New member from MD

[oldwood]

E.....If it's the Little J. , I live 4 miles from it now , the branch that goes south west toward Altoona. I came from a serious hunting , and fishing family. Besides making a living 41 yrs. , mostly hunting , has been my life.

 

[exPAtriate]

I know the area! I think the wild brown trout there the prettiest. I guess I'm the serious hunter in a fishing family, but opening day of rifle season in PA was by far the most serious day of the year.

 

[oldwood]

E.........Back in the early 1980's , a rail car derailment along S.R 350 , caused a rail tanker car of vegetable oil to dump into the Little Juniata River above Spruce Creek . I saw the mess a day or two after the wreck. There were what looked like white coagulated serving tray size masses of the oil,floating on the stream. The most shocking thing, was the numbers of floating dead fish, among the masses of floating coagulated oil in stream eddies. I lived only about 8 miles from the spill site, and was then a serious fisherman. Though there was a clean up, from my understanding , it took years for the trout population to come back to a fish able level.
Though living so close to the stream , I was busy with a 60 + hr. a week job , and never took time to fish there. .....oldwood