Qualifying for the Major League Fishing organization’s Bass Pro Tour has been a lifelong goal for Roaring Spring resident Ken Thompson. It’s a goal that he has taken a major step toward achieving this year. Thompson, 35, has now qualified for the MLF Tackle Warehouse Invitationals in ...
Last week, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission announced the certification of a new state record flathead catfish. Michael Wherley of Fayetteville, Franklin County, caught the fish from the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County on May 14 using a live rainbow trout for bait. After boating the monster catfish, Wherley and his companion immediately took the fish to a nearby tackle store to have it weighed on a certified scale. PFBC Waterways Conservation Officer Jeff Schmidt was present at the weigh in to verify the species and the certified weight of the fish, both necessary ...
From Mirror reports ELYSBURG — High school athletes and teams representing schools from across the state — including Cambria Heights, Central Cambria, Penn Cambria and Portage — are scheduled to participate at 2023 Pennsylvania State High School Clay Target League State Tournament on Sunday. The PASHSCTL Trap Shooting State Tournament will be held at the Pennsylvania State Shotgunning Association in Elysburg, featuring 540 athletes from 32 high school teams. More than 1,000 student athletes representing 44 high school teams across the state participated in the PASHSCTL this ...
A few decades back, when I heard that the Game Commission was going to hire a woman to be the wild turkey biologist for the Commission, I was incredulous. I was at that point still suffering the darts and insults I received almost daily because I was a woman hunter. So I was delighted that the Game Commission would hire a woman — Mary Jo Casalena — and also a bit jealous because I would have loved to have that position, but I was born too many years prior to that announcement for it to become a reality for me. Mentally, I wished her well and hoped I’d meet her one day. I did ...
By Shirley Grenoble sports@altoonamirror.com I barely got the church door open until a report of gobblers bagged the day before on youth day was thrown my way. When I got home, I got a call from a good friend, Connie Mertz of Danville. A fellow outdoor writer, now retired was ecstatic that her grandson had also bagged a nice gobbler. Opening up the youth days for youngsters to be able to hunt was one of the productive programs the Pennsylvania Game Commission features. All the excitement felt this day after opening day is a testimony to that. When this program was announced ...
By Walt Young sports@altoonamirror.com In an effort to help introduce more folks to the sport of fishing here in our state, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission introduced an annual Fish-For-Free Day in 1984. On Fish-For-Free Day, no license is required to fish anywhere in Pennsylvania. A few years later, that program was expanded to two Fish-For-Free Days a year. The specific dates of the Fish-For-Free Days have moved around somewhat since their inception but, in recent years, have settled into one on Memorial Day weekend and the other on the Fourth of July. That means the ...
