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Had anyone walked past us along the shoreline, they would likely have thought my younger son, Tyler, was sick. Stomach cramps, maybe. He was hunched over, sweating, with an occasional groan escaping his lips.
But then he smiled.
We’d spent much of the morning at Dunlap Creek Lake in Fayette County, not far from Uniontown, baitfishing for stocked trout, and done well enough. We didn’t have limits, but were close.
It feels good to be talking about camping again, and in this case it’s DEC’s Summer Camps program, which in this writer’s opinion is one of the agency’s shining stars.
Unfortunately, as this writing, only two of the four camps are scheduled to open due to staffing issues. That’s too bad.
Controversial when it was announced in the 1960s, Raystown Lake has changed the face of Huntingdon County Pa., forever.
The largest impoundment wholly within the state, the construction of the lake was not greeted with open arms by many of the local families. In all some 1,800 properties were purchased by the federal government with many of those being by eminent domain.
On the morning of Jan. 16 the phone at Centre Wildlife Care in Port Matilda, Pa., was ringing off the hook, according to Robyn Graboski, who has been in wildlife rehabilitation for 35 years.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” she said. “My phone has been lit up all morning with calls about grounded grebes.”
It appears the culprit for the “fallout” was a jet stream of arctic air that froze moisture on the bird’s flight feathers during their nocturnal migration. Unable to remain airborne, a barrage of birds fell from the sky.
Ice fishing conditions are different from what we experienced last year. Last year there was ice on many of the small lakes when we received a big dumping of snow. That led to slushy conditions, and the insulating nature of snow made it difficult to build more ice.
Walking was not easy in many places, and in some cases, driving was not an option. Anglers still managed to go fishing, but many seemed to consider it almost a lost season.
If you look closely at the side of most freshwater fish, you will see one of their most unique sensory systems, the lateral line. This appears visually as a faint row running along the fish. Many anglers might have heard of the lateral line and its role in helping fish capture prey even when visibility is low, but exactly how does it work?
New regulations aimed at stemming the spread of invasive aquatic species will take effect in Pennsylvania Jan. 1.
Anglers and boaters will be required to clean their watercraft before leaving or entering a fishery, and will be prohibited from releasing live bait into commonwealth waters. Violators will face fines.
Things don’t usually change rapidly in the Great Lakes. Change takes weeks, months, decades or more.
