Although it was a little belated, an Erie County, Pa., man boated the birthday gift of his dreams when he caught a monster muskie on Lake Erie May 25.
Scott Bielanin, of Harborcreek, caught a 42-pound, 53-½-inch spotted muskie – an original Great Lakes strain – while targeting walleyes in the shallows near North East. It came four days after he turned 52.
Pennsylvania angler catches huge spotted muskie in Lake Erie Read More »
An Exceptional Value trout stream on a forested hillside in Somerset County, Pa., long considered pristine enough to drink from has been found to contain an extreme amount of lead.
Blue Hole Creek in the Youghiogheny River watershed recently was found with 370 micrograms per liter of lead – nearly 400 times the amount deemed to be safe for drinking – in testing by the Mountain Watershed Association. The source has not been publicly identified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
High-value stream tainted by lead in Somerset County, Pa. Read More »
May was super soggy in most of Pennsylvania, dampening excitement for fishing and boating at a time of year when they should have been ramping up.
“This is our 40th year in business, and we’ve had other bad springs with rain and mud, but this spring was horrible,” said Mike Milvet of Cross Creek’s Original Bait and Tackle at Cross Creek Lake, in Washington County.
A wet May dampened enthusiasm for fishing, boating in Pennsylvania Read More »
Collin Terchanik spent the pandemic years tripping across Pennsylvania to fish for wild brown trout with two buddies from Penn State.
“We fished streams no one would think to fish, that maybe didn’t have great habitat, but where we knew there was good structure,” said Terchanik, 28, a native of Hollidaysburg, Blair County, now residing in Pittsburgh. “A lot of them were downstream of Class A waters.”
The biggest browns the trio caught were in northcentral Pennsylvania, and greater than 20 inches.
Pittsburgh angler cherishes the pursuit of big fish Read More »
More than two dozen state parks, forests and game lands in Pennsylvania are being sprayed this month as part of an ongoing effort to combat spongy – formerly called gypsy – moths, an invasive insect that poses a significant threat to woodland ecosystems.
The aerial spraying of 11 state forests and parks and 16 game lands with a biological agent and a chemical insecticide targets caterpillars as they emerge from their overwintering egg masses and begin to feed on the leaves of trees. While oaks are the spongy moth’s preferred host, hundreds of species of trees are vulnerable.
Spongy moths in the crosshairs on Pennsylvania’s public lands Read More »
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is pushing for legislation that would allow it to transfer money between its Boat Fund and its Fish Fund – a move the agency says is essential to avoid another license fee increase in the next few years.
The commission is working with state Sen. Greg Rothman, R-Perry, chair of the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee, to draft a bill that would amend Pennsylvania’s Title 30, which requires that fish and boat fund revenues be kept separate.
Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission intends to use boat funds to pay for hatcheries Read More »
Three Somerset County individuals have been sentenced to hefty fines, restitution and several decades of lost hunting privileges for killing 19 white-tailed deer during a six-week poaching spree in 2020, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Caleb Roland, now 26, of Somerset pleaded guilty to three summary counts of unlawful killing or taking of big game, which resulted in $3,000 in fines, $5,000 in replacement costs, and a 30-year hunting/trapping license revocation.
Southwest Pennsylvania poachers nabbed after killing 19 deer Read More »
Karrie and Doug Sampsel had little idea that the $40 fly-tying kit they gave their son, Landis, for Christmas when he was 10 would ignite a passion.
“He’s always been a fisherman, and so when we saw the kit we thought, ‘let’s see if we can get him into fly-tying,’” recalled Karrie, of Pleasant Gap, Centre County, Pa. “We gave him the kit and his interest took off.”
Now 14, Landis is making a name for himself in local fly-angling circles with his subsurface and dry flies.
For young Pennsylvania fly-tying phenom, it’s fish, fish, fish Read More »
Tammy Shiery, of Fayette County, has suffered a setback in her quest to be reunited with a young white-tailed deer she named Baby.
Just before an April 3 court hearing on a petition for return of property, Shiery’s attorney, Vince Tiberi, withdrew the petition “because of a technicality in the way it was filed” said Shiery, 64, of Bullskin Township, indicating that she could not provide further details.
Pet deer ‘Baby’ from Pennsylvania still in custody after being confiscated Read More »
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