of wind that presaged the storm r'H f the calm surface of the pool ton brushed three of the Caddis flie^Xed the water. A three-inch chub ifyel] up and took the first one as it f he gled to lift back to the security ^el ; boulder. Working the surface he-kle a second two feet further up the rib and nearer the bank. A third strWd £ but managed to reach a dragging 'ger of the wood fern and reach ^uld Another fell, but failed to strugto the surface. With the reckless ui'&gs of hunger the chub sucked it iniy. felt a stinging restraint and doVtts the nearest shadow. sd

The Boss of Red Bank watchetii , chub dive straight for his l aw t struck almost languorously. &d

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The swea t stood ou t on m y for^she as I toiled u p t he s teep t ra i l •£>& cabin perched like a mud sw^ts i nest against the gray rocks and^rs greens of the mountain. Kabi lo^r home of the Northwest Wind, ^e called it, but today it belied it's Atn Even in the shade of the eveii°Ulc the heat seemed unendurable. My dec packs made little noise, on the $# j littered trail, so it was not tjl tr dumped my gear in the corner * II porch, that Mak looked up from ^Aga vise that occupied his attention- I ,

He grinned a boyish grin that Vg the silvery hair and twinkling fore eyes. "Figgured you'd like an W \ to get away from town fer a d/d in two. Trout season soon over and -tch. the hot weather and low W*?ver reckon you'd fall for a bit of son^X,^ special. Pull up a chair and dV v your pipe. There's a pouch of $

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P E N N S Y L V A N I A A N G & i^K

i«j ° n the shelf under the rods." jxi^k dug into his shirt pocket and

sVU,Ced his favorite briar with the dy\ed trout on the bowl. Carefully he

h v t a m P i n g the fragrant tobacco ty , *HS stubby fore finger. Again he

ci? j 1 1 1 * 0 t h a t ^rt Pocket and S°ewka "long h a n d l e d" w o o d s

vfo f ifr e n ^ e s m o ^ e w a s curling °rtably from both he returned to

task. * l lo«g shanked fine wire No. 12

point to a place where three long pools were fed by underground springs. It seemed that all the trout in the little river had congregated in this hundred yards of deep cool water. The Cinna­mon Caddis hatch late from the cool spring water had come back to lay their eggs in late afternoon and eve­ning. The large browns and natives fed with the abandon of fingerlings. I had two hours exciting sport and the three that Mak bedded in damp fern

f Red Bank

1 ^ f u 6 r T d a S a f o u n d a t i o n , Cinna-ol.ton , r o m between the ears of a ie'Xed v i?°a^P w a s s P u n o n c a r e I U % Myelin o w tying silk. A few turns

; * hook" S i l k f a r b a C k ° n A e b e I l d ° f

r osel a n ^ c a u § h t a bit of narrow silver ie:kles A a P a i r °^ v e r y n a r r o w ginger be ribD e (f: t e r building the body of fur riud thP +

Xt w i t n silver and then palm-giger ? t w ° ginger hackles. A pair of ^uld e r

l a c l ? l e s were tied in at the gto t

s, then from a pair of cinna-trfags ^ e y . wings he matched the Dfy. ^ d tied them pent along the ?»s nf ?•, hackles were wrapped, the

ad - t h e —ie wings trimmed and the i«H ^ j , - ? p e d expertly. The match m trim h e h a d bgbted our pipes

ad tQ ^ e d to a sharp point and !quer . ? r o P the brownish yellow

.lushed fl f o r m e d the head. The t'ppe(j , % that he placed in my aWtsma ? d w a s a marvel of expert l ^ o f i P a n d the experience of flier k ^l°se observation. A minute , aie D a ^ U m P e d a half dozen of the ton hf fn f r o m a box extracted

fomd *s hrp pocket. "There, that J deCent6+ e n o u g h to get you a pair JJ'if Vo, 5"out to show your wife, that i* tree, i?1 '* t a k e t o hangin' 'em in te j j * Jike you did that afternoon ^ g a i 0 n h a t c h w a s o n ' "

I w^ nt l l a t boyish grin lit his face

Uig fj- ° e d at the memory of three 'for6 j e s a n d two broken leaders fld l a r , / 6 ^ 0 V e r e d enough to cast to, fd ind?, • • &cst o f s i x trout, that !tch 0f

t r^o usly on the first good fly -ver ;0

t i l e Previous season. Trout ^ a t e • * f r a n g e malady! , e win i- afternoon we followed

n d i ng trail around Baughker

By Albert G. Shimmel

and hemlock were the best I had taken during the season.

Mak had been content to watch the sport from the sidelines and toss an occasional comment my way. Now that I had signified my contentment he picked up his fully rigged rod and moved up stream in a manner that showed determination and some sort of plan.

Ten minutes walking and Red Bank Pool glinted strangely in the half dusk of the approaching storm. A breeze ruffled the surface and sent a half dozen Cinnamon Caddis flies flounder­

ing across the surface. Mak paid scant attention to the deeper, and, to me, more attractive part of the pool where a small trout or two dimpled. Care­fully he crossed the lower riffle and gained the bank just below the boulder that marked the entrance of the sand spring run. For perhaps two minutes he stood watching the water carefully then with a false cast or two he dropped his fly so that it bounced from the rock to the surface of what I thought was shallows. I sensed rather than saw the turn of the wrist that set the hook but there was no mistak­ing the grunt of disgust that escaped his lips. "Only a ch—" then the water boiled and arched with white as the line knifed toward the tumbling rapids at the head of the pool. Mak talked to his captive in an undertone as he always did when he had a good one on. He met each rush as only a master angler can. The fascinating picture of the grace and skill with which the drama was being played out held me until with a shattering crash and blind­ing flash the heavens opened in a deluge. Before I could get my poncho from the pocket of my fishing vest and put it on I was already wet to the shoulders. Mak's fly-ringed felt hat dropped under its weight of the water that cascaded from its brim. The inter­mittent flashes of lightning showed the smile that disregarded everything ex­cept the business at hand. The shower passed quickly and the darkness gave way to beauty of sunset just as Mak dipped his old net deep and brought to the surface the Boss of Red Bank. Some how I was peering over his shoulder at the colors that matched the sunset, the frayed tail and the great hooked jaw with the Cinnamon Caddis

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/idea toria t

iKevivoLi

UP UNTIL a few years ago it was not uncommon here in western

Pennsylvania to run into piscatorial surprises. Even some of the more densely populated sections would occa­sionally dish up something that would cause the good brothers to reconse­crate themselves to the gentle art.

For a year or two after some wallop­ing smallmouths were pulled out of a half-acre pond scarcely beyond the limits of a sizable town, most every bass fisherman in these parts eyed every frog, farm, and duck pond with an appraising eye.

As a result of that revival many a bass as well as numerous lesser fishes and one noble brown trout were taken from places that would have ordinarily been scorned by the most humble dis­ciple of Father Izaak.

Things really became hopped-up when it was reported that a farmer in a neighboring Ohio town forked a pike out of his farm pond while the fish was attempting to carry off a squeal­ing shoat that had strayed beyond its depth. Let's not discuss the weight of the fish lest it might sow seeds of doubt.

Early last summer Bill and Burr and I, former inseparable fishing cro­nies, went into a huddle and emerged with the resolution to revive the recon­naissance trips which we formerly took, testing, if possible, the piscatorial potentialities of ponds and streams of all sizes and descriptions, in our county as well as in a couple of adjoining ones.

Bill was willing but not overly enthusiastic. "Why," he bitterly com­plained, "every fishable spot in this part of the country is either fished out or has been commercialized."

"That's just about what we thought eight or ten years ago," I reminded, "and then we stepped out and dis­covered Hidden Lake. Remember?"

"I shall never forget it," averred Burr. "Yes, sir, tackle bustin' bass out of a frog pond."

"And now look at it," grumbled Bill, "the most highly commercialized spot in the county."

"With a pet sturgeon for the jackpot if you can catch it," added Burr with a dubious shake of his head.

"But, there are several likely spots we passed up simply because we couldn't completely agree on them," I pointed out. "Spots which I'm sure had fish in them," I added.

Bill began picking up steam as his eyes kindled with interest. "And one of those places is down along Wolf

ranean passages," I said as my mW flashed back to the scene.

Briefly, the score of ponds, rangi' from twenty or so feet to more tfr fifty long, formed a loosely connect' chain running parallel with Vf(

Creek which in some places was fl more than a dozen feet away. It \*;

our contention at the time that sotf of them were not only connected wi;

each other, but also with the ere* itself. The water, as I remember ;

was slightly clouded, just mui't enough to lend an air of mystery ' its clean translucency.

Bill asked a pertinent questiO; "Have either of you been there lately'

We shook our heads and then Btf went on to explain how the war's cof ing sort of knocked things into cocked hat. "You may recall," * went on, "that when we emerged flf that thoroughly Ashless interim, sort of drifted apart. To be franl< he concluded, "I'd completely i° gotten about them until just now."

"You had a good reason' t° growled Bill.

I broke up what could have veloped into one of those interminal albeit good-natured wrangles by a? ing, "Why can't we visit the place?'

"When?" Bill shot back. "Early tomorrow evening, if it sui1

you two."

By N. R. Casillo

Take some anglers, some goggle-eyes, a few catfish, a couple trout plus one cockeyed bull in a meadow and you're bound to havf

action pop out of the mixture.

Creek." He turned to me for con­firmation. "Right?"

"Right," I nodded. "And what was our reason for pass­

ing it up?" asked Bill, his voice jump­ing up a couple of octaves. "Why, it was because Senor Rogers, here, was afraid of the bull pastured there." With that Bill fixed a baleful eye on the hapless Burr.

"Now, lay off, you guys," remon­strated Burr. "We settled that long ago. It was a vicious bull."

Bill hooted. "That bull was too young to be anything but friendly."

"Mebbe so, but the farmer kept it there to keep fishermen out of his place," said Burr with a note of triumph. "But, no kidding, fellas," he quickly went on. "Did you actual­ly believe that there were fish in those holes? They looked pretty small to me."

"Yeah, they look small, but I've a hunch that they are more or less con­tinuous; joined together by subter-

"Shall we take fishing tackle asked Burr.

"No, your lasso," giggled Bill. That stretch of Wolf Creek betwe' "„

Christley's bridge and to where Mtl empties into the Slippery Rock, is "] most paradoxical stream. Ostensib1- I it looks like a trout stream, but co^idj tains, instead, largemouth bass, i'OcUrj bass, catfish and other warm wat*hai species. In the large pool under tWeij, bridge we have seen numerous b ^ s i and hordes of suckers consorting I t gether while fishermen pulled out b^1 W} heads at a lively clip. ^

To make it even more c o n f o u n d W

was the incident I experienced wb' n • standing on the stone bridge ju s t^* couple of miles west of the town ^ e

Slippery Rock. Early in the W°v ^ season I stood on that vantage P°'V watching the approach of what I P 'Vf sumed was either an unsophisticat^ c

or thoroughly uninformed trout fish6

man. H^j 4 P E N N S Y L V A N I A A N G L #

.. The smallest pond of this amazing series received its stock of rock bass fron alacent stream with which it is connected by an underground channel.

as I swiftly descended the steep em­bankment.

"Here, have a smoke," he invited as he held out his open pack.

After lighting up he slowly unloosed the creel off his shoulder and de­posited it on the short turf at our feet. That fellow was hep to the art of suspense.

He didn't open the creel until after we had sat down on a convenient log. "There," he finally said as he swiftly flipped open the lid.

I emited a low whistle calculated to evince both awe and admiration. Re­posing on a well arranged bed of deli­cate ferns were four of the most beau­tiful brown trout I had seen in years.

"Wonderful," I breathed. "There are three more under those,"

he explained, shaking the creel to give me a peek.

"And you caught them in this creek?" I heard myself asking in a voice which I did not recognize.

"Why, of course," laughed the stranger, giving me a sidelong glance.

I took a grip on myself and laughed with him but a bit unnaturally.

"You must be thoroughly familiar with the stream," I syllogized.

The stranger shook his head. "No, this is the first time that I've ever fished it. As a matter of fact," and he flashed that pleasant grin, "I thought I was on the Slippery Rock until a farmer back there straightened me out."

What dopes we mortals are, I thought as I took my departure. Here, I'd been fishing the creek off and on

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fct£ny l u c k >" l bailed when he 4 earshot. -, -Pair " i

b1'. I „._' h e yelled back.

came

«j Wa a y e u e a oacK. d idn ' t flabbergasted. Surely, he °(CUl*iositmean t r o u*- My consuming ^ a r w / § o t the better of me so I Kj? \ "You mean trout?" I > ^ w . . t h °ugh half afraid he might I the f ^ t h e affirmative. »' ^ h v t W flashed me a quick look.

as ^ ' <* course," he finally answered i'1 ^btlff i S r i n bespread his face, ii»n min y b e c ause of the foolish look

^ e th JL floundering for an excuse to o1 y itivu- e n be straightened matters 1 ^evel ^ g r m e d o w n f o r a l o o k -

before had I ever heard of [c; ^ches ~",-v-il"ig trout in tne lower / ^ e s s n?t ^be^ creek. Maybe he has

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catching trout in the lower -* the creek. Maybe he has

o t fallfish I hopefully pondered

•1951

The largest pond contained a variety of warm water fishes ranging from largemouth bass to bullhead

T

FISHIN' UNDER DIFFICULTIES "I knew it!" This remark, in a de­

cidedly disgusted voice, came from George.

It was early morning of the opening day of last trout season and we were driving in Jack's car up an isolated mountain road about six miles from the stream on which we intended to try our luck. Dawn had broken only about a quarter of an hour before and it was quite dark under the huge evergreen trees shading the narrow dirt road where we had come to a stop.

The road was covered from the embankment on the left to the edge on the right by a coating of ice as smooth as glass. This was understand­able for one could tell at a glance that sun never beat on this particular stretch of highway. The towering pines flanking the road on both sides met overhead in thick foliage through which the sun's rays could not possibly pene­trate.

Without a doubt this coating of ice had been on the narrow mountain thoroughfare since the preceding autumn. Further, it would be there for several weeks to come, for we were high above the valley floor to the north and spring was late in coming here. The sub-surface of ice was as hard as the glass it resembled and there was no indication that the ice had melted in the slightest.

Ahead of us, blocking the road, was a roadster, its engine racing as the driver tried in vain to ascend the

April 15?" he inquired. "We hadfos idea we'd find winter up here on ^ey mountain. If we had known we w m gonna encounter ice we'd have stop^ee] below in the valley and fished Rau<*rin Run." nou

The driver opened his door 2!ree stepped out gingerly to join in r T] conversation. V

"Let's put some of these twigs utfWo your wheels," George suggested, "£eei perhaps four of us can get you ufl^ad way by pushing." t W

Suiting action to words, Geof?art Jack, and I joined the driver's c^Ci panion in pushing. Our combined i^ss forts moved the light car on its < T in a few moments but we continue^tre shove until it had gained such '^he mentum we could not keep up witf*eet on the ice. &e

The stranger continued running " e r the road until both he and the Ca*"s disappeared around a bend of the f#Pac way and I, at least, concluded we f ros seen the last of them. I was ashamed E this conclusion about five minutes l^ati when both of the men appeared at *bo bend of the road and continued tov'^or. us. W ,

"One good turn deserves anoth(jwo one of the fellows said with a g1;0°1 We had gathered up the evergi1ear twigs on the ice after getting ''ear1 roadster on its way, had jammed s" A of them under our tires and had s'Plac tered the others on the ice a h e a ^ e the car. *°r

Jack climbed behind the wheel ^ started the motor and the other '^°cl

of us shoved with right good wil'' ° I was considerably more of a job to ^ " Jack's heavy sedan rolling but we - e:

ceeded in doing just that and Jack.' ° managed to negotiate the icy stre' e i

and around the bend of the road f°\ "V hard dirt surface which provilil°l( faultless traction. ^ i

We thanked the two fellow fi^.Hja' men who had helped us out of ^ e

dilemma and they, in turn, e x p r ^ f their appreciation for the help we^j ftl

given them. I experienced a ^ a j ? glow as I pondered on the goou1^' just demonstrated on the mouiJ|Co

Ul

highway, and thought to myself ^°\^ kindred spirit motivated virtually a

of the sportsmen who set out el«r each spring for the purpose of l ' . s

the wily trout. 11C(

I assumed the two fishermen ii1 c J j roadster were headed for the s ^ v stream we intended to fish, but •« ' did not prove to be the case for ''taji

*ge [elt

By William Boyd «0s;

First it was the ice and cold weather, then inconsiderate angl*h6° spoiled the fun. Sometimes everything seems to go wrong on v^toj could have been the right day!

slippery slope while a second man shoved as best he could from the rear. Indeed, he could do little to aid the motor, for he could not get footing on the smooth ice.

George and I crawled out of Jack's motionless car to survey the situation. There were twigs of evergreen on the ice in fi-ont of our car, indicating that the stalled motorists ahead of us, or others who had preceded them, had sought to provide artificial traction for their tires.

We picked our way cautiously up the treacherous slope to the stalled car. From their dress we concluded the two strangers also were bent on fishing. They were warmly attired in woolen jackets, and the man outside the car wore hip-length boots. I as­sumed the man at the wheel also wore boots, and if he didn't, his pair prob­ably was in the trunk of his car.

"Having trouble?" I inquired of the fellow whose shoulder was against the rear right fender of the roadster. He turned his head and smiled ruefully as he gave up pushing to await our approach.

"Ain't this a heck of a condition for

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t ih0 S S r o a d s a couple of miles beyond 1 rfUr c o n t i n u e d s t ra ight ahead whi le we ^lrte0 r ight to negot iate an ex t remely

' r i ^ ' o n e - c a r - w i d t h dir t road meand-u f o l g d ° w n the south slope of the

;r U ^ t a m to the headwa te r s of the

, J j * tor which we w e r e bound. 1 Jy O' P a r t i c u l a r road had been bui l t

oj,: ^ I V l l i a n Conservat ion Corps boys "a e

t o t h e S e c o n d World War . It had nnad n e g l e c t e d s i n c e the C C C camp

1 t wP a s s e d ou t of existence, a l though

.0f?art e v i d e n t t h e S t a t e Fo res t ry De -' ^ e c

m e n t h a d m a d e w h a t repa i r s were d P a s s ^ f ^ t 0 ^ e e p t ^ i e thoroughfare V Th

gjstj-e 6 r o a d passed over the t rou t ^ m a t the foot of the moun ta in

jtJfeet^ a , .galvanized pipe pe rhaps five the *? i a r n e t e r car r ied the wa te r s of

• Hers a m u n d e r the road surface. , cars W e r e a c o u P l e r a t h e r di lapidated hiSpace 1 T i 0 n o p o l i z i n g t h e o n l y P a r k i n § => lCros<; ? g the s t ream w h e r e the road

l^ativ ° r t e n m e n ' v e ry obviously it^bouf^v,0^ t^le a r e a ' w e r e g rouped i-vvfoom t l / e d e e P l 1 0 ^ w h e r e t h e w a t e r

W e r - j hig p ipe splashed on the tj,ftw0 f

S l d e of the road. Only one or " A o k p j t l l e r n had fishing rods that $ear r , J ! l k e r e a l t rou t tackle, and I f *«S later f

r t h worms.

oi^arn ^ i t rou t taciue, a n a I , eartT,6 a t e r t h a t all w e r e bai t ing wi th ! r i i l worms

s 'P lace° U l a h u n d r e d ya rds beyond the 3dthe hiW]fe r e t h e s t r eam gushed unde r

for ^ h w a y we found pa rk ing space UF car, a l though we h a d to r u n

the whee ls over r a t h e r big J ftoiro 0f C a r ' a l though we h a d to r u n i '^cks t ^ e w h e e l s over r a t h e r big

-il to iw. °. get far enough off the road

W ^ p e d . z t o ther ca rs to pass. A s it de-

Ts ' t l iese^ 0 ' . W e n e e d not h a v e gone to l 'i&o n+u P a i n s to clear the d r iveway for

re W

t°\ W, ther

car came tha t way whi le we

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W°h Txrlf concluded tha t the deep H r e fii!'e v i r t u a l l y all of the nat ives

- J t h a t h A l n g h a d rece ived the t rou t ) ithe a +

b e e n s tocked in this s t ream •e-cVe w m n before. A n d we learned p ' ^hen 6 r e c ° r r e c t in this assumpt ion l ' f 9 r m e r W e t a l k e d w i t h t he friendly (j>aided -S' J W ° o r t h r ee of w h o m had

\ i truck *? d u m P i n S the t r ou t w h e n the L,'corne th m t h e s t a t e ha t che ry had

n a t way la te in the previous y v ea r

[ii/this e o t the na t ives h a d fish even at

fiice r T- x. hour , one showing us six b e e t l

i a i " b o w s . H e expla ined h e h a d

^ C a u g h t h g S i n c e d a y b r e a k and h a d ' • H e r e h i s . h a l f d o

zen in the place .thp the lltle tnT" P l p e t umbled its w a t e r s from * ^Iked ei" - s i d e of the road. A s w e

i 6 ^ hat W e a r i n g overal ls , an hosc„_T ' and a torn l u m b e r iac

old aged f a t h e r of the nat ives , a middle

iei-k>w w l°sSed a n d a t o r n l u m b e r jacket ,

iN'^ed ouV'Y63^ bi? t r0Ut A,nd ' . ,«e r.„n , m describes the action, for $&WQS , t h e 20-inch fish over the

the s t a n d the m u c k at the edge of ream unt i l he could fall on both

knees and grasp it wi th both hands . I couldn ' t b lame h im too m u c h for

the m a n n e r in which he handled tha t big t rou t for I, too, would have made cer ta in tha t h e didn ' t get away had I hooked him.

Jack , George, and I had no desire to fish in the big hole about which the nat ives were grouped, and indeed it is doubtful we could have found, elbow room had we elected to fish there .

Downs t r eam about 50 or 75 ya rds was another s t re tch of r a the r quiet wa te r at the end of a rapid w h e r e the crystal-clear spring wa te r tumbled over rocks after leaving the deep hole at the end of the road pipe. He re only two other men were fishing. Both spoke pleasantly to me as I paused above them to th read a minnow on my hook. I dropped this minnow at the place w h e r e the fast wa te r en tered the broad pool and the redfin was t a k e n immediate ly by a h u n g r y t rou t which evident ly had been lying in wai t for food at the head of the hole.

He was securely hooked and I had no t rouble net t ing him. He was a 12-inch ra inbow, probably one of the larger fish stocked the preceding au­tumn.

chap disgustedly." I was afeared tha t there rod was all dried out. I t ' s been up in the attic ever since F r a n k wen t to Lancas te r to work and tha t att ic gets consarned hot in the s u m m e r . " He was ta lking more to himself than to u s b u t we sympathized wi th h im as h e gazed ruefully at the b roken rod t ip.

"Well, da rn it, I'll jus t fish wi th t h e bu t t and the middle section," h e said, and h e th readed another w o r m on his big hook and th rew it ou t into the pool.

I hadn ' t moved from the place w h e r e I had caught my first t rout , no t wish­ing to crowd the two anglers who had been a t the pool before me. A n d it was well I hadn ' t gone e lsewhere for I caught another nice t rou t wi th in t h e nex t five minutes .

A t t r ac t ed by the act ion had by m y ­self and the m a n who b roke his rod tip, a young fellow moved from the pipe hole downs t ream toward us. H e was one of the two men of the g roup who had up-to-date tackle and was be t te r dressed than the others , b u t h is ideas of spor tsmanship did not coincide with his appearance for he v i r tua l ly elbowed me to drop his worm-ba i ted hook almost exact ly w h e r e I had jus t cast my redfin.

"Hey, buddy , that ' s a nice fish!" commented the angler jus t below me. "You ain' t losin' no t ime get t in ' yourn !"

As he spoke there was a wild splash­ing and commotion below h im and both of us lifted our eyes to see the th i rd m a n backing u p and dragging a large t rou t u p over the embankmen t . The t ip of his rod was b r o k e n jus t about in the middle bu t for tunately his hook w a s securely imbedded in the t rou t ' s mou th and he landed the fish safely.

"Doggone it!" excla imed the old

This b u r n e d me up bu t I d idn ' t say a w o r d as I re t r ieved my minnow and moved cautiously a round the two fish­e r m e n below me to seek a fishing place far ther downst ream.

I caught a couple m o r e t rou t as I fished all of the l ikely-looking bi ts of w a t e r for a qua r t e r of a mile below the road. Then I came upon Jack . H e was fishing in the largest pool I had ye t seen in the s t r eam and had t h e place all to himself.

" H o w are you doing?" I inqui red ,

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'T'HIS famous Pennsylvania Fish Comm#s ** angling project may prove more popular' ^1

year than last when a record 34,796 ai$ l 0 r registered at the Paradise. Largest trout '^lot season caught by a woman was a 25-inch *** ty bow, weighing 76 ounces, largest caught Wfor man was 24%-inch brown trout that ti?'ch0 the scales at 112 ounces. laf£

Last year 60 anglers were apprehe^f * violating the rules and regulations gov e I iwu the Paradise. It gets plenty rough when fi5^. ' men won't play fair; the violators were ™ ^ immediately barred from the Paradise for ^ remainder of the season and in addition * ^0 unable to buy a fishing license for 1951. ?°ir

It all adds up to what Izaak Walton belie\lric] "No life, my honest Scholar, no life so I5 ,t>ri; and so pleasant, as the life of a well-gove^stpc Angler." a I

(REGULATIONS FOR THE 1951 APPEAR ON PAGE 21) So

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WAS spring, ear ly spring, and the e ^ a ^ e n needed spading, the house ) r

e d painting, b u t the evening be -^ , a phone call h a d come from a

Jluh°r m e m b e r of t h e R o d a n d G u n

PKOut 2 V ^ 0 m J had promised to take Paint s m n g , s o t he ga rden and the

4ate ' ' 0 b w o u l d n a v e to w a i t u n t i l

^teyspif B e s i d e s I w a n t e d to go out ' h a s a n ^ t r y s o m e °f m v l a t e s t pu r -

r e e s in the l ine of new fangled t rou t

cm!'- s P inners , l ine, etc., recent ly tef at a «**• a price. I t was now

ZJrout ^Jecltnicaluied By G . Earle Thompson

Start spading the garden in Spring . . . . a few choice hackle are unearthed then the sneak to the creek. But it's the coming back, facing the good wife that's rough!

Illustrated by Jack Finnegan

j U n i a v morning , early, and since

w r nad not as ve t mi no t as ye t m a d e his ap-Ski' Ce> I dug u p some of the vege

Mi

a te garden. A t least I told myself

a t c i Was work ing on the garden aref 'n i n rea l i ty I was looking Pefull v for ea r th w o r m s whi le

gr0 l l f a n d h a d a t in can on the any , a beside m e into which I popped that 1 ^ e l y " l o ° k i n g specimen of bai t t u r n ed 1 W e d f o r t h f r o m t h e n e w l y

?m a loam.

>/l^the^ ^ o r m s w e r e scarce, it being J u n i o

d r y in the ground, and soon hQ jj j c a m e ambl ing along, as though I tyas

a 1 1 the t ime in the world, whi le from V,m a * a t n e r from impat ience and

is.'fishingf3' d i § g i n g - We tossed all the |riSeat Qf

t a c k l e and gear in the back n^ i o n 0f p u c a r ' t o ° h °ff in the direc-t jaloug v h . e s t e r Coun ty to t ry the t rou t r»I wa^ V a l l e y Creek , a s t r eam of which t>V ' E i g h t y fond, hav ing fished there

" • H o i r . ^ n y y e a r s and stocked wi th •l°ice ;large

e ^ o u t . I r e m e m b e r e d several and deep holes t he r e at bends of th

jdiiHerp C r e e k a n d one in par t i cu la r f i ^ m e , v e V e r a l y e a r s P a s t : h a d c a u S h t

a Annual ° e fish' d u r i n g one of the club's v « V t f

0 U t i n § s - I was a lways just

soine a Prize catch, however , as

ie ' i lich i ° n e a l w a y s h a d a fish about one rf^ize T g e r t h a n m i n e ' t o g r a b t h e

s t reain S h o r t o r d e r w e w e r e a t t h e

a larp a n d P a r k e d in a space unde r V^o n+v.e t r e e - Quickly we noted tha t

° * e r fishermen W e P a r t e d to do

" i e r fishermen w e r e at this spot our stuff.

All dur ing the t r ip up th rough the count ry I had t r ied to impress the Jun io r M e m b e r wi th my experience, long years , and cleverness in the pis­catorial a r t s and pursui t s . I had even suggested modestly that he was ex­t remely for tunate to be able to t rave l in such classical company on a fishing expedit ion. I k n e w all the answers and had the latest obtainable in equip­ment—lures , spinners , flies, rods etc. I had ver i tably ru ined my ex t ra fi­nances to get all this stuff, and have to admit to being somewhat suceptible to high pressure in regards to fishing tackle sales. I ha te to admit foolish­ness along these lines, so let us say "over-enthusias t ic" at t imes. My wife has o ther names for it though.

I also told Jun io r about my vast knowledge of this par t icular Valley Creek and how (I knew choice holes, riffles 'and bends in the s t ream prac­tically u n k n o w n to other aspirants.) Needless to say by the t ime we ar r ived at the fishing grounds he was sold. I suppose added to it all was the tact I happened to be secre tary of the club.

He swallowed it all in wi th goodly gulps, every last d rop and I really believed I was teaching him some­thing that would increase his powers in the gentle a r t of fly casting, bait casting and the like.

After about two or th ree hours of disgusting luck, the lad, pat ient as all

getout , finally asked w h e n w e expected to catch some trout . I wan ted badly to answer that quest ion myself. How­ever, we moved along and I t r ied my best to land something. Final ly o thers came on the s t ream, and the competi t ion did not add much to the fun. A t one deep hole we both ba i ted up with worms as a final ges ture . Previous ly it may be said, we bo th were good sports and t r ied all sor ts of flies, wet , dry, all colors and sizes, bu t wi th no luck whatsoever .

(This hole looked good. It was deep and at the downs t ream end of a fine riffle, wi th a large overhanging t r ee along the shore line.) Many roots and debris m a d e good hiding places for prospect ive t rout . In fact by this t ime I was about ready to set t le for some good sized chubs or suckers . H u n g e r finally caught u p wi th us and we got ou t our g rub , sat down on the grassy b a n k to enjoy an outdoor r e ­past. Stinging ants , the large black, h u s k y var ie ty crawled u p our pan ts legs, s tung or bit us, which ever they do. It was mighty discomforting. The ants came out of the sandy b a n k s to give us a hea r ty welcome, and did their best to help consume our sandwiches before we could. A large wa te r snake swam across the w a t e r and climbed the bank just in front

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MISS FISHERMAN'S PARADISE 1951.

10 P E N N S Y L V A N I A A N G 1 ,

Trout Technicalities

ISHERMAN'S PARADISE WAS Never LIKE THIS

Photograph of "Miss Fisherman's Paradise" by GEORGE GORDON

Official photographer for the

Pennsylvania Fish Commission

(From page 9)

fc^jj^ough Fisherman's Paradise is P oth ° W n t h r o u g h o u t this state and

a n r s t a * e s a s well, it was viewed «e n 6 W l i g h t recently in Pittsburgh. p a l C c a

fs i o n was the Parade of Units,

ion ? the three-day state conven­ed! • ^ e hairdressers and Cos-erg °^ l s t s Association which was held Frorn i l a t t e r p a r t o f F e b r u a r y -

bers t o v e r the s t a t e came mem-^uded° f^?11^ this meeting which in-advatl

h a i r s ty l ing contests and the new hair styles by

Qiost 1 ^ S l e a d i n g stylists. One of the ti0tl ^ P u l a r features of this conven->n whf u y e a r i s t h e P a r a d e of Units a m o / ] e a c ^ Participating unit enters terest

C p o r t r a y i n g something of in-c°UrSe

m i t s particular locality. Of Styj|n ' . a t such a convention hair Para(jg *? ^uite important but in this

This costume too is judged. choSe i r e a r t h e Centre County unit the r n e ^^herman's Paradise as its tion s

a ? i n advance of the conven-Story f J,n to its headquarters the fo lloWeH

F i sherman's Paradise. Then ?Y0ut of W e e k s o f costume making.

n d of V a r i o u s s i z e s were made by Vari-col n e t ' w i r e ' a n d h u n d r e d s o f

^ere s ° r e d sequins; and these in turn t o be u

WlJ, o n t n e basic dress or made ^ e P„D(

S e d a s other ornaments about The P m e -

? u r » d a v S i a d e o f U n i t s was held on »UrgkyU February 25, in the Pitts-Perm b

i J °om of the Hotel William Nation F e a ^ a r S e audience of asso-t e l e v i s i o

m e m b e r s a n d

numerous movie, lVtis °n' , a n d Press photographers.

Resent J r m a n ' s P a r a d i s e 1 9 5 1 w a s

Jatoi- ^ r J 0 the audience as the nar-^aradi1 0^ t h e s t o r y o f F i s h e r m a n ' s

MUJSe. She Was attirorl in a ,* ^AV.

ie was attired in a baller­

ina-length, strapless gown of black net and taffeta, adorned with the many handsewn sequin trout. On each of her elbow-length gloves was a fish hook made of sequins. In her hair was a large sequin trout and even her ear­rings were sequin trout! Around her eyes, as is now the fashion, there was a veil of coarse net, representing a fish net; and around her shoulders, more net. She carried a fishing rod from which hung her catch—a fabulous, sequin trout. Of course, since at this convention, hair styling is so important, the model's hair was styled expressly for this outfit.

All of the work was done on this outfit by the members of the Centre County unit of the national organiza­tion, both hairdressers and owners. The model, lovely Kay Palmer of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, is a hair­dresser herself, employed by Alice and Don Hairdressers, State College; the hair styling was done by Don himself.

The results of this competition in the Parade of Units have not as yet been announced; however, the one receiving first place will be shown in Chicago at the national convention to be held there this coming summer.

The Fish Commission wishes to thank the Centre County Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association for the excellent publicity it received and for allowing us to use this publicity. Miss Kay Palmer and Mr. Don Ruble were most cooperative in helping us to ob­tain all the pictures we wished to take and in giving us the material for this story.

Fisherman's Paradise was never like this—so glamorous!

of us. Junior poked his rod at him and it left some deep teeth marks in the cork handle before it slithered away. The sun was now terrifically hot, and as the perspiration broke out on the back of my neck, after par­taking of some overly warm thermos coffee, the mosquitoes, black gnats and what have you in insects, held con­vention on my clammy skin.

Junior by now had finished his lunch and after watching the snake disappear among the roots, wandered upstream in search of some more fish­ing. I was exhausted, and wondered if the boy had noticed my condition, as I had told him maybe a little too much about my prowess. With it all I relaxed and was soon dozing on the grass; ants, spiders, flies, snakes et cetera, forgotten for the time being at least. Suddenly I heard a sharp cry. Was I dreaming or what had happened. It was Junior. He was shouting and gesticulating like a mad­man suddenly bereft of his senses. I ran, the best I could for an old fellow, up the creek to him and there he was, with the prettiest sixteen inch rainbow trout I have ever seen come out of Valley Creek. He had caught it in my favorite hole on a spinner and a piece of meat gristle left over from his beef sandwich. He said he had run out of worms and was too lazy to return down to me. Several other fishermen came by and praised the fish. He really was a fine specimen and probably the best one landed near there that season.

That ended the day for us and as we walked back to the car I noticed that my arms and neck were burning briskly from an overdose of early spring sunshine. Also some very un­welcome poison ivy pimples were forming on my arms which helped along the discomfort of the sunburn. I had lost two of my new lures, my feet were wet where I slipped down the bank earlier in the day and landed in the water, my head ached from the bright sunlight since I had forgotten to bring my sun glasses along. I was tired out too and with no fish, felt mighty low. Also Junior looked at me in a funny way but said little. When we approached the car,, there it was—a flat rear tire. Junior did help me with that but he could not comfort my mind. I had indeed all but guaranteed to show him how to fish. Now I was nothing in his eyes,

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1951 11

BUILD A BOAT AT HOME If the pocketbook is mighty low and you can't afford a "boughten" craft, here's one you can build right at home with a minimum of time, materials and expense.

Photos and Story by Don Shiner

n^q

PAINT STEM BEFORE PPL1NS SIDE BOARDS

FLOOR BOAROS

BOTTOM STRIP

List of Necessary Materials

Side boards 2 pc. T's" x 14" x 14' Pine

Bottom Roughly 50 Rng. Ft. y8" x 6"

Pine or Cedar

Transom 1 pc. 1%" x 16" x 36" Red Wood

Stem 1 pc. 3" x 4>,4" x 20" Oak or hard

Pine

Keelson 2 pc. %" x 6" x 14' Pine

Seats 1 pc. Ys" x 12" x 12' Pine

Row Locks 1 pc. 2" x 4" x 16"

Trim 2 pc. '/2" Qt'r Rd. 15' In length

Major Hardware. 1%" No. 8 Flathead wood screws.

Photo Steps of Procedure

(1) Fasten both sides to the stem. Be sure they fit properly to the stem to insure a water tight fit.

(2) Check to see that each side is bent at the same angle. Here the hull has Just been completed. Next comes the floor.

(3) Use two screws to fasten each floor board In place. Allow a thickness of a dime between each board if the boat will be kept in the water for months on end.

(4) After the floor has been completed, fasten the keel and keelsom in place. This gives added strength and protection to the floor.

(5) Fasten the seat in place with screws. Be sure to make the seats large enough so they are comfortable!

(6) Finish the boat by giving it two coats of paint. The ideal fishing boat is now com­pleted and ready to be launched in the favorite lake or stream.

Here are the specifications and planSJ one of the finest engineered, smoothest :

ning skiffs that was ever designed for fisj men! It is the most ideal boat for fis>| and its low cost, simple construction ruggedness, makes this flat bottomed the choice of thousands. Dollar for d<l it is one of the best boat investments angler can make. It is easily constn1' from local materials and anyone who use a saw, screw driver and hammer | build one in a course of a day or two.

The 14 foot flat bottomed skiff whi<| described here is ideally suited for usfl sheltered ponds, lakes and rivers of PC sylvania where the waters do not becom^l rough. It can be fitted with an outbf motor from 3 to 5 horse-power and is a % highly maneuverable boat. It is so eC constructed with these plans, the desir e | owning a boat can become a reality.

To build this craft, begin by cutting J ' V shaped stem from the oak plank, two 14 inch sides are then cut on a $\ taper, fitted to the stem and fastened long screws. The Center Mold is p ' B between the sides and they are then 1 around the Mold, fastened to the transO'mH form the skiff's hull.

Use a heavy piece of red wood or ' ~ I i similar wood for the transom and if a f f is to be used on the boat, the transom sM| be at least 1% inches thick. Cut this ff with slight angles on each side so t h a t j boat sides flare outward at the top.

The floor boards can be laid lengthwise I fastened to chine strips spaced at vafl intervals within the hull, however, to U*! short pieces of lumber, the boards C#M placed across the sides and fastened as &\ in the pictures.

If the boat is to be kept in water for ^ \ or more, the flooring most not be f f l tightly together since the boards will 5

Many boat builders allow a thickness I dime between each board giving them a"P room to swell shut. Calking compounds! be spread between the floor joints to p W a water tight fit if the boat is intended! dry storage after each outing. A one PI bottom can be made from plywood ( ^ J proof) and this will greatly reduce the W^I of the boat making it ideal to carry • trailer.

Next, add the kelson and keel strips *l the bottom. These are the strips that J lengthwise in the center of the boat, inside and outside along the bottom stem to transom. Complete the boa'J adding the seats, the oarlocks, an eye for the chain and two coats of paint. ,1 cost of this skiff can be kept downwaf p $35.00.

This boat will give many years of se r

and will carry the fisherman to his fav™ angling spots?

12 P E N N S Y L V A N I A A N G M

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STATE OFFICIALS AT YORK FEDERATION DINNER. Attending the Annual Dinner of the York County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs held recently were, L-R.: Ralph McGuigan, President of the York group; George Weber, York County Agent, Agricultural Dept.; C. R. Buller, Chief Fish Culturist, Pennsylvania Fish Commission, speaker; Thomas Frye, Director Pennsylvania Game Commission, also a speaker, and Representative George Goodling, toastmaster.

LEHIGH GETS STOCKING of trout by, L-R.: Rudy Schaefer and Deputy Willard J. Reuther, under supervision of District Warden Keith Harter, Lackawanna County.

NESSMUK ROD & GUN CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS. Pictured at annual dinner recently in Wells-boro are L. to R.: Robert Suhr, delegate; Louis Stevenson, delegate; Charles Yahn, president; Walter Bailey, vice president; Louis Corwin, treasurer and Kermit Moore, secretary, no members and guests attended the dinner.

Delaware Co . Field & Stream Association, Inc.

Our Twelfth Anniversary meeting at tb<

Columbus Center in Chester, Pa., was a huge

success. With approximately 800 member* in attendance the hall was comfortably packed. Thanks to Mr. George Marnhout | Bryn Mawr we were treated to some verf fine color film of Big Game Hunt ing $ Alaska as well as cleverly executed reparte' concerning the experiences of the amatei" big game hunter .

Mr. Kochenderfer, an agent of the Fedei* Bureau of Investigation, was our gue^ speaker and his remarks concerning the l** quirements and activities of the F.B.I. wef* educational as well as highly entertaini™ Other guest speakers included: H. R. Stack' house of the Fish Commission, Morris SteV' art, of the Game Commission, Dan McPeek local Game Protector, and Horace Pyle, Iocs Fish Warden. Their remarks covered a<

overall picture of state hunting and fishin-matters from the viewpoint of the game aH fish commissions. Jack Meehla, "Club NeWS Editor, complimented Bill Everman, Mr. a^ Mrs. Harold DuBois, Horace Peterson al4 Jack Martin of the Interboro News for the1' cooperation in the publication of the e»' larged edition of the "Club News." Jack als(

brought a message from our old friend, Zekc

Enter ta inment Chairman, Elwood Case)' spoke briefly of the enter tainment possibtf1' ties for 1951.

1951 Committee Chairmen President Manning announced the folio*"

ing committee chairmen for the year 195' Henry Crook, Ways & Means; John Crocke*1

Game; Nick Young, Fish; Howard Dubo*-' Membership; Harry Sauers, Youth EduC' tion; Paul Herreran, Conservation; Hora1* Peterson, Publicity; Elwood Casey, Ente r

tainment, and Jack Meehla, Club Contf troller.

New Officers for Mountain Field and Stream Club, Berlin, Pa.

President, G. L. Engle; V. Pres., V- ]

Boyer; Secretary, Grant Walker; Treasure! L. H. Kimmel. The secretary's address R. D. 1, Central City, Pa.

Ellis Darlington Named President of West Chester Fish & Same Association

Long interested in the outdoors, the ne

president for 1951 is expected to lead JjJ club on an active and prosperous year. * "Sporting News" official publication of *J club runs a box thanking land owners al"* the streams and listing their names. At " bottom of the box is, "Let's Repay Court6" With Courtesy."

The Crow Foot Rod and Gun Club, Wilke'' burg, Pa. awards brassards to metnbe

whom by their activity and attendance meetings etc., war ran t them. The plan >\ proved popular under the direction of He^ Snyder.

14 P E N N S Y L V A N I A A N G l *

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J H ' U . "IKES" PROJECT HE1-PS VALLEY FORGE VETS

Project featured by the Dr. William H. «loore Memorial Chapter, Izaak Walton ^ a g u e of America, Philadelphia, Pa. has j ^ m b e r s rounding up all surplus USABLE

srnng equipment for the servicemen at alley Forge Army Hospital. On a coast-

.5,""COast broadcast over Stoney McLinn's c^Ports Parade," the "Ikes" asked that other tL P'ers and all sportsmen's organizations so °|}gkout the country join in the project oth servicemen at Valley Forge and

er hospitals would have fishing equipment. t^

o r n e °f the wounded veterans spoke over t j . . r a ° i o and while on the air expressed Com a p p r e c i a t i ° n to the Pennsylvania Fish ' ^mission for their interest in them.

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a*e Fishing Awards Presented of p Co-Champion Jun ior Fishing Kings J \ h i n ' m i

TS y t v a n i a as determined by Better

their f J n c o r P o r a t e d of Chicago are awarded °utstar,rriamed c e r t i f i c a t e s citing them as the 1950 se b ° y s o f t h e s t a t e d u r i n S foe

f r 0 m t h S ° n ' Both these young men come w e r e r " e Capital City of Harr isburg and friary 6 p U attendants at the Jun ior Fisher-C l u b o f ^ r a d i ? e conducted by the Optimist *i th tk *y o t Harr isburg in cooperation The D . m u n i c i p a l authorities of the city. Waters ,)e

Tct h a s b e e n established on the

In , T Ital'^n Lake in North Harrisburg. rig}jt j S photo a t r ight second from Helatj0 ' A U e n B a r r « t t , Director of Public miss; n s o f the Pennsylvania Fish Com-of Gov a ° t i n g f o r t h e Commission on behalf e t t t a t i 0 ! m ° r J o h n s - F i n e > makes the pres-left a J J S t o Donald Shaffer, second from Maxw, , n r y S o w e r s ' t n ^ d from left. Mr. 0I* the P r e s i d e n t of the Optimist Club is bord i r , e X ^ r e m e l e f t a n d Mr. Kenneth Guild-0 P t i r n i V o a r g e °f the youth program of the cere r n o

ub> i s on the extreme right. The 1 Unch p

n y W a s Performed at a mid-day Th u r s ( f

n i n the Harr isburger Hotel on Present H M a r c h 2 9- I n the course of the c °ngr a t , o n Barre t t paid a warm tribute of to the ^ ! a t l 0 n s to the city of Harrisburg and e s t a b ] j J ~ p t i m i s t Club for the fine program faul ts h ° n I t a l i a n L a k e , lauding the good ° f t h e , g developed among the youth

s ta te 's capital city.

Wh Wh had soj1 ^ a n invented money, he thought he

K SQn>eonVe m o s t Problems of' economics. Then ^ e n c h 6 - C 3 m e a l o n £ and threw a monkey

mto the works by inventing credit.

VALLEY FORGE VETS ON THE AIR. Feature project of Dr. Wm. Moore Memorial Chapter, Izaak Walton League of America, Philadelphia, Pa., had Stoney McLinn noted Editor of the Sports Parade interview veterans from Valley Forge Army Hospital on Coast to Coast network recently. L-R : Sgt. Baruch Bombay, Providence, R. I.; Andrew W. Hutton, Chairman, Chapter Collection Committee; Stoney McLinn, Editor "Sports Parade"; Wm. F. B. Koelle, President, Dr. Wm. H. Moore Memorial Chapter, IWLA; Sgt. Joseph Adler, Special Service Valley Forge Army Hospital; Pvt Leonard Bendesky, Atlantic City, N. J.; Corp. Richard Dixon, Woodland, Pa.

VANDALISM AT DORMAJVT-MT. LEBANON SPORTSMEN'S CLUB, INC. Acts such as these to private properties along streams results in shrinking the amount of land still open to public fishing.

State Fishing Awards Presented.

*Uy_ 1951 15

<r*o Lyur s^rnaleretted — 9* FOR AND ABOUT MILADY ANGLER

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By ELLEN A. DIETRICH

V>. racious, Snaked -^rlivel

'Twas June . The weather was exceedingly warm.

Anglerette Ilene Dee had promised to take neighborhood youngsters on a fishing tr ip bright and early the next morning. A nearby trout stream had been treated to its mid-season stocking of healthy brownies from the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. In order to afford the fish an opportunity to "scatter around" and become acclimated in their new environment, members of a local rod and gun club had posted "No Fishing for Five Days" signs along the stretch of stocked waters and, in accordance with law, had publicized the closing of the s tream in the local newspapers.

Youngsters and oldsters alike had been counting the hours from the stocking until 5 A. M. of the day when it would be legal to try their luck on the creek with their favorite assortments of artificial and natural lures. Tomorrow was that day.

Through the open windows, Ilene could hear the youngsters, as they excitedly gathered in groups to exchange ideas on what to wear, wha t to take with them for lunch, etc.—and to caution each other not to forget to dig worms for bait.

Ilene had enlisted the aid of her husband and together they had gathered some night crawlers the preceding evening. For, from past experience, Mrs. Dee knew that, no matter how many worms the junior fisher­men gathered, they'd exhaust their supply hours before their fishing day was over. Large, heal thy night crawlers—those long, juicy ones—would go far toward meeting the emergency.

It might not be amiss to add here that over a period of years the Dee hubby-and-wife worm-gather ing team, equipped with flash lights and containers, could account for many, many worm-gather ing attempts—and plenty of worms to show for their efforts— for fishing expeditions of youngsters and oldsters, too. On this occasion, though, they had had their troubles. 'Twas late in the worm-procuring season, to begin with. U n ­usually hot weather, more fitting for August than June , had increased their difficulty. They had thoroughly watered huge expanses of lawn area and had waited hours for those fishing worms to work their way out of the ground. At last, a few dozens did come forth; whereupon, the Dees, almost as quickly as they flashed their lights on the shiny bodies, had noislessly dived in their direc­tion and, capturing them one after another, had placed them safely in containers. Mr. Dee had later transferred them to a box of wet leaves which he had placed in the base­ment.

Aided by faithful Mandy on the day of this narration, Ilene was completing her two-

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months—over due spring house cleaning. By mid afternoon she could not help acknowl­edging, with a sigh, how glad she'd be to go out among the green trees and grass and the running water of the next day's adventure with the neighborhood youngsters.

"Gracious, it's late. I must run up to the postoffice," Ilene told Mandy. "If the g ro ­ceries arrive before I return, just pu t the butter in the refrigerator."

Our anglerette did not require much time in which to dispose of her business at the postoffice and soon she was on her way back home. As she approached the house, an u n ­usual scene greeted her gaze. There on the front porch sat Mandy, her eyes wide with terror and huge beads of perspiration cover­ing her forehead.

"Why, Mandy, what 's wrong?" cried Ilene Dee.

At first poor Mandy was literally tongue-

Senior and junior anglerettes, as well as anglers, assist with stocking of Pennsylvania streams. Atop a Fish Commission truck, is Bill Ingram, Jr., of West Chester; while standing beside the truck (left to right) are: Bill's son, Will iam, 3rd, Bill's wife, Edith, and daughter, Helen, as they aid Chester County Fish Warden Horace Pyle with trout transfer.

tied; but finally she managed to tell M1* Dee that, just as she was about to leave i° the afternoon, the groceries h a d arrived afl1

she had at tempted to pu t the but ter in tb(

refrigerator, as Mrs. Dee had instructed. "Ma'am," she continued, "I knows that y°!

and yore husband is very fond of wild an1' mals and birds and all kinds of wildlife. A11' I is, too, Missus Dee. But, honest, ma'atf there jest ain't room enough in one hou? fer me and them there garter snakes!"

"Garter snakes?" puzzled Ilene. "Yes, in the ice box," moaned Mandy. "Cm

of them critters fell on the floor before could get the ice box door closed and I ruij out here so it couldn't ketch up wi th me'-

"No, Mandy, there are no snakes in $ ice box. You probably saw the worms 1 tomorrow's fishing trip."

"Worms! Why, some of them things ar

almost a foot long!" replied Mandy, appa1" ently not at all convinced that danger did n" lurk inside.

"Night crawlers do stretch out quite lo1* when they are cool and moist," soothed Wf

Dee. "Mr. Dee left them in the baseme" last night, bu t when I peeped at them tods:

they were very warm down there and I ** afraid they'd not remain alive 'til tomorrow' I transferred them to a clean bowl, cover? them with waxed paper and punched s» ? ;

air holes in the waxed paper. I did, though place a rubber band tightly around *}* waxed paper before I pu t the bowl in the i box. Did you take the waxed paper off m bowl, Mandy?"

"I should say I did not! I jest opened 1 ice box door and there they was, draped a' over everything!"

Now it was Mrs. Dee's t u rn to expre' consternation. She quickly entered 1 house, went to the refrigerator and opei^ the door. Surely enough, the several doZcj night crawlers had made their way throng the sheet of waxed paper with which she hi so carefully covered the bowl and there tl>c

were—just as Mandy had described then1' "draped all over everything" in the ice b0 '

Mrs. Dee said "Ugh!" with a shrug. " ^ tasty cold supper! The stores are closed n", and Mr. Dee will be home at any moment-

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of experience gathering them, I suppos8

should have remembered that they do t l j (

nel their way out of the ground; and I shot* have realized, therefore, tha t they'd har^ find a mere piece of waxed paper a diflSc

obstacle to break through."

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P E N N S Y L V A N I A A N G l f l •\t.1

PREDICT RETURN OF RECREATIONAL A*EAS ON YOUGHIOGHENY

Progressive improvement over the past ^ years in the character of the water in

Youghiogheny River in the Southwestern e°tion of the State brings suggestions from

a ° m e quarters of the possibility that areas o n g that r iver may again be established

resort and recreational centers for which e v held a high reputat ion quite a few

sg6ars. a S°- The decided improvement is g e n m the record of analyses made for the

unitary Water Board which is directing the m

e * n Streams Program. The tests which are D

a d e by the Bureau of Engineering, State ^ P a r t m e n t of Health, which executes the Tj ea_n Streams program, and data of the fr0

A ™ y Engineers office in Pit tsburgh m which calculations are made to show the a c i d discharged to the r iver on a ton­

nage , .~-~""s>=« « ""= l i v c i " " •* ~ " find S p e r y e a r c o m e U P w i t h i d e n t i c a l a v

l n g s - This discharge figured on an froir,afe d a u y basis annually has dropped I n

m 8 7 0 tons for 1937 to 185 tons last year. aciaUt°re S i m p l e f o r m t h e tests s h o w t h a t t h e

gal] ^ decreased from an average of 73 W a t ° n s °f acid to one million gallons of aver f ° r t h e P e r i o d f r o m 1930-39 to an gall 8 g e °* ^7 gallons of acid to one million

°ns of water during the 1940-49 period.

the M ^ o u Sh iogheny River, a t r ibutary of Vjj. . . o n°ngahela River, originates in West e W ^ r * n e a r ^ e Maryland border at an

north ° f a b o u t 2 '900 f e e t B flows m a

P 6 t oe r l v direction through Maryland into

»>an R- t o t h e Junction with the Cassel-a n 0 fu1Ver a t Confluence and then follows h e l a

r i . e s t e r l y course to join the 'Mononga-a b 0 u t i V e r a t McKeesport at an elevation of of l 2 l 7 1 5 feet . The r iver has a total length in p "uies, 83 miles of that distance being is i ^ s y l v a n i a . The total drainage area Rule's S q u a r e m i l e s o f w h i c h 1,265 square '•'ons 3f6 ' n Pennsylvania embracing por-and AI? F a v e t t e , Somerset, Westmoreland

At legheny counties.

s e r v en g i t s c °u r se in this State the r iver

difierS a s a public water supply at nine

its c f ^ Points between Connellsville and Th6 nfluence with the Monongahela River. Muni ^ r m c i P a l supply furnished is te the Vast ? P a l W a t e r w o r k s o f McKeesport. The Water i f r ° V e m e n t ta t h e character of the the y • c a u s e d McKeesport to t u rn to hela SU ghiogheny River from the Mononga-Wat6r

V e r f o r the greater quanti ty of its

c°nditi a l confirmation of the improved stUdie ° n o f ^ e r i v e r came from biological Which

S m a d e by the State Fish Commission the p r e s u l t e d in the decision in 1948 by C0 n i lp

O m i n ission to stock the river from SUnfish U e t o L a y t o n w i t h catfish and a M a ^ e initial stocking was successful eaeh. s t o c k i n g program has been followed be e n a j a r s i n c e that time, suckers having contjn

d e d t o the list. If the r iver shows sho\v j 6 d improvement, which recent tests A. F r e 0 ^ 6 t h e c a s e > Executive Director C. is j)0s^™* o f the Fish Commission states it tried™Jble that stocking with bass will be

ith this year 's distribution. r iv e r . V a s t improvement in the water of the Safe « , r m g s to the communities a supply of

I &e a t . a t e r . the r e tu rn of fishing, and of f o r " J ? m P o r t a n c e , the opening of an area a d 6 qu a t s t r y w h i c h c a n b e a s s u r e d o f m

ON THE

POLLUTION

FRONT

M * ^ . supply of clean water .

Several factors are pointed to as con­tributing to the come-back being staged by the river which was one of the key points in the exploration of the Western par t of the State and which served Braddock well on his famous expedition. Up to the present century Ohiopyle, along the river, was a famous resort and recreational center. The beauty of the falls was a great attraction. Several large hotels did a thriving business. Excursion trains were r u n there from Pi t t s ­burgh taking on people along the route.

As mining developed along the Casselman River, Buffalo Creek, Elk Creek and a n u m ­ber of other tributaries near Myersdale, the streams and the river became heavily pol­luted with acid mine water. This brought the downfall of the resort and recreational

DYNAMITE BLAST CAUSES WATER SHORTAGE AT GREENSBURG

The outbreak of "mountain law" in Salt Lick Township, Fayette Co., as a result of the court injunctions issued some time ago r e ­straining the operation of coal mines in that area because they would cause pollution of streams used for public water supplies, brought from the Department of Justice the warning that the law will be enforced to the limit. State police have been assigned to the region with orders to arrest any person who is operating a mine without a permit from the Sanitary Water Board. Two arrests have been made on that charge—Domer Layman, son of Emory Layman, owner of a mine under injunction, and allegedly in operation, and Donald E. Geary. Both were held in $500 bail for a hearing under the criminal section of the Clean Streams law.

Melvin Leighty and his wife, Lola, of Indian Head, have also been arrested charged with throwing a stick of dynamite at a th ree-man police patrol. The dynamite ex ­ploded about 75 feet from the policemen. It is said that a woman fired three rifle shots into the air to persuade patrolling policemen to leave her property. A dynamite blast tore out a section of the 36-inch pipe lead­ing from the Mountain Water Company reservoir causing water shortages in the Greensburg area.

Injunctions closing mines in the Indian Creek Valley were issued several months ago by Judge W. Russell Carr of Fayet te Co. upon action brought by the Sanitary Water Board under the Clean Streams program.

1951

SUSQUEHANNA WATERSHED COM­MUNITIES ORDERED TO GET SEWAGE PLANTS UNDERWAY

Orders to construct sewage treatment works by a specified date have been issued by the Sanitary Water Board under the Clean Streams program to the remaining seven communities on the Susquehanna River watershed which had not been given such orders at the time of the original action last June by the Board. At that time the Board issued orders for construction of sewage treatment works by all the com­munities on that watershed including those along the Juniata River in the cases where treatment works do not now exist, excepting the seven smaller communities to which orders have now been issued.

Orders to the original list of communities require construction by J u n e 1, 1952. The orders to the last list of seven communities places the date at J anuary 1, 1953.

The latest communities to receive the orders are Port Royal, Junia ta Co.; Saxton, Bedford Co.; Mapleton, Alexandria, Orbi-sonia, Huntingdon Co., and Millerstown and Newport, Per ry Co.

MORE PERMITS ISSUED FOR SEWAGE INSTALLATIONS

Permits approving plans of sewerage in ­stallations and authorizing construction have been issued to additional municipalities and a State institution by the Sanitary Water Board of the State Department of Health in the furtherance of the Clean Streams program.

The latest permits issued are to Cata-sauqua, Lehigh Co., sewage treatment works; Dixmont State Hospital, Kilbuck Township, Allegheny Co., sewer modifications and addi ­tions and sewage treatment works; Roaring Spring, Blair Co., extensions to sewer system; Monaca, Beaver Co., extensions to sewers; Harmony Township, Beaver Co., ex­tensions to sewer system; Susquehanna Township Authority, Susquehanna Township, Dauphin Co., extensions to sewer system and lift station; Sharpsville, Mercer Co., ex ten­sions to sewer system; Benzinger Township Authority, Benzinger Township, Elk Co., sewers to connect with the sewer system at St. Marys to serve the Lynchville area; Con­way, Beaver Co., extensions to sewers; Mill-creek Township, Erie Co., extensions to sewer system which connects with Erie t r ea t ­ment works.

WYOMISSING AND LITITZ AWARD CONTRACTS FOR SEWAGE PLANTS

The Sanitary Water Board has been a d ­vised that the Wyomissing Valley Authority has awarded a contract for $1,194,394 for the construction of a sewage treatment plant of complete t reatment to serve Wyomissing and West Reading. The new plant will also receive the wastes for t reatment from a number of the industrial establishments in those municipalities.

The Lititz Authori ty also recently awarded a contract for $1,499,194 for the construction of sewers and a sewage treatment plant of complete t reatment for the borough of Lititz, Lancaster Co.

These communities represent additions to an increasing list of municipalities which have awarded contracts and which are con­structing sewage treatment works under Pennsylvania's Clean Streams program.

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Fishin' Under Difficulties

(From page 7)

and Jack replied that he had just about as many trout as he desired.

"The only way to meet this opening day situation," commented Jack, "is to find yourself a likely-looking pool and monopolize it. This is the only place I've fished thus far and you can see I've done all right," and he grinned that crooked grin of his as he lifted the lid of his creel and gave me a glimpse of the half dozen handsome trout on a bed of green moss.

"A half dozen or more of these eager beavers have been along here this morning but I haven't been too friendly so they moved right along and let me have this place pretty much to my­self." He gave this explanation after I told him about the rude young chap who had pushed himself to my side upstream after seeing me catch fish.

In reaching for an apple in his jacket pocket Jack's fingers became entwined in his key ring and the keys fell at the water's edge. That reminded me of an experience I had had the summer before along this same stream when I had been fishing alone in the evening, after dropping Doc off a mile down stream so he could fish up the stream to the place where I told him I'd park the car.

"I'll put the car keys under that old stump back of the car," I explained, "so if you quit fishing before I put in an appearance you can get into the automobile."

As it happened, I knocked off fishing before Doc did and went to the car for a couple swallows of cool chocolate milk which I had brought in a thermos bottle.

To my consternation I couldn't lo­cate the car keys when I thrust my hand in the hole at the base of the rotten stump. They weren't where I had placed them, and after searching in vain for them for about five minutes I had visions of Doc and I stranded for the night. Indeed I didn't know just how long we might be hung up, for that isolated stream head is fully 12 miles from the nearest human habi­tation.

Just before Doc put in an appear­ance I came upon the keys a good arms' length below that rotten stump. Apparently a ground squirrel or some other animal had been working among the roots of the stump while we fished and had dislodged my keys so they fell a couple of feet below the place where I had placed them.

Then I remembered that two young

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Know Your Friend... The Warden

ANTHONY J. LECH Schuylkill County

This coming August, Anthony Lech will be observing 20 years of service with the Pennsylvania Fish Commis­sion as a Warden. Anthony lives in Schuylkill Haven, is married and has two daughters. He aids conservation in an area where there's plenty of action and much work to be done in the Clean Streams program. The wardens of the Commission are always on the lookout for pollution on streams of the Commonwealth.

ROSS C. BAILEY Warren County

Born in 1889 in York county, Nc

braska, this gentleman of the Fi^ Commission Force can no longer qual1

fy as a "Corn-husker" because &' moved to Penna. in 1903. Ross ke

came a warden on March 15, 1932, | married, has 3 sons, 1 daughter sfi 7 grandchildren, resides in Young; ville. Popular with the sportsmen ' his district, Ross is an aid to the can5" of conservation in his area.

couples who had come to a hunters' lodge in this self-same area two win­ters before for a week-end and had been stranded there for a week when a heavy snow fell had been the objects of an intensive search by friends who became alarmed upon their failure to return home when expected.

I explained to Jack that my experi­ence with the car keys and the hollow stump had taught me a lesson and that now immediately after purchasing a new automobile I wire an extra igni­tion key to the frame of the car under the trunk so if I lose the key I ordi­narily carry I'll have a spare one to fall back on.

— RESPECTFULLY —

With this issue THE PENNSYLVANIA

ANGLER pays a signal salute to the memory of Esther Weber, long identi­fied with the circulation of the ANGLER;

and who quietly passed away May 30, 1950.

Trout Technicalities

(From page 11)

a fallen champion. We said very lit! to each other on the way home, % I have observed that he goes out fi^ ing with other fellows now. Perhaf he was the teacher on that trip. know anyway, that I learned a lotI valuable things.

On arrival at home friend wife t° me that I had missed some out of sta* visitors, which was very disappointi"-Also someone had called about instf ance but could not wait for me '. he was just then buying a new ^\ So I lost that one. Also I was a 1| | good for nothing for going out to pll instead of working in the garden 9 on the house. I dejectedly put M tackle away and sat down to read ^ trout news in the paper. Maybe ^ bass season will be better this ye*r I consoled myself with that htm thought.

PENNSYLVANIA A N G l ^

A Piscatorial Revival

(From page 5)

near ly a score of years and n e v e r s°t wise to the fact t he r e w e r e t rou t j , "• I am almost a shamed to confess ti li t w o °^ those yea r s w e p r ac -

t, a ' l y m a d e a biological su rvey of

g i . s t ream and its environs. I t was t h ? t 0 hav ing a s t ranger point ou t y a r ! l t n e r e was gold in y o u r o w n back­er.' ^ °^ digression shows the B i l f m a t i c n a t u r e 0* t n e w a t e r to which aft a n <* ^ u r r a n d I w e r e r e tu rn ing

^F an absence of ten yea rs . W e pa rked the car a t t he usua l

c k s jus t east of the mil l ru ins . Then, IOPV u n d e r a c lump of ancient hem-asfu ' i u s t e a s t o f t h e m i U r u i n s - T h e n ' o^ though the re had not been a lapse the** a d e w e t ra i led familiarly over , ancient br idge to m a k e our way *°2f the east bank, tirn l 6 r c r a w u n g u n d e r a n apparen t ly o u r

s s ba rbed w i r e fence w e made b U s , W a y t h rough a c lump of th in ^ n e s to the first pond of the series. g r h°arse , deep th roa ted bellow

sted o u r approach. i n ^ y golly, t he bul l !" cr ied B u r r

J ^ a z e m e n t . E r f . guffawed. "More 'n l ikely his S g t grandson." %Q°rJ^y> the beas t showed u p of | U ^ n the bushes on the o ther side

<!•£ pond and sul lenly eyed us. of jy golly, he ' s t h e spi t t in ' image oh* grea t g r anddaddy , " uneasi ly

T * v e d B u r r .

unc ' f o r g e t h i m ' " s a i d B i l 1 ^ h e

ou t f °5 l C e rnedly began assembling his

o u r \ .e t ime w e w e r e r e a d y to w e t d e r i Raited hooks t h e an imal gave a r i n

S l V e snor t and pushed th rough the to \ . ° c u r i o u s cows tha t h a d formed oeeiVa t C n w h a t to t h e m m u s t have

«£ queer antics. B u ^ ° y . a m I glad he ' s gone," b r ea thed

into +tS h e

s w u n g his n igh tc rawler out « the middle of the pool.

visit y D e he ' s coming a round to h e , us . " t a u n t e d Bill. "However , " c r a ^ e n t on> " I notice tha t h e didn ' t «3> your s tyle a n y qvjjj, *?at do you meai

(1jed B u r r of h is heck le r *at do you m e a n ? " calmly en-

first ? e a n t h a t as u sua l you w e r e the g to get y o u r bai t into the wa te r . "

^ a t ^ 1 " ^ a d n o comment . Ins tead h e the ° y d h i s b a i t a s ** disappeared into fiv

s ugh t ly clouded wa te r . Less t h a n

reei u o f l i n e n a d s l i PPed o f f h i s

attit ^ e n h e cocked h is head in a n d o g v e s ingular ly reminiscent of the I ^ "sterl ing to his mas ter ' s voice.

a t ched h im in tent ly since pas t ex-

per ience showed the ges ture to be an unfailing sign of action. My own bai t sank unobse rved into the uncer ta in depths of the little pond.

E v e n as tha t electrifying impulse indicat ive of a bi t ing fish was re layed to m y arm, B u r r yelped, "I 've got one!" With that he unceremonious ly y a n k e d out w h a t looked like a rock bass as it s t reaked th rough the air to land wi th a plop on the short pas tu re grass. Bill and I crashed th rough in a dead heat . The th ree p lump , square -rigged goggle eyes w e r e about the size of the ex tended hand.

"Not bad , not bad at all ," chort led Bill as he creeled the fine specimens.

We switched to artificials and they took every th ing w e t h r e w at them. Big, fluffy bucktai ls , s leek marabous , and small feather minnies w e r e t aken in str ide. Indeed, they would even p u r s u e the leader knots as they s t reaked th rough the water .

After catching nine fish we moved on to t h e nex t pond some forty feet away only to r epea t the performance. On this sally we used ridiculously small t rou t flies, both wet and d r y pa t te rns , and the fish caught w e r e all r e t u r n e d to the water .

Shor t ly after dusk we switched back to w o r m s and began catching bul l ­heads , nice succul lent fellows tha t would fry to perfection. W h e n we caught all t ha t we could handi ly use ( three apiece) we moved on to the largest pond.

Upon emerging from a screen of bushes w e w e r e greeted by an all-bovine welcoming committee viz a dozen or more cows and the lone bull. As befits their inquisi t ive na tu re s they simply h a d to investigate.

Fo r the most par t , the cows w e r e no problem, all of them gradual ly drifting off to go about the business of being cows. The bull , however , be­came problematical . "He 's gett ing jus t too doggone smar t , " observed Bill as the beast stood n ea rby t ruculent ly pawing the ear th .

A t last Bill lost h is pat ience and w e n t after h im wi th a sizeable club. A couple of resounding whacks caused the young animal to go galloping off wi th uncer ta in shakes of h is head.

" I wish tha t bul l was a year or two older," snickered B u r r from the vant ­age point of a h igh and very s teep bank .

"Yeah, we 'd all be u p the re wi th you," growled Bill.

The re was no fur ther fishing. B y the t ime the deafening chorus of the frogs and the toads had reached its crescendo, w e ga thered u p ou r stuff and climbed the s teep b a n k at our back for a short cut to the car. As w e crossed the br idge we were a r res ted by a hoarse , th roa ty roar , plainly audible even above the amphi­

bian choir. Distance lent it a s t range appeal .

"H e misses us ," said B u r r wi th feigned wistfulness.

Bill groaned tolerant ly. It had t ru ly been an evening of

nostalgic surprises .

The Boss of Red Bank

(From page 3)

securely imbedded in the thick cart i -lege. Then I noticed the chub swinging pa r t way u p the leader . Mak reached down and gently twisted the fly loose, keeping the ne t par t ia l ly submerged. He moved u p to the rock by the sand spr ing brook and then tilted the ne t so the Boss slipped over the r im.

Wate r still dr ipped from Mak ' s ha t bu t his face glowed with conten tment as h e said, "Gi t back in the r an ' be careful the nex t chub you t ake ain ' t got no str ings a t tached."

TEAMWORK REALLY WINS As the 1951 baseball season progresses, we

note a great similarity between its progress and progress relating to matters of import­ance to the hunters and fishermen. Each baseball team is composed of individuals; and each individual is inherently different from other individuals on his team; he has different thoughts, different habits, different likes and dislikes and is every bit an indi­vidual in many other ways in his everyday life. It has been proved to us over years of baseball history, however, that the team that comes out on top is the team whose indi­vidual members work best together as a team when they play baseball. So it is with our sportsmen. Conservation of fish and game toward improved hunting and fishing— like all other conservation problems of life— is a huge task, with many controversial is­sues, many individual problems and just as many individual opinions as to solutions for those problems. But if the individual sports­men all work together, they, too, can have a winning team. And they, too, can thus ac­complish the best for the most!

Ellen A. Dietrich, Secretary —In Montgomery News

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WHATS NEW

IN

FISHING

BOOKS

FISHING FLIES AND FLY TYING

By William F. Blades

Stackpole & Heck, Inc., Harrisburg, Pa. $7.50

234 Pages, Approx. 775 photos of /lies

Books on flies and fly tying previously published will be compelled to move over, make room for a newcomer in the fishing library. The author, Bill Blades is not a closet tyer. He's an ardent fisherman, spends much time on the streams as well as part ici­pating in amateur bait and fly-casting events.

The book covers fly tying from every con­ceivable angle even down to the making of hair bugs for bass, a special department of fishing becoming more and more popular in American waters . Experts say the author 's artificial flies copied from the May Flies, Stone Flies, Damsel Flies, Crane Flies, etc., and the varied nymphs are far superior to the general run of artificials. Many of these flies have been photographed with the na tura l insect, a feature that will interest the con­firmed fly fisherman.

Even the beginner will profit from this work because the author gives the informa­tion necessary about tools, materials and equipment plus methods of tying all calcu­lated to save wasted hours trying to figure the procedures out alone. Details in the book are extremely painstakingly presented, methods are in a s tep-by-s tep project, easily understood by the beginner as well as the advanced tier.

There is so much crammed into the 234 pages of this work that the reader must r e ­turn to it again and again for reference. The entire gamut of flies and fly tying is ad ­vanced: ice fishing flies, wet flies, s treamer flies, steelhead flies, dry flies, cork-bodied and hair-bodied bass bugs, salmon flies, plus a host of specialized palmers, sedges, poppers nymphs and mice.

One of the outstanding features of this volume is the number of pat tern descrip­tions included. It is difficult for one to see just where the author has missed even a few, unless they be ancient or buried. And, Mr. Blades has been aptly described as an artist extremely skilled at literally painting with feathers. His book is warmly recom­mended for the sportsman's collection of top reference works in the field.

Don't miss the coming Summer is­sues of THE ANGLER . . . surprises, new and interesting articles. RENEW THAT SUBSCRIPTION TdDAY!

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Typical Plate of Dry Flies from the book, Fishing Flies and Fly Tying by William Blades. In sequence of numbers the flies in this plate are: 1—Flying Caddis Fly. 2—Ginger Bi-visible. 3— Ginger Quill. 4—Ginger Quill Spent-Wing. 5—Gordon. 6—Governor. 7—Green Drake. 8—Green Drake. 9—Grey Fox. 10—Greig's Quill. 11—Greenwell's Glory. 12—Grizzly Wulff. 13—Hackle Sedge. 14—Hackle Wing Mayfly. 15—Half Stone. 16—Hendrickson (Dark). 17—Hendrickson (Light). 18—Honey Dun. 19—Houghton Ruby. 20—Jenny Spinner. 21—July Dun Spinner. 22— Jungle Variant. 23—Killer Diller. 24—Kimbridge.

No. GREEN DRAKE (F. M. Halford) 1886

Tall: Brown Mallard, four strands Body: Raffia; ribbing, crimson tying

Ribbing, hackle ginger. Wings: Wood Duck trimmed to shape. Shoulder hackle: Grey hen dyed pale olive.

Typical Pattern Descriptions

No. 11. Greenwell's Glory Furnace hackle fibres.

silk.

Tall: Body: Yellow waxed tying silk; ribbing, gold

wire. Wings: Upright, made of blue dun hackle. Hackle: Furnace.

20 PENNSYLVANIA ANGLER

BAD STREAM

BEHAVIOR ROBS

EVERYBODY

OF GOOD

FISHING WATERS

'When F e w Abuse , Al l Lose" is "*Ote t han a catchy phrase . I t is a Earn ing to tha t small g roup of care­t s fishermen you occasionally mee t

a«Mig t h e b a n k s of ou r beaut i ful P e n n ­sylvania fishing s t reams.

It is this small g roup of i l l -mannered, ^ a p p r e c i a t i v e anglers who abuse the generosity of ou r s t ream side land­owners by leaving a "mess of r u b b i s h "

i o ng the pr iva te ly owned b a n k s of ° u r fishing waters .

fo acqua in t o u r Pennsy lvan ia rod-nd-reelers of this unnecessa ry and ft°ughtless conduct , your Fish Gom-

^ s s i o n has had 25,000 posters m a d e P for s ta te-wide dis t r ibut ion. The

Wacards, 14"x22" in size, w e r e pa in ted ^ the h a n d process of si lk-screen ^Production by m e m b e r s of the A r t

^ s s at School, L nale juveni le del inquents .

tL " e colorful cards a re pa in ted in h r e e tones. This m e a n s tha t the boys

p r e r e q u i r e d to m a k e 75,000 h a n d repressions to complete the project . i fte posters, which you no doubt will , e seeing on one of your fishing tr ips, ePict an angered land-owner nail ing

*t 'NO T R E S P A S S I N G " s i g n to a L e e nea r a fishing s t ream. On the b a n k

6 n e a t h the t ree is a pile of rubbish ,

the Whi te Hill Indust r ia l i correct ional inst i tut ion for

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. . .« ».„ student (back to camera) 'he « y Presents Mr. Sweely, his instructor, with

"fst 25,000 placards.

(bags, bee r bott les, etc.) carelessly left t he re by a g roup of thought less fishermen who d is regarded the cour­tesy due the land-owner .

" W h e n F e w Abuse , Al l Lose ," is car r ied in large le t ters across t h e top of the posters . A t the bot tom is l e t te red the warn ing , "Bad S t r eam Behavior Robs Everybody Of G o o d Fishing Wate r s . "

The boys at Whi te Hill, their super­in tendent Mr . A r t h u r T. P ra s se and their ins t ruc tor Mr . H a r r y P . Sweely a re to b e congra tu la ted for the i r fine cooperat ion in aiding us to br ing an end to the carelessness of some of our fishermen.

If you a re a good sport w h e n you fish—be a good sport wi th the s t ream side land-owner .

A TRIBUTE The P E N N S Y L V A N I A ANGLER

pauses for a sa lu te of t r ibu te to the late E d w a r d W. Nicholson of Phi ladelphia . Long identified in fishing circles, Mr. Nicholson was one of the founders and for m a n y years , P res iden t of the Pennsy l ­vania F ish and G a m e Pro tec t ive Association of t h e city of Phi la­delphia. He also se rved for m a n y yea r s as a m e m b e r on the P e n n ­sylvania Board of F ish Commis­sioners and his passing removes a ve ry influential figure from the r a n k s of fishermen in Pennsy l ­vania.

Fisherman's Paradise Regulations RULES AND REGULATIONS—SPRING CREEK PROJECT—SEASON 1951

1. OPEN SEASON—May 18th to July 21st, both dates inclusive. 2. OPEN—from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. (Eastern Standard Time) or until

Klaxon is sounded.

3 ALL ANGLERS MUST PERSONALLY REGISTER BEFORE FISHING AND PERSONALLY CHECK OUT AND RETURN IDENTIFICATION BUTTON BEFORE LEAVING PROJECT. NO SUNDAY FISHING.

4. FISH IN THE POSESSION OF ANGLER MUST BE DISPLAYED AND CHECKED AT REGISTRATION BOOTH WHEN CHECKING INTO PROJECT. FISH NOT SO REGISTERED WILL BE CONSIDERED AS HAVING BEEN CAUGHT ON THE PROJECT.

5 ANGLERS MUST PARK AUTOMOBILES BEFORE CHECKING IN AND MUST CHECK OUT BEFORE REMOVING AUTOMOBILES FROM PARKING LOT.

The Angler must stop 6. DAILY LIMIT—Only ONE FISH may be killed, fishing after ONE FISH HAS BEEN KILLED.

10.

11.

12. 13.

14. 15.

16.

Only artificial lures of hair or feather construction with barbless hooks or regular hooks with the barbs removed may be used. No spinners or swivels permitted. Fishing with, or possession of, any live bait, angle worms, meat, liver, or any other bait, is a violation of the rules and regulations. SIZE LIMIT—All fish caught from large stream under 10 inches in length and on ladies stream under 7 inches in length must be carefully returned to the water. All anglers holding a Pennsylvania Fishing License will be permitted to fish five days during the season. The dressing or cleaning of fish on the property is prohibited as all fish must be weighed when checking out. POSITIVELY NO WADING—in the stream for any purpose permitted. Sinkers or lures not exceeding the weight of 2BB Shot are permitted. No casting or spinning outfits permitted. Feeding fish PROHIBITED except on Sunday. Assisting in hooking or landing fish prohibited. All foul hooked fish must be carefully returned to the stream. Violation of the rules and regulations will be subject to a fine of Twenty DoL'ars ($20.00), revocation of your fishing privilege on the project for the balance of the season, and revocation of your fishing license.

If you like this project you can help the sportsmen of the state by obeying these rules and reporting any infraction to the officers.

Section 251 of the Act of May 2, 1925, as amended, provides the Pennsylvania Fish Commission with authority to promulgate such rules and regulations for the angling, catching or removal of fish in or from any waters of this Com­monwealth as may be deemed necessary. Penalty for violation—Twenty Dollars ($20.00) and in addition thereto may be fined Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each fish caught, taken or had in possession, contrary to these rules and regulations.

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Pennsylvania Fish Law Violations Cases Settled During the Month of December, 1950

ARMSTRONG COUNTY Rice, Edward J., 631 Chess St., P i t t s ­

burgh, Pa. Fishing without a license $25.00 Shallenberger, John, Jr., 128 Linden

Ave., Pit tsburgh, Pa. Exceeding creel limit 10.00

BEAVER COUNTY Rebach, Sam, 267 Barker St., Al iquip-

pa, Pa. Loaning a license 25.00

BEDFORD COUNTY Lite, Bert, Tire Hill, Pa. Illegal device 20.00

BERKS COUNTY

Moore, Mac C , Jr., Willow Pool Farm, Wernersville, Pa. Disturbing dam without permission 10.00

BRADFORD COUNTY Andrews, Robert, 87 Grant St., Shick-

shinny, Pa. Exceeding creel limit . . 10.00 Miller, Deroy V., R. D. No. 1, Wells-

burg, N. Y. Exceeding creel limit . . 10.00

BUCKS COUNTY McMenamin, John, Jr., Princeton Ave.,

Philadelphia, Pa. Fishing without a license 25.00

CHESTER COUNTY Washington, Robert S., 3822 Wallace

St., Philadelphia, Pa. Fishing wi th ­out a license 25.00

Williams, Liles H., 3811 Haverford Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Fishing wi th ­out a license 25.00

Peaco, Jerome, 3737 Haverford Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Fishing without a license 25.00

FOREST COUNTY

Mack, James E., 1329 Hopkins St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Fai lure to display motorboat license 5.00

FRANKLIN COUNTY George, Edgar M., St. Thomas, Pa. I l­

legal device 20.00

LANCASTER COUNTY

Bigler, Ar thur M., Mountville, Pa. I l ­legal device 20.00

Carson, Edwin, R. D., Bainbridge, Pa . One undersized salmon 10.00

Diehm, Lloyd, 406 S. Lime St., Lan­caster, Pa. Illegal device 20.00

Kondracki, George, 426 Pine St., Read­ing, Pa. Illegal device 20.00

Wade, Thomas, R. D. No. 4, Lancaster, Pa. Illegal operation of motorboat . . 10.00

Wolfe, Gerald, 441 Tulpehocken St., Reading, Pa. Exceeding creel limit 20.00

LUZERNE COUNTY

Glomb, Robert, 62 Brookside, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Giving false information to secure a fishing license 25.00

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY Bennage, Harry E., 465 Brown Ave.,

Milton, Pa. One undersized bass . . . 10.00

PERRY COUNTY

Nace, Roy E., Millefstown, Pa. F ish­ing without a license . . , , , . , , . , , , , , 25.00

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PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Taylor, William E., 3833 Wallace St.,

Philadelphia, Pa. Loaning license . . 25.00

PIKE COUNTY Foster, Paul A., 3551 N. 9th St., Phi la ­

delphia, Pa. Fishing in nursery waters 100.00

Melchior, Pe ter C , 910 Mahanoy St., Mahanoy City, Pa. Exceeding creel limit 100.00

Romich, Clark, Propton, Pa. Illegal device 20.00

Wheat, George S., 525 Pine St., Ma­hanoy City, Pa. Operating motorboat without displaying license plates . . 10.00

SOMERSET COUNTY Sauritch, John, 875 Prospect Ave.,

Charleroi, Pa . Illegal device 20.00

SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY Wells, Harold, 462 Main St., Jottson

City, N. Y. One undersized bass . . . 10.00

VENANGO COUNTY

Henry, Ormand L., 211 Terrace Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. Illegal operation of motorboat 10.00

WYOMING COUNTY

Dickinson, Z. N., R. D. 5, Tunkhan-nock, Pa. Fai lure to keep record of fish bait sold 20.00

Cases Settled During the Months

of January, February, 1951

BERKS COUNTY

Gamber, John A., 3615 Chestnut St., Laureldale, Reading, Pa. Exceed­ing creel limit $10.00

Loiselle, Joseph E., 918 Giigers Court, Reading, Pa. Illegal device 20.00

Philleps, Har ry A., 204 Barnhar t Ave., Hyde Park, Reading, Pa. Exceeding creel limit 10.00

Reddy, Raymond A., 709 Lehigh St., Reading, Pa. Fishing without a l i ­cense 25.00

BLAIR COUNTY

Kauffman, Ira W., R. F . D. No. 2, Martinsburg, Pa. Fishing in n u r ­sery waters 100.00

BUTLER COUNTY

Thompson, K. D., Boyers, Pa. Ex­ceeding creel limit 10.00

CAMBRIA COUNTY

Haines, Wesley, Houtzdale, Pa. E x ­ceeding creel limit 20.00

Zimmerman, George, Fallen Timber, Pa . Fishing without a license . . . . 25.00

CLEARFIELD COUNTY

Genelius, F rank C , Smoke Run, Pa. Illegal device 20.00

Haney, Maurice, R. D. No. 3, Clear­field, Pa. Violation of the rules and regulations 20.00

Sauper, Joseph M., Smoke Run, Pa . Illegal device 20.00

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DAUPHIN COUNTY

Witter, Lawrence, R. D. No. 1, Mid-dletown, Pa. Exceeding creel limit 50.00

FAYETTE COUNTY

Smith, William H., R. D. No. 1, Mc-Clellandtown, Pa. Altering a fish­ing license 25.00

Smith, William H., R. D. No. 1, Mc-Clellandtown, Pa . Fishing without a license 25.00

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Mellott, James, Jr., For t Loudon, Pa. Fishing without a license 25.00

Richards, George L., R. D. No. 3, Mercersburg, Pa. Fishing on Sun ­day without permission of land­owner 25.0"

Sord, John W., 455 E. King St., Chambersburg, Pa. Fishing wi th ­out a license 25.00

FULTON COUNTY

Edwards, Melvin E., Big Cove Tan­nery, Pa. Fishing without a license 25.0"

JEFFERSON COUNTY Blose, Charles, R. D. No. 1, Punxsu -

tawney, Pa. Fishing without a l i ­cense 25.0"

JUNIATA COUNTY

Boone, Warren, E. Waterford, Pa. Fishing without a license 25.0"

LACKAWANNA COUNTY

Kotcho, Joh, 302 3rd Ave., Jessup, Pa. w One pike in closed season 10.0" ^

Marcho, Wassel, 132 Hudson St., J e s ­sup, Pa. One pike in closed season 10.0" j ty

LANCASTER COUNTY ^

Clouser, Ray E., R. D. No. 2, Eliza-bethtown, Pa. Exceeding creel limit 50.0° «l

LEHIGH COUNTY t a

Lewis, William, 451 Lehigh St., Al -lentown, Pa. Exceeding creel limit 20.0"

LUZERNE COUNTY *: Cwiklik, Frank, 74 Ridge St., Glen I SH

Lyon, Pa. Illegal device 20.0" j ri-, Jambowski, Julius, R. D. No. 1, Wy- CQ

oming, Pa. Illegal device \ 20.0° ^ Kodra, John, 761 Charles St., L u - • p

zerne, Pa. Exceeding creel limit . . 10-0" , Mussel, Robert, 894 Bennet t St., L u -

zerne, Pa . Exceeding creel limit . . 10-0" "1 Roberto, Alex, 201 Battle Ave., Exe- ' ca

ter, Pa. Exceeding creel limit 10-0" Rokosaz, Edward, 82 Prospect Hill, St]

Alden, Pa. Illegal device 20.0" i ^

McKEAN COUNTY C r

Shillenger, Lawrence A., 184 E. Main St., Bradford, Pa. One undersized » B , trout 10°°' R<

MIFFLIN COUNTY

Yoder, James E., Star Route, Aliens-ville, Pa. Fishing without a license 25"

MONROE COUNTY Detrick, Donald W., R. D. No. 3,

Stroudsburg, Pa. Illegal device . . . 20."

PHILADELPHIA COUNTY Barnes, Lee, 640 N. 37th St., Phi la­

delphia, Pa. Loaning a fishing l i -cense 25'

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PIKE COUNTY

Paliwoda, John, Bushkill, Pa. Lines n o t under control 60.00

TIOGA COUNTY F ink, Harold B., Jr., 22 W. Avenue,

Wellsboro, Pa. Violation of the rules and regulations 20.00

WESTMORELAND COUNTY piloskv, Joseph, Diamond St., Mt.

Pleasant, Pa. Violation of the rules and regulations 20.00

^e lenka, Robert J., 4 Vine St., Mt. Pleasant, Pa. Violation of the rules and regulations 20.00

WYOMING COUNTY

Sickler, Phillop, Outerhout, Pa. II-l egal device 20.00

°UT OF STATE

ftesh, Playford, R. D. No. 4, Grants -ville, Md. Fishing without a license 25.00

L°uglin, Joseph P., 430 Marvin Ave., Hackensack, N. J. Exceeding creel limit 100.00

Lase, William, Jr., R. D. No. 1, Nar -r°wsburg, N. Y. Lines not under control 20.00

"exter, Percy, R. D. No. 1, Narrows-burg, N. Y. Lines not under control 20.00

WHEW! While walking along the old canal

*hich lies parallel to the Susquehanna fwver below Holtwood Dam on the tork Co. side of the river, I became l r ed and attempted to scale an old

^one wall in order to shorten the dis-a^ce to my car.

While in the act of scaling the stone ^1) I unknownly placed my hand Jthin several inches of a copperhead ake. Retreat was impossible as the

lver was directly below me, and I ould not continue to climb because of n e treacherous snake. The beads of

Inspiration stood on my forehead due to ttiy helpless position, and the fact

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ji — J U C l ^ l C O D IJV/.31 HVIAA, C U I U LXXC XC4V. ^ ftat I was several miles away from my

JLand medical assistance. •The snake poised its head as if to

r ike, but instead, quickly uncoiled * retreated to the seclusion of a

device in the rocks. —Warden John S. Ogden

JOBBERY! WE SAY . O n March 10th, I found a dead 33-

cn rainbow trout. Investigation re­galed a hook in its throat attached to ,l3c feet of line. The stomach contained 2' °ne ounce lead sinker, 5 blue gills, P bellow perch, and a number of small

sn. Total weight of contents of t;°niach, 16% ounces, total weight of

0lJt, seven pounds, five ounces.

—Warden William Mcllnay

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No—They're Not Deer Flies! By Gene Craighead

On May 19, 1949, while fishing in Penns Creek, Union County, just one mile above Weikert, Pennsylvania, I noticed an unusually large hatch of flies. Many were on the surface of the water and the trout were con­stantly feeding on them.

I thought at first they were the deer fly or Chrysops, which we all en­counter during most of the fishing season. These deer flies are the ones that are never satisfied unless gorging themselves with blood either taken from the fisherman or an animal. They are rather swift fliers, make con­siderable noise in doing so, and seem to draw blood at the moment of con­tact with the skin.

One could not help but notice this large hatch of flies, but when ac­quainted with the deer fly and their feeding habits, you had to pause and wonder why they made no attempt to bite. They were on my neck, hands, and face by the dozens. I stopped fishing long enough to kill one and examine it, and discovered at once that it was a new insect to me. I caught and pinned several dozen at that time, and they were later determined by Dr. Champlain as Atherix variegata Walker, a member of the snipe fly family. There are three specimens in the State Collection taken over a period of fifty years. One specimen

from Utah and two from Pennsyl­vania. Here is an insert that is ap­parently quite rare, but they were present by the hundreds of thousands and were found in numbers for a period of ten days. Their flight was much slower than the deer fly; one could actually follow them in their flight. Once they sat down they were very easy to capture, and never made any attempts to bite. The buzzing sound made in flight was much softer than that made by the deer fly.

Jiust twenty minutes later while fishing along side of a large tree that had fallen into the water, I noticed a large number of flies floating on the water and following the flow, I discovered that these same flies were laying their eggs in a large mass on the under surface of the fallen tree. Eggs would hatch from the mass and the larvae dropped into the water. A dozen or more of these egg masses were found in similar positions or on the under surface of a small suspen­sion bridge. Flies and eggs formed dense masses and many of the adults or flies would die and become em­bedded in the large mass of eggs dur­ing the process of egg-laying by the thousands of females. Some of these egg masses weighed as much as three pounds. Flies that fell upon the water were soon taken by the trout and any artificial fly imitating our common house fly, or an Adams tied on a No. 16 hook would take the trout.

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S^cnool /"aa i A HANDY REFERENCE

FOR

TEACHERS PARENTS STUDENTS

By CARSTEN AHRENS

May is the month of woodland music. Then the sounds of birds and mammals blend with the wind in the new leaves and the reckless gaiety of the helter skelter mountain stream. May is an excellent month for bird study, and on our Page this month we're going to give them most of our attention.

S o Binding

There's no way to study birds like that of watching birds go through their regular duties. Studying mounted specimens or p r e ­pared skins is interesting, but watching birds building their nests, feeding their young, and defending their areas makes for unforgettable experiences. ' Your bird group should be small. Don't take anyone along who acts like a jumping jack, or he'll scare the birds away. Your movements must be slow and even. Wear neutral shades. Take along a pad and pencil, a bird guide, and field glasses. keep the sun on your back; a bird . . . even a cardinal . . . seen against the sun appears black. While you may find birds anywhere, you're apt to see more of them in certain habitats like along the edge of a brook, where a wood lot meets a meadow, in open glades in a forest.

May Ends Migrat ion

Birds re turn to their nesting grounds each spring. Some, like the geese, are on their way north already in February . A few, like the shore birds, arr ive as late as the middle of June , bu t by the last of May the great majority have arrived at the breeding grounds. In autumn they re turn South. Some, like the orchard oriole, will be ready to leave in September while many of the sparrows will put off the trip until late in

The Golden Plover makes a long trip each year.

Nesting Area Winter Area

November. Of course there are always a ^\^^^ '- «? few species, like the quail and the pheasant, iNovemoer. u i course ini few species, like the quail Q.,^ ,

• general area the year that stay in one round.

Egg Laying Time

During May the majority of birds get down to the business of nesting. A number of them began much earlier in the year. Frequently owls begin nesting already in February. In March the hawks get started. Robins, bluebirds, and mourning doves lay eggs in April. A few loaf so long that J u n e is well under way before the eggs are laid; these include the goldfinch and the cedar waxwing.

Birds are Strange Animals

Birds are unique among animals. Let's list a number of ways in which they are different from other forms of life.

1. They are covered with feathers; often this plumage is strikingly colorful.

2. They possess the power of flight; only one other animal, the bat can fly.

3. They have toothless beaks. 4. They are the most warm-blooded of

animals. 5. Their feet are adapted in a variety of

ways to help the bird fit into its environ­ment.

6. They make excellent parents, and their nests are often amazingly constructed.

7. While many animals lay eggs, theirs are the only ones to have hard, brittle shells that are often speckled or colored.

8. Many have the ability to produce lovely song.

9. They exceed all other animals in the extent of their migration.

10. Their senses of sight and hearing are unusually well-developed.

Bird and Fact

1. Female larger than male A. Doves

2. Has the greatest wing spread B. Golden Plovers

3. Drink without raising their heads C. Ringnecks

4. May have 6 broods a year D. Humming birds

5. Migrate each year from the Arctic Circle to lower S. Amer ­ica and back E. Grebes

6. The i r . ancestors were introduced from China F . English Sparrow

7. Stomachs always contain feathers G. Albatross

8. Is misnamed; it's a Weaver Bird H. Duck Hawk

9. Can fly backward

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BIRD BEAKS ARE OF MANY SHAPES 1. Hummingbird 2. Starling 3. Brown creeper 4. Flamingo 5. Crow 6. Red crossbill 7. Night hawk

8. Paroquet 9. Bob white

10. Cedar waxwing 11. Puffin 12. Merganser 13. House wren 14. Spoon bill

15. Duck hawk

Match Quizzes

Bird and Nest

- 1 . In a Tunnel A. Killdeer -2. In a Chimney B. Oriole -3 . Hollow in Tree C. Kingfisher -4. On the Ground D. Swift

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5. Hanging from limbs E. Mourning Dove

6. Jus t a few Sticks F . Woodpecker

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Chuck, the Warden, says:

"If birds were to disappear entirely, hu ' man life too would vanish in less than tei> years." That sounds fantastic until ofle

studies birds and realizes the work they perform in keeping a balance between wee'1

and insect groups and other plant and anim3' groups. Scientists have studied the stomach contents of many birds and they have learned some interesting facts:

1. A flicker's stomach contained 1,00" chinch bugs.

2. A chickadee's stomach contained 20" cankerworms.

3. A yellow-throat 's stomach contained 3,500 plant-lice.

4. A killdeer's stomach contained 30" mosquito larvae.

5. A cliff swallow's stomach contained $ boll weevils.

6. A snow bunting's stomach contained 1,000 pigweed seeds.

7. A ringneck's stomach contained 8,00" chickweed seeds.

8. The tree sparrows of Iowa destroy 875 tons of weed seeds annually.

Our Department of Agriculture states t h a ' birds are worth 1/3 of a billion dollars a yea1' to the farmer. We know that man's chie£

rivals for supremacy on the earth are the harmful insects. Birds help us far more

than we realize in our constant fight wit*1

the insect pests.

P E N N S Y L V A N I A A N G L E *

D I R E C T O R Y

Regular Fish Wardens of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission Harrisburg, Penna., Corrected To March 15, 1951

CHIEF FISH WARDEN

W . W . Britton South Off ice Building, Harrisburg H b g . 5151, Ext. 2077

Home Address: I 18 N. 4th Street, Lemoyne, Pa. H b g . 6-4385

N A M E REGULAR OFFICERS A N D ADDRESSES TELEPHONE NUMBER

Ahrens, Julius Star Route No. 2, O i l Ciry, Venango Co 5-5504 Aley, Kenneth 173 W . Main St., Galeton, Potter Co 159 Bachman, Floyd 49 Broad St., Stroudsburg, Monroe Co 449 Bailey, Ross C 230 W . Main St., Youngsville, Warren Co 2-2181 Banning, James H Connellsville, Fayette Co . 946 Barnhart, B. F R. D. No. I, Elizabethville, Dauphin and Lebanon Co 34R23 Baughman, Claude B 603 E. Main St., Roaring Spring, Blair and Cambria Co 348 Betts, Robert M 813 Butler Ave., New Castle, Lawrence Co 7382-W Bidelspacher, C. A 767 W . 4th St., Wil l iamsport, Lycoming Co 2-4561 Bielo, Robert J . 19 Penn Ave., Greenville, Mercer Co . 1742-R Blum, Norman L Tionesta, Forest and Clarion Co 101 Brooks, Budd R Box 389, Washington, Washington and Greene Co I 120-J Carnell, Bryce R. D. No. I, St. Thomas, Franklin and Fulton Co 43R24 Cloos, Leland E Middlebury Center, Tioga Co. 4-R-3 I Close, L. E R. D. No. 2, Emporium, Cameron Co 693 I Cole, Harry Z 877 Cherry St., Norristown, Montgomery and Bucks Co . 2335 Corbin, Harold 521 — 13th St., Hunt ingdon, Huntingdon and Miff l in Co . 1202 Corey, Kenneth G General Delivery, Middleburg, Snyder Co 52Y2 Cross, George W . Hammersley Fork, Clinton Co. Renovo 2442 Dahlgren, David Philipsburg, Centre Co. 317 Davis, Dean R S. Main St. Ext., Box 67, Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co 841 R Euliano, Bert 540 W . 3rd St., Erie, Erie Co 217102 Greener, Robert M 549 Howard Ave., Lancaster, Lancaster Co 2-8603 Harter, Keith Dalton, Lackawanna Co 3-3341 Henderson, Sam F R. D. No. 2, Greensburg, Westmoreland and Allegheny Co . 2684 Hi l l , Rayel Bowmanstown, Carbon Co Palmerton 4228 Iman, Cl i f ton 115 Wahl St., Evans Ci ty , Butler and Beaver Co 3374 James, George H 65 E. Louther St., Carlisle, Cumberland Co 708 Jones, Minter C 238 W . Garret t St., Somerset, Somerset Co 5324 Lech, Anthony J 420 Hess St., Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill Co 566 LeDane, Nevin 21 7 l /2 Elk Ave., Johnsonburg, Elk Co. 4555 Litwhiler, Charles Numidia, Columbia-Montour and Northumberland Co. 2734 Long, C. V East Water fo rd , Juniata and Perry Co 15 Mcllnay, Wil l iam E 208 W . Barclay St., Bedford, Bedford Co. 471 Neff, Harvey D. 220 N. 8th St., Al lentown, Lehigh and Northampton Co 7063 Noll, G . Max 2 Church St., Montrose, Susquehanna Co . 149-M Noll, LeRoy Pleasant Mount, Wayne County Hatchery Ogden, John S 242 E. College Ave., York, York and Adams Co 7434 Ogden, Lester C 502 Park St., Clearf ield, Clearfield Co 5-9392 Pyle, Horace A . R. D. No. 2, Coatesville, Chester-Phila. and Delaware Co 2738J2 Reynolds, Harland 4 Spruce St., Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co . 6297 Schadt, John A., Jr. Lake Ar ie l , Wayne Co. 2051 Shearer, Clarence Box 285, Freeport, Armstrong Co . 282 Sheldon, S. Carlyle Conneautville, Crawford Co. 3708 Sickles, Norman W . Bernville, Berks Co 4-R-l I Singer, Ralph O Tafton, Pike Co Hawley 226-R-4 Snyder, Ar thur S R. D. No. I, Mif f l inburg, Union Co 6220 Walker, Arthur L 143 N. 8th St., Indi ana, Indiana Co . 1646 Wil cox, Paul D. Wyalusing, Bradford and Part of Sullivan Co . 2321 Williams, Wi lbur 24 E. Main St., M t . Jewett, McKean Co . . . . . . . . . ^ 5451 Womelsdorf, Russell J 241 Pierce St., Kingston, Luzerne Co Wiikes-Barre 7-5836