May22nd
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Harrisburg, PA - Memorial Day weekend will provide a great opportunity for anglers fishing Cumberland County’s Opossum Lake. Starting Saturday, May 24, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) will temporarily suspend all seasons, sizes and creel limits at the popular lake.
“We’re taking this action in preparation for a fish salvage to be conducted this fall in conjunction with the complete dewatering of the lake,” said Dr. Douglas Austen, PFBC Executive Director. “Enhancing opportunities for anglers to harvest fish prior to salvage efforts provides both additional recreational opportunities and can help reduce the number of fish that will either be captured and transported or potentially stranded when the water level drops.”
The Commission has not established a date for the fish salvage efforts but it will occur sometime in the fall. The lake is being dewatered as the first step in rebuilding the leaking spillway. A routine assessment of the earthen embankment by the PFBC in September 2005 revealed small seeps in the dam’s spillway.
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Jun12th
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Hills Creek Lake is a 136 acre impoundment located within Hills Creek State Park. Area 4 biologists sampled Hills Creek Lake in 2003, 2005, and 2007 as part of a statewide study of special regulations on panfish. Hills Creek Lake is managed with conventional panfish regulations, so it served as a control water for the statewide study.
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Jun12th
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Piney Dam have been slowly recovering from the effects of coal mining in the watershed. Many of the smaller tributaries still contribute iron laden, low pH water but a prodigious effort has been made to clean up this river over the last 30 years and remediation projects continue. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has been making strong efforts to bring the fishery back to life. The results of the current survey indicate the fishery is getting better.
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Jun12th
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission recently did a survey of Lackawanna Lake, Lackawanna County. The survey focused mainly on the nice panfish population in that lake such as bluegill and crappie.
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May26th
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
Researchers with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) and Penn State University are hoping a pilot study using specially tagged fish will help them reel in data about smallmouth bass fishing pressure and harvest on the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers.
“The objective of the pilot tagging study is to estimate catch-and-release rates of smallmouth bass on the Susquehanna River as well as harvest rates,” said Leroy Young, PFBC Fisheries Management Division chief. “This will give us better information than is currently available on the effects of alternative regulations on the smallmouth bass fishery. The results of this initial tagged fish study will also help us determine if a larger effort along these lines would be worthwhile in 2008.”
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