Considering the Christmas tree look of the trees opposite that wall, I'd rather not. Besides, those folks with powerbait and maggots don't fish barbless! Another thing, how woulod you propose to get your line in the water...or out of it among the thousands of yards of 40lb test, trash, lures, 8 oz lead whizzing by your head, bobbers...not to mention John Bowersox boarding us to chastize us?
Walnut is a lost cause near the mouth and not my preferred stream for years. The only section I like is between the first bridge and the wall group and THAT is usually packed as tight as the Manchester Hole which I'm GLAD the landowner closed given the behavior of a few rude idiots.
Elk has the Legion Hole & Tubes to compare with Walnut and I fear Foley's Campground's pool is the same. Soon, the almost bearable spots on Elk like Girard Park and section between the Tubes and Bridge will be just as bad. The more difficult it is to access a particular spot the more time we have to fish with fewer unsportsman-like folks.
This phenomenon is pandemic through many better known waters throughout the country and will eventually lead to even more overcrowding in the waters left to fish as more private and restricted signs dot the landscape. Rules and enforcement will either need to be tolerated to maintain some of these spots which may lead to such things as pay-to-fish, time limits per angler, minimum distance to next angler or the fishery will just die or become repulsive IMHO.
License fees in PA jumped which some applauded. My concern is that only those of means will be able to fish and have-nots will be illegals. Colsures, day slots (you fish odd days and I even days?) or lotteries (such as anterless deer) may be proposed... or more intrusive means.
Much can be said or argued but when you compare all this horror to the dams nation-wide which have impacted the fisheries as a whole worse than pollution like mine acid or worse, the whole picture becomes dismal. Even other countries have experienced trauma from this as several members have told me local stories from across the pond.
My conservative versus liberal views are becoming more defined as I consider how man tends to solve short-term economic needs at the expense of a planet dying a slow (what IS slow?) death. I ADMIT TO BEING CONSERVATIVE BUT NEVER AT THE EXPENSE OF NATURAL RESOURCES. They won't allow me in liberal circles because (politics deleted) but gotta love those frogs and owls that keep development limited. The dam in front of my cabin can be torn down and I wouldn't miss the navigable water upstream one bit if the new spring creek's waters were quickly surrounded by native trees/grasses, run-off abated, etc.
Much is made of the Columbia River system's demise over dams but how about all those streams dammed up that enter the Chesapeake Bay? "My" Conewago Creek is navigable to the Susquehanna River by portaging small dams. It used to be a major shad spawning creek which Jerry from Philly can relate to. The fact that the stream is a natural spring creek and was a brook trout stream pre-19xx doesn't seem to bother the bass fishers of today but how many species need to be replaced?
What REALLY scares me is the water quality/eco change as a whole. Freshwater clams, maflys, caddisflys, stoneflys, crayfish are declining while carp, catfish, largemouth, smallmouth, huge goldfish/carp mixes have increased. Whether the sucker spawns I saw 30-40 years ago were "natural" or not, they have disappeared along with half of the turtle species. Introduced species at a number of waters within an hour of my home may be the downfall or merely what can survive anymore.
Back to developing my snakehead pattern. Now what do I use for those nasty teeth?
From: "Garry V. Wiles" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Probably not, but I wonder how many wall fisher folk we could upset (it's a family list) by parking upstream of the inlet at the launch in Walnut.
-->Garry
At 09:40 AM 11/8/2005, you wrote:
I doubt Elk Creek could handle my draft. Why not just wade? ;-)
Murf
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