Working to improve
Pennsylvania Steelhead fishing for all !

At the March 7th, 2018 General Membership meeting the Election of officers resulted in the following:

Office Name

President Marty Grzasko

Vice President JT Davis

Treasurer Chris Fatica

Secretary Ryan Novatnack

Board Members

Dan Beck Roger Latimer

Ron Miller Frank Sicicchitano

Harold (Skip) Simmons Al Warner

Karl Weixlmann Sam Zacour

The Pennsylvania Steelhead Association is a nonprofit organization established to enhance and preserve the Steelhead fishery in Pennsylvania including improving public access for Steelhead fishing, encouraging private landowners to maintain public access for Steelhead fishing, implementing stream enhancement and habitat improvement projects for Steelhead, and assisting nonprofit organizations which operate nurseries for spawning or raising Steelhead, or which acquire land or access easements for Steelhead fishing, or which engage in activities which complement the purposes and activities of the Pennsylvania Steelhead Association.

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In this Members-only Section you can:

See Past editions of TIGHT LINES (the PSA Newsletter)
Look up contact information for fellow PSA Members
See Member Fishing Reports

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Our Tight Lines newsletters are now sent out in digital form with an email blast. You may print all or part of any newsletter if you prefer to read a hard copy. All recent Tight Lines are available to read in digital format in the Members Only Content area of the web site. An example of the newsletter is below. Click on the cover of the November 2017 TIGHT LINES newsletter below to read the digital version:

November 2017

The newest TightLines Digital newsletter, the April 2018 Issue is now available in the Member-Only Content area along with 37 other older newsletters!

Meetings are typically held at 7:30 pm on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, August through April @ American Legion Post #773, 4109 West 12th Street, Erie, PA.

The next meeting of the PSA is August 8th, 2018!

April 11^th Program Presenters were Alec Link & Dan Armstrong

The fishing guides are from Albion, PA. and were raised on the tribs of Lake Erie fishing for steelhead. They gave an interesting talk about steelhead fishing on Kodiak Island in Alaska. They discussed differences between those fish and ours, similarities, and techniques to catch them. They talked about how they run their camp on Kodiak, a little bit of history of it all, and how access is limited to small numbers of fisherman to preserve the fishery.

Dan has been guiding for the Dave Duncan's and Sons in Alaska for 10 years. Alec has been guiding in Alaska and for the Duncan's for 5 years. They both guide from June to September 1st on the Kanektok river in Quinhagak, Alaska. From September through the 1st of November they guide on Invitation Creek which is a private west coast steelhead river. This river can only be fished with a guide. The 4 guides, and our 36 guests are the only 40 people a year who get to fish Invitation creek.

When home they are both local steelhead guides. Most of their trips are on the Conneaut, Ashtabula, or the Grand. They typically run float trips on these rivers.

Alec works here in the winter when the rivers do freeze up. Working for Fish USA in the winter keeps him abreast of new products and in touch with the local fisheries. Dan and Alec both practice catch and release, and consider themselves conservationists for fly fishing, and our local steelhead fishery more importantly.

PA Steelhead Associaton Facebook page link below:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pa-Steelhead-Association/136804763021961