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Pennsylvania Steelhead fishing for all !

A land owner on Upper Elk Creek, upstream of PFBC Rick Road Access, has new PFBC signs alerting anglers DO NOT ENTER THIS PROPERTY. If you see these signs, the land owner wants you stay off his yard and property, walk only in or along the banks of Elk Creek. At this point, the owner is still allowing anglers to fish his property. What prompted this is when a few angler(s) walked thru his yard and right by his house, and then failed to be respectful to his request to stay in the creek and away from his little white cottage adjacent to the creek.

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Field and Stream Gets Involved in Our Fishery Quickly

Recently our outgoing Vice-President Rich Sherwin was able to procure a 3500 Watt Champion portable generator. It will be used by 3-C-U as back up power for the nursery raceways to prevent fish loss during power outages.

Rich contacted the new Field and Stream Store and was able to get them to donate the generator free of charge. Pictured here with Rich are Bob Hetz and Mike Felege of 3-C-U

The 2014 International Coastal Cleanup Planning Committee met

to plan the local effort for the fall Cleanup!

The 2014 ICC is scheduled for September 20th, from 9am to 12pm at 16 Erie County locations. The PA Steelhead Association is in charge of the Walnut Creek Access Area cleanup again this year!

The 2013 International Coastal Cleanup, worldwide, brought together 648,015 volunteers in 92 countries who collected 12.3 million pounds of trash.
The Pennsylvania, statewide cleanup, was ranked 6^th nationally for number of volunteers with 9,745 volunteers who collected 459,076 pounds of trash in 32 counties. Erie county held Pennsylvania records for the 2013 ICC with most cigarette butts collected (16,276), most plastic wrappers collected (3,161), and most plastic bottles collected (1,574).
Although a virtual monsoon hit the morning of the International Coastal Cleanup last fall, a few hardy souls showed up (pictured above) to fulfill the PSA’s commitment to clean up the area around the Walnut Creek Access area in the rain. 49 ½ pounds of trash was picked up (including 1410 cigarette butts and over 1700 feet of fishing line).
We are asking for volunteers again to show up the morning of September 20, 2014 and help keep one of are great access areas clean!

Click the link below to view the ICC 2014 Brochure!

International Coastal Cleanup 2014 Brochure.pdf

Congratulations to Mike Felege the first recipient of the PSA Angler Appreciation Award!

For more Banquet pictures go to the 2013 Fall Run Banquet Tab on the left - allow time for the pictures to load on the page!

PSA Officers - Serving until March 2015

President -Ryan Novatnack
Vice President - Karl Weixlmann
Treasurer - Skip Simmons
Secretary - Marty Grzasko

Re-elected Board Members:

Frank Sicicchitano
Dan Pastore
Corey Shields

Newly-elected Board Members:

Mark Signorino

Herb Kightlinger

Paul Krott
Dan Beck

General Membership Meetings
Next Meeting is in August
The PSA will be taking the summer off and not having scheduled membership meetings, but please look for future E-mails with details that will explain future projects.

7:30 pm on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. American Legion Post #773, 4109 West 12th Street, Erie, PA

There will be NO meetings in June or July. Our next meeting will be in August.