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Fishing: Creek cleanup will not happen overnight
Fifty years ago, Green Drakes disappeared from Spring Creek in Centre County after someone from a Penn State University chemistry lab dumped cyanide into the water. The big mayflies haven't been seen there since. "A bunch of us tried to reintroduce them by planting nymphs in the stream and duns in the foliage," said Dan Shields, of Lamont, Pa., who wrote about the incident in his book "Fly Fishing Pennsylvania's Spring Creek." "We even netted thousands of spinners from another stream, but they never took hold. We tried for three or four years, but it was no use." Although the recent train derailment and chemical spill on Sinnemahoning Portage Creek in Mc-Kean and Cameron counties was much bigger and more deadly, experts are cautiously optimistic that insects will rebound on what had been pristine, wild trout water, but predict a long, slow process.
Sewage plant mishap kills trout in Dog River
A chemical release by a municipal sewage plant is being blamed for killing a significant number of fish last week on one of Vermont's premier wild trout streams.
Fish were killed on more than a half-mile stretch of the Dog River below the Northfield sewage treatment plant. An angler alerted state fisheries biologist of dead fish Monday afternoon.
According to Northfield Village Manager Charles Morse, an infusion of chlorine was accidentally leaked into the Dog River from the sewage treatment plant as work was being done to upgrade the facility's chlorinating system.
"We knew we released chlorine, but we didn't detect a problem until later on," Morse said. "We're upset that we killed fish, obviously; we try to be as environmentally conscious as we can be."
Morse said the spill affected a stretch of river about 0.6 of a mile long, from below the sewage plant to the mouth of Cox Brook, a major tributary of the Dog.
Fishing Report: Hints of fall starting to show up, which bodes ...
Change is in the air. Ever so subtly, the dog days of summer are winding down. Though that proverbial hint of fall may not be in the air quite yet, the edge is off summer temperatures across much of the state and fishing is beginning to stir from its summer doldrums.
A pattern of afternoon rains has returned to much of Colorado. Rivers generally are flowing at or somewhat above normal levels for late August. The rains can temporarily discolor the water, but conditions otherwise are prime. Summertime hatches are coming off regularly, and terrestrial insects such as grasshoppers are readily available to the trout.
Spin-fishermen also are finding improved late-summer conditions, with trout active in riffles and pocket water, as well as the deeper pools.
Mountain creeks and beaver ponds are in prime condition, and late summer is a great time to visit the higher country.
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