[speaker001:] I've uh
[speaker002:] oh uh
[speaker001:] are you there all right okay um
[speaker002:] yes sir I'm right here
[speaker001:] I'm in an area where um we can uh enjoy it year round so I've actually been uh uh been out within the past couple of weeks I'm mainly freshwater fisherman how about yourself
[speaker002:] well actually I've done both kinds uh I'm originally from the state of Virginia
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh lived uh near Virginia Beach where we could uh surf cast and uh catch a lot of things in the ocean there
[speaker001:] do you ever did you ever do the James River
[speaker002:] I don't believe I have fished the James River
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] there's a possibility but that was so long ago I moved here to to State College uh in nineteen fifty five and that has pretty well limited my fishing to fresh water
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and we have a lot of uh beautiful fresh water streams that come through this this area I'm in an area called Center County which is in the very center of the state of Pennsylvania
[speaker001:] I've I've been in that area and the trout fishing's supposed to be legendary
[speaker002:] the trout fishing is really uh beautiful as I say the the streams are oh eight ten fifteen feet wide and so forth and uh you you stand on the edge and you you cast out and you you work uh from your feet most of the time and then there are there are a few lakes of course close by
[speaker001:] uh-huh for brookies what do you like brookies or uh rainbows or
[speaker002:] well tell you the truth I'm I'm not uh not picky I wherever the area whatever the fish is the specialist in that area I uh I enjoy fishing for it and I try to I haven't fished in several years I'll have to admit
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but when I do fish I do contact uh some of the local specialists
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so that I can then find out the uh the type of lures that they use and where they fish and any unique uh techniques that would help you
[speaker001:] do you fly fish or are those streams too small
[speaker002:] uh no we fly we fly fish um-hum
[speaker001:] yeah I used to do that a little when I lived up in New York but
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] right now it's uh uh bass and striped bass is the only thing that uh I go for down in Dallas in uh Texas
[speaker002:] oh that's a pretty big fish
[speaker001:] uh yeah they're they've uh the striped bass have accommodated themselves to the big fresh water lakes and they're pretty exciting when they're when they're running
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] it's a salt water fish in fresh water uh environment it's
[speaker002:] well well our our streams streams here are replanted with fish uh about every year
[speaker001:] it's all put and take
[speaker002:] so that well they they they uh they have a pretty good idea of of uh what what the number of fish are in these various locations and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and they have have certain areas that they plant you know a hundred here and a hundred there and this is of course x number of weeks or months before fishing season opens so
[speaker001:] what's the season April to September October or something like that
[speaker002:] that sounds about right um-hum pretty close
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah what's a license cost
[speaker002:] yeah well as I say it's been several years but the licenses weren't that expensive I seems to sticks in my mind five to seven dollars is about all what I remember
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh it's about the same as Texas yeah
[speaker002:] uh-huh and I have oh probably a a half a dozen different kinds of uh fishing poles and and fly rods and so forth and and I had been so busy in my work in these last few years that I haven't had time to fish but I'm going to be retiring at the end of December and I I hope uh the next fishing season that I can sort of get back in and uh enjoy that that that was a really enjoyable uh thing for me to do
[speaker001:] well I have all sons so I think I'm probably going to be fishing for a long time
[speaker002:] huh I just have one son and he he lives uh out of the state now or rather in the eastern corner of it so I don't think he has time to fish either
[speaker001:] I caught the disease from my father and I'm passing it on to my children it's really
[speaker002:] oh is that right
[speaker001:] they love it yeah
[speaker002:] oh my goodness well I I uh the disease I caught was simply because uh I was I was I was in the Norfolk Portsmouth area and people there there's there's so much water around that you you you're either boating or you're fishing
[speaker001:] right uh-huh right right
[speaker002:] and uh I fairly enjoyed it that time I have a small uh aluminum boat here that uh when I go on one of the large lakes that we have here that I enjoy fishing for for trout
[speaker001:] um-hum what what are the I I don't I don't know about the lakes in central Pennsylvania are there many
[speaker002:] from that well as I say I'm in Center Center County there's um there are two different size lakes about well five five to six miles from State College now these aren't huge lakes from your point of view but they are probably fifteen twenty acres maybe
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] which which here is a lot of water where boats