Alleged to to be the second most visited stte, in the sate, The Linesville Spillway helps drain Pymatuning Lake, one of the largest man-made lakes in Pennsylvania, through a spillway just outside of the town of Linesville, which got it’s name, not from the proximity to the border with Ohio, but a man named Lines who was an early settler.
The spillway is locally billed as “Pennsylvania’s second most popular tourist attraction, after the Liberty Bell” It’s not the Spillway itself that is the attraction, but the thousands of large carp that gather there to be fed by humans. Fish meals are sold on site or you can bring your own. The carp seem to desire white enrched breads such as Wonder Bread. This is a park devoted to feeding wildlife the unhealthy food meant for humans. It is the Ohio and Pennsylavania border, though, which should explain a lot.
“Where ducks walk on the back of fish,” is proudly said, locally. It’s what distinguishes the place from any other place in the world. And, even though, the logo of the Linesville Volunteer Fire Department is a duck standing on the back of a fish, the ducks’ mission is not to walk on the backs of fish, for the pure pleasure of it, but, simply to get at the bread amongst the carp swarms in the extremely crowded spillway, where the allure of white bread is simply too much, and animals begin to do things not normally associated with them.
Now if the ducks would eat the carp while standing on them, then we’d have the most popular attracion in all the state, if not the country.
