Dead Cell Man’s Phone

by Sarah Ruhl

Jean is sleepwalking through her life until she answers a dead man’s cell phone. It turns out to be a wake-up call that helps Jean re-connect to her own spirit and learn that life is for the living.

Exploring Uncharted Terroir: A Wine Talk and Tasting with Suzanne Hunt & Lilace Guignard

Saturday, April 15 • 5-6:30 PM

WAREHOUSE THEATRE

(18 & under)

Colegan describes his first year as “very tough,” as he and his partner, Mike Haraschak, adjusted to the rigors of competitive fishing and traveling to fish new waters. They learned a lot along the way, and even scored a third place finish and lunker (biggest fish) in one event. Together, the team finished sixth in the standings for the year. Colegan says the biggest lesson he learned was simply “to not overcomplicate and overthink things.” He says he “learned to listen to his gut to make good decisions on the spot.”

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A fundraiser for the Hamilton-Gibson Women’s Project

Tickets: $10

(includes the talk and noshes of local cheeses, bread, fruit, and infused water)

HBWP/HG Stemless Wine Glass: $20 (comes with free Hunt Country Wine and/or Pellegrino)

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At the end of the season, Mike graduated from high school, leaving Colegan in search of a new teammate. As luck would have it, his dad, also the team’s boat captain, attended a gun auction, and, while chatting with some people there about float fishing on Pine Creek, he met the Kapp family. Connor Kapp, seventeen, from Benton, also fished tournaments, and he too needed a partner. From that day forward their friendship grew, and by the start of the 2022 season the two were prepared for a new year of competition.

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Dr. Donna & Ken Mettler and Eugene Seelye

The season began on Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County. It’s a reservoir, originally built as a hydroelectric project and finished in 1973 by the Army Corps of Engineers. It is one of the largest lakes in Pennsylvania. With over 8,000 acres of water, it was certain to be a challenging event and much different from the local lakes and ponds Colegan usually fished. As their strategy, Colegan and Connor found it best to stay on the move, covering water and getting in front of as many fish as possible. Moving baits like crankbaits or chatterbaits, and even some topwaters, proved most effective as bass roamed around chasing baitfish. Whenever they saw a laydown, or fallen tree, they would pitch a jig around, capturing a few extra bites. By the end of the day, the duo amassed a five-bass limit with enough weight to take home a second place finish, giving them the confidence they needed to compete on any body of water.

Coming off a great start to the season, the second event brought the Wellsboro Bassmasters closer to home with a tournament on Cowanesque Lake, also a man-made body of water. The hometown favorites had a rough start to the day, breaking their trolling motor shaft on an underwater structure, and making navigation much more difficult. They mustered through, and relied heavily on electronics to find bass holding on deep, submerged brush piles and structure. Pitching weightless worms and allowing them to slowly fall to the bass proved to be key, as all the best fish came off deep structure. Despite their unfortunate motor issues, Colegan and Connor ground out another five-bass limit. The big brims of their sun shade hats couldn’t conceal the pair’s joyous faces and giant grins as their fish hit the scales. Weighing in at almost fifteen pounds, the two took home their first win of the season and kept the good momentum going.

Hide and Sink

The final event of the regular season took team Stiner and Kapp to Bald Eagle State Park and Foster Sayers Lake. Throughout the prior weeks, the duo prefished, finding a pattern that they felt could bring them another win. The fish had other plans, though, and on tournament day all the bass seemed to disappear.

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