PA Wilds Fishing Guide
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Allegheny National Forest Get Your Fishing License & Go WILDS! Ranger Stations Pennsylvania offers a variety of tourist and resident license options – from a one-day Bradford: 814-362-4613 PA Game Commission permit to a lifetime license – so there’s one that’s just right for you. And getting your Marienville: 814-927-6628 license is quick and easy. Licenses can be purchased and printed from the convenience of : 814-723-5150 Serving the following PA Wilds Counties: your own home. Simply visit and click on the “Get Your Fishing Warren www.fishandboat.com Cameron, Clearfield, License” link on the home page or purchase your license at one of 1200 issuing agents Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, statewide. Anglers 16 years of age and older must possess a valid fishing license to fish fs.usda.gov/allegheny McKean, Potter, Tioga in Pennsylvania.CAMERON, CLARION, ELK, FOREST & JEFFERSON MCKEAN COUNTY 1566 South Route 44 Highway COUNTIES Allegheny National Forest PA Fish & Boat Commission P.O. Box 5038 PickNorthwest the licensePennsylvania’s that best fits you.Visitors Bureau Jersey Shore, PA 17740 Great Outdoors 80 East Corydon Street, Serving the following PA Wilds counties: (570) 398-4744 Visitors Bureau Suite 114 TYPE OF LICENSE Bradford,AGE PA 16701 COST Cameron, Clearfield, 2801 Maplevale Road Serving the following PA Wilds Counties: ResidentBrookville, PA 15825 800-473-937016-64 $22.00 Clinton, Elk, Jefferson, Clarion, Forest, Senior 814-849-5197Resident (Annual) www.visitANF.com65 & up $11.00 FishingLycoming, in the McKean, Pennsylvania Wilds .....................................1 www.visitpago.com Potter, Tioga Jefferson, Warren Senior Resident (Lifetime) 65 & up $51.00 P.O. Box 31 Regional450 Robinson Map Lane & Map Keys ...............................................2 National Guard & Armed Forces Reserve 16 & up $2.00 Pleasant Gap, PA 16823-9620 Franklin, PA 16323 (814) 432-3187 1-Day Resident (not valid in April) POTTER 16COUNTY & up $11.00 Warren814-359-5250 County ...................................................................3 Potter County Non-ResidentCLEARFIELD (Annual) COUNTY 16 & up $52.00 Visitors Association Visit Clearfield County McKeanServing the following County PA Wilds.................................................................5 counties: www.pgc.state.pa.us 3-Day Tourist12 North Front Street 118 North16 Main& up Street $26.00 7-Day TouristClearfield, PA 16830 Coudersport,16 & up PA 16915 $34.00 Clarion, Forest, PotterWarren County ......................................................................7 1-Day Tourist866-469-4537 (includes all stamps, license is not valid in April)888-768-8372 16 & up $26.00 State Parks & Forests www.VisitClearfieldCounty.org www.visitpottercounty.com 11528 State Highway 98 Combo Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Stamp 16 & up $15.00 TiogaMeadville, County PA 16335-7320......................................................................9 Trout/Salmon Permit 16 & up $9.00 814-337-0444 State Park information Forest County .....................................................................11 Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $9.00 1-888-PA-PARKS The pricesCLINTON listed above are COUNTY subject to change without notice. TIOGA COUNTY Elkwww.fishandboat.com County ...........................................................................13State Forest information Clinton County Tioga County Visitors Bureau 717-783-7941 For informationEconomic on Partnership opening days, creel limits, sizes, and2053 other Route regulations 660 to fish the PA Cameron County ...............................................................15 Wilds, refer212 Northto the Summary Jay Street of Fishing Laws & Regulations thatWellsboro, you receive PA with 16901 the purchase US Army Corps of Engineers www.dcnr.state.pa.us of yourLock PA fishing Haven, license. PA 17745The summary of regulations 888-TIOGA28is also available online at Clinton County ...................................................................17 www.fishandboat.com.888-388-6991 www.visittiogapa.com www.clintoncountyinfo.com East Branch Lake & Dam Lycoming814-965-2065 County ...............................................................19For fishing licenses Practice Safe Boating! ClarionCurwensville County Dam ...................................................................21 814-236-2300 www.fish.state.pa.us WARREN COUNTY Kinzua Dam The LYCOMINGPA Wilds is a great COUNTY place to fish from a boat, but itWarren is essential County to practice safe Jefferson County ................................................................23 Lycoming County 814-726-0661 boating. All boat operators are required to have an approvVisitorsed life jacket Bureau on board for each Visitors Bureau 22045 Route 6 ClearfieldTionesta Dam County...............................................................25 person.210 All Williamchildren 12Street years of age and younger are required to wear a properly sized life Please note, fishing in the Allegheny Warren, PA 16365 814-755-3512 jacket whenWilliamsport, underway onPA Commonwealth 17701 waters on any boat 20 feet or less in length and all Reservoir within the Seneca Nation 800-624-7802 AdvertisersTioga-Hammond..........................................................................27 and canoes 800-358-9900and kayaks. All water skiers or anyone being towed behind a boat, personal www.wcvb.net Cowanesque Lakes is governed by its own fishing watercraftwww.vacationpa.com operators and passengers, and sailboarders (windsurfers) must also wear a life Getting your fishing license ..............................................35regulations. Please inquire with the jacket. The PA Fish and Boat Commission recommends that every occupant on board a 570-835-5281 Clerk’s Office at (716) 945-1790 boat wear a USCG approved Type I,II,III, or V wearable life jacket. For more information Contact Information ..........................................................36before fishing in these waters. on safe boating, registration, titling and other boating regulations, refer to the Boating recreation.gov Handbook available online at www.fishandboat.com. 35 36 WILDS by the numbers What do I need to know before I go? LAND RESOURCES: • 29 State Parks (27,600 acres) You should have a basic knowledge of Pennsylvania’s • 8 State Forests (1.3 million acres) fishing regulations. The best resource for this is the • State Game Lands (300,00 acres) Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws, • Allegheny National Forest (513,000 acres) or Summary Book as it is known. As its name implies, the summary book contains an overview of fishing WATERWAYS: regulations. It also provides many fishing tips and other More than 16,000 miles of streams and waterways • valuable information. • Nearly 2,100 designated trout streams If you need to know more about how to fish, try our • Four distinct water trials covering nearly 500 miles: West Branch Susquehanna River Water Trail (240 miles), Clarion River Water Trail (100 miles), Middle Fishing Fundamentals page, which provides information CastAllegheny yourself River intoWater everyTrail (85 angler’smiles), Pine Creekdream. (54 miles) Let the lakes and about fish, how to fish and where to go fishing.. And don’t forget, a Pennsylvania fishing license is required to fish in PA. We streams•Two federally of the designated Pennsylvania Wild and Scenic Wilds Rivers- lure the Alleghenyyou away and the from Clarion your •Tioga-Hammond and Cowanesque Lakes combined offer 2,268 acres of water and have a separate FAQ specific to fishing licenses. More information about costs and cares.52 miles Throughout of shoreline. an area boasting two million acres of types of licenses, trout/salmon stamps, and fishing regulations and laws is forested•EastTALE Branch OF public ClarionTHE TAPElands River Lake and has covering1,370 acres of 12 water counties, and 5.7 miles there of shoreline are available. seeminglyand Tionesta endless Lake has 2,770 streams, acres of riverswater and and 6.3 mileslakes of shoreline.that beckon you FISH SPECIES KEY to• Thedrop Allegheny your Reservoir line and boasts catch more thanthat 12,000 elusive acres ofnative water and trout, over 100 miles of shoreline. Fish-For-Freeb ...... Bullhead Days p ...... Pickerel largemouth•Curwensville Lake bass, Recreation walleye, Area has or 790 frisky acres pan of water fish. with 15 miles of shoreline. bg .... Bluegill rb..... Rock Bass Imagine dropping a line into a mountain stream surrounded Fish-for-Freec ...... Days Carp allow anyone (resident or non-resident)s....... Sucker to legally fish with WILDby miles AND of NATURAL undisturbed AREAS: wilderness yet close enough to NO FISHINGcc..... ChannelLICENSE Catfish REQUIRED to fish sf......on all SunfishPennsylvania’s waterways •8 wild areas and 27 natural areas covering 150,000 acres designated because of on the designatedcr ..... Crappie days. All other fishing regulationssm.... still apply. Smallmouth Two dates Bass are servicestheir significant that makescenic, historic, your geologicfishing and getaway ecological value. effortless. That’s the experience you’ll find in the Pennsylvania Wilds. typically chosene ...... Eelon Memorial Day and Labor Day.t ....... Trout WILDLIFE: f ....... Fallfish w...... Walleye •Largest free-roaming elk herd in the Northeast So, pack your rod, grab Fish-for-Freelm .... Largemouth Days Bass are great yp.....ways Yellow for Perch families •375 bird species, including bald eagles m ..... Muskellungeto “catch” the fun ofhb fishing! .... Hybrid Bass •Abundant native trout