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- Why We Moved to Jersey
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- Patricia Baskets Welcomes you to:
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- Carefree Days
- of Retirement Years
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- Tom Came To Fish
- I Came to Hike Along the Small
Streams.
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- I'm an outdoors and mountain person. That's why I
moved to Pennsylvania. Tom is an outdoors person too, and is
realizing his dream of living near pristine fishing waters. So
we moved to Jersey Shore, Pa., which is at the bottom end of
Pine Creek, which flows through the largest mountains in Pa.,
The Grand Canyon of Pa.
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- Together we bike on the Pine Creek Trail and Fish
on it's waters and it's tributaries. In early spring and late
fall, we hike in the mountains and "scout out streams"
for next year's fishing.
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- Each trip we make is an adventure, better than the
last trip, and a blessing.
- Scroll down, and you will see why.
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- Tom on Little Pine Creek
- Pine creek is just a few hundred yards from our house.
If you go up-stream about 10 miles to Waterville, Little Pine
flows into Pine Creek. Little Pine Creek State park, where Tom
is fishing, had a pair of nesting bald eagles this year and we
frequently saw them.
- Note how clear the water is. The Pine Creek Recreational
(Bike) Trail runs for 52 miles along Pine Creek and is very easily
accessable. We have done it all.
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- Pat on Manor Fork -
- Taken just below the picture above.While I am not
fishing, I need the waders to navigate the stream while I take
pictures and look for and under rocks. The insect life tells
us how clean the stream is and sometimes if the fishing will
be good. I would love to find a hellbender, but I need to look
on larger streams, like Pine Creek, or the Susquehanna. Pine
Creek flows into the Susquehanna about a quarter mile from our
house.
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- P.S. A hellbender is a large aquatic salamandar that
lives in large creeks and rivers under rocks and feeds on crayfish.
It is size large. We heard about them at a Trout Unlimited meeting
and I got to hold one that was about 20" long. We never
even knew they were there.
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- This is Tom's real quarry -
- Naturally Reproducing Native Brook Trout
- Full spawning colors - Red Run November 2007
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- This is a picture of one of the boiling springs in
Boiling Springs, Pa.
- Sometimes they are in lakes or streams; sometimes
- they boil as much as a foot above the surface of
the water. This
- one isn't high, and was difficult to photograph so
you could see it.
- How do they appear? Small streams and ground water
simly sink into the underlying limestone in the mountains and
re-appear as a spring somewhere in a valley below.
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- I know of 4 boiling springs in the area where I live
, one of which is the largest boiling spring in Pa. There are
4 streams up in the mountains around Nipanose Valley that simply
dissappear into the ground
- at about 800 feet above sea level.
- The all re-appear as Lockabar, which is the source
of Antes Creek.
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Among the mosses growing on this old rotton
log are several small hemlock trees. |
After many years, trees that grow out of logs
have their roots seek the ground either through the log or around
it. Then, the log itself decays away, and you have trees like
this one, showing space below the tree with some roots partially
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Fungus on rotted tree by Nickle Run |
Orange Newt |
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These ferns are of special interest to me as
a basketmaker. Their stems are black, and very long, with the
leaves at the top. They look the same as used in the northwest
Indian baskets from Washington State. The natural fern they use
is thin, shiny and black. |
There are so many kinds of mosses. These I found on
Nickle Run |
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