Lehigh River Stocking Association PO Box 54 Walnutport, PA 18088 Stocked to date: 307,600 Trout 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 two decades with great success. We need and ask for your support for this outstanding program to continue. Next LRSA Meeting to be held June 30 th, 2009 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. IN SEASON STOCKING COMPLETED! - The LRSA board approved spending our available balance for an in-season trout stocking on Saturday May 16. The first truck will meet at Walnutport Main Street Bridge at 11:00 am and will stock 3 spots - behind the pavilion, at Triechlers Bridge, and at Northampton (below Cementon Dam). The second truck will meet at the Jim Thorpe train station at 11:00 am and will also make three stops - one at the train station, at Bowmanstown new boat launch and at Palmerton along 248 (above the horse shoe). Thanks to all of our sponsors for the generous support. We stocked a 50/50 mix of Rainbow (14") and Brown (12"). Under water video of the 16May Stocking Spring Stocking 2009 - Recap of Saturday March 28th Event Thanks to everyone who came out to help with the stocking. The turnout to observe and help with the spring stocking was phenomenal with 12 at Northampton, 30 at Walnutport and 50 at the Glen Onoko in Jim Thorpe. Between 100 and 200 trout were tagged for the contest and so we can learn how the fish move in the river after being stocked. Contest rules are provided below. “LRSA 2009 TAGGED TROUT FISHING CONTEST” The contest starts the first day of the Pennsylvania early trout season, and ends the last Tuesday of June 8:00pm at the LRSA monthly meeting held at the VFW, Cherry Street, Walnutport, PA. Approximately 200 trout will be tagged in the Lehigh River between Glen Onoko State Park, Jim Thorpe, PA and just below the Cementon falls, Northampton, PA. Numbered tags marked with lrsa.org will be attached to the dorsal fin which can be removed to allow the option of catch and release, tags must be submitted to the LRSA by either mailing them with your name, address, phone number and other optional information such as the location caught, lure used, and if released, etc to: LRSA, P O Box 54 Walnutport, PA 18088, or presenting them in person at the LRSA June meeting. Prizes will be listed in a later newsletter. Tags will be drawn and prizes will be presented at the LRSA June meeting. Anyone not present will be contacted and arrangements will be made to collect prize. Winners will be listed in the summer newsletter. Members of the LRSA are eligible for prizes. “ONE PRIZE PER PERSON”. Best of Luck Some stocking photos are provided for your interest. Above successful fly anglers on opening day in the Jim Thorpe area (Hot flies were #10 black stone, #14 Pheasant Tail,  #10 ginger Flashback beadhead and a #4 olive wooly bugger). Below stocking pics from the Glen, Lehighton and Bowmanstown. Saturday March 28th Stocking Plan - A larger truck met at the Glen Onoko State Park (at the pool above the bridge) 9:45 am. The truck stocked here and then at the Jim Thorpe Train Station, then Packerton Dip, then Lehighton at Dunbar's beach,Parryville at the Pohopoco confluence, then Palmerton at the cloverleaf. A second truck met at 9 to 9:30 am at the Pavillion on Canal Street in Northampton (dowstream of the Cementon dam) and stocked there then Lauries Station then Triechlers. A third truck will met at 9 to 9:30 am at Walnutport and stocked at the main street bridge, at the pavilion then at Slatington (behind Szokes Bros on the west side of the river). We stocked 1/2 Rainbow Trout in the 14"-16" class and 1/2 Brown Trout in the 12" class. Thanks to all who came out to help! Water Quality Data now On-Line The system was put on line on March 1, 2009 and is available at the following web site link: http://dms.telog.com/TelogE/DesktopLoginPage.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fteloge%2f ShowData1.aspx User Name: Lehigh River Password: LRSA (note, case sensitive) Expand the subdirectories by clicking the + until the measurements are listed.  Click on the parameter of interest and the trend will be charted and data values tabulated.  Click on the "properties" tab to select the time window and/or to add multiple parameters to your charts. The data can be easily exported to Excel (csv file) by clicking the export tab or printed directly. Lehigh River Hatch Chart courtesy of Brian Tartar, Silver Springs Outfitters . Stay tuned for results of the macro-invertebrate study! 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.   Archive of Spring Stocking 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 2009, 2008 and 2007. FEW Flow Management Plan for 2009 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. March 2009 Newsletter January 2009 Newsletter 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 May 6, 2009

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