![PWD's Jason Cruz holds a striped bass](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/striper_jay.jpg?w=300)
![PWD's Jason Cruz holds a striped bass](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/striper_jay.jpg?w=300)
![An otter at the Fairmount Fishcam in 2005](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/otter5.jpg?w=300)
Otter at Fairmount Water Works fishcam, 2005
![Photo of a bearded man on a boat holding an American shad](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Joe_Amshad.jpg?w=300)
PWD’s Joe Perillo holds an American shad near the Fairmount Fishway
![Anglers Club member Louis Cook with a 16lb mirror carp caught in Wissahickon Creek](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Louis_Cook_1.jpg?w=300)
Photos from the Philadelphia Anglers’ Club
![](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/Flood-Ida_2021-Phanatic-Gritty-Vine-Street-bktr6wugjcl71-reduced.png?w=300)
Gritty and the Phanatic in Ida’s Floodwaters
![Hands holding a silver river herring fish](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/RiverHerring.jpg?w=300)
River herring from the Schuylkill
![PWD's Lance Butler holds a flathead catfish caught in the Schuylkill River](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/LB_flathead.jpg?w=300)
PWD’s Lance Butler with an invasive flathead catfish
![PWD's Joe Perillo with a large striped bass](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/LargeStriper_110405.jpg?w=300)
Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015
![A man fishing from the banks of the Schuylkill River](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/DR_Fisherman.jpg?w=300)
Fishing in the Schuylkill
![Young men play basketball on a porous basketball court in Mill Creek, Philadelphia](https://waterhistoryphl.org/wp-content/uploads/MillCreekbasketball.jpg?w=300)