On October 6, 2013, Deb and Steve Delaney invited me up to Montgomery, Pa. for dinner. Deb fixed all my favorite dishes. She tried to find a watermelon for me and even went to the Amish to get one. But watermelon in October is out of season in Northern Pennsylvania.
Steve and I come from two different back grounds and societies. I can’t cook an egg but Steve can go out in the woods and live for months just on what he grows and catches. I can’t hammer a nail into the wall while Steve can build a house if he had too. He is good with a rifle as well as a bow and arrow.
Steve and I come from two different back grounds and societies. I can’t cook an egg but Steve can go out in the woods and live for months just on what he grows and catches. I can’t hammer a nail into the wall while Steve can build a house if he had too. He is good with a rifle as well as a bow and arrow.
I have always been fascinated with his fish collection on the walls of his home.
Steve is known to the local northern and central Pennsylvania natives as the "Musky Man."
The “Musky Man” had several newspaper articles written about him in the local newspapers. He had been fishing for big fish in the Susquehanna River before Oct. 1993. Steve was fishing in some weed bed in the river using his Rapala bait when he hooked a 25 pound fish, which had a 22 inch girth. It took him at least 25 minutes to get that monster into the boat. The Milton Sports Center owners measured, weighed, and photographed Delaney with the fish.
Steve has also been credited with catching a 25 inch Muskie below the local PP&L Dam. This elite fisherman caught 15 muskies ranging from 32 to 46 inches in a matter of 2 years at the beginning of the 21st century. He keeps pictures of all these prize fish in his scrap book at his home in Montgomery, Pa.
All fish on his walls came out of the Upper Susquehanna River. As Deb sister said,
The “Musky Man” had several newspaper articles written about him in the local newspapers. He had been fishing for big fish in the Susquehanna River before Oct. 1993. Steve was fishing in some weed bed in the river using his Rapala bait when he hooked a 25 pound fish, which had a 22 inch girth. It took him at least 25 minutes to get that monster into the boat. The Milton Sports Center owners measured, weighed, and photographed Delaney with the fish.
Steve has also been credited with catching a 25 inch Muskie below the local PP&L Dam. This elite fisherman caught 15 muskies ranging from 32 to 46 inches in a matter of 2 years at the beginning of the 21st century. He keeps pictures of all these prize fish in his scrap book at his home in Montgomery, Pa.
All fish on his walls came out of the Upper Susquehanna River. As Deb sister said,
"Just think, as children, we swam in this water with these fish and did not know it."
I have known Steve to go out in the woods and shoot his dinner.
Here Deb and Steve told me about Steve's activities in their own words. He has not given an interview about his hunting and fishing experience since he was interviewed by WNEP TV 16 News stationed in Moosic, Pa.
What is the secret to his fishing success?
Steve took years to learn the Northern and Western Susquehanna River Branches. He told me that the fish only eat once every two or three days. The trick is learning when they eat. This is something that Steve, the "Musky Man" has mastered.
In Conclusion
Steve took years to learn the Northern and Western Susquehanna River Branches. He told me that the fish only eat once every two or three days. The trick is learning when they eat. This is something that Steve, the "Musky Man" has mastered.
The Majestic Susquehanna
The Susquehanna River, sixteenth largest river in America, is the largest river lying entirely in the United States that flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The Susquehanna and its hundreds of tributaries drain 27,500 square miles, an area nearly the size of South Carolina, spread over parts of New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. The river meanders 444 miles from its origin at Otsego Lake near Cooperstown, New York until it empties into the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, Maryland.
The Susquehanna is the "mother" river to the Chesapeake, providing 50 percent of all the freshwater entering the great bay. The Susquehanna River supports a very diverse fishery. Anglers can fish for muskies, walleye, small mouth bass, panfish, catfish and carp. The upper part of the river is renowned for its fantastic small mouth bass fishing.
You may call Steve a "Hill Billy" but if the power grid would go down, I would not be able to survive. However, the "Musky Man" can and will survive on the land and on the river. This again is the living legend of Steven E. Delaney.
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