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Vic Attardo

Southeast Pennsylvania streams deserve praise for September panfishing

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

A now obscure and defunct singing group called, “The Happenings” had a huge hit in 1966 with the song, “See You in September.”
First hearing it as teenager, I thought it was the Beach Boys singing. That’s how close their sound was to the iconic group. When I went to one of my favorite warmwater streams to catch some bass and panfish on an astoundingly hot mid-July day, I made a couple of tosses with a 3-weight fly- rod then found myself inadvertently crooning these lyrics:

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Delaware River’s Pocono section great for bass in Pennsylvania

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Just the day before I had picked up a flint arrowhead as I walked the edge of a cornfield along the Delaware River in the rain.
This day I latched onto an 18-inch smallmouth – considerably larger than the Woodland-period point – and just as exciting. The wet, plowed land had made the black arrowhead stand out from the surrounding earth; the crystal clear Delaware made the olive hued smallmouth just as conspicuous as it rolled under the surface.
Here in the Pocono section of the Delaware, you can get excited by either take.

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In the bluegill world, it’s the dad who guards the spawning nest

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With few exceptions, fish aren’t known for their parenting skill, particularly the male side of the species: the fathers. 
No need to describe the “I can’t be bothered” nurturing habits of most fish. After a week or less the parents are gone from the “nest.” Social Services would be apoplectic! But on this Father’s Day we can actually single out one species where the male of the breed takes an interest in his progeny: the bluegill. Here’s some tips on how to catch them this Father’s Day.

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Try these three trout gems of Pennsylvania’s Northern Tier during the late spring

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Early June is a joyous time on Pennsylvania’s north-central trout waters. Mayflies and caddis galore pretty much guarantee hot trout action from bottom hugging, emerging and floating insects alike.
While the region close to the New York border sees the birth of many a headwaters, drop down 30 or so miles – still in the north-central counties – and flows get wide and sometimes wooly. Many of these are broad, open waters where you can swing a wet fly after a long distance cast, work a nymph upstream along rocky shorelines and float a dry over long-pools and runs.

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Tips to finding and catching early season pike in New York

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Not too long ago anglers believed that northern pike lost their teeth after spawning – as if the excitement and physical stress caused all the pike’s teeth to fall out.
The loss of teeth was actually the rationale to explain why pike aren’t easy to catch after they mate, and why they seemingly disappear for a few weeks, especially from April into June, depending on the latitude. But, of course, tooth failure was one of those “old fisherman’s tales” that was less than worthless.

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Vic Attardo: Use this clever technique to hook the powerful Delaware River shad

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You’ll never see a shad cut into a school of minnows and grab one – their mouths are too small for that.
And you won’t see a shad bust against shoreline to grab a frog or bluegill. Again, their mouths are too small, and that’s just not the way they operate. Also, I’ve never see a shad surface-splash into rising mayflies. I doubt they know how.
But hook into a significant size shad and you’re quickly introduced to its power and glory.

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These streams stand out in southeast Pennsylvania during the early season

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It’ll soon be time for trout fishing. Good-bye winter, hurray spring!
While Pennsylvania now has a unified opener on Saturday, April 6, many of us enjoyed those years when we had a two-tier start. Indeed, the southeast corner of the state is warmer and wetter earlier, so recommending some trout waters in the Liberty Bell corner is still a good bet for the early part of the season. Here are my choices.

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Pennsylvania’s Manatawny Creek offers trout in both rural and urban settings

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Pennsylvania /

If you look around Pennsylvania, you’ll see that we have Indian names attached to many of our most iconic natural features. Rivers, streams, mountains – even entire regions – have the honor of carrying nomenclature derived from the Lenni Lenape, part of the Delaware Nation.
But an unfortunate side effect of this cultural respect is the uncertainty, often a controversial dispute, surrounding their translation.

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