Subjects Fishing

The act of catching fish, either for pleasure or recreation, to provide food for a family, or as a commercial business. For some people, fishing is a sublime escape; to others, who tend not to indulge in this pastime (this webmaster among them) it is a grand bore that leads only to bug bites and sunburn.

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Catch and Release: Photographs Documenting the Catching and Recatching of the Same Fish

Anglers Club member Louis Cook with a 16lb mirror carp caught in Wissahickon Creek

Photos from the Philadelphia Anglers’ Club

Northeast Philadelphia history, one page at a time: The Holmesburg Library Scrapbook Collection

Black-and-white image of a covered dock slanting down to the water with a house in front of it

A Day in the Ma’sh – Still Useful

Black-and-white drawing of two cabins with a wooden walkway in front

A Day in the Ma’sh – At CLXIV Canal Boat St.

Hands holding a silver river herring fish

River herring from the Schuylkill

PWD's Lance Butler holds a flathead catfish caught in the Schuylkill River

PWD’s Lance Butler with an invasive flathead catfish

PWD's Joe Perillo with a large striped bass

Joe Perillo with a large Schuylkill striper in 2015

A man fishing from the banks of the Schuylkill River

Fishing in the Schuylkill