CLEARFIELD – A project that began as a way to promote mentored youth hunting is taking off in Clearfield County, and area residents can do their part to help out.
Squirrel tails are being collected to be sold to a Wisconsin company that will make fishing lures from the tails.
The Central Counties Concerned Sportsmen will then use the money generated to stock fish in the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.
A 6-foot wooden rack will be on display at Grice Gun Shop’s annual shooter sale, held Jan. 27 and 28 at their store in Clearfield. Children are being invited to come to the store to hang their own tail on the rack or one provided by another hunter and available at the store. Money raised through the hanging of tails will also go toward fish stocking.
“The fish commission is excited and the game commission is excited, and we’re winners everywhere,” sportsmen club representative Pat Domico told the board of the Clearfield County Recreation and Tourism Authority Wednesday.
Domico added that in a few years, he is hopeful that Clearfield County will have something along the lines of the animal attraction seen by Punxsutawney.
“This thing has the potential maybe of catching up with that groundhog.”
