Newer Pa. Fish Commission web site ?

Typical goverment run websight Brock. They fail to see the good in the age old adage "Keep It Simple Stupid". They just get the "stupid" part.


PS. I agree.

Yes,New and improved.lol As to old and simple.

I hate the new website. I sent a email to PFBC, and I got a response back within the same day. The reason for updating is b/c their research has shown a majority of website "hits" came from mobile devices and tablets. As far as the broken links and missing pages, PFBC said it was cause of the migration to new servers, and Google in the coming weeks will be cleaning out bad links. So time will tell
 
 

Yea the old website was better.
 

I got a response today from them and they helped me figure some of it out. I like looking at year to year award catches of biggest fish in Pa.
http://www.fishandboat.com/Fish/PennsylvaniaFishes/BiggestFish/Pages/default.aspx
 
Just seemed easier navigation on the old site this one requires more windows to find and open. 

Rich , something went crazy a few years back on Pymy and nobody seems to know for sure what. There were rumors that some Hybrid Bass were released into Pymy by mistake. Who knows maybe a mistake, maybe not. Well it must of happened because people were catching a few nice ones here and there for a few years. Not many caught, but enough that they were showing up. I personally love to catch them because they are just awesome fighters. I'd be all for introducing them to more lakes around us , and being a hybrid there would be no worry on controlling numbers. They are a super sport fish that would make anybody thrilled to battle!
 
As far as eating I have tried them and was not impressed with a few we kept years ago. I have caught plenty in Shenango and have released about 99%. Some guys say they are good eating just have to fillet proper. They say White Bass are the same if you fillet them proper they are good too. I'm a Walleye eater when it comes to table fish, most others go free. I haven't heard of any Stripers caught in Pymy past few years so I think most are no longer around. 
 
One thing that has always had me wondering about Pymy is that in all my years of fishing and talking to others how is it possible that that lake has no Pike ! Seems Pike are just about everywhere but I have never seen any come from that lake. Seems impossible but true.
 
2013 huh? Tiger Musky award 2nd place.....lol

I caught a few really nice pike years ago below the dam in the river,when I winter / early spring walleye fish. They hit white twister tails on 1/8 jig heads. Biggest was 38 inches and released. In the last 10 years just learn how to fillet the Y bones out of them. This may sound weird but only eating eyes,gills,crappie,and perch, I put the stinky pike way up on the list as table fair. I had a big fry one year,and one cookie sheet had walleye fillets cut into portion size pieces the other had a 40 inch ice fishing pike cut into 3-4 inch pieces fried in the same breading. After a few adult beverages we had a taste test. I asked the guests what tray of eyes they like best. By a small margin the pike won. Of  course once I told them it was pike,some changed there mind.lol

Much like when coyotes move into new territory, the red fox are killed/pushed out. I would venture the huge population of Musky in Pymy have all but eliminated pike.

That is odd. Never caught a Pike in there myself. All the trolling you would think there would be a stray around.

I guess you could say Pike are Coyotes of the water having but two predators; man and Musky. Sure wouldn't be much left having both Musky and Northern Pike in the same lake.

Musky population, of course, can be controled through hybridation which uses the Pike in the raising thereof.

Northern have no problem with spawning in lakes, criks, rivers, etc, as other species do.

Always likened catching a Pike in a lake to that of fighting a log until that log surfaces, then yinz better have the drag set and set right.

Catch em on a live bait under float, tossing jigs, spinners, spoons, plugs and I think on a bare hook. Darn things will eat anything except weeds..... sorry.

Find shallow water holding dead weed over a hump along deep water and drop dead cut on the bottom through the ice; sit back, chew on some deer jerky while, enjoying a hot cup of Captain Morgan Coffee.

But don't take my word for any of this because, as easy as it sounds, I can't catch this stupid fish... either!

I do however, know about the Morgan Coffee and the deer jerky**.




** When provided by others..... stupid deer!

Conneaut Lake has a good population of both too

the game commission web site is a mess now also, why can't they just leave things alone that are working , they probably paid some outside agency to redevelope the web page that was fine to most people, instead of spending the money thet don't have on something that needed fixed.

Well bubbaman both agencies have royally screwed up their responsibilities in field and water so why not fix something else that ain't broke?

I understand having difficulty in using and understanding a new system but that is not the problem with either sight.

Just like changes they have made in fishing and hunting, the web sight just doesn't work.

All at the cost to the PA Angler and Hunter.

But there's always tomorrow and maybe something will work.... for a while.


Sorry about the rant fellas..... cabin fever. Or brain freeze?

Never a problem finding what they think you want to see or what they want you to see.

But don't expect to find with ease subjects you desire.

Franklin I don't care about trout programs or John Arway's pet SOS project but you can find that info.

Likewise I could care less about mentored hunting or special youth pheasant stocking programs but try and figure out if you can hunt this on Sunday but not that on Sunday or you can shoot this on Friday, Sat, and Sunday but not on Mon Tues, Wed, or Thurs.

And don't even ask me what I think of the bogus Antler Restriction thingy.


Ya know, I think there might be something to that "getting things off your chest" thingy.

I seem to suddenly feel better.



Anyway, anybody using a android to type and access the internet. When I turn spell check on I can not use names like Arway cause the thing changes it to Array or type Mon. for Monday without the thing changing it to Monk. Don't even use words like ain't cause it ain't gonna let ya do it.

Stupid spellcheck.


Hey..... you know, I'm feeling even better.


Than again; maybe there's truth in " ya can't teach a old dog new tricks"...... uhh, no offense Old Dog.

  C.Hook, I have wondered why Pike are not present in Pymy. As easily as most fish hitch hikers get around it seems strange. I also eat Pike and consider it one of my favorite on the table. That said, I have only eaten them in winter as my old neighbor told my they taste muddy out of the warm summer water. I eat them year round in Canada. I fish Georgian Bay of Huron and they are much more muscular compared to the Pike I catch in Pa.
  PSU fish, A biologist in Canada once told me that all predator fish love to eat young Pike. I do not know why young Musky would be any different, however I neglected to ask him. On that note I bought an imitation 9" pike bait to fish with in Canada and I am looking forward to using it. I have caught many Pike up to 10 lbs. with obvious tooth-grab marks and once saw a Musky intent on eating a 24 " or better Pike in P. I.