Disassociated Press, PENNS CREEK, CENTRE COUNTY, PA Move over Nessie and Champ, a new water monster legend has emerged from the fertile waters of Penns Creek in Centre County. Known for hatching sparrow-sized green drakes and March Browns, the famed Central PA trout stream produced this specimen of evolution in action. Like Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, it is elusive, and like Champ, the Lake Champlain piscatorial myth, Kaharoonda (named for the nearby gorge) inspires hyperbole. Sighted on a brilliant fall afternoon on the cabin stretch near the historic trestle on Penns Creek by three bewildered prostaffers who were just trying to find some risers to slate drakes, the prehistoric creature prompted strong reactions. “I just saw the stocking truck drive by and all of a sudden here was this ungodly creature staring at me” remarked GlenG of Hummelstown, PA. “Those hatchery guys have gone too far” GlenG continued, “now they’ve created a Franken-fish.”
GlenG was just minding his own business on Penns Creek when the monster emerged.
Just downstream, Wade Rivers, world-renowned flyfisher and super conducting super collider electrician, slowly worked over a rising fish while he explained his reaction to the slimy lizard-phibian. “Go ahead and laugh, but I saw that booger take a fledgling streamer and pick his teeth with it”, Rivers said, “Now, you can call me Ishmael, but I’ll go to the ends of the earth to find that unholy creature.”
Wade Rivers, noted horsemen of the Bob and consulting electrician to the Hadron Collider, risked rod and reel to catch the elusive lizard.
Cricket, the fly-fishing beagle, seemed bemused at the commotion and offered no comment.
4 comments:
Reminds me of the time when I came upon a flatlander on Penns a couple of years ago. Peering out from underneath his felt fedora, he said that he just saw an otter swimming along the bank. Just at that moment he shouted, "Look! There he is!" I looked over at the bank and spotted a measly mink scurrying along the rocks. Flatlanders are known to have a vivid imagination.
Go ahead and scoff....That creature is real, and probably fairly dangerous. We were fortunate to catch a rare glimpse of the thing. Its a moment that I won't soon forget. Oh the humanity! I'm pleasantly suprised that Cricket didn't fall prey to that beast. BTW, the picture is not really to scale, the rock that the critter was sighted and photographed on, was as big as a VW hippie van And you thought that the movie Lake Placid was fiction....go ahead and laugh, its just a matter of time before death and mayhem rule the day in the Bald Eagle State Forest. Only instead of a alligator, its a relic from the Cretaceous period....
That's a really nice shot of Cricket, the fly fishing beagle!
I have to admit that at first glance I thought it was an otter until I read the caption :^)
As a flatlander from the flattest of flatlands (North Dakota) my imagination can indeed get the best of me.
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