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Pennsylvania Again Ranks First in "Fish for Millions" Contest

photo-Ted Walke

photo-Ted Walke

For the third consecutive year since the start of
the national contest, Pennsylvania is once again the
top state for angler participation in Cabela's 2013
"Fish for Millions" tagged fish contest. The contest
started May 4 and concluded July 7 with more than
71,000 registered anglers, nationally, and more than
9,000 of them from Pennsylvania. More than 1,500
tagged fish were available in 22 states where the
contest was held with 313 tagged fish caught for a
total of more than $250,000 in prizes awarded.
Pictured are (left to right) PFBC Executive Director John A. Arway,
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission
Cabela's Hamburg store sales manager Harold Luther and Raymond
(PFBC) has partnered with Cabela's for all three
Biddle Jr. during the award presentations.
years to bring the contest to the Commonwealth,
as added value and fun for Pennsylvania anglers.
State Park. While the million-dollar fish was not caught,
The Commission is responsible for water selection and
Cabela's has confirmed that the tagged fish did reside in a
tag distribution throughout the state. PFBC Division of
Connecticut lake.
Fisheries Management biologists select the fish species and
Tagged fish species caught at Pennsylvania contest waters:
perform the on-sight tagging of the fish in all 12 contest
* Blue Marsh Lake: Channel Catfish
waters, just prior to the contest start in May.
* Emsworth Pool, Monongahela River: Smallmouth Bass
Pennsylvania's 2013 contest waters were:
and Largemouth Bass
* Blue Marsh Lake, Berks County
* Foster Joseph Sayers Lake: Largemouth Bass
* Emsworth Pool, Monongahela River, Mile 0 to 11,
* Keystone Lake: Largemouth Bass
Allegheny County
* Gifford Pinchot Lake: Largemouth Bass
* Foster Joseph Sayers Lake, Centre County
* Lackawanna Lake: Largemouth Bass
* Keystone Lake, Westmoreland County
* Lake Arthur: Crappie and Walleye
* Gifford Pinchot Lake, York County
* Lake Wallenpaupack: Smallmouth Bass and
* Lackawanna Lake, Lackawanna County
Largemouth Bass
* Lake Arthur, Butler County
* Pine Creek: Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout and
* Lake Nockamixon, Bucks County
Smallmouth Bass
* Lake Wallenpaupack, Pike and Wayne counties
* Presque Isle Bay: Largemouth Bass and Yellow Perch
* Pine Creek, Potter, Tioga, Lycoming and
Clinton counties
On August 15, at an outdoor press conference, Hamburg
* Presque Isle Bay, Erie County
store events manager Harold Luther presented the two
* Raystown Lake, Huntingdon County
top prize winners their awards at the Berks County store
From among these 12 contest waters, 33 winning
location. In addition to being the Commonwealth's only
tagged fish were caught from Blue Marsh Lake, Foster
Cabela's store location, the Hamburg store has the accolade
Joseph Sayers Lake, Gifford Pinchot Lake, Keystone Lake,
of being the sales leader for all Cabela's stores in the nation.
Lackawanna Lake, Lake Arthur, Lake Wallenpaupack,
Luther presented the top prize of a Ranger bass boat to
Pine Creek, Presque Isle Bay and the Monongahela River
Raymond Biddle Jr. of Jefferson Hills, Pa., and a check for a
(Emsworth
$5,000 shopping spree to Wayne Ziegler of Butler, Pa. Ziegler
Pool). Prizes
caught a prize-winning tagged crappie at Lake Arthur,
ranged from
Moraine State Park.
$100 Cabela's
PFBC Executive Director John A. Arway spoke during
gift certificates
the awards presentation and reminisced about the fun and
to the top
adventurous nature of similar tagged-fish contests, conducted
Pennsylvania
in the 1960s, when he was growing up in the Pittsburgh
prize, a $60,000 area. Arway stated that these types of contests were a way of
Ranger bass
increasing the excitement that fishing has to offer with anglers.
boat awarded
To view video of the August 15 presentation and press
from a tagged
conference, along with interviews conducted between
Largemouth
PFBC Executive Director John A. Arway and prize
Bass caught
Raymond Biddle Jr. of Jefferson Hills was
winners Raymond Biddle Jr. and Wayne Ziegler, visit the
awarded the top prize of a Ranger bass boat in Keystone
Commission's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/
Lake, Keystone
in Cabela's "Fish for Millions" Contest.
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