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Deborah Weisberg

Pennsylvania group celebrates 50 years of annual canoe trips

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In early August 1974, close friends Paul Misko and Mike McGraw treated their soon-to-be wives to a week-long canoe and camping trip on the Juniata River.
The men were close friends who’d grown up together in Altoona, Pa., joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in Vietnam. Although one sojourn was enough for the women, Misko and McGraw returned the following summer with a few friends for what would evolve into an annual tradition. This year marked the Eureka Canoe Club’s 50th anniversary and included 26 paddlers from as far away as Alaska, New England and Florida.

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Man leaves shocking gift that funds co-op trout nursery in Pennsylvania

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Scott Adams was working at his Berks County sign shop when he got a flabbergasting phone call.
For the past 20 years, Adams has managed a cooperative trout nursery for the Mill Creek Rod and Gun Club in Lebanon County, Pa., which partners with the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission to raise and stock 8,000 fish a year in Mill Creek.
“An attorney on the other end of the line asked if I’d known someone named Robert B. Bellman,” recalls Adams, 62. “I said I did and she proceeded to tell me that he’d left our club a very substantial gift.”

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Despite decline in walleyes, Pennsylvania’s Cross Creek Lake is fine

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Every once in a while, someone still catches a walleye at Cross Creek Lake, a largemouth bass and panfish hot spot in Washington County, Pa.

It’s not like in decades past when the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission consistently stocked the 244-acre county-owned impoundment and there was a viable enough fishery to attract dedicated walleye enthusiasts.

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Pittsburgh expanding deer hunting to three more parks

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Pittsburgh’s second year of controlled bowhunting, set to begin Sept. 21, will include three additional parks and the possible use of professional marksmen in at least the two largest parks once the season ends. 
Aimed at reducing urban deer herds, the program was piloted last year in Frick and Riverview parks, and this year also will include Schenley, Highland and Emerald View parks.

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Invasive snakeheads create a conundrum in Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania fisheries biologists want to learn more about an invasive species that is confounding them but delighting many anglers in southeastern and south-central Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is partnering with Penn State in a study of northern snakeheads, a non-native predator now in the lower reaches of the Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna rivers, Redmond and Edgewood lakes, Octoraro Reservoir, and Conowingo Reservoir just over the state line in Maryland.

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Pennsylvania fisheries managers rethink stocking of the best wild trout waters

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Pennsylvania fisheries managers are taking another look at how they handle the stocking of Class A wild trout streams – a practice that rankles many coldwater conservationists.
At its July meeting, the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission board decided to organize an internal working group on the historically controversial issue following a presentation on Class A stream stockings by Kristopher Kuhn, the agency’s fisheries bureau director.

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Pennsylvania man catches rare Atlantic salmon in Lake Erie

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A Pennsylvania angler boated the fish of a lifetime July 28 when he reeled in an Atlantic salmon on Lake Erie.
Colton Alex, 18, caught the 10.4-pound, 30-inch salmon while fishing in the Erie PA Sport Fishing Association Summer Slam walleye and steelhead tournament. The salmon hit on a black, orange and white Rambler Dreamweaver Super Spoon on a dipsy diver on the starboard side of charter captain Joe Nemet’s boat, which was trolling at 3 mph over 100 feet of water.

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Pennsylvania gets funds to bolster imperiled massasauga rattlesnakes

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Pennsylvania will receive $1.2 million in federal funds aimed at bolstering numbers of the critically imperiled Eastern massasauga rattlesnake.
A grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be used by the Pennsylvania Game Commission to expand massasauga habitat in the snake’s historic range in the northwestern part of the state.

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New West Virginia channel catfish record gets public pushback after coming from private pond

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Forget the high-end tackle.
A West Virginia man landed a state record channel catfish in his home state July 21 on his 3-year-old daughter’s $9.99 pink Zebco rod. Tyler Rutherford was fishing with his daughter for bluegills at his father’s pond in South Charleston when he reeled in the 43.51-inch-long, 46.70-pound behemoth – beating the previous record by more than 9 pounds.

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