You gotta love it, can not make it up

Well the Angler is at it again, for the past month or more telling everyone not to fish but now because he is going to open Sept. 3 it is now ok to fish Penns, what a bunch of crap, it is low and hot. If you have seen it you would know not to even think about fishing it, it will take a load of cool nights and dark days with rain to get it back in order plus the fact the fish will be under strain because of not feeding well, for Christ's sake stay away from Penns unless you want to fish for bass below the village of Penns Creek. Again this year NO White flies below the Sunbury fibradam, in past years you could see the dead spinners piled up on the ends of the river bridges but not any more- what the heck happened to them? Bass fishing below the dam has not been good for the past 4-5 years, we stand there looking for rising bass and see nothing but a few cruising channel cats which are ok to catch but they twist and slime your leader. Looks as if a good old farm pond is still the best option for the later summer.

They do have balls

I can not remember ever having the PA Fish and Boat Comm. closing any section of Penns Creek due to low water and high temp's but they did just do it. A section in Mifflin County below Poe Paddy camping area on Penns, two areas surrounding the Panther Run and Swift Run trib's that feed cold water have at this time a lot of stressed trout trying to get a bit of relief from the low oxygen content and high water temps. Please do not go and take a peek, these fish are stressed enough and do not need to swim around trying to hide from us. Now we either need a really good rain and cold nights or the Commission should close the entire FFF area till the conditions improve. Way to go I take my hat off to you guys for helping to protect the resource. I think that DCNR also had some valuable input into the decision process.

Try this instead of trout fishing

Took my granddaughter fishing on Monday morning at the pond within the grounds of Tussy Mt. ski area near Boalsburg. We used wax worms and a simple bobber set up, she landed 23 sunfish in a few hours, lost a lot more of them and had "2" really big bass on (they took the small sunfish we had on) one of them released the sunny at the dock then tried to eat it again and again after we released it, he never did eat it, the second big bass was somehow hooked and after a really good fight near the dock he broke the line at the swivel! All the time my granddaughter was gaining more and more confidence and began to hold the fish in her hand before releasing them back into the water. We had an audience of about 25 kids from the State College "Y" watching and yelling every time she landed another fish. This is simple fishing just a short spin cast rod, wax worms and a few bobbers but the key is the hooks, we used Eagle Claw circle hooks size #12 - the fish tend to hook them selves BUT be sure to take a pair of forcepts to remove the hooks- we did not have a pair and had to leave when we gave our last hook to a fish that took it far to deep! Only one fish was hurt and we both had a wonderful time, with a fly rod someone could have a great time catching sunnies and bass all day long, try it and you will see how much fun it can be all the while doing your best rain dance to bring the trout streams back to life. One of the most important items to take along for kids is a lot of snack materials and drinks, they tend to think more about that than fishing at times, male it short and make sure they catch something.