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...local conservationist (cont’d)
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Fluttering flags by weath-
ered tombstones set in
neatly manicured oak
groves attest to its status
as a Revoluntionary War
shrine. Until three years
ago, however, the Donegal
was anything but a proper
trout stream—not that it
was polluted, nor, thanks
to the springs, had the
water temperature become
too high. But it was badly
silted. Current-deflecting
boulders, rocks, and gravel
beds were long since cover-
ed by eroded soil. The flow
lacked sufficient aeration to
furnish trout necessary
oxygen. And the dearth of
gravel rendered awuatic fly
life virtually nonexistent.
Spawning beds were nil.
Restoration of much of
the Donegal to its pristine
state = resulted from the
vision, dedication,
labor of Ken Depoe. A
dedicated angler and fly
tyer, Ken, like most of his
fraternity, felt constrained
to win converts to it. His
vocation presented a built-
in opportunity. As an
extracurricular course—
~ with no remuneration to
himself—he started a fly-
tying class at his high
school. It was an immedi-
ate success.
The logical next step was
to develop budding fly
anglers. But where to use
the flies? Trout water was
too distant for class mem-
bers under driving age—
the vast majority. Ken
knew enough about stream
improvement to think the
Donegal might be his
answer, but an improve-
ment project would take a
lot of time. His duties
teaching and as wrestling
coach left him precious
little. So he huddled with
the fly-tying class, and as a
result each boy enthusiasti-
cally volunteer for year-
round stream work.”’
““...Owners of land bor-
dering two contiguous
miles of stream consented.
The primary objective was
the creation of a channel
with sufficient current to
promote flushing action.
Silt could then be Washed
from the steam bed. A
series of gabions (wire-
encased and anchored rock
piles that jut at angles from
bankside), dams, and stone
deflectors were planned to
accomplish the tlushing
action.
Within two weeks came
the first in a series of
gratifying phenomena.
Along the mud-clogged
bottom of the developing
channel a streak of yellow-
ocher appeared and widen-
ed by the day. Here was
gravel—the key to the
stream’s rejuvenation.
There was hope now for
increased aquatic fly life
and, as the clearing action
reached bankside shallows,
for potential spawning beds
for the trout.
During the initial stage
an adequate supply of
rocks was found along: the
and
stream, while logs for dams
were scrounged from
neighbors and friends. But
as the job recommenced
the following year, it be-
came obvious that the need
for materials dictated a
major panhandling effort.
Ken Depoe, Sam Hall, and
interested friends sought
contributions from area
businessmen whose trade
answered a specific need.
Of crucial help, for ex-
ample, was a local quarry.
Not only was much needed
rock supplied; it was trans-
ported to streamside in
company trucks.
Throughout another
summer Ken and his faith-
ful crew sweated at their
back-wrenching, knuckle-
scraping job. More silt was
rinsing away, and the
current deflectors were
aerating water. Glides
Whispered over shallow log
dams and broke on gravel
beds into singing riffles
that gurgled into eddying
pools against the jutting
gabions and deflectors. The
Donegal was beginning to
look and sould like a trout
stream again.
Still, the patience of
teenagers can be short-liv-
ed. Ken’s group had put in
many consecutive months
of drudgery. Ken thought
‘that interest might flag
should the wetting of their
flies be too long delayed.
His rumination bore an
idea certain to give his”
boys their second wind,
however: They would raise
their own trout!
The class chipped in and
bought 300 brown and
rainbow trout fingerlings.
A farmer friend of Ken's
permitted his springhouse
to be used for trout rear-
ing. Cared for by the class,
the fish averaged 9 to 11
inches in nine months’
time, thanks to an amaz-
ingly rich natural food
supply in the spring’s
raceway—shrimp, sow
bugs, and ‘aquatic insect
...Jocal
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the Dutch Country’’ as well
as two printings of a pre-
vious guide to good eating.
With his wife Grace, a
professional artist, as din-
ing partner, Steinmetz en-
countered such diversions
as a 1928 Packard in one
restaurant’s lobby, a big
splashing mill-wheel in
another, and a dining room
lined with color phots of
wild mushrooms. Colonial
dames, Dutch girls, Eng-
lish toffs, and a Union
Army sergeant served
them. Oddities include a
pizza made without toma-
toes, a liqueur laced with
flakes of real gold, and an
Apple Daiquiri served up in
a real Mason jar.
The author observes that
many people who once
would have considered a
restaurant dinner just as a
life. The trout were dis-
tributed in the improved
stretch, and new finger-
lings were bought for the
springhouse.”’
‘““...During the summer
of 1967 a group of area
trout angler—conservation-
ists formed a chapter of
Trout, Unlimited and elect-
ed Ken Depoe president.
Fittingly, it was named the
Doneal Chapter of Trout,
Unlimited. Using the Don-
egal project as a guide, the
group has begun another
stream reclamation project
in * southeastern Pennsyl-
vania.
The Pennsylvania Fish
Commission eventually
named the two miles of re-
claimed Donegal Creek a
Fly Fish Only stretch and
included it in the state
stocking © program. On
Memorial Day, 1967, Gov-
ernor Shafer visited the
project, congratulated the
Donegal Conservation
Association adn received an
honorary life membership.
Those present at the
ceremony might have pon-
dered that this stream, like
Scrooge’s Christmas, had
been possessed of three
ghosts—in this instance
one of a delightful past,
another of uncertain pre-
sent, and finally one of a.
promising future. Its first
two ghosts represent, in
microcosm, the lives of too
many American trout
streams. Like the Donegal,
they once flowed clear,
strong, and deep. Now,
encroaching civilization
renders them clouded,
weak, and flat. But if they
are not hopelessly pol-
luted—many aren’t as
yet—and if they possess
springs cool enough to
maintain temperatures no
higher than the low 70’s,
they do have the ghost of a
bright future. All that’s
needed to conjure it up is
more people like Ken
'Depoe.”’
author
curtain-raiser for an even-
ing at the movies or the
theatre or a sports event
now enjoy making an entire
evening of dining-out.
Also, they like making a
trip of it sometimes, so the
distance to a restaurant
may be an attraction rather
than a deterrent. Ron
Steinmetz believes today’s
generation of kids reared
with the ‘‘let’s eat out’
habit will be moving up the
restaurant scale as they
grow older.
The 1977 Restaurant
Guide is published by En-
tertain, Inc., 8 East Lemon
Street, Lititz, PA.
NOTE
The borough of Mount
Joy informs us that the
borough office issued a
sign permit to the Every-
thing and Plus store on
Sept 14,.1976.
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