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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.
Londoner submits to public fish-slapping
Inspired by a Monty Python sketch, a charity fund-raiser in London with an odd-ball sense of humour submitted himself on Saturday to being slapped in the face with a couple of wet fish.Ben Fillmore (24) turned up at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park in central London as promised at high noon to be publicly humiliated with two fresh Scottish rainbow trout at the hands of student Lucy Berry (23).She had paid £210 on internet auction site eBay to be part of Fillmore's quest to raise a total of £10 000 for the Stroke Association."It felt OK," Fillmore confided to reporters afterwards. "My face feels a bit taut and the fish really stinks. It felt very slimy -- but it was definitely worth it."The stunt was an homage to "the fish-slapping dance" in which John Cleese and Michael Palin, both in safari outfits, take turns whacking each other with fish in a classic episode from television's Monty Python's Flying Circus.Berry has so far raised £2 000 pounds for the charity, which helped his mother survive a stroke six years ago.He said he has more stunts in the pipeline -- as well as a project to scale Mount Everest.
State debating whether to trout Batten Kill
ARLINGTON, Vt. -- A new debate is beginning about whether to stock the Batten Kill with trout that anglers could keep if caught or whether more steps should be taken to restore the famed stream. The Bennington County Regional Commission held a meeting on Thursday to discuss the state's proposed trout management plan, which calls for stocking the stream with 1,000 sterile rainbow trout in 2007 that could be taken home by anyone who caught them. The prohibition on keeping wild brook and brown trout from the lower stretches of the river would remain. The state's primary goal remains restoring and improving the habitat of the wild trout, it also wants to offer something for people who interested in recreation on the Batten Kill, said Ken Cox, district fisheries biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Department.
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