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A Healing Fish Tale In Potter County, Veterans Trade Trauma for Trout

By Gayle Morrow

Passing the Oar in Penn Yan Fishing for Sausage on Catharine Creek Coleen Fabrizi’s Love of Family and Fishing

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Volume 14 Issue 4

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A Healing Fish Tale

Linda Stager’s photography comes to Mountain Home.

In Potter County, veterans trade trauma for trout.

Gallery Spotlight

By Gayle Morrow

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PDR is Pretty Darn Ready for Fishing Season

By Maggie Barnes

If the fish aren’t biting on Catharine Creek, try the sausage.

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Mother Earth

6 A Tale Worth Telling

By Gayle Morrow

By Janet McCue Gaffer District’s Coleen Fabrizi fishes for joy.

Wondering about water.

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Now That’s a Fish Story

By Don Knaus

Facts and figures for the record.

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Mt. Pisgah County Park

By Lisa Howeler

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Back of the Mountain

22 24 Hullings Hulls Passes the Oar in Penn Yan

By Diane Cobourn Baby, it’s spring.

Cover by Tucker Worthington, photo courtesy Tracie Edwards, Vietnam veteran and double amputee Mike Lindhurst from Sanborn, New York; top photo, Peter Ryan giving fly tying instruction, courtesy Peter Ryan; center, Mark Fabrizi (right) with Elite Bassmasters 2018 Angler of the Year, Justin Lucas, courtesy Coleen Fabrizi; bottom photo courtesy Adam Hullings.

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Gallery Spotlight

Linda Stager’s Photography Comes to Mountain Home

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inda Stager’s evocative local photographs have been gracing the pages of Mountain Home for years. And since the Mountain Home Art Gallery opened a little over two years ago, her images have graced our walls as well.

Early on we dubbed her “The Suncatcher,” and, figuring it was about time to give her her own show, this April and May we will be showcasing all of her work (or as much as the walls will hold!), and you can meet her at the gallery at 87½ Main Street in Wellsboro on May 3 beginning at 5:00 p.m. for the town’s First Friday kickoff.

In the meantime, Mountain Home asked her a few questions about the hobby that is quickly becoming her legacy: How much time do you spend each week on your art?

I love being retired, so I have many interests. Photography is but one of them.

So finding the time for it is always difficult.

If I had my way, I’d be out with camera in hand for sunrise every morning. And I

would stay out until mid-morning when the light starts to get harsh. I find that starting the day somewhere for sunrise is so good for the soul. And carrying my camera so that I record the moment just tops off the experience. But the reality is that if I can get out a couple of times a week, it’s a good week, since other responsibilities take away from that time in the field. And the luxury of wandering with the camera is just that, a luxury, since my art isn’t just my photography hobby. I am also the author of The Pine Creek Rail Trail Guidebook, so time during every week is spent in book-related activities including speaking engagements, marketing, and sales.

What are your top photography subjects, and what makes them your favorites?

I carry a landscape camera and a wildlife camera with me all of the time.

And I often do both wildlife and landscape scenes simultaneously. If the wildlife is out, that’s what I’m doing. My favorite subjects to photograph are eagles, osprey, warblers,

elk, deer, owls, foxes, and bears. Basically, if its wildlife, I love the exhilaration of the stalk: Setting up a blind, wearing camouflage, staking out a spot, getting photos without stressing the wildlife—they are all a part of the challenge. Knowing your subject is important too, so I spend time researching my subjects. I am quite an expert on bald eagles now. Wildlife photography is such a technical trial. The right settings on your camera, often done on the fly and under pressure, are critical.

Focus, exposure, ISO, and shutter speed are a lot to handle. So anytime I am successful in photographing wildlife is a moment of pride for me. But plenty of times it is all about stunning lighting and trying to capture the scene my eye sees and my soul feels. Landscape photography is often quick. It’s based on the light, which is so often fleeting. But it’s also tricky, especially night photography: Long exposure work on a tripod is not only technical, but it requires stamina and not See Gallery on page 30 5

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A Healing Fish Tale In Potter County, Veterans Trade Trauma for Trout

By Gayle Morrow

~Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. ~Norman Maclean

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hey have names like green weenie, black foam beetle, bead-head pheasant tail nymph, and, aptly enough for purposes of this story, Pete’s patriot. The Pete of Pete’s patriot asserts that the patriot’s red, white, and blue color combination “sometimes drives them crazy!”

Pete is Peter Ryan, a retired dentist from Coudersport who loves to fly fish; Pete’s patriot is one of many, many kinds of flies, not the nasty buzzy black ones we all detest, but delicate, colorful, hand-crafted bits of various sorts of material, all designed to entice trout, the aforementioned “them,” into a strike. As Pete describes the Pete’s patriot, it is an attractor fly, one whose movement on the water’s surface can not only grab a trout’s attention but, sometimes, be the hook that grabs the trout.

Subtle distinctions, perhaps, but distinctions that Pete, co-coordinator David Saulter, both veterans, by the way, and their cohorts will make as they introduce flies, fly tying, and fly fishing to veterans and active duty military personnel

who have been coming to Potter County every year since 2008 for the three day event known as Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing. Hosted by the God’s Country Chapter of Trout Unlimited, the twelfth PHWFF event is set for Tuesday, May 21, through Friday, May 24, at First Fork Lodge and Moores Run Fish and Game Preserve.

This year the event is dedicated to the God’s Country Chapter as it celebrates its fortieth year of conserving, protecting, and restoring the area’s cold water fisheries and their watersheds.

On a historical timeline, the inception of the God’s Country Chapter was half a dozen years after Richard Nixon signed the Paris Peace Accords, ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, and just four years after the April 30, 1975, fall of Saigon. Some of those soldiers who were returning home in those times, wherever home was, are some of the same individuals who have since been able, through their participation in PHWFF, to put to rest at least a bit of the painful things that only soldiers know.

In the words of one past guest who was overwhelmed, in the best possible way, by the parade that opened his threeday sojourn into Potter County fly fishing

country: “I couldn’t believe all the people out there with signs and flags. They don’t know how much we appreciated that.

When I returned from Vietnam forty-five years ago, they didn’t do anything for us, not even in my hometown.”

Fishing for Peace of Mind The folks with Trout Unlimited and with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing are not the first to realize that spending time in the natural world is good for people (forest bathing, anyone?). Henry David Thoreau wrote about becoming a “pupil, in the forest wild.” “When despair grows in me…” goes a Wendell Berry poem, “I come into the peace of wild things…”

There is no lack of evidence that fishing is therapeutic for humans.

In 2005, Ed Nicholson, a lifelong outdoorsman and a retired (after thirty years) Navy captain, found himself at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a patient. This hospital stay provided him with the opportunity to interact with combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. As Pete Ryan explains it, “He got a group of guys together there to tie flies, and then to go on a fishing outing.

They found that this was not only great physical rehabilitation, but great mental Trout on SeeSee Mooney on page page 88 7

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rehabilitation as well.”

Subsequently, Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing was born—or hatched, as those fishing folk might say.

Just three years later, during a meeting of the God’s Country Chapter of TU, one of the group’s founding members, Roy Magarigal, who owns the Austin-area Moores Run Fish and Game Preserve with his wife, Cathy, suggested the God’s Country Chapter might want to consider hosting a PHWFF event.

He offered the use of his 500-plus acre facility. Pete, himself a veteran and nuts about fly fishing, concedes, “I thought it was a great idea.” But, it was 2008 and the Marcellus Shale gas play was gearing up. Pete says his time was “consumed with environmental and water quality issues, which is what TU is all about.” Pete was the chapter president, but his friend David Saulter, chapter vice-president, said he would coordinate the event.

He did, and they haven’t looked back.

How Does This Thing Work?

The first God’s Country PHWFF event was in June 2008, and the events for the next two years also took place in June. Most of the first group of participants was involved with programs through the Buffalo and Batavia Veteran’s Administration, mostly on an outpatient basis, although some were in inpatient programs.

“When we started,” David says, “95 percent of them were dealing with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder).”

They did then, and do now, come from several different wars and from all kinds of backgrounds. Some have never had a fishing rod in their hands. Some, thanks to their military experiences, may not even have hands, or legs. Sometimes the things they’re missing are not so obvious.

That inaugural event included a parade, a motorcycle escort, and the requisite flag waving and hometown hoopla. In short, it was everything folks along the way—from the staging area at Dave’s Diner in Ceres, New York, to the event headquarters at First Fork Lodge in Austin, Pennsylvania, to the fishing opportunities at Moores Run Fish and

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Game Preserve—could do to make fifteen disabled veterans feel welcomed, honored, and appreciated. After an evening of relaxation, the next two and a half days were devoted to learning about fly tying and fly fishing, complete with local TU members to serve as guides, and to realizing that how, as fisher folks everywhere know, a bad day of fishing is better than a good day just about anywhere else.

While the basic format has stayed the same, the event has only gotten better since then.

Improvements started with a date change. As David explains, June weather was nice but it was harder on the fish. It’s a catch and release event, so it’s important to get the fish back in the water as quickly as possible, and the cooler the better for them. Plus, pushing the event back to May meant all the schools were still in session and could be involved.

The parade has become almost an event in its own right. Everybody still meets at Dave’s Diner for registration and photos, followed by an assemblage at a roadside rest near Shinglehouse. The Potter County commissioners provide an ATA (Area Transportation Authority) bus that is subsequently filled with local veterans who want to be part of the parade.

Motorcyclists from regional bike groups gather, and the trek begins. Along the way, the Oswayo Valley High School “turns out in force,” Pete says, as do students from Northern Potter, Galeton, and Coudersport schools. The local Marine Honor Guard makes an appearance in Coudersport, the commissioners give county employees time to participate, and, in general, “kids, adults, students, and businesses are greeting the disabled veterans with signs, flags, and cheers,” Pete continues.

“It is truly very emotional,” he says, adding that for 2019 “we have been asked to parade through the parking lot at Sweden Valley Manor as well as those of UPMC Cole hospital and Morgan AM&T,” a local manufacturing business.

“It’s a TU event, but a county parade,” David notes.

Another change has been that, since 2012, each event has a theme. They’ve included the Medal of Honor Event, honoring Cpl. Jason Dunham, from Scio, New York, the World War II Event, the Korean War Event, the Vietnam War Event, See Trout on page 10

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This year, of course, celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the God’s Country Chapter of TU. Community Effort Pete and David agree that the incredible amount of pre-and post-event work necessary to make PHWFF possible would not be possible without the support of volunteers and local businesses.

Just as an army runs on its stomach, part of the success of an event like this one is the fabulous food. There are the snacks at the American Legion Post 192 along the parade route, the hors d’oeuvres under the tent the first afternoon at First Fork Lodge, plus the three breakfasts after that, lunch at the Austin Costello Sportsmen’s Club, and a couple of amazing catered dinners from Tadd Ostroski’s Bones ’n Banter, homemade pies from a group of ladies in Westfield, plus a pig roast. Otto Deutschlander, who has been on board since the first year, along with Mort’s Meat Mafia, handle the cooking on Thursday at the Preserve. Legion Post 192 along with the Sons and the Auxiliary, take care Veteran anglers: Pete of a couple of meals as well.

Ryan (above, right) Another group of ladies, this one from the Oswayo stands with double Valley Senior Center, make lap quilts that they donate to amputee James Hooftallen of Austin, the participants. Businesses put together goody bags, and PA; Ryan (below, left) each participant goes home with what he or she needs displays a catch with to continue tying flies. The guides are local residents Vietnam Army medic who take time off from work to be part of the event. and Medal of Honor The camaraderie that develops between the participants recipient Gary Beikirch and all the people who make the event happen is part of in 2015. what gives the whole thing an almost magical quality.

“We couldn’t do it without the support of the community,” says Pete.

Courtesy Peter Ryan (2)

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” ~Henry David Thoreau

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It was a long time ago that Paul Campbell was in Vietnam.

He was in the Marines then, although Marines will tell you that once a Marine, always a Marine, so perhaps he still is. These days he lives in Pavilion, New York, near Batavia, and says, sounding only a little rueful, that “I’m kind of like the poster child” for the God’s Country PHWFF event. He’s been attending for eleven years now, and plans to be at the 2019 event, though a family obligation (a happy one—his son is getting married) will preclude his staying for the whole thing.

“I was in treatment for PTSD, and it wasn’t going all that great,” he explains. “Somebody asked me if I wanted to go fishing, and it was kind of like a life-changing experience for me. The people were genuine and warm. After the second day, it kind of felt like a brand new day. Life has been much better since. I’ve been able to introduce others to it.

“The God’s Country chapter itself is a model program as far as what they do and how they do it,” Paul continues. “Of course it’s a great venue. It’s just a wonderful three days they give people.

It puts smiles on their faces that normally wouldn’t be there.”

“Some of the best times are sitting with a vet on the riverbank,” David concurs. “It’s treatment 365 days a year.”

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PDR is Pretty Darn Ready for Fishing Season If the Fish Aren’t Biting on Catharine Creek, Try the Sausage

By Maggie Barnes

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how of hands. How many of you could run a successful business enterprise with your ex-spouse? It is a daunting proposition, but one couple in Horseheads has discovered that they are suited to be business partners more so than the husband-and-wife scenario.

“We’re better friends than spouses,” Penny Kinsman says with a glance over her shoulder at Doug Walborn, her former better half. They are standing in the kitchen of PDR’s Catering, the business that began about the same time as their marriage, but has lasted fifteen years longer. These days they both pitch in to help the other’s commitments. “He’ll work an event with me,” Penny says, “then I’ll help him with the food stand.”

The smell of spicy Italian sausage fills the air while Penny stirs a boiling pot of rigatoni. On a back burner, the red sauce

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gurgles like a happy baby. The staff has just returned from feeding a benefit event for a former employee facing a serious medical issue. Waiting in the parking lot was a man who had heard from a coworker how good the sausage was at PDR’s. Even though he was unsure if he could get a small order from a caterer, it was his turn to bring dinner home, so it was worth a wait to find out.

Doug invited the man inside, Penny fired up her skillet, and the sausage from Leona Meats in Troy, Pennsylvania, did its thing.

The spontaneous gathering had the feel of a neighborhood potluck and it wasn’t long before talk turned to “the creek.”

In this context, the creek in question is Catharine Creek, a fifteen-mile-long stream that runs through Chemung and Schuyler counties. Catharine Creek rises atop a ridge in the town of Veteran. It flows south to an area known locally as the Holding

Point in Horseheads. It then flows back to the north, mostly alongside Route 14, through the communities of Pine Va l l e y, Mi l l p o r t , Mo n t o u r Fa l l s , and Watkins Glen.

It is known as the place in the region to fish for trout. Rainbow trout, specifically, but smaller runs of brown trout and landlocked Atlantic salmon take place in the fall. As April 1 looms, anglers from up and down the east coast make their pilgrimage to Catharine Creek. They are looking for fish—and sausage. Doug and his brother Roger, the R in PDR, with help from Penny, the P, have a food stand alongside the creek.

“Nothing fancy,” says Doug, “Hot dogs, hamburgers, chili dogs, cheesesteak, like that.” “’Cause that’s all he can cook!” Penny stage whispers, with a laugh. Doug ignores See PDR on page 14

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the jab. “And the sausage, of course. That’s the favorite.”

Being at the creek for trout season has been a part of Doug’s life since he was thirteen years old. “Back then, there were a few trailers and stands that came every year. Red’s Lunch, Curly Payne, some others. But I’m it now.”

Flipping the sausage and covering the pan, Penny adds, “That was back when the fishermen were shoulder-to-shoulder from Millport to Montour Falls.”

“I must know 200 guys by first name now,” Doug says proudly.

Doug says weather was never a deterrent, even though April Fool’s Day has run the gamut from seventy degrees and bright sun to snow over your feet to flooding rains. One of those seasons brought water through the middle of Doug’s stand as entire trees bobbed by in the creek.

“I looked out the stand that day and there was a dry spot on an elevated knob,” Doug remembers. “And I said, that’s where I’m going next year.”

The family’s devotion to the season at Catharine Creek is strong, evidenced by the fact that Doug has never missed a year— not since 1981. Once he and Penny married and the kids came along, trout season became a family affair.

“One year, I turned my back on our four-year old and he got into the creek. The guy who owned the bowling alley fished him out, remember?” Doug relates, and Penny stirs and nods.

This creek side, extremely seasonal, luncheonette is as popular as opening day, with visitors from South Carolina telling Doug that they come for the sausage first, the trout second. “If compliments paid the bills,” Doug laughs, “I wouldn’t need to take their money.”

The window to collect those compliments is brief. Doug sets up about a week before the season starts and can be found there every day until the middle of April. Over the course of that twenty-oneday period, the anglers snap up 400 pounds of sausage.

Back at PDR’s Catering, Penny is dishing out the to-go order for the lucky guy from the parking lot when she is asked about retirement. “I grew up on a dairy farm,” she says. “I don’t know anything else but working all the time.” When asked about the most recent vacation the family took, the ex-husband and wife have to use a grandchild’s age to calculate. It was four years ago.

Doug’s idea of “retiring” is building a permanent structure on his beloved creek and being there more often.

The takeout dinner is ready, a couple of beers have been emptied and a granddaughter has finagled movie money out of Doug. Penny is planning to see a friend who lost her ailing husband. She will probably cook for the funeral service. As Saturday afternoon slides into evening, the talk of Catharine Creek, record fish, and friends from far away has Doug excited to get out there.

What might seem like backbreaking work to many is just normal life to this former couple. It brings them a sense of purpose and joy. For that, countless fishermen are thankful. Even if the fish don’t bite.

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h, spring, when all of our fancies turn to thoughts of, OK, sure, love, but also water. Yeah, water. Every living thing needs it, you know. So is it gonna be a wet season or a dry one? Is the water in that pond warm enough to swim in yet? (I did swim in March once, a zillion years ago.) Is there standing water (or, horror of horrors, ice?) in the garden or can we possibly think about planting something? Is the muddy driveway ever going to be dry enough so we can level out those ruts? Are the creeks running high or low for opening day? When will the snow stop and when will it all melt? (I remember seeing snow cover on a north-facing hillside in June, also a zillion years ago, and, no, not the same year I had that March dip.)

Spring seems to be synonymous with water, for all kinds of reasons, and I got to wondering about some of the terminology and properties associated with that life-sustaining liquid. Specifically I wondered about evaporation, condensation, and hydration/ dehydration.

Come on, you wonder about that stuff too, right?

When I think of hydration/dehydration, I think of myself waking up in the middle of one of those the-woodstove-is-reallycooking winter nights in desperate need of a drink of water, or flopping like a tuna because I took a long mountain bike ride on a really hot day and neglected to, you guessed it, hydrate adequately.

The simplest definition of dehydration is that it is the removal of water (hydrogen and oxygen molecules) from something. The ways and the whys that removal can happen are numerous—think

everything from dehumidifiers, a kind of indoor air dehydrator we all needed last summer when it rained every day, to sun-dried tomatoes, to crisp sheets on a clothes line.

Condensation is the change of matter’s physical state from gas to liquid, usually as a result of the gas cooling. The word is most often used in connection with water—i.e. water vapor to liquid water—although if your kitchen is well stocked you may have a can or two of sweetened condensed milk on a shelf. That essential fudge or poundcake ingredient is milk from which the water has been removed and to which sugar has been added, not to be confused with canned evaporated milk. Anyway, clouds and ground fog are a couple of familiar forms resulting from H2O’s abilities to morph. You can also see it on your eyeglasses when you go from one temperature extreme to another, or on the inside of your windows when the exterior is cold and the interior is cozy. It all has to do with how the water molecules arrange themselves in response to temperature.

Where does evaporation fit in? You can think of evaporation— when heated liquid becomes a gas—as the opposite of condensation.

The sun is the primary source of the energy that will evaporate that moisture (but just the right amount, please!) from the garden soil and the muddy driveway. Evaporated water ends up eventually back in the atmosphere as water vapor, and, when conditions are just right, back on the ground at some point as precipitation.

Fairly amazing, isn’t it?

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Courtesy Don Knaus ‘Landing’ a trophy: Although unhappy about not having a boat, 10-year-old Don Knaus holds up his dock-caught lake trout in pride.

Now That’s a Fish Story Facts and Figures for the Record

By Don Knaus

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et’s get it out of the way. I’m a trout man. Always have been. I’ve filleted and fried pan fish, caught and plated perch; I will bite into baked bass and chomp down on walleye with relish. But, at heart, I’m a trout man.

It was late June and there I stood, on a dock jutting into Keuka Lake. I resented it. If only I had a small boat, I could be out there in the open water trolling for trout— lake trout. Years ago, my dad and his friends, noted as a company of scoundrels and a cadre of reprobates by my mother, would get in their small row boats, power up a 5-horse Evinrude, cruise to the middle of the lake, and drop sharp-hooked silver spoons from a Seth Green rig. They caught big lake trout.

The key word was trout. I went along often,

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and I just dragged a spinner way behind the boat and way above the lures. There was little chance I’d ever catch anything and, even as a ten-year-old, I knew it. I’d often doze, cradling my spinning rod in the crook of my arm. But, one day, WHAM! I’d hooked a lake trout. My dad and his buddies made a big deal out of that trout, even took a picture. How I wish I had a boat and Seth Green rig out on the lake.

It was dark, a Keuka dark with stars above and one lone fisherman silently trolling down toward Bluff Point. The family was gathered around a lakeside fire.

I wandered out to the end of the dock to cast a Jitterbug. At least I could hear the soothing ripple as the lure slowly worked its way back to the dock. I was working the

lure parallel to shore. I felt a hit and set the hook. It was quite a fight. I figured it to be a scrappy smallmouth. It was a bass, and I landed it in the darkness. It had a nice heft to it and I wondered what it weighed. I went into the cottage to retrieve my hand-held scale. The granddaughters followed. In the light I noticed that the bass was a rock bass, easily identified by those bright red eyes.

The scale said it weighed two pounds and change. I put the readers on and looked closer. “Two-pound, seven-ounces,” I said.

The younger grand eagerly asked, “Can we eat it? Are you gonna make Papa fish?” She loved my “secret recipe” for trout filets. I responded, “Yep. We’ll eat him. Gotta clean him first.”

I skinned and filleted the rock bass.

When the fish was fried, the kids shared a side each. The next day, I wondered about the New York State record for rock bass.

After all, I’d caught a big one. I groaned. The record, set in 1984, was a measly 1 lb., 15 oz. I had broken the state record but my granddaughters had eaten the evidence! That was my one shot at angling fame. But that began a curiosity about record fish. I noted that most Pennsylvania and New York records have been set within the last twenty years. I had expected to see records set back in 1897 that could never be touched today. Apparently, anglers were fishing for food in days gone by and they almost never weighed or measured their catch. Only lately have we become obsessed with records. (Note that my “almost” record was topped by William Wightman in 2018.)

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation keeps records on forty-five species of fish. Pennsylvania’s Fish and Boat Commission recognizes thirty-two species of finned swimmers.

I wondered if any locals had landed state records. I found that Richard Pino, of Covington, caught and recorded the Pennsylvania state record crappie having boated the 4 lb. 2.88 oz. fish in Hammond Lake in Tioga County. Naturally, I compared Dick’s crappie with the record from the Empire State. He hammered the record from the neighboring state by 1.8 lbs.

But, as I said, I’m a trout man. There are five species of trout for which records are kept in the Keystone State and the Empire State. In Pennsy they are: brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, palomino trout, and steelhead. The palomino trout was originally a hybrid that mated the rainbow to the golden trout.

PFBC science has produced a palomino that can reproduce true to color. The steelhead is an anadromous rainbow. That is, it is a sea-run rainbow that, like salmon, lives most of its life in big water only to return to streams to spawn. The record Pennsylvania brook trout is seven pounds, caught by Vonada Ranck in 1996, and was most certainly a long-lived, pampered hatchery-stocked trout. The other species of trout records perhaps belie their legitimacy. None are trout that lived their entire lives in Pennsylvania streams. The state record rainbow was caught in Lake Erie. A 19 lb., 10 oz. brown trout was also creeled in 2000 while migrating up Walnut Creek, having left Lake Erie. I don’t consider those “real” records.

New York, on the other hand, has no palomino trout but they have added the splake, another hybrid of a brook trout (originally called speckled trout) and a lake trout. The state’s record brown trout, hooked in Lake Ontario, was thirty-eight inches long and weighed 33 lbs. 2 oz. The record rainbow was also a Great Lakes resident, captured in 2004 weighing in at 31 lbs. 3 oz. with a length of thirty-nine inches. Personally, I don’t consider those lakers “real” records either. A record trout ought to grow up and remain in a stream. To their credit, New York had enough respect for the brook trout to count their state record from a true brookie born in New York waters, one that lived in the wilds until taken by an angler who had to hike into the Silver Lake Wilderness Area to catch it.

Try for a record. But, most importantly, get out on the water and drop a line. And take a kid. That’s where the fun is.

Retired teacher, principal, coach, and life-long sportsman Don Knaus is an award-winning outdoor writer and author of Of Woods and Wild Things, a collection of short stories on hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.

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Catching dreams: Coleen Fabrizi’s passion for living (and fishing) led her to the fishing trip of her dreams.

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Gaffer District’s Coleen Fabrizi Fishes for Joy

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ake Guntersville is a long way from Corning, Cornell, or Cayuga Lake— Coleen and Mark Fabrizi’s typical haunts—but for two days in October, this upstate New York couple joined elite angler Justin Lucas in northern Alabama for the trip of a lifetime.

As the executive director of the Gaffer District for the past eleven years, Coleen manages and promotes events such as downtown Corning’s GlassFest; Mark is a facilities coordinator at Cornell University.

They are passionate about their close-knit family—just ask them about their seven grandchildren—and also about their pastimes, most of which are centered on the water. Avid anglers who enjoy largemouth bass fishing, the Fabrizis favor Cayuga and Keuka lakes, and Maine’s Cobbosseecontee (Cobbie) Lake, for their fishing excursions.

As a child, Coleen did some smelting

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and fishing for bullheads, but it was Mark’s passion for angling that finally lured her into the sport. “I was minding my own business, reading a book by Luanne Rice, while Mark was catching one fish after another on Cobbie Lake when I said to him, ‘maybe I’ll try that,’” she recalls. Mark showed Coleen the basics and on her first cast she got a fish, then a dozen more. “I was hooked,” she admits.

A decade later she no longer brings books on the water nor does she confine herself to one rod and reel. Instead, the lefty of the family, Mark, has his three rods baited in the bow of the boat while Coleen, a right-hander, has her three rods, each with a distinctive lure suitable for different conditions, in the stern. Both are catch and release anglers, following the ethical guidelines and conservation practices of the sport.

When they are not fishing themselves, Mark and Coleen follow major league fishing—national competitions for professional anglers. At the elite level in tournaments, each angler has a marshal on board, serving as the eyes and ears of the sport and guaranteeing that the rules are being followed. Five years ago, the Fabrizis qualified as fishing marshals. “It’s been a wonderful experience, and we’ve encountered nothing but integrity from the anglers we’ve marshalled,” Coleen states. Although marshals are observers and prohibited from fishing or distracting the anglers while on board at a tournament, Coleen suspects that she and her husband have picked up many tips just by observing these elite anglers.

But it was the opportunity to fish with one of these pros, Justin Lucas, that See Fabrizi on page 25

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motivated Coleen to enter the Econolodge Easy Escape Contest in August 2018 while at a tournament on the St. Lawrence. A pop-up ad urged readers to share their stories and win a fishing trip with Justin Lucas, 2018 Angler of the Year, by answering the prompt—“If I could spend the day fishing with Justin Lucas, who would I bring and why?” Coleen’s response revealed both her love for her family as well as her philosophy for living. Mark, her mentor and her partner for thirty-seven years, was the obvious choice for her fishing companion, but it was the passion for living expressed by her dad and Mark’s father that inspired her essay. Both men had worked hard all of their lives but also had urged their children to follow their dreams. They believed that “the best thing you can pass along to your children and grandchildren is not to have a list of regrets but a list of joys and gratitude.”

Coleen’s essay must have struck a chord with the judges, for, the following month, she was interviewed as a finalist and soon after notified that she was the winner of an all-expenses-paid trip to Lake Guntersville.

It was a dream come true for the Fabrizis. Lake Guntersville, a seventy-five-mile long shallow lake bound by Guntersville Dam on one end and Nickajack Dam at the other, is a haven for largemouth bass, American’s most popular game fish, as well as a destination for the anglers who pursue them. Here at Lake Guntersville, Coleen and Mark would have Justin Lucas all to themselves. They could pepper him with questions, he could share tips with them, and the three of them could each enjoy the pleasure of fishing one of the best lakes on the Alabama Bass Trail. Lucas, a native Californian, had moved to Alabama in 2014 to pursue his quest of becoming a professional angler. That dream quickly become reality, as he won both the California Delta and the Potomac Elite events as well as becoming the 2018 Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year, all that since moving to Alabama.

During their day on Lake Guntersville, Lucas shared his passion for the sport with the Fabrizis, taught Coleen to fish with a lure she’d never tried, and introduced them to the beauty and bounty of the lake. The threesome were followed by a camera boat which captured the excursion. The film will premier in Las Vegas at the annual convention for Choice Hotels.

It turned out to be a heady fishing season for Coleen and Mark. On a whim, Coleen entered a contest, won an all-expensespaid trip to Alabama, and fished with a pro at one of the most famous bass fisheries in the country. Had their dads been alive, they would certainly have congratulated the couple on accumulating more good adventures to add to the list of gratitude and joys. It was Mark’s dad who had taught him to fish, and Mark who had mentored Coleen and later their son, Travis, who became a New York State-certified fly tying and fly-fishing instructor by the age of twelve. Now seven Fabrizi grandchildren are under the spell of the sport.

“It’s a wonderful experience to teach the grandchildren the art and the ethics of fishing,” says Coleen. “We don’t need to have exaggerated stories about the fish that got away. If it’s real, it’s a tale worth telling.”

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Courtesy Adam Hullings Familial framework: with over thirty years experience, Ralph Hullings (right) passes his knowledge (and ownership) on to his son, Adam (left).

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t first sight, the large warehouselike structure appears unassuming, but, once inside, it’s evident that this 3,000-square-foot workshop is truly a craftsman’s studio. The distinctive smells of the tools of the trade—from paints and varnishes to sanded wood—permeate the space that is filled with impressive vessels in various stages of restoration and rebirth.

Owner, Adam Hullings, and his father, Ralph Hullings, keep their namesake, Hullings Hulls, clean and bright, perfect for doing the detailed work required on these nautical treasures.

Ralph has over thirty years of experience at various shops around the area, most in the Branchport, New York, area. Starting out as a mechanic, he progressively gained experience in working with fiberglass, gel

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“It’s time to start transferring this knowledge to the next generation,” Ralph says, referring to his son. Adam chimes in, relating that, starting at age ten, he would “plug boats for candy” on the days he went to work with his dad. That was the spark that lit his passion for boat restoration and ultimately led toward this successful business, literally living up to the family name, so they made the decision four years ago to strike out on their own. First leasing, then purchasing, the massive building at 1685 Spur Road in Penn Yan, they have never looked back. The two like to joke between themselves regarding the current role reversal—that of Adam being the boss of his dad—but with some seriousness they

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Ralph sums it up when he states, “I enjoy my work again.”

Although the company restores all types of boats, Adam concedes that wood is their passion. He uncovers a pink and black wooden Jersey Speed Skiff from Georgia, christened Pink Lady and holder of two world records, including one straight-away (a kind of aquatic drag race) record from the 1920s. Ralph explains that these types of contests were held at Toms River and Sandy Hook, both in New Jersey. The boat looks almost new now, but it came in with See Oar on page 28

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“hogs” in the hull, areas where the boards became indented at the contact points of the trailer it sat upon. To fix this, a humidifier was placed under the warped areas, followed by the installation of a brace until the boards were dry and maintained the original form of the hull. Seeing this boat returned to its original finish conjures up images from nearly a century ago of finely clad spectators, breathlessly watching the races from the Jersey shore.

Another tarp gets peeled back, unveiling a beautiful forest green Penn Yan Kingfisher canoe that was recanvased, and fitted with a new transom, outer keel, and stem. The process for fixing this boat is as amazing as the boat looks, especially when comparing it to the pictures of what it looked like when it first came into the shop. The warped white oak boards were taken off and boiled until they were “like spaghetti.” The tools used for this process included two turkey-fryer burners and a twelve-foot by fourteen-inch steel tank—this is heavy work.

Ralph is then keen to point out a historically important boat they are working on. She is a 1942 Century Sea Maid Barrelback, one of only six known to be left in the country. These boats were commissioned by the military during World War II. In his spare time, Ralph is researching the provenance of this boat based on its hull number. Century boats were single hull boats, with a particular configuration that doesn’t allow water to drain completely, making them prone to rot. With the skills and knowledge between them, the Hullings are improving Century boats by using a design feature of Chris-Craft boats—a double hull—thus protecting them from the rot.

Each piece of equipment in the shop is specialized to a particular job, including the jointer, utilized to make flat surfaces on the wood edges. Theirs was originally used in the Penn Yan Boat Company, a business founded in 1921 and which stopped production in 2001. Various band saws, belt sanders, and planers are strategically placed within the shop. Good old-fashioned elbow grease is needed much of the time, keeping these guys in good physical condition. All the glamour and romantic notions of boat restoration is blown out of the water, however, when Adam describes the hazards of sanding an anti-fouling finish off the bottom of a boat and being covered with blue dust, a process Ralph characterizes as “turning yourself into a Smurf.” The boats are beautiful when they’re finished, however, and customers show their gratitude by making referrals, bringing in business from as far as North Carolina and Georgia. Late in 2017, the Hullings hired Ken Johnson, who brings over thirty years of experience to the operation, making over seventy-five years of combined experience between the three men.

Adam supposes his six-year-old daughter, who doesn’t like getting dirty, may not join in the boat restoration business; his oneyear-old son is a better bet. With a start like this, the chances are good that Adam will pass on his knowledge to the next generation just as his dad, Ralph, is doing now.

You can find them at hullingshulls.co, on Facebook, or call them at (315) 521-1322.

Nicole Landers is a freelance writer living in the Finger Lakes area.

Her interests include the arts, agriculture, nature, and community involvement.

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being afraid of the dark. My favorite landscape photography subject is Tioga County. I really, really like showing the beauty of the area in which we live. There is so much that is stunning to see. Main Street in Wellsboro is my favorite subject. But so are the Pine Creek Gorge and especially the Pine Creek Rail Trail.

If I can encourage someone to come to Tioga County to see and share my experiences here, I will have done what I have set out to do. And I like flying my drone and taking aerial photos. The difference in perspective is fascinating to me. WindDancer is my drone’s name, and it often takes me to scenes I would not be able to see otherwise. Flying for me is scary. It’s a lot of equipment that only flies well when I think well. But it’s well worth doing it.

Do you prefer film or digital photography?

I remember film work. I was a terrible photographer and I didn’t get many “keepers.” Photographers used to take twentyfour or thirty-six shots on a roll of film and send the roll of film in for processing. After a week’s wait, prints and negatives would come back. And I was usually disappointed with the number of viewable prints in the envelope. Digital photography changed all of that. I can take as many shots as I want and keep only those that are good enough, especially important in wildlife photography because the “keeper” rate is still pretty small. With the advent of post-processing software like Lightroom and Photoshop, the possibilities for artistic license expand greatly. I tend to be pretty impatient with any post-processing effort. I use free software on my iPad Pro and a finger swipe is about the extent of my skills and efforts. A little cropping, sharpening, and exposure tweaking does the trick for me. My “snow globes” prints are a good example of taking a photograph and creating something different with a simple app.

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What would your dream photo shoot be?

Ohhh, what a thought…I would start at the diner on Main Street in Wellsboro and I would work my way up Main Street and marvel about how Norman Rockwellish our town’s historic district is. I would shoot photos up high and down low. The lighting would be blue light, just before dawn. And I would be there to watch the sun rise and to watch the light tones change from blue to red to yellow. There are moments on Main Street when the lighting is fantastic, especially early in the morning.

Then I would head to the Pine Creek Rail Trail and I would ride my bike with my camera on the back of my bike in my rear “trunk.” I would look for wildlife along the way, stop and meditate along Pine Creek at times, chat with other folks on the trail, and watch the sun slowly creep into the bottom of the canyon. I’d listen for the ghosts of the canyon’s past and I would dream of glorious times, past and future. I’d be thrilled to see any of the eagles in the canyon and I would stop to watch, perhaps for an hour or so. The beauty of riding or walking the trail is that time almost stands still. There is so much time to think and dream.

I’d end the day by going back out for evening photography. I’d set up in the country to watch the Milky Way appear around 10 p.m. I’d enjoy the dark, the stillness of the night, and the vastness of the universe. And I would think and dream.

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Mt. Pisgah County Park in Springfield Township is 600 acres of beautiful forests, views, and wildlife, along with two pavilions, some great picnic spots, and three hiking trails—Ridge Trail, Wetona Trail, and Fox Trot Trail.

And now, says Bradford County Parks Supervisor Travis Lemons, there’s camping. The first camping season was 2018, he says, and the new season will run from mid-April to mid-October.

The mountain that the park was named for was “discovered” in 1817 by John Dobbins, Myron Ballard, and Elam Kendall, who had hiked to the area from Sugar Creek, about fifteen miles away. They spread the word after their visit that the site offered superior hunting grounds. It was Dobbins who said they should name the mountain “Pisgah,” reportedly saying, “From Pisgah’s top, I view the promised land.” In the Bible, Pisgah is translated as “mountain.”

Later, the land was purchased by John Salisbury of Phelps, New York. He left the land that now includes the county park to his daughter, Mary, who married a well-known area photographer named Moses Gustin. An eighty-foot tower was built on the mountain, and, because it withstood the wind for many years, a story began that the spirit of the great Native American warrior Chief Wetona, who history says lived in the area, was saving the tower. Chief Wetona, an Oneida warrior who survived the Battle of Newtown (a Revolutionary War battle between the British and the Americans in Newtown, New York) is believed to have been buried on the mountain, but his body was later moved. The tower was torn down in 1918 after the harsh winds finally damaged it.

In 1965, the Bradford County commissioners purchased the land that included the mountain, and, today, the county maintains the park, along with its three other parks—LarnardHornbrook, Sunfish Pond, and Cooks Pond. Travis notes that camping is now available not only at Mt. Pisgah but at LarnardHornbrook and Sunfish Pond.

Mt. Pisgah County Park is about halfway between Troy and Towanda, just off Route 6. Find out more at bradfordcountypa. org/County-Parks/. ~ Lisa Howeler

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“It really works,” says Pete. “It is so rewarding to know these guys are getting a little bit of happiness. We see ourselves changing lives, one cast at a time.”

We humans don’t always know how to help each other. But if it’s true that hindsight is 20/20, then perhaps the words of Norman Maclean, whose fly fishing opus A River Runs Through It serves as a flowing metaphor for life, death, and how to deal with what happens to us with courage and dignity—valor, if you will—might be applicable: “…often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them—we can love completely without complete understanding.”

Gary Beikirch, who lives in the Rochester area, was an Army medic with the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam. Wounded and partially paralyzed during a battle at Dak Seang, he continued treating other wounded soldiers and firing his weapon—at times on a stretcher himself. He was awarded a Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart, and was the special guest at the 2015 PHWFF event.

“Although it has been a while since our fly fishing trip to Pennsylvania, there are still some very precious and vivid memories of that time,” Gary says. “There is a very special healing quality that accompanies being by water. Not only is it refreshing and cleansing, but the constant and continual flow of the streams and current reminds me of the flow of life. Just as the stream finds a way to flow past any obstacle in its path, likewise we possess the ability and the hope to be able to flow past the challenges that we face in life.

“In addition to the very personal and individual healing that occurred was the experience of being with others who were on the same journey,” he continues. “There is something special about sharing your journey with others.”

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