Penn’s Outdoors

Here’s a travel destination that may interest you in your summer vacation planning.  It may not be a place that you can catch a trophy but the National Fishing Hall of Fame should be a fishing trip destination on everyone’s list. Admission is free and that’s the best value you’ll find anywhere.

The museum contains

• Inventory of over 5000 dated lures
• Hundres of antique reels and rods
• 300 antique and classic outboard motors
• 400 mounts of 200 species of fish
• Educational and instructional video theatre

But a favorite part of your trip will be…

The highlight of the museum complex is a landmark “Shrine to Anglers” which is a structure one-half city block long and four and one-half stories tall, of concrete, steel and fiberglass, hand-sculpted into the likeness of a leaping fish (Muskie). Its innards are a museum and its gaping open jaw accommodates about 20 persons or more as an observation platform. The landmark is surrounded by a quarter-acre nature pond.

If you are headed out to Wisconsin this summer, put Wisconsin’s National Fishing Hall of Fame on your to do list.