Published May 05. 2021 11:58AM
When casting their lines along stream banks, people who fish will often snag an overhead branch and lose their lures. For the last two years, Matt Strohm of Bethlehem has spent time retrieving those wayward lures so that birds don't get snagged in the lines or barbed lures. On April 18 he was performing this environmental service along the Lehigh Canal near the Charles A. Brown Ice House. 'I can't get them all, but I try to get all that I can,' says Strohm, who admits that he puts the lures retrieved to good use when he goes fishing himself. Above: Matt Strohm stands in the shallows of the Lehigh Canal where he was using a tree lopper to trim branches in which fishing lures had become lodged as people fishing cast their lines.