Pawtuckaway Lake Association

Pawtuckaway Lake Improvement Association

Reflections On The Lake

"In the 1930’s my uncle Hans purchased all of the land from near Dolloff Dam all the way around to where Meindl Way is now. The original camp they built is off of what is now Meindl Way. It was a little 12x12 shack. They lived in that camp for a whole year. It was the Depression and no one had jobs. They actually survived in that shack for a whole year living off of the land. They picked berries and they would shoot a deer, even out of season, because they needed the food to live on."
 

Gladys Whitney
Excerpt from the Pawtuckaway History Project

 
 
The Story of Basszilla! Print E-mail
Written by Brendan Paulsen   

7 year old Pawtuckaway Kid, Brendan Paulsen, tells a fish story about how he caught Basszilla!

When I was fishing from our driveway, I was in a clearing and saw a humungous
fish.  I tried to catch it but it ate half of my plastic worm.   So, I went and
changed my worm and after changing it, I went to the dock and casted again.  The
fish was about 3 feet away from the dock when I started reeling it in.  My line
went back to the clearing where I first saw that big fish.  I started reeling it
in and it was getting harder and harder to reel so I yelled for my Dad to help. 
He helped me reel it in and when it came out of the water it was a large mouth
bass.  We named it basszilla.

Basszilla

Brendan Paulsen with Basszilla

 
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PLIA Mission Statement

The Pawtuckaway Lake Improvement Association (PLIA) is a Private, Non-Profit Organization formed to monitor and act upon environmental and safety issues in the Pawtuckaway Lake Watershed area. The PLIA also provides education, information, recreation and other services to its members.


The Association routinely conducts water quality sampling under the New Hampshire Volunteer Lake Assessment program of the State of New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services. Other activities (sailboat races, fishing derbies, etc.) may be coordinated by the Association, but are funded by program participants.