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 November 2017

The newest TightLines Digital newsletter, the Summer 2018 (May, June, July) issue is now available in the Member-Only Content area along with 38 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!

August 8th Presenter:

Karl Weixlmann

Local guide, author and PSA Board of Director mem-ber Karl Weixlmann will be giving a Power Point Pro-gram on “Dry Fly Presentations and Strategies for Steelhead”. Topics covered will be waking dry flies, the season when it works, patterns to use, and the deadly dry fly dropper set ups and terminal tackle rigging.

Also the ideal water conditions when it works. By adding dry fly techniques to your steelheading reper-toire, Karl suggest you can actually catch more fish in what some would consider uncatchable condi-tions!

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