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Bill Logan (Pleasantville); filed 12/5: On the 5 , I landed five steelheads on egg patterns and
streams. Drove through a white out at Edinboro on way home. Came home to ribs and cherry
pie. Life is good.

MERCER COUNTY

No reports except that some panfish are being caught off the docks at Lake Wilhelm Marina.

VENANGO COUNTY

Sugar Creek
Angler Al @ Buttermilk Hill; filed 12/9: During his visit each year over Thanksgiving, my brother
-in-law Doc Das from Hendersonville, NC, and I trout fish on Sugar Creek. This year the temper-
ature was an all time low for us. Thursday morning’s 15 degrees became an issue as our fly rod
eyelets constantly were icing up. But Doc did catch 2 rainbow trout before we switched over to
spinning rods. I had a few dozen crawlers for us, however I had asked him to bring some worms

from down south. I used these worms earlier this year during his July visit, and they were hardy
wigglers. The trout liked them too! At the end of our two-day outing our totals were:
Al – 13 trout (largest a 17-inch rainbow)
Doc – 8 (largest a 14-inch brown)
We brought back our 3 fish limit each day to release in my pond.

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On Sunday’s it’s all about Steelers football. But with a night game on Dec 2 , I was happy to go
back down to Sugar Creek to fish those leftover worms. I caught 3 average size rainbows. On
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Sunday the 9 , with a 4:30 Steelers game, I headed back to Sugar. Drifting one of those red
worms in a large pool beneath a bridge, a big brownie sucked it in! Wow did he do battle. How-
ever, I won…the nearly 25-inch fish now swims in my pond.