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Lancaster Fly Fishing Show this weekend

LANCASTER — Superstars of the fly-fishing world including Joe Humphreys, Gary Borger, George Daniel and Tim Flagler are featured at the Lancaster Fly Fishing Show, Saturday and Sunday at the Lancaster County Convention Center, 3 East Vine St., Lancaster. The newest gadgets and tools — along with dream vacation destinations that make fly fishing the sport it is — will be on display for the first time locally at the tenth annual Lancaster event. The convention center will play host to all things fly-fishing — for beginners to seasoned veterans — with seminars, casting ...

From grime to crumbling masonry, US parks get a makeover

Near the Tidal Basin in Washington, crews have cleaned grime off the white marble exterior of the Jefferson Memorial and fixed cracked stone to prevent falling debris. At the Statue of Liberty, plans are in the works to waterproof the exterior of the massive stone fort built in 1807 that serves as the monument’s base. And at New River Gorge in West Virginia, one of the newest national parks, historical masonry grills have been restored near the Grandview Visitor Center, which features a breathtaking overlook of the valley and waterway 1,400 feet below. Under legislation passed by ...

Annual quest for ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ fish lasts 35 minutes

ONAWAY, Mich. (AP) — Hope springs eternal on Black Lake in February. In single-digit temperatures on a Saturday, Feb. 5, morning, about 600 fishermen and -women on Black Lake in Presque Isle and Cheboygan counties peered into watery rectangles, hoping to be among the lucky few to take home one of the state's annual allotment of lake sturgeon. Just 35 minutes after the season opened, a fisherman pulled the last of the season's harvest out of the water, The Alpena News reports. "You should have been in the shanty," said Jerry Perrin, of Au Gres, of the celebration after he speared the ...

Outdoors calendar

Atkinson Mills Sportsmen’s Club ¯ Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. The club is located at 55 Sportsmen Club Lane, McVeytown; email atkinsonmillssportsmensclub@gmail.com; online at http://atkinsonmills-sportsmensclub.weebly.com Blue Rock Sportsman Club ¯ Club meetings at 2 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month on the gun range, and at 7 p.m. in January and February in the barn. To east end Blue Rock: From Milroy, follow signs to Reeds Gap State Park. Free camping available and kitchen is open during all events except trap shoots. Decatur ...

Brothers seek mountaineering grand slam

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Two brothers who are among Nepal’s most famous Sherpa guides set out on Monday to scale the highest peaks on each of the world’s seven continents, in a sweeping global trek that will take them across both the North and South Poles. Mingma Sherpa and Chhang Dawa Sherpa have already climbed the 14 highest peaks in the world — every one of which is in Asia. Their youngest brother, Tashi Lakpa, who will join on the worldwide adventure, has climbed six of those peaks. “We were the first brothers to climb all 14 highest mountains in the world and now we ...

Wyoming writer in Fly Fishing Hall of Fame

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — There weren’t many kids in the southern Florida neighborhood where Paul Bruun grew up, so about all he did was go fish. Speaking from New York’s Catskill Mountains recently, Bruun recalled the earliest days of being hooked. The longtime Jackson resident, who was reared newspapering, made his remarks while being inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame. “After piano lessons, and later trombone lessons and football practice, I’d go fishing,” Bruun said at Saturday’s ceremony. The local groundskeepers got to know young Bruun. His lures and flies ...