SOUTH OTSELIC – The South Otselic Community is planning an event to celebrate the town’s fishing heritage. On Saturday, May 16, the community will hold the first Fishing Heritage Day.

South Otselic has a long standing connection to the fishing community. The town has been home to the South Otselic Fish Culture Center for over 70 years. The former B.F. Gladding Company, established in 1816 just outside the village, employed some 200 people during its heyday, and eventually moved its manufacturing complex into South Otselic, next to the Otselic River. Over the years, Gladding grew to become the largest and oldest fishing line manufacturer in the world, turning out what many anglers considered to be the highest quality lines available, and earning South Otselic the reputation as “the fishing line capital of the world.”