Lehigh River Stocking Association PO Box 54 Walnutport, PA 18088 Stocked: 294,300 Trout Trout Money Raised: $561,900 Site Menu LRSA Hats & T-Shirts... They look great and show you support the Lehigh River restoration efforts. The hats have embroidered lettering and brook trout. The t-shirts are printed on both sides. View Riverwear MEETING SCHEDULE 2008 We encourage all sponsors to attend the stated meeting of the LRSA. Meetings are held the last Tuesday of the month at the Walnutport VFW on Cherry Street in Walnutport at 8:00 PM. LRSA Officers: President: Matt MacConnell, PE 610-657-2707 Vice President: Greg Gliwa Secretary: Open Treasurer: Tom Gyory Memberships: Colleen Miller 610-760-1367 Advertising Sales: Bill Derhammer 610-791-5215 Webmaster and Newsletter Editor: Matt MacConnell LRSA Board of Directors: Irv Conway Bill Derhammer Tom Gyory Greg Gliwa Matt MacConnell Bob Metz Colleen Miller Ken Mack Todd Woodring Visit our LRSA Photo Gallery Email us your fishing photo's. Just attach your photo in any image file format to your email and send to: Please send us your email Lehigh River Hatch Chart The Hatch	Mission Statement The Lehigh River Stocking Association is a nonprofit, 501C-3 public organization dedicated to the restoration, revitalization and restocking of the Lehigh River. Our goal is the continuous improvement of this waterway and its tributaries. Our objectives are to insure clean water, a healthy and balanced ecosystem, an abundant fishery and access points for all citizens to enjoy. This will be to the benefit of all interests; including the businesses located throughout this region, the sportsmen and the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This project has been ongoing for the last seventeen years with great success. We need and ask for your support for this outstanding program to continue. RAFFLE WINNERS: The Salmon River Fishing Trip raffles winners were: John Ritter from Orwigsburg, Bob Dunstan from Lansford and Robert Reinhart of Palmerton. Congratulations! The 20 raffle winners from the Fall Raffle were drawn at the October 28th meeting. The winners are listed below. Congratulations to those with the luck of the draw! Listed in order of the top cash prize: 1. MIKE BENAVAGE, 2.MRS. TOM SEYFRIED, 3. LESTER SCHALL, 4. MIKE CLEWELL, 5.RAY BAKER, 6.HELENE GLIWA, 7. KATHY CHAMBERLAIN, 8. STEPHAINE KRESGE, 9. DAN RUDLOFF, 10. STEVE GALLAGHER, 11. MARK SPONENBERG, 12. L. SASSMAN, 13. DWAIN PAULES, 14. ED BEHUM, 15. MIKE CHURETTA, 16. LARRY BOSTICK, 17. ROBERT SLUCK, 18 BOB WESCOTT, 19. GEORGE BUTLER, 20 ROBERT KEIPER   FYI- Fall stocking went well on Saturday October 25th. Two trucks were used, truck 1 met at Bowmanstown bridge at 9 am and stocked all the favorite spots down to Walnutport. Truck 2 met at Glen Onoko at 9 am and stocked JT, Lehighton and Parryville. About 8000 Brown trout were released in the 6-8 inch range. It was an overcast day but it was a good day. Wildland's Conservancy hosted a stake holders meeting for review of the 2008 FEW Flow Management plan and to solicit input for the 2009 plan. In attendance were Matt MacConnell and Tom Gyory from LRSA. Other stake holders present were from NRDC, Lehigh Cold Water Alliance, PA Fish and Boat, Trout Unlimited, Rivers Adventures, and of course all of the rafting outfitters. After opening remarks by Chris Kocher from Wildlands, George Sauls of Army Corp made presentations as did Dave Madtle from NRDC, Gleg Wascik of Army Corps before opening up for comments. Generally, the boating community (rafters, Kayakers) were happy - all white water days were hit as planned. There were a number of complaints from the angling public such as low flow events in the midst of huge white water flows, lack of awareness of the timing of the releases to coordinate river access, and lack of participation in setting of the white water days for the 2009 plan. Suggestions were made to raise minimum augmentation flows in summer and to limit upper augmentation flows in April and May, elimination of the Mothers Day white water event and general requests to maintain more consistent flows through the summer if possible. Comments from the stake holder meeting will be posted on the army corp web site - feel free to post as well. The public meeting is scheduled for January 21, 2009 (location to be confirmed, I believe White Haven) Next LRSA Meeting to be held January 27th at 8 pm at the Walnutport VFW. Please refer to the map below for directions. All sponsors and guests are most welcome to attend. Thank you. Ted Miller, one of the LRSA founders and chairman of the board passed on June 3, 2008. Ted Miller was a key visionary for the restoration of the Lehigh Trout Fishery. We will miss him greatly and offer our most profound sympathies to the Miller family. Spring Stocking - March 22, 2008 Thanks to everyone who helped with this successful stocking event. About 40 folks were on hand in JT to get us started and another group at Northampton. The Rainbow trout were in great shape, about 13 - 18 inch and ~ 1.4 lbs each. Roughly 4800 of these fiesty bows are now prowling the holes, eddys and riffles from Glen Onoko down to below the Northampton dam. These fish join the 8,000 5-7 inch Brown Trout float stocked in November. The next few months on the river will be very interesting. Please be sure to renew your sponsorship so that we can keep up the angling excitement. See on the river!     Detail of the 2008 Spring Stocking on March 22. Spring 2007 Stocking Recap: April 28th - Stocked 2000 13 to 17 inch rainbow trout in Areas 3 and 4 (Jim Thorpe/Lehighton and Bowmanstown/Parryville/Palmerton). April 21st - Stocked 2000 13 to 17 inch rainbow trout in Areas 1 (Northampton to Triechlers) and Area 2 (Walnutport, Slatington). The fish look great. If you havent renewed your sponsorship PLEASE BECOME A SPONSOR or RENEW! We are low on sponsors this year for some reason and will not be able to meet LRSA stocking targets without your support. Tight Lines. LRSA Video Clips June 2nd, 2007 Fishing Clip at Glen Onoko Francis E Walter Dam Release Schedule - for details go to the Links Below. These are the presentations made to the public by the Army Corp of Engineers in 2008 and 2007. FEW Flow Management Plan for 2008 FEW Flow Management Plan for 2007 River Flow Rates - Click on the Link Below for Real Time Flows Francis E Walter Dam (FEW) Flows Lehighton Flows Walnutport Flows   The Lehigh River Watch is the official publication of the LRSA. Please download and take a look and enjoy the great fishing stories and conservation articles. June 2008 Newsletter February 2008 Newsletter September 2007 Newsletter   Make sure that your browser is Java enabled... NEW! LEHIGH RIVER FISHERIES MANAGEMENT PLAN Lehigh River Fisheries Management Plan May 1, 2007 Prepared by: David A. Arnold and Daryl J. Pierce Fisheries Management Area 5 Division of Fisheries Management Bureau of Fisheries Pennsylvania Fish NEWS - Lehigh River named Pennsylvania’s ‘River of the Year' DCNR Secretary Michael DiBerardinis this week named the Lehigh River as the commonwealth’s River of the Year for 2007. The designation recognizes the watershed’s role in eastern Pennsylvania history and its promising recreational future. The Lehigh River drains portions of 10 counties and stretches more than 100 miles. “The Lehigh River is alive and thriving, with water quality better now than it has been the last 150 years,” DiBerardinis said. “There are scores of partners working to preserve, protect and enhance this great state resource, and its resurgence has pumped new life into the communities surrounding it. “Once a historic transportation corridor for coal bound from Carbon and Luzerne counties to Philadelphia, New York and beyond, the Lehigh River helped fuel America’s Industrial Revolution,” DiBerardinis said. “Now, mountain bikers, hikers and hunters are seen where mules and canal barges hauled coal and other cargo. Where dams once contained the mighty river, anglers in great number now seek trout, American shad and other species found in a healthy waterway.” DCNR annually designates a “River of the Year” to applaud local residents, governments, non-profit and conservation organizations working to improve waterways and the quality of life in their watersheds across the state. The Lehigh River winds 104 miles from its headwaters near Gouldsboro, Wayne County, to its junction with the Delaware River in Easton, Northampton County. Its watershed drains Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton, Schuylkill and Wayne counties. The Lehigh is the Delaware’s second largest tributary. ACID MINE DRAINAGE AND THE LEHIGH The November/December issue of the PA Angler has its lead article about acid mine drainage in Pennsylvania. The article has some very sad facts regarding the conditions of streams in the state. Pennsylvania has about 4,000 miles of streams that are dead because of abandoned mine drainage. We don’t have to look too hard to see the damage locally, the “yellow boy” stain on the streambeds in the coal fields of Carbon and Schuylkill counties. You see streams that are gin clear that should scream “trout!” but have ph factors of 4, very acidic. Nothing is living in that stuff, no plants, bugs or fish. Heavy metal has coated the stream bed making them tombs. Just think of having these waterways healthy. What an impact on potable water and fishing recreation. Can you imagine 4,000 miles of “new” water holding fish? There is some good news in all of this. The Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund of 1977 provided $520 million to Pa and has been used to restore 18,000 acres of land and 100 miles of streams. Currently there is over $1,500,000,000 (yes that’s billion) in the fund that is not being allocated due to the states fighting over who gets the dough. The most and oldest damage is in the eastern states with more abandoned mines but the most mining is currently being done in the western states. So to get some help here in the Keystone State write your legislators and get bill S2616 passed to restore our streams and watersheds. They ain’t making any more creeks. P.S. Did you know that Pennsylvania has the most miles of rivers and streams in the continental United States? That’s something, PA is about 34th in land mass of the lower 48 states. PA is also the biggest polluter to the Chesapeake Bay, nothing to be proud about. LRSA Feedback: Send your comments and suggestions. Please send your email to LRSA Site Menu News | Fishing | Forum | Photos Watershed | Join | Sponsors | Links Or Print Application and Send U.S. Mail Click Here TOP of PAGE © copyright all rights reserved 1998 - 2007 LRSA Lehigh River Stocking Association P.O. Box 54 Walnutport, PA 18088 Site Created 10/04/98 Site Updated 7/14/08

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