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History, natureand lots of upsand downs atLetchworthANDY THOMPSONIn the Outdoors

WWhat goes down mustagain come backup.

That, in a nutshell, is muchof what you must know inorder to hike the 22-plustrails of Letchworth StatePark.

An attraction that drawshundreds of thousands of visi-tors each year, the GrandCanyon of the East offersscores of scenic vistas as theGenesee River cuts throughthe 17-mile long park. At itsgreatest height, the rock wallssoar more than 600 feetabove the river below, making

for a nature lover’s dream.Several trails hold to the

edge of the gorge on the eastand west sides, but manymore cut into the hills on thewest side, while the remain-der offer ways to get to theflats on the east.

History is not far away,either. Founded a little morethan a century ago by philan-thropist William PryorLetchworth — whose home,Glen Iris, remains open to vis-itors — the park today fea-tures remnants of the manyfarms once there. Also promi-nent on the east side are pre-served segments of theGenesee Valley Canal, which

Getting ready to hike one of the 22 trails at Letchworth StatePark.

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In the Outdoors ... Spring 2012

COVER DESIGN: Kelly Schecter EDITOR: John Anderson

IN THE OUTDOORS WRITERS: Andy Thompson, NealSimon, Kathryn Ross, Andrew Poole, Christine Loman,Derrick Balinsky, Brian Quinn, Paul Jannace, Chris Potterand Oak Duke

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once connected Rochesterand Olean. Trail 7 especiallyoffers a close view of thecanal, and of the proximity ofthe passageway that so terri-

fied horses pulling packetboats that their drivers wereforced to put blinders onthem.The Pennsylvania Railroad

took over much of the canal’sroute, and ghosts of thatbranch remain as well.For the novice hiker,

Letchworth offers an excel-lent way to get acclimated tothe pursuit. The west side isthe part known to most visi-tors, with amenities such asrestrooms, snack bars andwell-worn paths that makemost hikes family friendly.Trail 2, for example, beginsbehind the Council Housegrounds (where rest theremains of Mary Jemison,White Woman of theGenesee) and wandersthrough mighty groves ofpine trees where farmers onceworked the land. Look care-fully, and you can still see evi-dence of homes and barnswhere apple trees now grow.Trail 1, the Gorge Trail, is

the park’s longest, at 7 miles,

and begins at the famedPortage High Bridge whereNorfolk Southern trains stillrun. The walk goes up anddown hills, past InspirationPoint and thenWolf ’s Creekto end at St. Helena, one oftwo ‘ghost’ villages in thepark. That community, andone nearby namedGibsonville, were dissolved asthe park expanded with theconstruction of Mt. MorrisDam.The Highbanks area, across

from the dam on the westside, is an excellent startingpoint for a southward trek.The trail is nearly 5 miles inlength, and takes walkersthrough forests with views

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now and then of GardeauFlats, a vast area once farmedby Jemison and her family.

The east side of the park iswhere the hikes demand a lit-tle more effort. Trails, notalways well marked, take youdown steep hills through oldgrowth forests. While noneare very long, it is somethingto consider for those not ingood physical shape. The

Smokey Hollow and BearHollow trails (15 and 16) areonly two miles each, but cangive a good workout once youhit bottom and need to trekback up. The Big Bend Trail(10) is really a walk on acountry road, but has the sur-prise of taking you to obser-vation points high above theriver that most park visitorsdo not realize exist. When youreach them, wave to thetourists on the other side andenjoy the feeling of discovery.


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Tips for the trails:• A TRAIL MAP comes

with the park admittancefee, but if you plan on hikingthem all, invest $3 for thelaminated map available atthe gift and snack shops. Itis a handy guide, if notalways entirely accurate.

• WEAR STURDY hikingshoes for the muddier trailson the east side, and goodsneakers for the paths onthe west. Dress appropriate-ly for the day, keeping inmind that you might need toshed layers as you work up asweat. Bug spray and sunblock are good to have, aswell.

• BRING A BOTTLE ofwater, and please carry theempty back out with you.Nothing kills the day morethan walking miles in seclu-sion to find evidence of thelazy hikers who have throwntheir trash on the side. Ifyou hike with a dog, don’tforget that he or she willalso need something todrink at some point.

• LET OTHERS KNOWwhere you are going. Whilemost trails are well marked

and near popular spots fre-quented by the car tourists,it doesn’t take much tomake a wrong turn. Alwaysobserve your surroundings,and when in doubt on theway forward, be smartenough to backtrack a littleuntil you are sure of thetrail. All trails are markedwith yellow blazes but someare better maintained thanothers.

• POISON IVY is every-where (Trail 7 at the endnear Portageville especially)and if it affects you, remem-ber to wear long pants andshirts with sleeves. Be care-ful with the dogs, as well, asthey will bound through allmanner of poison ivy andthen gladly come back andrub the oil off on you.

• LETCHWORTH is a beau-tiful place, and portions aretruly wild. So heed the manysigns of warning. If a trail isclosed, don’t go on it (it’slikely there’s a rock slide thatneeds clearing) and if a signsays to beware of the edge,take it seriously. Falling 600feet is not worth the risk ofgetting that beautiful shotfor the photo album.

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eration, there is no better waythan introducing the sport tochildren, boys and girls alike.Fishing is an activity that canbe enjoyed by almost all agegroups, and an afternoonalong a quiet lake or pond is agreat way for a family tospend quality time together.Young people under 16 yearsof age do not need a license tofish in the Empire State.The New York state

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offers some friendly advice forparents and guardians whowant to share their enjoymentof fishing with children.

Focus on the childAny adult who has taken

children to one of theirfavorite fishing spots knowsthat a beginner at the sportneeds plenty of assistance.Children will require help set-ting up their poles, baitinghooks, casting, removing fish,and getting lines untangled.Plan on doing more helpingthan fishing yourself. There isone big bonus to this plan:Youngsters, even beginners,

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often will catch more fishthan their mom and dad.What a great way to promotea positive feeling about theactivity. Your child will alwaysremember the day they out-fished dad!

Special tip from the DEC: Toavoid frustration, use a rodand reel your child can use.When they need your assis-tance, you can hand themyour rig, and they can keepfishing while your straightenout theirs. This also allowsyou to hook a fish and thengive the rod to them to pull itin!

EquipmentA push button reel on a

short rod works very well fora young child. Poles and reelsthat feature beloved cartooncharacters and movie imagesare very popular with chil-dren and are relatively inex-pensive. A line rigged up witha hook, split-shot or smallsinker and a bobber is a greatway for a child to catch fish.The bobber prevents the baitfrom settleing on the bottomof the water body, where mostof the snags occur. Bobbersalso make catching fish easierbecause when the bobber istugged under, a child knows afish is biting.

Worms make a great baitchoice. They stay on the hookwell when the line is being

cast, and a wide variety of fishspecies find them delicious.Biodegradable artificial baitwill also attract fish. Try outartificial worms, nuggets,maggots and twister tails.

Special tip from the DEC:When gathering supplies

for your fishing trip, alwayspack extra clothes, sunscreen, hats, bug repellentand toilet paper. Snacks andextra drinks are also a must.Encourage your child to takea snack and drink break, andsneak in some fishing your-self.

Savor the experienceShare some of your child-

hood fishing memories withyoung anglers and be sure toget them involved. Point out acouple of fishing spots, andlet them choose which onethey think would be best.Encourage children to berespectful of others who arefishing, and instill an appreci-

ation for conservation andnature.

Special tip from the DEC:Keep fishing trips with chil-dren relatively short. One ortwo hours of fishing is usuallyplenty long enough. Nothingfinishes off an afternoon offishing better than a stop forice cream cones on the wayhome!

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TThe upcoming 2012Whitetail seasonshould be a great one

for deer hunters, especiallybow benders because themoon is positioned onceagain for an early rut.Not a really early rut that

occurs on some years...andcertainly not a late rut thatoccurs on other years, but agood solid, early Novemberrut — the way we all thinkthe rut should happen butrarely does.Why is an early rut espe-

cially good for archers?Whitetails evidence more

daytime activity as theirbreeding time peaks afford-ing those of us who hang outin trees more opportunitiesand more action.And the 2012 rut is posi-

tioned to be "just right," i.e.not to early and no too late.Some years, like back dur-

ing the 2010 season, thescraping, overhangingbranch and rutting action bybucks and does began in theNortheast and the Midwestin early September! Andquickly a decent lateOctober-early November rutunfolded, contrary to whatsome predicted was to bethe latest rut we would eversee. The timing of wasproven by the late May fawndrop. (Since the gestationperiod of whitetails is 200days, by counting back, theconception date is validat-ed.)And last season, the 2011

rut peaked in mid-November, almost twoweeks later than the previ-ous year, but as predicted.We will have to wait untilMay for the fawn dropproof. But trail cams andsuccess stories have beenproof enough, though cer-tainly anecdotal, thatNortheast and Midwestwhitetails carried out theirannual ritual right on que.This year, the first Full

Moon after the AutumnalEquinox, the Harvest Moonsets the stage as it peeksover the Eastern horizon atsunset, September 29th, oneweek after that day whendaylight becomes less timethan nighttime. Peculiar, butthis celestial occurrence isthe "set trigger" for white-tails and all creaturesdefined by scientists as"short-day breeders."Then, one month later, on

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October 30th, the Hunter'smoon the precursor of thewhitetail rut in theNortheast and the Midwestwill shine and pull the trig-ger, and shortly after, theintense scraping and over-hanging branch visiting willall but cease, as bucks anddoes turn their attention toeach other and across theNortheast and Midwest wehear and read..."It's on!"

Those of us, such as inNew York state's SouthernZone this year who have abow season that starts at thebeginning of October, will

be greeted with that firstflurry of rutting action asbucks and does open scrapesand mark the all-importantoverhanging branches tosynchronize their breedingtimes through the exchangeof chemical messages.

So a good tactic will befor archers to key on peren-nial scrape sites, thosescrapes and overhangingbranches that get openedeach year by whitetails. Butthis early action will tend todrop off as we experiencethat worst of all times in thedeer woods, what we call"The Lull."

After years of setting trailcameras on scrapes andobserving and chroniclingthe actions of bucks anddoes there...with not onlyphotos, but video clips, wildbehavior has been charted.

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in enclosures. Indeed, much has been learned by observingpenned deer. But the question exists: Do penned whitetailsbehave exactly as do their wild, free-ranging cousins?For success in the deer woods, one could say that it is as

important to know when the whitetails will be inactive as itis to know when they will be on their feet in the daytime.We call this annual time of inactivity, "The Lull."Each season, just when we think we have whitetails fig-

ured out, the dreaded lull hits.The lull occurs shortly after bucks begin to separate from

their bachelor groups, their velvet is rubbed off, but they arenot ready, physically, hormonally, or psychically to breed.What is the moon's role in setting the stage for this quiet

time for whitetails and those of us who pursue them?Scientists have isolated a tiny gland with a very big name,

called the Suprachiasmatic nucleus that is the master gover-nor switch, releasing hormones, including melatonin. It isaffected by light through the eye.Melatonin inhibits estrus in whitetails and other short-

day breeders like sheep. In fact, sheep breeders use mela-tonin implants (circadian pacemakers) to regulate estrus inewes.One could say that the moon fine-tunes the photoperiodic

effect of shortening days, creating in whitetails and otheranimals a time of intense activity, but also a time of rest.The 2012 Lull should occur in the middle of October,

right between the two high and intense activity peaks at thebeginning of October and beginning of November.

(Editor’s note: Oak Duke has successfully predicted therut for over two decades as many visitors to the SouthernTier plan their vacations around his rut predictions. Oak’sweekly columns are features in the Sunday Spectator and atintheoutdoors.net)

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healthy and fit, activelifestyles for the studentsand the community as well,”said Everly. “As far as thegrants go, we’re alwayshopeful the community willtake advantage of it in theright way.”The park previously had

fitness stations along thewalking trail, but the earlierstations, constructed in themid-1980s, are no longer inplace.Everly said there will be

some similarities betweenthe previous trail and thenew one. Stations areexpected to run the gamutfrom stretches to pushupsand sit-ups and pull-ups.The half-mile walking trailat the park is the minimumrequired length for the fitstations.The park already provides

several draws for both chil-dren and adults, with thepool, softball fields, tennisand basketball courts andplaygrounds. The CanisteoRiver also provides anotheroption for entertainment,for fishers or people whowade in the water.Everly was glad the city

agreed to setting up the trailat the park.“This was my first choice.

I was very fortunate to haveMayor (Shawn) Hogan gowith that. It’s right in theheart of Hornell and thatpark draws a lot of kids,”said Everly. “We wanted todo something the school dis-trict, the kids and the com-munity would be proud of.”City employees from the

Department of Public Worksare expected to construct thestations, although Everlysaid students may help insmall doses.Everly is working with

Scott’s Miracle Grow andLowe’s for the equipment,and is hoping the construc-tion will be complete by theend of April.The grant funding for the

program, which Everly esti-mated at several thousanddollars, normally goestoward after school pro-grams. The money for thestations, though, won’t takeaway from after-school pro-grams the school alreadyoffers but will instead pro-vide another option.Planning the park started

in May 2011, with the finalapproval coming down laterthat year. Everly is expectingthe school will use the addi-tional health option.



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out of nowhere, perhapspurposely to scare the day-lights out of an unsuspecting

group of paddlers, and thendisappeared.I was in a tandem kayak at

the time with my aunt. Shepromptly stopped steeringand we veered off courseinto a mangrove. We rerout-ed and loitered, waiting forour friend to reappear,entertaining visions ofFlipper, but the dolphinnever resurfaced.Growing up, I spent my

fair share of time in a kayakon the St. Lawrence River.On rough days, I’d head outagainst the current for achallenge, and float backdrenched in with tired arms.Other times, I’d set out

with a cousin, a container ofworms and a couple of polesfor some impromptu fishing.We never caught much,probably we scared the fishaway, but it was an idyllicway to spend part of an




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“We’ll definitely be takingadvantage of it. That wasone of our thoughts, thatkids would be able to usethis. And they love going tothe park anyway,” he said.“Anything that we do, alongthese lines, first and fore-most, we think of the kidsand especially the kids inour after school programs,the kids as a whole, then thecommunity. But our focus isdefinitely the students.”While the grant provides

students and the communityanother exercise option, italso further involves theschool and students in thecommunity. That’s always agoal, said Everly.“We would like to work

with the city in makingareas around town betterplaces for the kids to go.Last year we helped planttrees at Shawmut Park.Small things like that,” saidEverly. “But anything we cando to get the kids more

HORNELL TRAILContinued from page 16

KAYAKINGContinued from page 17

afternoon.Still others, we’d paddle

over to the buoy at the edgeof the bay, the line of demar-cation for a shipping chan-nel. From a few boat lengthsaway, we’d bob and watchthe current swirl around thebuoy’s slimy underside untilwe worked up the courage toslap it with our paddles.Then we’d paddle swiftly

away, vague images of anundertow powering ourarms on.Kayaking is perfect kind of

outdoors activity for a quasi-city girl like me. Growing upin a suburb outside ofRochester, I spent a lot oftime outside but was pre-dictably leery of insects, dirtand the likelihood of trip-ping over my own feet.The beauty of kayaking is

that it’s as hard as you wantto make it. There aremoments are horror, whenyou first sit in the kayak andare fairly certain capsize isimminent. But there is alsothe serenity of coastingalong water so still it’s glass,where the only sound is thegentle dip of your paddle.After a couple of hours,

your shoulders will start toburn and your arms willstart to ache, and it’ll betime to call it quits.For a few hours on a swel-

tering day, it’s a nice way tobe on the water withoutbeing in the water, to benear nature without havingto interact much with it.And for a person who isn’t

the outdoors type, it’s a safebet and a nice ride.


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What happenedto ice fishing?By DERRICK BALINSKYIn the Outdoors

Unseasonably warm weath-er seems to have been a hottopic this winter.For at least two groups of

sportsmen, however, the mildtemperatures put a damper ontheir outdoor activities. Bothpond hockey and ice fishinghave suffered a deep freeze.According to the state

Department of EnvironmentalConservation, at least three tofour inches of ice is recom-mended before going ice fish-ing, but that was nowhere tobe found.“The only game in town

around our area was LoonLake over near Wayland orSilver Lake in WyomingCounty and that was limitedto the south end,” Dale

Rathbun, co-director of theAvon Anglers’ Ice EliteTournaments, said. “WyomingCounty has kind of a differentclimate than LivingstonCounty. The warmer tempera-tures have really set us backthis year.”Several annual tournaments

also had to be put on ice.Rathbun said three of the fiveAvon Anglers yearly tourna-ments were cancelled this sea-son.“We were able to just run

two events, and nobody wasable to claim Angler of theYear this year,” Rathbun said.“It was tough. It was definitelytough. We couldn’t really tour.We cancelled three tourna-ments, including our famousBluegill Bash where we pay



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out 50 dollars every 30 min-utes.”During the winter, many

businesses also rely on icefishing.“Most (bait and tackle

shops) are mom and pops,"Patrick Russell, who owns theOntario-based B&E FishingTackle Inc., said. “It’s reallygot to be hurting them a lot. Iwould say 60 percent proba-bly.“There’s still people coming

in,” he added. “The weather isnice. So, they get out. Theywant to go stream fishing, butthey'd love to go ice fishing.”“The whole industry was

down this year for this rea-son,” Rathbun said. “Baitshops, motels — all of it.”Rathbun said ice fishing

has a steady following and isquite popular despite themelted hopes of fishermenthis season.“It’s definitely popular,

especially with the advent ofhuts and television camerasand depth finders,” he said.“It’s more fun, we’ll say, thanit ever was. But the kids areon the computer and videogames now, they’re not lean-ing that way. We have fewerand fewer kids every year.While the lack of ice was

disappointing, it did allowfishermen to get an early start

on top of the water in boats.“I’ve been out on the lake

for a few days now,” Rathbunsaid. “Just yesterday, wecaught 200 bluegills. It’s anearly panfish season becauseof the weather. It’s nice thatregard, a little trade-off Iguess. But still kind of disap-pointing in terms of the icefishing.“I’ll go and stock trout next

week, too — in the shadowsof Letchworth High School.We stock 4,100 trout. It usedto be all kids following thosehatchery trucks and dumpingthem in the creeks andponds. Now, it’s me and abunch of 80-year-old guysdoing it. We don’t have thenew wave of the next genera-tion. The numbers we dohave in that regard are verysmall.“It’s tough to get people in

their 40s, 30s and 20s tocome out — their habits arealready formed. It’s very hardto teach an old dog new tricksas they say. But that’s whatAvon Anglers is about, tryingto pass on fishing and hunt-ing — the original sports —to the young kids. We’re try-ing to insure the future, butit’s much easier to get instantgratification from a computerthan it is to go out and battlethe elements. At AvonAnglers we like to say thatfishing is the pastime for alifetime.”

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Adventuresome travelerscan still lose themselves in thearea’s vast chunks of unbro-ken forest, or follow the pathof the Genesee River north toLake Ontario.

Pull off the beaten track fora moment on a lonely dirtroad, perhaps next to one ofthe region’s many state forests.Close your eyes. With a littleimagination, it’s not hard topicture the layout of a long-since vanished logging camp

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Now open your ears. Maybethe loggers have gatheredaround two of the camp’sstrongest, most-skilled men.The air is filled with cheers,jeers and a steady thunk,thunk, thunk as the men raceto see who can hack through ared oak first. Bets are placed.Wood eventually falls to theground, heralding the winner.

Such a rustic scene mightseem impossibly remote tomuch of today’s electronics-reliant society, parts of whichmay be more likely to equatethe word “saw” with a moviefranchise than a tool, but it’s atradition that one dedicatedgroup of young adults isbringing back into the localconsciousness.

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Pioneer Games later thismonth on Saturday, April 14.The Pioneer Games feature avariety of woodsmen competi-tions, ranging from axethrowing to log rolls to anumber of different sawingevents.The games trace their ori-

gins to the days of the loggingcamps on the frontier, whenlumberjacks with speed andshowmanship were admiredand well-compensated fortheir talents.

Though other colleges scat-tered around the state haveestablished woodsmen pro-grams in place, the PioneerWoodsmen Club is less thanthree-years-old. After hittingthe road and establishingitself at various competitions,the Club created the PioneerGames as a way to increase itsprofile locally.

“We’re hoping to increasethe awareness,” said Clubmember Amanda Hoiles. “Wewant to kind of keep it goingevery year so people startbecoming more aware of it inthis area, because no one real-ly knows what it’s about.”TheWoodsmen Club has

become a hit on the AlfredState College campus, withmembership swelling to sev-eral dozen aspiring lumber-jacks. The Club enjoyed a big

fall campaign to start the cur-rent school year, upsettingintercollegiate woodsmenchampion Finger LakesCommunity College in a Nov.5 scrimmage.Earlier in the month, the

Club had received a $2,500sponsorship check from Stihlafter working closely withlocal Stihl dealer AutoSpecialized of Arkport. Withthe successful inauguralPioneer Games already underits tool belt, the Club is look-ing forward to more of thesame the second time around.“We thought it went great,”

Hoiles said of the first-everevent last April. “We justlearned to keep the eventsgoing as fast as they did,because everyone liked howwe kept everything on time.We’re going to try to do thatagain this year. We’re justgoing to try to keep it thesame, keep it fun, keep itmoving fast.”Finger Lakes, SUNY

Cobleskill, Paul Smith’sCollege and the ESF RangerSchool will once again com-pete this year. The action isslated to run from around 9a.m. through 5 p.m. TheGames will take placebetween theMacKenzieComplex and the EngineeringBuilding on the ASC campus.Food vendors will be on

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least, $25,000 worth oftagged fish in the GeneseeRiver for the April 28th and29th 2012 Greater WellsvilleTrout Derby sponsored by theWellsville Lions ClubCharities, Inc.“Hopefully it will be better

weather than last year,” saidChairman Bruce Hand refer-ring to the constant rain thatplagued the 2011 Trout Derby.In 2011 the biggest Trout

Derby winners were the fish,and the fisherman who tookhome half of the proceeds

from the Community Fish.Only 47 of the 450 taggedtrout were caught. The totalpayout was the lowest ever at$5,870 with over $3,300 ofthat being from theCommunity Fish. Members ofthe community and fisher-men purchase $1 chances onthe Community Fish and thepot builds until the taggedCommunity Fish is caught orthe Derby comes to an end.“It was a bad year in 2011,

the worst we’ve ever had. Therain just came down all week-end,” said Hand.In 2003 the Club paid out

over $22,000 in tagged fishand Hand said they hope to


have a big payout thisyear.“It helps the Derby and

the community,” he said.During the 2010-2011

year the Wellsville LionsClub contributed morethan $35,000 to localcharities, individuals andfor community projects.The Derby is the Club’slargest fund raiser andbecause of it, Hand said,they can support projectsat the library, Island Parkand help people with dia-betes and sight problemsas well as provide schol-arships for graduatingseniors.“We’re celebrating our

70 anniversary as a clubhere, at our Club’sCharter Night in May.Over that time the Clubhas donated over $1 mil-lion back to the commu-nity. There aren’t many

organizations that can saythat,” Hand said.Fish Central for the

Derby, where all taggedfish must be brought forverification and wherefishermen must check-in,is in Island Park. TheDerby stretches south ofthe park to Yorks Cornersand north of the park tothe trailer park on stateRoute 19.Camping is allowed in

Island Park during theDerby for registered fish-ermen only and not untilthe Wednesday prior tothe Derby. Campersunder 18 must be accom-panied by a parent orguardian and camping isonly allowed in designat-ed areas. There is an 11p.m. noise curfew.To make it easier for

fisherman the Club willstart serving lunch atnoon Friday, and willserve breakfast, lunchand dinner through noonSunday.“We know how hard it

is to feed a family whenyou are away from homein today’s economy, so wetry to keep our priceslow,” Hand said.The cost of registration

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feed back from our fisher-men. All and all we try tomake it a good experiencefor everyone involved,”Hand said.


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By KATHRYN ROSSIn the Outdoors

WWELLSVILLE — Local artistMark Libertone has beenknown for years as the artist

for the Greater Wellsville Trout Derby,this year being the exception.Libertone offered his services to the

Lions Club over 20 years ago and cre-ated first the color posters and eventu-ally pen and ink drawings that wereused as gifts to the largest contributor.Today Libertone, a Vietnam era vet-

eran who completed his education in1981 after receiving both a B.F.A. in artand a Master’s Degree in SynaestheticEducation from Syracuse University,has his own studio. He moved fromeducation to the commercial art fieldin 1985 and opened his studio in 1990.

One of Libertone’s favorite subjects isfish and fly fishing. It is also one of hispassions.“I enjoy fly fishing,” he said.Some illustrations produced in his

studio have appeared in Fly FishermanMagazine, The Maine Sportsman, theWellsville Daily Reporter, In TheOutdoors, and on official posters,badges, and maps created for TheGreater Wellsville Trout Derby.In the last two years Libertone has

taken his art to the masses with theproduction of prints which may be pur-chased on his websitewww.libstudio.com“I have a friend who lives in Montana

and owns a resort and fly fishing busi-ness and he wanted some artwork thathe could sell in his store, so I had twoworks, Battling A Brown and Casting

to The Shadows reproduced using theGiclee method — a high quality inkjetprocess using archival inks on archivalmaterials. Now I’m in the process ofdoing another one,” he said.

Mark Libertone’s well-known fish and fishing paintings are one way of catching that allusive trout.

Catching a rainbow trout with a paintbrush

This piece is called ‘Casting to theShadows.’


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