“I really don’t know,” said Rachel Miller as she, her children and her mother threw slices of bread to thousands of wide-mouthed carp recently. The Cleveland, Ohio mother said she’s made the trip to the spillway twice already this summer.

“We’ll really have to consider it. We come a long way just to come out and see this — it’s fun.”

Ryan Smith can be reached at 724-6370 or by e-mail at rsmith@meadvilletribune.com.

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Located just south of Linesville, Pymatuning Spillway is on a two-mile barrier — an old railroad bed, actually — that separates a small portion of lake water from one end of Pymatuning Reservoir, the largest lake in Pennsylvania.

Known nationwide as the place where “ducks walk on the fishes’ backs,” the area has been featured in various publications and is one of the most-visited attractions in Pennsylvania, with roughly 300,000 visitors each year. The spillway, which dates back to the 1930s, was closed for renovations in 2006 and reopened last year after the $2.6 million upgrade was complete.

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State lawmakers representing Crawford County are hosting a public meeting next month to discuss the Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks’ plan to stop allowing visitors to Pymatuning Spillway to feed bread to the thousands of fish there as of Jan. 1 next year.

The meeting, being planned by 17th District Republican state Rep. Michele Brooks and expected to be attended by Republican state Sen. Bob Robbins and Fifth District Republican state Rep. John Evans, is scheduled for Sept. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the North Shenango Area Community Center, 2857 State Route 285, Espyville.