YORK Brian Shumaker caught his first fish when he was maybe 8 years old.
He grew up in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, two blocks away from the Susquehanna River his family pretty much living outdoors. Both of his grandfathers fished and hunted, as did his father and all of his uncles.
He remembers the first catch, hooking a feisty bluegill on a farm pond.
“I loved it,” Shumaker, now 55, said. “I got a big kick out of it.”
He was hooked, so to speak.
He pretty much grew up on the river, fishing for smallmouth bass and catfish, learning as almost a reflex how to read the water and where to look for fish. “The river was my playground growing up,” he said.
This dead creek runs orange with acid mine discharge, poisoning the Susquehanna
The Red Moshannon Creek feeds into the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. It is badly compromised by coal mine runoff virtually dead from acidic discharges.
Mike Argento, York Daily Record
Published
2:09 pm UTC Feb. 10, 2021
The Red Moshannon Creek feeds into the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. It is badly compromised by coal mine runoff virtually dead from acidic discharges.
Mike Argento, York Daily Record
Published
2:09 pm UTC Feb. 10, 2021
This USA Today Network special report explores solutions to deep threats that flow through New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland as the Susquehanna River feeds the Chesapeake Bay with life and death.
Pennsylvania Fishing Report – January 14, 2021
2021 Fishing License went on sale December 1st. Click here to purchase
REMINDER – Mandatory Cold Weather Life Jacket Wear began on November 1, 2020 and runs through April 30, 2021 for anyone on boats less than 16 feet and in all canoes and kayaks. Learn more here…
Area Steelhead Streams Steelhead continue to push upstream when conditions allow. Anglers are catching Steelhead throughout all the tributary streams using minnows, sucker spawn, and natural colored wooly buggers when fishing low water conditions. Egg sacks and flashy egg patterns are popular when the water is stained or muddy.
Rachel caught her first Steelhead over the weekend while fishing a section of upper Elk Creek! Rachel attended the Women’s Intro to Steelhead program in November and has been trying to catch one ever since! Congrats, Rachel!