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Vic Attardo

Let bluegills point the way to crappies this spring

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Pennsylvania /

I could see that they were bluegills rumpling the surface. I’d had cataract surgery the winter before and now my peepers were giving me 20/20 in both eyes. Miraculous.
A roving school of bluegills, not feeding but first-stage spawning, puts out a certain wave height, like a breeze-brushed surface. This school, about the size of a queen-size mattress, was making its way across the surface of this 100-acre lake.

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Great memories made fishing, railroading on Pennsylvania’s Pine Creek in the 1970s

Featured, Features, Fishing, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, New York, Pennsylvania /

Some of my favorite memories fishing in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York are along Pine Creek and the Genesee River in the 1970s using a now-defunct railroad to travel portions of these waters from Ansonia to Galeton and beyond.
The short line railroad was called the “Wellsville, Addison and Galeton,” giving it the amusing initials, “WAG,” painted on its limited number of freight and passenger cars and on three diesel engines.

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Trout have a fatal attraction for ‘fuzzy’ flies

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Pennsylvania /

Before the enjoyable madness of matching the hatch begins, a lot of trout – and I mean a lot of trout – fall to attractor flies. Venerable patterns such as the Wooly Bugger, Wooly Worm and more diminutive look-alikes such as Pheasant Tails and Hare’s Ears hook many fish.
But even anglers who successfully use these flies realize that not every Bugger, Worm , etc., are as good as another.

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Lily Lake is a place where big northern pike roam in northeast Pennsylvania

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Pennsylvania /

I was in a tug of war with a fish. A war that I could lose at any second if the fish used its sharp, fang-like teeth.
We went back and forth for some five minutes until I brought the hoagie-shaped fighter up to a thick rim of ice. Then I laid the brute flat and saw how the monofilament had wedged between its teeth like a piece of dental floss.

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Listen to the ice and prioritize these winter fishing tips to stay safe

Featured, Featured, Features, Fishing, Fishing, Home Page News, Iowa, National Fishing, Pennsylvania /

Suddenly, the ice you’re standing on makes a terrifying noise. It sounds like the snap of a rubber band magnified umpteen times.
A thin crack appears yards away. And before you can let out a shout, the crack races right between your cold, stiff legs! Some of the less experienced in your ice fishing group – you can see from the look on their faces – experience a moment of panic; others who have heard and seen this ice phenomena many times before smile.

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Tips for timing the patterns of trout under the ice

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Pennsylvania /

A cold and clear morning awaited us as we rolled out of our camp beds in Pennsylvania’s Potter County. The porch-post thermometer read minus 5.
As we arrived at Lyman Lake, after a hearty breakfast of course, the surrounding mountains were bathed in a warm winter sunlight. But within two hours, by 10:30 a.m., the hills were shrouded by heavy snow clouds. As the wind and snow whipped our positions on the ice, I decided to give up – but not before landing three of Lyman’s fine trout.

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