Lehigh River Stocking Association PO Box 54 Walnutport, PA 18088 Site Menu Gene Hardenburg sent us this great photo taken on April 19th, of 2005. A blue tagged contest brown trout is released in Jim Thorpe in 2004. You can see the tag to the left of the dorsel fin. We hope you landed one of these in the past. LRSA Director, Dean Druckenmiller with a 16" small mouth caught on the Lehigh River on 09/05/04. Michael Glose of Allentown, caught this 6 pound walleye in the Lehigh River on a night crawler. Now this is one of the best Lehigh River walleye's I have seen come from the river. This was a nice 14" rainbow that my client caught on Monday 07/07/03 on his drift trip with "Fly Fish Pennsylvania." Great fish and fight, jumped about 2 feet out of the water on the hook set. Fly Fish Pennsylvania client gets into a trout on a drift boat trip on the Lehigh River. Gene Hardenberg sent us this photo of a nice Lehigh River brown trout. This trout was caught on a cool evening on 05/15/03. So when you have a slow day fishing? Enjoy the surroundings and have a great time on the Lehigh River. (Gene Hardenberg Photo) Bill Hall with a nice rainbow on the river. Bill was on a drift boat trip with Kirby's Guide Service. Brian Tarter is one the leading fly fisherman on the Lehigh River. He owns Silver Springs Outfitters in Kunkletown. Please visit his shop for your angling needs. Always a big supporter of the LRSA. Gene Hardenberg with his trout on the Lehigh River. The LRSA would like to thank Gene for submitting his photo's to us. Lee Zellner showing the real nice trout he landed on the Lehigh River. Forrest Shaffer stocking the Lehigh River last spring. Forrest is one of the LRSA's Area Reps. for Lehighton. Being part of the organization is most welcomed. Give us a call... Dean Druckenmiller at Fly Fish PA, took two clients (Nate above) down the Lehigh River. The photo above and below are just two of the many trout they landed and released. A nice 15 inch brown trout, landed by Tim. What a great way to spend the day. Rich Appert shows off another fine trout. He loves the Lehigh River and thanks the LRSA for their hard work. Rich Appert, landed and released this nice 18 inch brown trout below the Cementon Falls on October 20th 2004. LRSA Director, Forrest Shaffer and Mike Noll with a little young lady stocking trout in the fall of 2004. Two for One Once again, we are giving a free 2006 sponsorship to anyone that recruits two new sponsors. Ask your friends, ask your neighbors, ask anybody that might care about the mighty Lehigh. Come one, come all, and come have a ball. LRSA 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 LRSA Officers: President: Bill Derhammer Vice President: Matt MacConnell Secretary: Dean Druckenmiller Treasurer: Todd Woodring Chairman: Ted Miller Memberships: Colleen Miller 610-760-1367 Advertising Sales: Bill Derhammer 610-791-5215 Webmaster: Mark Zovak Newsletter Editor: Matt MacConnell LRSA Board of Directors: Irv Conway Bill Derhammer Dean Druckenmiller Fred Foster Matt MacConnell Bob Metz Colleen Miller Ted Miller Todd Woodring MEETING SCHEDULE 2006 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. The meeting schedule for 2006 is: Jan 31, Feb 28, March 28, April 25, May 30, June 27, July 25, Aug 29, Sept 26, Oct 31, Nov 28 & Dec 26. 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 sixteen years with ever-increasing success. We need and ask for your support for this outstanding program to continue. LRSA's, Datasonde 3 Hydroprobes We now have probes in the river 24/7 monitoring pH, Dissolved Oxygen, conductivity, turbidity, and level at Northampton. Matt MacConnell (see photo) removes the probe on right for data download. The clean probe on left will take it's place for a week of water quality monitoring. See more on our Watershed Information page. Email us your fishing photo's. Just attach your photo in any image format. And send to: webmaster@lrsa.org Lehigh River Hatch Chart The Hatch

Archived LRSA Photo Gallery Send your fishing or Lehigh River related photo's to: webmaster@lrsa.org Photo's can be attached to email in the following extensions: .jpg, .jpeg, ,bmp, .gif and .tif The LRSA stocks the Palmerton to Parryville with 900, 15-16 inch rainbow trout April 30th of 2005. We need your support to continue to stock the Lehigh River. Join Today You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Stocking the Lehigh River is hard work. Climbing up and going down rough terrain without losing a trout is amazing. We salute those that helped in this years stocking. Showing off a nice rainbow trout before it is stocked in the Lehigh River. The LRSA needs the support of the anglers to keep the stocking of the river going. Many take stocking the river for granted. Without support from anglers it will not be automatic. Join Today You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Ted Miller shows off one of the 16" rainbows at the hatchery. These trout were typical of the 900 that were stocked on the 16th.of April in the Lehigh River. LRSA Director Joe Mazurek stocks 16 rainbows in the Northampton dam area as a young angler looking on at the right. You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org The LRSA stocks trout in the Triechlers area of the Lehigh River on opening day of the 2005 trout season. Got Fish? Troy Brown of Jim Thorpe does... All of these trout were landed in the Lehigh Gorge in 2004. There are two 19's", an 18" and two babies at 14" each. Nice day fishing... You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Lot's of children watch LRSA Director, Forrest Schaffer stock trout in to the Lehigh River. The stocking was at Glen Onoko this past fall. These trout will be of nice size on opening day of 2005. Glen Onoko Stocking – from left are Forrest Schaffer's dad, Forrest Schaffer, Matt MacConnell, Forrest’s friend’s daughter, Mike Noll (employee at Birch Creek Fishery), and Fred Foster. You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Rich Appert proclaims, "I love fishing the river and think you guys are doing a great job I usually fly fish the river but also like to throw a Rapala every now and then. I fish it anywhere from Northampton up to Jim Thorpe. But, love the stretch from Northampton to Perryville. Every fish I catch, I return to the river. The Lehigh is the only place I can fish with confidence in catching 20+ inch trout on a regular basis!" Rich, poses a brown trout that he landed and released in the Lehigh River. You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org 18" rainbow a client caught during a "Fly Fish Pennsylvania", drift boat trip on the Lehigh River. The trout was caught on 09/04/04 in the morning. More info at: www.flyfishpa.net Nice trout... Chris Gorsuch lands another slam hog on May 11, 2004. Chris says, "A quiet drift in the Kayak after a long day at work is always rewarding. A bonus this evening was a healthy 19" rainbow that fell for a spinner in swift water. Whenever possible, CP&R (Catch, Photo & Release)." Chris Gorsuch states, "For the 3rd year now, I've landed trout over 20". You've done a great job with this River! No need to travel to NY to find great trout waters, it's in my backyard! Here's the first over 20" for 2004." Chris it is the members that make it all happen. LRSA Troy Brown landed and released this nice 19 inch brown trout in the Jim Thorpe area. Really a nice fish with the hooked jaw. You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org The LRSA's river biologist, Bob Miller gives directions on stocking the the river on opening day. This photo was taken along route 248, before Palmerton. Dean at Fly Fish Pennsylvania landed and released this 16" brown trout. This early April trip shows what you can expect this upcoming fishing season on the Lehigh River. Chris Gorsuch sent us the next two photos of him floating the Lehigh. He uses trout to power his watercraft, this trout is now getting a rest. He has been fishing the Lehigh for 3 years and says: "It's really becoming a great fishery." You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Chris shows us a nice brown trout he landed. Besides floating the river, he does a lot of wading. This trout sure looks fat and full of color. My guiding partner and I fished on 07/04/03 and just hammered the fish. This is a 16 inch brown trout and we boated over 20 fish this day It was a great day to be on the river. You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org 14 1/2 inch brown caught on 07/04/03. Check out the colors of this trout. These trout are real nice and the July fishing has been good. Visit our website at: www.flyfishpa.net Joe Ferenchak was fishing the Lehigh River. He was drifting a nightcrawler on 4lb test line, when this nice rainbow struck the bait. The fish was weighed and measured at Allentown Bait & Bow and tallied: 24 1/2" & 5 3/4lbs. Joe states, the Lehigh is the only body of water he fishes and love every minute of it.. He is glad to be a member of L.R.S.A. and says we do a fine job. Nice caddis hatch taken from the drift boat of Fly Fish Pennsylvania. This is truly the only way to fish the Lehigh River. You got to do it once. You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Fly Fish Pennsylvania Guide Service got this picture of Tom and his nice brown trout. You can take drift boat guided trips down the Lehigh River. Visit their website at: www.flyfishpa.net You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Gene Hardenberg landed this real nice 18" brown trout on the Lehigh River. Gene shoots some of the nicest outdoor photos. Jacob Patton caught this 20" brown trout near the Treichlers area of the Lehigh River in May of 2002. Jacob, the LRSA says "Job Well Done." You got the attention of the LRSA elder anglers with this trout. You can have your photo's here. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Jim Gower emailed us the next three photos. Jim states that all of these fish were tagged steelhead and all were released unharmed. Jim, can't wait to hit the river in 2003. Jim displays another steelhead and he says they were all caught in different sections of the river. If you ever catch one of these missiles? You will love the fight that they give. Note: the tag in the jaw. All tagged LRSA trout have the tag in the jaw. You can have your photo's here to. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Here he is... the one and only Jim Gower showing off another nice steelhead. These steelhead were part of our 2002 tracking program. Look for more results from this program in future LRSA newsletters. John Letzo of Bensalem, Pa caught this 20 inch Rainbow in the Lehigh River in Jim Thorpe area. This nice trout was caught in April of 2002. Got pictures? Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Chris, aka "PA Catch & Release Man" caught this awesome 20 inch hooked jaw brown trout in 2001. This trout was caught near Bear Creek in the river. Chris can be found fishing every area of the river. He truly loves the Lehigh... Kevin Belli sent the LRSA the following three photos of his drift boat trip on the Lehigh River. Looks like Kevin had a great day angling on the river. You can have your photo's here to. Send them to: webmaster@lrsa.org Kevin says: Two of my best Lehigh River fish caught during the 2001 season with my guide, Dave Frey, of Lehigh River Guides. Dave has put me onto some tremendous fish the last few years - all caught and released. Dave appears in each of the photos. Now those are some fat trout there! Real nice fish and I might add, it pays to have a camera with you. Just great memories to share with everyone. Jamie Steffie with his 25 inch, 6 pound male rainbow. This trout was landed in the Treichlers/Laurys area of the Lehigh River using a night crawler as bait. Jamie, we know your heart must have been pounding... Nice trout! Gene Hardenberg with his his nice brown trout on the Lehigh River. This trout was landed at dusk. Not many anglers fish the river at night, but some do as Gene shows us the rewards can be great. Gene is one of the best outdoor photographers on the river and in the area. Diane Kadzih shows her nice big Lehigh River brown trout. This trout was released and was caught during a driftboat trip with Doug Kirby of Kirby's Guide Service - Support the LRSA so we can continue to put great looking trout like this into the Lehigh River. Gene Hardenberg took this picture from the Bowmanstown bridge. The view would be down river towards bride. Contact Gene about his outdoor photos. GHphoto@aol.com Same view as above, the Lehigh River offers more than just great angling. With over 100 miles of river. An adventure awaits you on every trip. Visit the entire river and learn why the LRSA wants to restore this great river. LRSA sponsor, Larry Ford spends great day on the river. Larry has fished the river in every section. He is a good fly fisherman and can float worms better than anyone. Drift boat in the Lehighton section. The river offers all types of recreation. From fishing, hiking, biking and whitewater rafting. An LRSA sponsor tries to land a nice brown trout. With the 2003 trout season here. We expect more anglers on the Lehigh River. When you see a new fellow angler. Let them know about the LRSA. Landing a brown trout like this makes the heart pump fast. Remember to only keep what you attend to consume and practice catch & release. The Lehigh River is still a restoration effort. Join Now (Matt MacConnell Photo) Stocking "Slam Hogs" is what we like the most, these trout have shoulders. These trout cost the association ten times more than a 11" trout. This is why we ask for your support. Main Photo Page Site Menu Home | News | Fishing | Forum Watershed | Join | Sponsors | Links Or Print Application and Send U.S. Mail Click Here TOP of PAGE © copyright all rights reserved 2002-2006 LRSA Lehigh River Stocking Association PO Box 54 Walnutport, PA 18088 Best viewed at: 600 x 800 pixels, the current standard