An inch or more of rain in the next few days could adversely affect fishing in larger streams such as Yellow Breeches Creek. The rain would have much less effect on spring-fed streams such as Middle Spring and Big Spring creeks and in lakes such as the ones in the area' s state parks and in Boiling Springs. Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission stocking patterns were similar this year to what they have been in the past. Local anglers know where the trout have been released and the general conditions of fishing local lakes and streams. The only major regulation change is a reduced creel limit.
Minimum size remains at seven inches.
The sound of drum beats and the chanting of mantras resound through Perry County today, as a Japanese Buddhist nun makes her way through the area. Jun Yasuda started her walk just north of Carlisle Springs near Sunnyside Drive today, and continued northward toward Newport as part of her 600-mile Dharma walk from Boston to southwestern Pennsylvania. She walks and prays in support of alternatives to imprisonment, ending the death penalty, and a new trial for Pennsylvania Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Her saffron robes and haunting, soft Buddhist drum beat are a regular feature of protests, marches, and vigils in her upstate New York home as well as across the country. This walk is referred to as the Dharma walk after one of the main concepts of Buddhism.