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Professor Higbee’s Lost Streams

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By Lilace Mellin Guignard Two local anglers rescued the professor’s maps from oblivion, and save a life’s work.

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19 Freddie’s Fish

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22 The Best Angle

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6 The Real Outdoorsmen

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Cover by Gwen Button, photo of Professor Howard Higbee, age 65, working on a PA Land Resource map, courtesy Penn State University.

This page, from top, by Lilace Mellin Guignard; center, abandonded vagrant campsite, by Pat Kelly; bottom photo tip jar at Wolfe’s General Store, by Gayle Morrow.

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Labor of love: July, 1991, Howard Higbee, age 91, reviews the first proof of an updated Stream Map of Pennsylvania.

Professor Higbee’s Lost Streams Two Local Anglers Rescued the Professor’s Maps from Oblivion, and Saved a Life’s Work

By Lilace Mellin Guignard

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e’ve all heard about treasure maps, but sometimes the map is the lost treasure. This is the story of a map created in 1965 by Penn State Professor Howard Higbee. After three decades of drawing 86,000 miles of streams onto a 33x55-inch map of Pennsylvania, a printing company reproduced 70,000 copies. Several years later they went out of business, trashing the original drawing and printing plates. Thus the legend of the “Lost Stream Map” was born.

Then in his seventies, soils scientist Professor Higbee saw thirty years of his work vanish. It had been painstaking work.

Starting with many large topographic maps and aerial photographs, he reduced them again and again, drawing in each stream under high magnification. Then, to check distances, he modified his car’s odometer to measure miles in 500ths.

That the map made it into people’s hands was wonderful. That it was lost to future fisherman, conservationists, foresters, and others with a stake in the great outdoors was heartbreaking.

Back then, it was impossible to make new plates from the reproductions because they’d been printed in non-photographic

blue. Retired and caring for his wife who had Parkinson’s disease, Professor Higbee couldn’t start from scratch. He declined an offer to sell his last copy for $400, and believed his labor of love was lost forever.

• Jim Weaver, retired Tioga County Planner and avid fisherman, recalls how during his college days at Penn State in the early ’70s you couldn’t buy a copy.

“We lusted over it when we could look at it. Some of the university fishery guys had originals hanging on their office walls. We tried to find mistakes in the areas we were familiar with and used it to plot devious schemes to find brook trout water. The scale and lack of other features made it challenging to find those waters on the ground, but it made for a good chase and wayfinding.”

The map is all about water. Main roads are pale orange and float behind the vivid blue veins almost as an afterthought.

For this reason, people who use the map to find secret less-fished streams crossreference it with a state forest map or gazetteer to find the back roads that will get them closest. “Now that it’s available again it’s just good to hold it, read it, marvel at

Higbee’s perseverance, and take in the wondrous water resources of this state,” says Jim. “It’s a well-watered country.”

Two fishermen are responsible for the map becoming available again in 1991.

Larry Seaman and Karl Ings, of Vivid Publishing Company in Williamsport, were loaned a copy of “an old first edition stream map,” which they kept in their office. “Customers would stop to study it and ask where they could get one,” Larry recounts. “That was a light bulb moment!

Karl said, ‘We could sell a lot of these.’”

Howard Higbee’s name was on the map, so Karl picked up the phone and called Penn State. But they wouldn’t give Karl the retired professor’s phone number.

Larry went to the library reference room and looked it up in the State College phone directory. When Howard heard what Karl wanted to do he said, “Well, Sonny, if you’re interested in the stream map you had better get here fast because I’m ninetyone. At this stage of my life there isn’t much I really want or need. But seeing the Stream Map available to the public again is one thing that would make me happy.

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be around much longer.” They visited him the same day. It was April 4, 1991.

In October 1991, they printed 10,000 copies.

Though it happened fast, it did not come easy. They weren’t mapmakers.

They made how-to videos back when VCRs sat beside every TV. They were like YouTube before the Internet. When Howard told them the plates had been lost, Larry and Karl asked Penn State to give them the rights if they could figure a way to reprint. Because Penn State had already tried, with no luck, they agreed. “At first, we were stymied.”

Larry says they looked into duplicating the original process of drawing the streams “resembling capillaries in the human circulatory system.” But they didn’t have the money or the patience that would require.

Even National Geographic told them it couldn’t be done. They thought of going to the landfill and searching for the plates. Then they heard about emerging technology that claimed to be able to reproduce non-photographic blue. They located a company called Complete Pre-Press with one of the first drum scanners, but the drum wasn’t big enough.

“We held our breath and cut one of the few remaining ones into six sections,” explains Larry. They were prepared to be disappointed but the results were better than expected. “All the details were there, crisp and clear,” according to Karl. “We knew at that moment that Howard Higbee might actually see his wish fulfilled.”

They printed 10,000 maps for $10,000, in time for Christmas. The first thing they did was a direct mailing to the 6,000 members of Trout Unlimited.

The paper map, rolled or folded to 8x10 inches, sold for $19.95. The 33x55-inch laminated one to pin on your wall was $39.95. “The printer said, ‘I think you’re printing too many,’ but 23 percent of Trout Unlimited members bought them from that first mailing. And it took off after that,” Larry chuckles.

Professor Higbee lived to see his map back in circulation, and, before he died at the age of ninety-three, the new map had won rave reviews and the thanks of thousands of outdoor

enthusiasts. “He told us we were like a couple of coon dogs,” Larry says. To date they’ve printed over 110,000.

• Why is this map so popular that a husband and wife argued over who got their copy in the divorce? (Both anglers, she won custody of it.) Or that a couple had to replace theirs when the people buying their home insisted the map come with it? And how popular is it now that they’re available again?

Don Kelly, who owns the Tackle Shack in Wellsboro, offers one explanation.

“Twenty years ago maps were so important,” he says. “They were all we had. These days we have digital resources and map apps to use in the field.” But nothing will replace the experience of a large map, like the stream map hanging in his cabin, for staring at and finding new areas to explore. “You can’t see things at that scale on the screen.

Maybe you’ve heard that Pennsylvania has more streams than any other state except Alaska, and that sounds pretty cool. But you don’t get it until you see it all on one map,” says Don. • I’d asked Kathleen Lavelle, who’s been working with Trout Unlimited since 2014, if she knew about the lost stream map. While I stand in her living room greeting her dogs, she admits, “When you emailed, I immediately searched online because I hadn’t heard of it.” Kathleen has been working at home during the winter of COVID. Her computer sits on a table among maps and charts. “When I saw it on my screen, I turned to look over my left shoulder at the wall.” She points behind me and I turn. There, framed by weathered branches, is a laminated copy above their couch. We laugh.

“I first saw the map on the wall of a bar Alan [that’s Alan Dakin, her partner] took me to on an early date. I must’ve spent a lot of time looking at it because he got me this copy during our first year together.” She immediately knew she wanted to hang it prominently, so searched for the right branches from Little Pine Creek, near their home.

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Clearfield County.”

And that’s the thing about maps. They always tell a story, but maps of the same place can tell different stories. For instance, if you type Pennsylvania into Google maps, what comes up first is an outline of the state with highways and main cities. That map is a story of how to get around, making it look like there are few ways to reach the north-central part of the state. The yellow lines, especially where they intersect, tell the story of populations and commerce, and the places included seem like the desirable places to go. Whereas, a map of light pollution tells anyone looking for dark skies that north-central Pennsylvania is a preferable destination.

Cartographers know that what is left out is as important as what’s included, and getting all the streams and their names on the map was a higher priority for Professor Higbee Lucid legacy: (from top) Karl Ings and Larry Seaman than including all the roads. If everything were included, the map would be unusable. running a map laminator in A map of Pennsylvania’s waters tells the story the early days; Larry (right) of a state in which water is a major force. Seeing and Karl today; Karl’s son Ryan may be the next in the rivers, streams, and creeks squiggle across my line to carry on the Vivid kitchen wall where I’ve tacked the map tells me the tradition. story of land that provides lots of clean drinking water, water for crops and livestock, and a variety of aquatic recreation opportunities.

But as the field coordinator working on the Pennsylvania Coldwater Habitat Program, Kathleen can also read in it the stories of ecosystems. “Recently a priority for TU is identifying areas where there are barriers to aquatic organism passage.” She knows many of these streams that appear unimpeded actually have culverts that are too small to allow trout and other organisms to follow the lines that flow so freely on the map. “In my job we refer to streams by a six digit code, so this map is how I learn their names.”

Where this map really shines for Kathleen is in terms of education, especially when she needs to explain to interns about watershed size, boundaries, and connectivity. In addition to the blue of water, dark green lines show minor and major watersheds— areas where all water drains to a common outlet. I stand in front of her map, trying to name the six main river sheds, where the thickest outlines follow the land ridges that determine into which river waters flow. (I did okay, but didn’t know the Genesee and called the Ohio by it’s tributary, the Allegheny.)

The educational possibilities are endless and ageless. Jennifer McCarthy posted the map in her classroom when she taught fifth grade science at Liberty Elementary. “My students loved to trace the connection between their neighborhood streams, the West Branch of the Susquehanna, and on to the Chesapeake Bay,” she recalls. She retired in 2015 and brought one of the maps home.

Tired of talking indoors on a sunny day, Kathleen and I take her dog, Atlas, for a walk on the rail trail where Little Pine Creek flows into Pine Creek. “We call it Big Pine here, or the Big, to keep them straight,” she tells me as we pause on the bridge. Below us I watch the water from Little Pine head to the Pine Creek, running briskly past banks that are still snow-covered on its way to the Chesapeake Bay. Naked sycamores stretch silver arms to each other. Atlas pulls us onward.

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Publishing. It’s an open space crowded with tables layered with maps and some machinery. On the back wall are wide shelves with stacks of inventory, and near the door are a couple of desks.

When I stick my head through, Larry motions me in and quickly puts on a dusky purple facemask. Larry was born and raised in Williamsport but traveled for work after college, then came home and started the publishing company.

Now he lives on Lycoming Creek, a mile upstream of where he lived as a boy.

Larry’s the writer and numbers guy; Karl’s the salesman. The two met through college friends in Florida, and when Karl stopped to visit on his way through, he liked the area enough to accept a job. Soon he married a Pennsylvania girl and had some kids.

Larry leans back in his chair. “Back then, our how-to videos were mostly hunting and fishing,” he muses. Now maps and accompanying materials, including a book on fly-fishing, are their focus.

“It looks like Karl’s son Ryan might take over the business,” says Larry, who is seventy-two. “He fishes too, and was always in here with his dad when he was little. I think we brainwashed him.”

Before his death, Professor Higbee passed on his unique map-making methods and his blessing to Larry and Karl when they told him they’d like to map the streams of other states. “We’d made many visits to his home near the Penn State campus,” Larry says. “He’d be prepared for each visit with notes on 3x5 cards, as if he were giving a lecture.”

Larry and Karl were good students, apparently, because they were able to combine the professor’s methods with new computer technology and a team of cartographers to create maps for New York, Colorado, Michigan, West Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Oregon, Ohio, Wisconsin, Northern California, Washington, Montana, Missouri, New England, New Jersey, and Illinois. They choose states based on the number of fishing licenses sold. “To honor him, all the maps we create will carry his name. The drawing of Howard bent over his drafting tale is there to constantly remind us to accept nothing less than the Professor’s high standards for detail, accuracy, and See Streams on page 32 11

Pat Kelly Up a creek: Pat Kelly enjoyed a small fire, fishing, and solitude on Hobo Creek—or so he thought.

The Real Outdoorsmen Give and Take on Hobo Creek

By Pat Kelly

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n his right hand he had tied on a makeshift bandage made out of plastic bags. He was sitting on top of a trail-side picnic table with trash spread out all around him. As I climbed up the creek’s embankment, I could hear him loudly talking to himself. When he noticed me, he flinched in obvious surprise.

We were in secluded woods early in the morning and each man’s presence made the other feel uncomfortable. Noticing my fly rod, he relieved the tension by asking if

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I had any luck. I returned the favor (albeit while lying) and told him I had caught nothing. Afterwards I didn’t think much of it. The way I saw it, encounters with vagrants were bound to happen to hunters and fishermen. We occupy out-of-the-way places and are outside when most people are not. That was five years ago, and I’ve fished “Hobo Creek” dozens of times since then without incident. Until this past year the memory had all but faded.

Just before Christmas, I was working

a section of Hobo Creek upstream from an old covered bridge. There was snow on the ground, and I had built a twig fire next to the water so I could periodically warm my hands. After a few drifts I managed to land a respectable rainbow. I was in the process of taking the obligatory fishing hero selfie when something unexpectedly splashed into the water right in front of me. My first thought was that it was a jumping trout, but that didn’t make sense since the water along the shore was only an inch deep. Maybe a See Outdoorsmen on page 14

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squirrel had lost the handle on a walnut? I looked straight up, but there were no overhanging branches—just blue sky. I stood up and stared hard into the woods. Did someone just throw a rock at me?

Similar to a soon-to-be-murdered idiot in a horror movie, I dismissed the strange anomaly and resumed fishing. Walking upstream, I started noticing boot prints in the snow. I didn’t think much of it at first—it was, after all, a public tract of woods. Then as I started fishing the next run, I smelled wood smoke. I was 100 percent positive I had put out my fire, going so far as to kick all of the embers into the water. I cast a few more times, but the smell was so strong it became impossible to ignore. I stopped fishing and turned around to reexamine the woods. I was shocked to see that not ten yards behind me was a crude campsite. A checkered quilt was spread out on the ground with an empty beer can lying next to it. A foot away from the blanket, built up against the trunk of a large tree, were the smoldering remains of a fire. By the looks of the ash heap and the height of the bark’s scorch marks, this must have been a roaring blaze.

I smothered the smoking coals as best as I could with snow, and with renewed interest picked up the boot tracks that walked away from the fire. I was curious that this might be the same hooftie I bumped into years ago on the picnic table. As I followed the tracks deeper into the woods, I finally remembered the mystery splash and paused. Did this person see me building my own fire and think that I was setting up shop in “his woods?” Maybe he felt crowded, picked up a rock, and decided to put a shot across my bow? Regardless, what good would come from finding someone at the end of these tracks? It was time to get out of the woods.

Before leaving I checked the weather on my phone. It went into the twenties the night before and it would again once the sun went down.

I woke up the next day soured on Hobo Creek and in the market for a better fishing spot. A couple months prior I had found a fantastic new stream hidden about one hundred and fifty yards off of the Ironton Rail Trail. The IRT is a nine-mile-long macadam path that runs parallel to the Lehigh River and some of its tributaries. It is the type of place that Karens and Kens use to walk their dogs, push strollers (oftentimes with dogs in them), and ride bicycles in excessively tight clothing. The local consensus is that it is a safe place. However, when I fished this water for the first time, I found I just couldn’t stop looking over my shoulder.

Then an unexpected thought popped into my head: “This would be a great place for me to get killed without anyone ever knowing it.” I missed setting the hook on a trout and took it as an omen to leave. I hadn’t been back since.

Since then, the seasons had changed and everything looked much different. There were six inches of snow on the ground and the bare branches allowed me to see much deeper into the bush than I could before. As I left the trail, a suburbanite on a $1,000-bike zipped by me. His presence made me feel stupid for being so paranoid the last time I was here. After an hour of walking the creek, I finally had a trout strike a drifting nymph.

As I set the hook, I saw the flash of his silver belly just before he relieved himself of my fly. Thinking I was all alone, I swore aloud at maximum volume. After my little fit, I heard a susurrus somewhere behind me, almost as if my tantrum had startled something. I whipped my head around and saw tucked back in

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In two days of fishing, I had managed to blunder into two different homeless guys’ campsites. Up to this point I had only ever seen homeless people on city sidewalks. These two were more hardcore—tucked away in the snowy bush, well outside of town and all alone. I would not go so far as to say I admired these people, but it was hard not to be impressed with the level of toughness required to live like this.

A few days after Christmas, I was heading into town with my two sons. I was riding shotgun, with my sixteen-year-old driving and my eleven-year-old wasting his youth on some video game in the backseat. On a whim I told my eldest to turn down the road my new creek was on and to drive very slowly. The leafless trees and snowy backdrop made it possible to just make out the green tent from the road. I had him stop right there in the middle of the street so I could point it out. I told my two boys that was what real hardship looked like and to not let that happen to them. At a gas station we picked up some jerky, pretzels, and candy bars and tied them up in a plastic shopping bag. Back at the trailhead I told the boys I would be out of sight for a few minutes and to wait in the truck. The green tent was on the opposite side of the creek.

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his time of year, your skin is longing for moisture. After weeks of dry, indoor heat, multiple layers of clothing, chilly winds, and a propensity to not drink quite enough water (most of us don’t sweat as much at 20 degrees as we do at 80, and, sorry, for hydration purposes, vodka doesn’t count), who can blame your epidermis for its flaky, itchy condition? It needs some attention. It needs goat milk.

Enter the Nubians, Boers, Nigerian Dwarves, Saanens, Toggenburgs, et al.

They’re some of the most popular dairy goat breeds, and if you’re already a goat milk soap or goat milk lotion devotee, you are already familiar with their charms. If you’re not yet a fan, for the sake of your thirsty skin, read on.

What’s so special about goat milk (aside from the inherent cuteness of the provider)? What makes it so good for slathering and lathering?

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It has to do with its acid, fat, and mineral contents. Alpha hydroxy acids are chemical compounds widely used in the cosmetics industry. They come naturally from plants and animals, or can be manufactured. Lactic acid is an AHA found in goat milk. What makes it especially useful in the realm of skin care are its properties as a skin brightener and as an exfoliant. Lactic acid can reduce the pigment, known as melanin, in your skin, which you might like if your complexion is a bit blotchy or splotchy; exfoliants work to break down the connectors that hold dead skin cells together.

Jamie Cunningham, who, with her family, owns and operates Whitetail Lane Farm in State College, makes soap and lotion from milk she gets from the farm’s goats. She says lactic acid “kind of attacks the dead cells on your skin” which you then can wash away. Goat milk, she says,

is “fortified with lots of extra vitamins and minerals” and has a high butterfat content.

And, the lactic acid is a humectant, she adds, meaning that it pulls moisture from the air.

“I have super dry skin,” Jamie confesses, adding that she was buying goat milk soap to use in an effort to combat that dryness. In the meantime, she and her husband had purchased property and were using goats to clear it—the critters are famous, after all, for eating just about anything (except laurel, but including holiday wreaths hanging on doors). And, as grown-up girl and boy goats will, they produced little goats. Her husband had the idea of giving their human kids the experience and responsibility of helping to care for their goat kids, and then “we had all this milk.” So, she says, “I thought, why not make the soap myself?”

She did and she does, joining legions

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PINE CREEK VALLEY of other what-can-I-make-from-goat-milk enthusiasts in creating products that skin loves.

Heidi Hart, who makes Pure Hart Soap just outside of Wellsboro from goat milk her mixed flock of girls provides, admits she started soap making “on a whim.”

“I started off using a recipe from an established soap maker,” she says, noting this was pre-Internet, so “there was not the access to the soap-making community that there is now. I didn’t understand the differences in fats, but, as I progressed, I began to do my research and experiment with the oils.”

Heidi explains the “basic definition of soap” is oils/fats plus sodium hydroxide/strong alkali—AKA lye—mixed together via a process known as saponification, meaning both ingredients are “altered” and no lye is left behind to burn the skin. It helps, she says, to have “the benefit of programs that will do all of the chemical calculations for us,” eliminating the guesswork in variables that could lead to a batch of really harsh soap.

“The liquid portion of the soap can be just about any liquid,” she continues. “If you’re using just water, the water evaporates out of the final bar during the curing process. When you are using goat milk, the liquid portion of the milk evaporates and leaves the fat behind. You create a balance of fats that will allow the benefits of each to shine and minimize the downsides.”

“We don’t use lard,” Jamie says. Her oil favorites include coconut, palm (sustainably raised in the U.S.), avocado, and caster. Heidi says her oil research has shown her that olive oil is mild but doesn’t give much lather. Caster oil is also very mild on the skin “but in large quantities can make a softer, sticky bar.” Then there are all the wonderful fragrances, lathering, and moisturizing properties soap and lotion makers can tinker with.

Like any recipe, your choice of ingredients and your options for combining them depend on what you want your final product to be. In this case, one of the ingredients in the final product is a happy goat.

“The kids are on their mom for about eight weeks,” Jamie says. “We start milking about once a day, then let them go dry.

We give them ample period to relax and just be goats.” Both soap/lotion makers freeze the milk from their girls, which frees them and the goats from an artificial schedule.

“The best way to make soap with milk is to use frozen so the goat does not have to be in lactation the entire time you’re actively making soap,” Heidi says, adding she prefers fresh milk to make lotion but can use frozen for that as well. “I do not feel the need to push my goats. Goats are individuals and I often follow their cues for how long I keep milking.

“My personal take on soap making is the magic of it,” she continues. “I know it is science, but for me it is magic.”

“I’m not even sure I’d be making soap if we didn’t have goats,” Jamie says.

Find Heidi and her goats at purehartsoap.com, at 7411 Route 6, Wellsboro, and on Facebook.

Jamie is at Whitetail Lane Farm, 309 Whitetail Lane, State College, on Facebook, and at (814) 280-6045.

Heidi recommends healthline.com/nutrition/goat-milksoap-benefits#what-it-is for the science behind soap making. I found thenerdyfarmwife.com to be a fun information site as well.

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y brother Bruce and his son Freddie were up visiting one summer from North Carolina. Bruce is a fish hawk, and apparently Fred has inherited his dad’s fishing aptitude. When he was nine years old he fought and landed his first Citation-sized (a North Carolina tournament fishing award) cobia, a forty-six-pound brute that was longer than he was.

We had a couple of hours to fish before a family obligation. I wanted to take them to a small local trout stream, that will remain unnamed, where a couple of years before I had caught and released a twenty-plus-inch brown trout. But the sky was dark, the wind blowing hard, and a storm was coming. I checked the weather radar and noticed that the storm was centered over the stream and heading our way on the prevailing winds.

We decided to drive through the storm to the stream.

Hopefully, it will have passed, and we would have a brief window to fish before the next wave of storms came through. We arrived just as the rain and wind tapered off and found the stream slightly off color and rising slowly—perfect conditions—and the trout on the feed. Freddie expertly flipped his orange panther Martin spinning lure into the head of the first pool and took a twelve-inch brown.

We worked upstream until we came to the Big Fish Hole.

I told Freddie to cast his spinner just above a leaning bankside hemlock and slowly retrieve it. A submarine slowly rose out of the tree’s big root ball and struck the lure. Freddie was hooked into something big. The fish rolled several times, exposing its creamcolored belly. Freddie’s stiff saltwater spinning rod bent double as he put the butt to it before it could wrap the line around a root and break him off. It was a brown trout at least two feet long, especially big considering the size of the stream! But then the hook pulled out of his mouth…

Freddie exclaimed “Wow, that was the best trout I ever hooked!” I replied, “I’m sure you will see more like that one.”

Bruce winked at me and said, “Good guiding.”

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The Best Angle

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his is about fishing, not land lines, cell phones, texting, Twittering, Facebook, or any other of those social platforms that plague adolescents and stifle conversation ideas. With the age of a sage, I look back. My neighborhood in the 1950s was like most places then. The kids knew a few basic things. Like: indoors is bad; outdoors is good. Swathed in proper attire is bad; running around nearly naked is good. Bare feet, short-shorts, and bare back was the uniform of the day. On a typical warm day, I’d have been outside since just past daybreak. Near noon, my mother made me get out of the sun and eat some lunch, which was also an opportunity for her to begin her litany. “You can’t eat with those filthy hands! Now you march yourself right over to the sink and wash up! Look at you!

You’d think a boy could play without getting filthy. You look like you’ve been wallowin’ with the pigs. Now get cleaned up. And put your shirt on.” As the dirt slowly ran off my

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hands and formed a muddy trickle to the drain, she scolded, “You know that’s no way to wash your hands. You could plant a pea patch under those nails. And those ears! You could grow corn in those ears!”

See what I mean? Indoors is bad.

We knew that the best things happened outside. Good parents knew that, too.

Some of my childhood pals and gals hiked or camped with the family, or swam in icecold mountain waters. I preferred fishing with my dad. All summer, I wanted my dad to take me fishing. I was always ready for fishing. I hid in the tall corn stalks in our garden until Dad got home. He smiled.

“Whaddya say we go fishing?” We hopped in the car, drove to a stream, and talked while we fished. See what I mean? Outdoors is good.

Anyway, I grew up, met my lovely bride, and we spent spring days fishing, summer nights camping, fall days hunting, and winter days hiking through snow.

We walked miles in the woods, holding hands, enjoying the outdoors. Sometimes, we didn’t even talk, but we shared, we connected.

Then, our girls came along. We knew instinctively the value of the outdoors. We started with walks along woodland trails, swimming at deep spots on ice cold trout streams, camping, and sledding through forest snows. When they were seven and five, I wanted to teach them how to fish for trout. I wanted my daughters to see the beautiful places where I caught all the brookies they devoured. I wanted them to catch their own supper. But they ought to have success first. Whet their appetite for angling. I needed a sure thing.

I knew of a trout stream stocking about seven miles out of town. We arrived after school. The gals traipsed behind me as I navigated to a nice spot. Several adult anglers were positioned on the other side of the brook, just thirty to forty feet away.

They glared at the girls. My two blonde cherubs smiled and said, “Hi. We’re gonna catch some fish.” The glares continued.

I always had at least two rods at the ready. I grabbed the one most ready, baited the hook, and positioned the younger daughter in the right spot. I coached, “We’ll put your bait in right there,” as I pointed to the prime trout lie. “I’ll be back to help you as soon as I get Gretchen ready. When a trout bites, you’ll feel…”

I tapped the rod with my finger three times so the kid could feel what a hit was like. I hurried to her elder sister, feverishly seating the rod ferrules and tying a hook.

Whap! Something slapped my face. Maggie and the girls were laughing uncontrollably. I noticed a nine-inch brook trout wiggling at the end of Karin’s line. I reacted. “I TOLD you to wait!

Now wait a minute until I can get Gretchen ready to fish. Maggie, help her get that trout off the hook.” I turned to Gretchen and added a couple of sinkers. Whap! I felt the wriggle again. More laughter. Maggie confessed to rebaiting the kid’s hook. Gretchen approached her sister and threw in. I stood behind her, placing my arms around her to help guide her bait presentation. Whap! This time Karin’s trout hit my arm. Gretchen shrugged her shoulders to show that she didn’t want any help. Maggie and I sat back and helped with the unhooking and rebaiting until they each had the limit. The adults across the brook, having been skunked, stomped off in disgust.

We giggled all the way home. I cleaned the fish while the kids watched. Then they begged for “Daddy Fish,” a recipe for trout that they love. And yeah, we chatted all during supper about friends, school, church, clothes, fishing, and, especially, about Daddy getting smacked in the face with a fish.

After that, our daughters went along on fishing trips just to be with Mom and Dad. These were fun family outings that always ended with a picnic along the stream. From time to time, the girls slapped a number of trout onto the bank. And, as only kids could do, they often frustrated nearby adult anglers. But when they were in their early teen years, when they began to notice boys before brookies, they trooped along only because they didn’t want to hurt my feelings. That became clear to me one trout opener. I had limited out, and I was frantically coaching Karin. She missed, and she missed on bite after bite. As I was rebaiting her hook, I looked slightly downstream to my bride and Gretchen. They were leaning against a streamside hemlock, heads together, chatting about spring clothing sales. Both of them held their rods so the bait dangled six inches out of the water. Their minds were not on fishing. I managed to smile.

“C’mon,” I said. “Let’s get outta here. I think we’ve all earned a late breakfast. Let’s stop at the diner on the way home.”

It was a great outside experience.

So, mom and dad, take the kids hiking or camping, and especially fishing. At night, spotlight deer, walk a woods trail to the beam of a flashlight, throw a Jitterbug for bass, angle for eels, sit by a night fire along the “crick,” listen to frogs. The important thing is, you’re outside with your kids and you’re actually talking to each other. And that’s not a bad angle.

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t is official—the iconic Wolfe’s General Store/Slate Run Tackle Shop has new owners. It is also “overwhelming and exciting,” says Kim Kozlowski, who, with her husband, Tom, are those new owners.

But, she adds, “we have Deb and Tom.” Deb and Tom (the other Tom) are the Finkbiners, also a Pine Creek Valley institution, and they have owned and operated the store and the tackle shop on Route 414 in Brown Township, Lycoming County, for forty-five years. They’re sort of, kind of, ready to retire, although not quite.

In Tom Finkbiner’s words, “Deb and I are going to hang in there” with the Kozlowskis.

For a while, anyway.

It was back in the mid-1970s that Deb purchased the Wolfe’s General Store from her former in-laws.

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the store, and the wheels, or maybe it was the reels, started spinning.

“We wanted to make the store unique,” says Tom. They also wanted a fly fishing shop—preferably one with a line of Orvis products. Might as well dream big, right?

Pine Creek was already renowned in some circles for its world-class fishing, but it was something of a well-kept secret. So much a secret that the first company executive Tom approached about being a product/ equipment outlet was less than enthusiastic when he learned Slate Run had only nineteen permanent residents. How in the world could Tom afford an inventory of high-end fishing supplies selling to nineteen people?

It wasn’t too long after that, though, that an Orvis official, who had talked with somebody who had talked with somebody about the amazing fishing on Pine Creek in north central Pennsylvania, called and wanted to talk about product placement

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“The first seven or eight years were challenging,” Tom continues. “Every penny we could get our hands on went into the store.” As the number of fisherfolk and other outdoorsy types visiting the area increased, “what we found was that people were coming and had no place to eat.”

That led Deb to expand the line of food offerings—that, and an offhand comment from a customer that “you should make your own bread…” So, “we got this idea about building a deli,” Tom says.

“We did sticky buns too, back then,” Deb says. “There would be a waiting line.”

So, over the years, the store became the go-to spot, a destination, really, for high-end fly-fishing equipment, yummy sandwiches, camp supplies, good conversation, and a helping hand when one was needed.

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“People would come and look…and then, luckily, Tom and Kim came along,” Tom says.

“I said to Tom, ‘they’re the ones,’” Deb recalls.

The Kozlowskis have a home in Haneyville, which is just a couple ridges over from Slate Run, and own and operate several Subway franchises in Lycoming County. Those businesses support seventy-two employees, and have a lot of moving parts, so there are aspects of their new endeavor which are somewhat familiar.

Kim was a traveling nurse, and laughs that “I have a pretty good background of throwing myself into the fire.” Her family has had a variety of businesses in the lower Pine Creek Valley (“My grandfather was known for making turtle soup,” she notes). Both Tom and Kim are serious hikers, campers, fisherfolk, and lovers of “outdoorsy things.”

“When we saw this was for sale…” Kim says, taking a break to answer the phone.

“Wolfe’s General Store, this is Kim, how can I help you?” she says, like she’s been saying it all her life.

The couple are planning some changes. They want to put a deck on the building, and up the focus on hiking opportunities.

Kim characterizes changes to the inventory as “a double-edged sword.”

“Deb has made it easy. She’s done it successfully for forty-five years. We’ll add some of my own taste, some little additions, but overall it’s a pretty well-oiled machine.”

“We’ll both learn each thing,” Tom Kozlowski says of the business’s divergent but intertwined tackle and convenience store/ sandwich-making departments. They agree that they’re taking over a legend, and are enthusiastic about the prospect.

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The Wolfe’s General Store/Slate Run Tackle Shop story would not be complete without noting that it could have ended some years ago. During the mid-1980s, the Finkbiners considered relocating to Montana. They bought a little land, made regular visits, and figured they’d open a fly shop there. Friends Bob and Dottie Webber, who had their own little mountaintop paradise near Slate Run, helped them understand that their life was here.

It was Bob Webber who said, “I don’t know how you two can leave it,” Tom recalls.

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f you are, join the club. Anyone who visits my casa will tell you I have lots of “stuff.” And, since I am hunkered down as I write this, I thought I would use this quiet time to pitch or pare the piles (I call it POP). But what to tackle first? Well, there was a medium-sized box marked “Christmas cards” on my closet floor. It’s been bugging me. I always resisted tossing unusual cards, or the sub-pile of the “photo of family” versions. It was difficult, but I did manage to off-load quite a few to a much smaller box. Then I came across a document that a Cape Cod friend sent several years ago.

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It was a recipe that she loved, and since I had all the ingredients (she included a box of the noodles and the broth cubes in a mailing envelope with the recipe), I was charmed into making it. I had a saucepan full of soup bubbling away in minutes, as I recall. It was so welcome on a chilly day.

(The mail comes just before noon.) I was so pleased to become reunited with Jebba (that’s her name). I had to send it to you via this column. (However, I could not convince Mountain Home to include the noodles and broth cubes with the next issue of this wonderful magazine.)

Sadly, the sender is no longer with

us. She was an artist who had a business designing and packaging kits for needle pointers, plus beautifully designed tote bags.

What a talent, and I cherish the things I have that she designed. I knew her family on the West Coast, and after she and her husband, Larry, came east, they made their home a B&B for me. I treasure the memory of those beach walks—and the stops to visit their neighborhood lighthouse in Chatham.

It has many steps up to the view of the water and surrounding countryside. What a terrific way to walk off the fried clams!

Here’s the recipe. If you’re a low-salt person, just have a small portion or float a

slice of pared potato in the broth while it is bubbling. I’m told it absorbs at least a bit of the salt. Remove it before serving.

Very Nice, Very Nice Hurry-Up Soup This makes a big bowl of soup for one person. Double everything for two people.

The basic soup base: 2 generous cups boiling water ½ or 1 single cube Tom Yan Broth (1 whole cube makes a very spicy broth) 2 oz. (approx.) Chinese noodles ¼ inch fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped (I grate it on a microplane) To all of which add one or more of the following: Chopped raw red cabbage Snow peas cut in half Scallions chopped or cut, but do use some of the green Broccoli, fresh or cooked Shrimp, peeled, 4 to 6 per bowl Clams, shells rinsed and beards removed (the bivalves, not you) Scallops or cod, cut in small pieces Chop and prepare vegetables. (Jebba notes that they almost always added cabbage and scallions no matter what else they used.)

Bring water to a boil. Crumble up noodles and drop them into the boiling water. Add ½ or 1 Tom Yam cube, chopped ginger, and whatever pleases you. Leave cabbage or snow peas until the very last minute, as you want them to remain crunchy.

Cook approximately 3 minutes or until the noodles are tender. Add last minute vegetables. Serve at once.

Believe me, it’s fun to play around with this recipe using your favorite things. As the recipe says—very nice.

A Song in My Heart and a Meatball on My Plate Remember that line from Roger and Hammerstein’s Carousel?

You know, the one about June busting out all over?

Anyway, I was humming that song as I finished this column and, lo and behold, another thought of food occurred to me. It’s the wonderful Chinese dish called Lion’s Head Meatball. I’ve never made it before but had it some years ago in a restaurant. And I loved it. It’s basically an oversized orb the size of a tennis ball that is made up of finely ground or chopped pork, chopped scallions, ground ginger, sesame oil, soy sauce, Chinese wine, dried shitake mushrooms, water chestnuts, egg, and cornstarch. Usually, the meatballs are first deep fried in a neutral oil such as rapeseed or sunflower and then poached in a clear broth with bok choy leaves.

The meatball is said to resemble a lion, and the bok choy his mane.

While it is relatively easy to make, it is time-consuming and too long to tell in an article. That being said, I’d like to direct you to the following food blog that has color photos of the dish and many tips that are very appealing. Go to redhousespice.com and search for Yan-kit So’s recipe. It’s part of Chinese Recipe Central.

Also very nice!

Chef, teacher, author, and award-winning columnist Cornelius O’Donnell lives in Horseheads, New York.

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quality,” Larry says.

I wander over to a map of pastel pinks and greens. The label says Land Resource Map of Pennsylvania by Howard Wm. Higbee 1967. “That’s his original soils map,” Larry explains. “This was his main project, and he didn’t finish till two years after he retired. He said people always asked him why he bothered going to so much detail with the streams, and he’d say, ‘Because water affects soil.’”

We wind between tables to a back corner that has their newest printer. Gone are the days of having to print 10,000 at a time, which resulted in an inventory that got harder to store as they added states. Now all map printing is done in-house, as needed.

He punches a few numbers into their HP Pagewide printer and leans against it as the large format maps slide out the other side.

“It takes forty-inch paper on rolls, and we can print on demand up to 5,000 a day,” he says.

They also have a new website at streamsmaps.com that makes ordering easy (and there’s free standard shipping). Each comes with three PDF download bonuses. The “Explorer’s Guide to Hidden Streams & Lakes” indexes the main waters of interest to fishermen (more than 1,000 for the Keystone Sate) and gives map coordinates. The other two are useful to folks new to fishing: “Finding Secret Fishing Spots” and “How Anglers Stalk and Catch Record Fish.” My laminated map cost $39.95—same as in 1991.

Vivid Publishing’s latest project is the Limestone Stream & Lake Map of Pennsylvania. It includes south-central and southeastern sections of the state, overlaying just the limestone areas of the soils map onto the stream map. This map tells the story of happy, healthy trout. Limestone water is less acidic, acting like a natural buffer against acid mine drainage, an ongoing issue in Pennsylvania.

“If flowing from underground they also tend to have a steady temperature which is cooler in summer and warmer in winter,” Larry says. “We hope this map will encourage people to explore with a pH water tester and water thermometer and find some overlooked limestone gems containing big trout.”

These maps do excel at encouraging exploration. Scott Greevy, a ranger at Michaux State Forest in the south-central part of the state, remembers showing a classified ad for some “secret stream fishing map,” AKA a Higbee map, to his father. “I was fourteen or sixteen and my old man got it for me. I don’t remember the exact wording of the ad,” he says, “but it made it sound like if you had this secret map you could go fishing anywhere. Mapping is a language. When I look at this map I don’t see a flat piece of paper.” He gave his paper one to his brother and upgraded to a laminated one that hangs in his garage.

“I’ve stared at that map a lot,” Scott continues. He’s pulled by what he calls the mystique of it. “It makes it seem like you could go somewhere no one’s ever been before.” It’s the first filter he looks at when planning a fishing trip. “So many trips have come out of that map,” he grins. “If you stare at that thing long enough, you’re gonna go fishing.”

Lilace Mellin Guignard is a member of the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association and author of the memoir When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America.

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245,000

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