2019PENNSYLVANIA FISHING SUMMARY Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws

MENTORED YOUTH TROUT DAYS March 23 (regional) and April 6 (statewide)

WHAT’S NEW FOR 2019 l Changes to Susquehanna and Juniata Bass Regulations–page 11 www.PaBestFishing.com l Addition and Removal to Panfish Enhancement Waters–page 15 PFBC social media and mobile app: l Addition to Catch and Release Lakes Waters–page 15 www.fishandboat.com/socialmedia l Addition to Misc. Special Regulations–page 16 Multi-Year Fishing Licenses–page 5

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2 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary Use the following contacts for answers to your questions or better yet, go onlinePFBC to the PFBC LOCATIONS/TABLE OF CONTENTS website (www.fishandboat.com) for a wealth of information about fishing and boating. FOR MORE INFORMATION: THANK YOU STATE HEADQUARTERS CENTRE REGION OFFICE FISHING LICENSES: for the purchase 1601 Elmerton Avenue 595 East Rolling Ridge Drive Phone: (877) 707-4085 of your fishing P.O. Box 67000 Bellefonte, PA 16823 Harrisburg, PA 17106-7000 Phone: (814) 359-5110 BOAT REGISTRATION/TITLING: Phone: (866) 262-8734 license! Phone: (717) 705-7800 Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The mission of the Pennsylvania Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday PUBLICATIONS: Fish & Boat Commission is to Monday through Friday BOATING SAFETY Phone: (717) 705-7835 protect, conserve, and enhance the PFBC WEBSITE: EDUCATION COURSES Commonwealth’s aquatic resources, www.fishandboat.com Phone: (888) 723-4741 and provide fishing and boating www.fishandboat.com/socialmedia opportunities. REGION OFFICES: LAW ENFORCEMENT/EDUCATION Contents Contact Law Enforcement for information about regulations and fishing and boating opportunities. Contact Outreach & Education for information about fishing and boating programs and REGULATIONS BY LOCATION boating safety education. (ALL FISH SPECIES) NORTHWEST REGION SOUTHCENTRAL REGION INLAND WATERS...... 10 11528 State Highway 98, Meadville, PA 16335 1704 Pine Road, Newville, PA 17241 PYMATUNING RESERVOIR...... 12 Law Enforcement: Outreach & Education: Law Enforcement: Outreach & Education: CONOWINGO RESERVOIR...... 12 (814) 337-0444 (814) 336-2426 (717) 486-7087 (717) 486-7352 DELAWARE RIVER AND ESTUARY...... 13 Fax (814) 337-0579 Fax (814) 337-0579 Fax (717) 486-8227 Fax (717) 486-8227 LAKE ERIE AND TRIBUTARY STREAMS.. 14 Counties: Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Counties: Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cumberland, CATCH AND RELEASE LAKES...... 15 Forest, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango, Warren Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lebanon, Mifflin, Perry, York MISCELLANEOUS WATERS...... 16 SOUTHWEST REGION 236 Lake Road, Somerset, PA 15501 NORTHEAST REGION REGULATIONS BY SPECIES Law Enforcement: Outreach & Education: 5566 Main Road, Sweet Valley, PA 18656 BIG BASS PROGRAM...... 11 (814) 445-8974 (814) 443-9841 Law Enforcement: Outreach & Education: CATCH AND RELEASE BASS...... 11 Fax (814) 445-3497 Fax (814) 445-3497 (570) 477-5717 (570) 477-2206 Counties: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Fax (570) 477-3221 Fax (570) 477-2621 BROOD STOCK LAKES...... 15 Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Somerset, Counties: Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, PANFISH ENHANCEMENT...... 15 Washington, Westmoreland Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Sullivan, REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS...... 17 Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming NORTHCENTRAL REGION TROUT FISHING REGULATIONS 595 East Rolling Ridge Drive SOUTHEAST REGION Bellefonte, PA 16823 P.O. Box 9, Elm, PA 17521 TROUT FISHING REGULATIONS...... 20 Law Enforcement: Outreach & Education: Law Enforcement: Outreach & Education: SOUTHEAST REGION...... 22 (814) 359-5250 (814) 359-5127 (717) 626-0228 (215) 968-3631 SOUTHCENTRAL REGION...... 23 Fax (814) 359-5254 Fax (814) 359-5153 Fax (717) 626-0486 Fax (215) 968-1610 SOUTHWEST REGION...... 24 Counties: Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Counties: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, NORTHWEST REGION...... 25 Clinton, Elk, Jefferson, Lycoming, McKean, Lancaster, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, NORTHCENTRAL REGION...... 26 Montour, Northumberland, Potter, Snyder, Philadelphia, Schuylkill NORTHEAST REGION...... 28 Tioga, Union Office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday REQUIREMENTS & LAW STATE FISH HATCHERIES FISHING LICENSES...... 4 • BELLEFONTE* • BENNER SPRING • OSWAYO* • REYNOLDSDALE* PERMITS...... 4 1115 Spring Creek Road 1735 Shiloh Road 96 State Route 244 East 162 Fish Hatchery Road GENERAL FISHING REGULATIONS...... 8 Bellefonte, PA 16823 State College, PA 16801 Coudersport, PA 16915 New Paris, PA 15554 TACKLE, EQUIPMENT AND BAIT...... 8 (814) 355-3371 (814) 355-4837 (814) 698-2102 (814) 839-2211 UNLAWFUL ACTS...... 9 • CORRY* • HUNTSDALE* • PLEASANT GAP • TIONESTA* ADA ACCOMMODATIONS...... 9 13365 Route 6 195 Lebo Road 450 Robinson Lane 172 Fish Hatchery Lane Corry, PA 16407 Carlisle, PA 17013 Bellefonte, PA 16823 Tionesta, PA 16353 BOUNDARY WATERS...... 12 (814) 664-2122 (717) 486-3419 (814) 359-5132 (814) 755-3524 SALTWATER ANGLER REGISTRY...... 12 • FAIRVIEW • LINESVILLE* • PLEASANT MOUNT* • TYLERSVILLE ENDANGERED/THREATENED SPECIES.... 17 2000 Lohrer Road 13300 Hartstown Road 229 Great Bend Turnpike 43 Hatchery Lane AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES...... 18 P.O. Box 531 Linesville, PA 16424 Pleasant Mount, PA Loganton, PA 17747 Fairview, PA 16415 (814) 683-4451 18453 (570) 725-3965 BOATING, BUI AND LIFE JACKETS...... 19 (814) 474-1514 (570) 448-2101 • UNION CITY FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORY...... 30 * Includes visitor center. Visitors are welcome 9450 Route 6 REPORTING POLLUTION...... 33 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. Union City, PA 16438 Groups should make advance arrangements. (814) 438-2222 © 2019 Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission

TO2019 FIND Pennsylvania THE STOCKING Fishing DAY Summary OF TROUT STREAMS AND LAKES NEAR YOU, VISIT www.fishandboat.comWWW.FISHANDBOAT.COM. 3 LICENSES, PRICING, PROOF OF RESIDENCY same, qualify for a resident fishing license. All others must FISHING LICENSES obtain a tourist or non-resident license. Fishing licenses are sold Certain active duty military personnel are exempt from Pennsylvania’s fishing license requirement. To be eligible by license issuing agents for the military waiver, an angler must be a bona fide Penn- through an electronic point- 2019 FISHING LICENSES Code Type of Fishing License or Permit Age Cost* sylvania resident, be on active duty, be stationed outside of-sale (P.O.S.) system. This 101 Resident (Annual) 16-64 $22.90 Pennsylvania and be here on authorized leave. While in system brings increased ef- 104 Senior Resident (Annual) 65 & up $11.90 the act of fishing, the military personnel must carry proof of ficiency, more options and 105 Senior Resident (Lifetime) 65 & up $51.90 each of these requirements, such as a PA driver’s license, easier upgrades for anglers. 108 1-Day Resident (not valid March 15–April 30) 16 & up $11.90 a military ID and valid military orders showing the place of 102 Non-Resident (Annual) 16 & up $52.90 Internet fishing licenses 106 1-Day Tourist **(not valid March 15–April 30) 16 & up $26.90 assignment and leave status. are sold online at: www. 103 3-Day Tourist 16 & up $26.90 Under the law, a qualifying soldier, sailor, airman or Ma- pa.wildlifelicense.com. 107 7-Day Tourist 16 & up $34.90 rine does not receive a free Pennsylvania fishing license. 110 Voluntary Youth Fishing License (Annual) Less than 16 $2.90 Instead, eligible active duty military personnel can legally A current license, signed in 109 Mentored Youth Permit Less than 16 $0.00 ink, is required of persons age 150 Trout-Salmon Permit 16 & up $9.90 fish without a license under the limited circumstances 16 and over to fish or angle 140 1-Year Trout/Salmon Permit *** 16 & up $9.90 outlined in the law. The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Com- 143 3-Year Senior Lifetime Trout-Salmon Permit 65 & up $25.90 mission recommends that anyone taking advantage of this for any species of fish and 144 5-Year Senior Lifetime Trout-Salmon Permit 65 & up $41.90 provision display a military ID while in the act of fishing in to take fishbait, baitfish and 145 10-Year Senior Lifetime Trout-Salmon Permit 65 & up $81.90 much the same way as one would display a conventional species of amphibians and 151 Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $9.90 152 Combination Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $15.90 fishing license. reptiles from Commonwealth * Includes issuing agent fee of $1.00 and $0.90 electronic processing fee. Excludes the 109 Mentored Youth Permit. The law does not exempt military personnel on leave **Includes Trout-Salmon and Lake Erie permits, not valid March 15–April 30. *** Applies to Senior Lifetime waters by those legal methods purchased on or after 1/1/2015 or may also be purchased as a trout program donation. from any other requirements of fishing or boating laws described in this booklet. and regulations. FISHING is defined as the act of angling, or to catch, take, kill or remove, or the attempt to catch, take, kill or Students from out of state who are attending school remove, from any waters or other areas within or bordering this Commonwealth any fish by any means or method in Pennsylvania but who have not become residents of for any purpose whatsoever. CASTING and/or RETRIEVING, whether by rod, reel and line, or by handline, for Pennsylvania are not eligible to purchase a resident fishing oneself or for others, requires a current license, unless specifically exempted by law. See “Assistance to Children” license and must obtain a tourist or non-resident license. on page 8 for specifics on when a license is required when assisting a child (12 years of age and under). Social Security Number requirements – Since 1998, federal and state laws require purchasers of a Pennsylvania OBTAIN YOUR LICENSE: Prisoner of War (POW) licenses are available to fishing license to provide their Social Security Number a) at more than 900 license-issuing agents persons who provide military documentation stating when applying to purchase a fishing license. b) at county treasurers offices the person is a former prisoner of war. Vouchers - A voucher may be purchased as a gift for c) at Fish & Boat Commission offices Senior resident and senior lifetime licenses are another individual that can be redeemed for a license d) on the Internet at www.pa.wildlifelicense.com. available to those persons at anytime during the year and/or stamp or privilege. A voucher may be redeemed A lost fishing license or replacements – All re- in which they will become age 65. at any issuing agent. The voucher is non-refundable placement licenses include permits or privileges previ- • Persons who possess a SENIOR RESIDENT LIFETIME and expires as noted. A voucher is not a fishing license ously purchased by the customer. The total cost for a license dated before Jan. 1, 1991, are not required and individuals using a voucher to fish are in violation replacement license and previously purchased permits to purchase a trout/salmon permit. However, a Senior of the Fish and Boat Code and may be subject to legal or privileges that were printed on the base license is Resident Lifetime license holder who purchased a action. Individuals wishing to purchase vouchers for $6.90. Replacement cost for 1-year permits or multi- trout/salmon permit or a Combination trout/Lake Erie Christmas presents need to wait until December 1 of year Senior trout/salmon permits is $6.90 permit before Jan. 1, 2015, remains exempt from the that year before purchasing a voucher. You qualify for a RESIDENT fishing license if you requirement to purchase a trout/salmon permit annually. 1-Day Tourist and 1-Day Resident licenses are a bona fide resident of Pennsylvania. When SENIOR RESIDENT LIFETIME license holders who - 1-Day Tourist and 1-Day Resident licenses are not purchasing a resident fishing license, you must show purchase their license as of Jan. 1, 2015, are required to valid for fishing during the period from March 15th to positive proof of permanent residency by presenting purchase a trout/salmon permit each year that the license April 30th of any year. 1-Day Tourist or 1-Day Resident one of the following documents: holder desires to fish for trout. License holders can purchase licenses issued to be used on March 14 will expire at a) valid PA driver’s license the trout/salmon permit annually or purchase the permit 11:59 p.m. on March 14, regardless of what time the b) a valid non-driver photo identification card for a 3-, 5-,10-year period. License holders are required license begins. c) a previous year’s PA state income tax return to purchase only one Lake Erie permit for a lifetime. In showing proof of payment of personal income tax as the event the license holder is no longer a Pennsylvania SENIOR RESIDENT LIFETIME LICENSE UPGRADE a resident of PA resident, the license continues to be valid. A durable plastic card version of the Senior Resi- d) a previous year’s local earned income tax return Disabled Veterans Licenses – Any disabled veteran dent Lifetime license is available. This upgrade is showing tax paid to a PA municipality who has a disability incurred in any war or armed conflict available for $11.90. Upgrades can also be purchased e) a current PA voter registration card. that consists of the loss of one or more limbs or the loss through issuing agents. All issued resident fishing licenses will remain of use of one or more limbs, or total blindness, or who valid for the year or years for which they are is- is 100 percent disabled as certified by the United States TROUT/SALMON sued, regardless of whether the license holder Veterans Administration and is a resident of this Com- is no longer a bona fide Pennsylvania resident. monwealth may obtain a free resident fishing license PERMIT National Guard & Armed Forces Reserve licenses upon application to the Commission or county treasurer. A current Pennsylvania trout/ and Prisoner of War (POW) licenses are available Reduced Disabled Veterans Licenses – Any disabled salmon permit is required to fish for trout or salmon in only at Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission veteran who has a disability incurred in any war or armed Pennsylvania waters. Permits are printed on the license. and county treasurer offices. conflict who is between 60 and 99 percent disabled as An angler “fishes for trout or salmon” when he or she: National Guard & Armed Forces Reserve li- certified by the United States Veterans Administration and censes are available to those persons who provide is a resident of this Commonwealth may obtain a reduced • Takes, kills or possesses, while in the act of fishing, a documentation that within the previous 24 months the fee resident fishing license upon application to the Fish trout or salmon from any PA or boundary waters. person was deployed overseas as a member of the & Boat Commission or county treasurer. • Fishes in waters under special trout/salmon regulations. reserve component of the armed forces for a period Military personnel are required to purchase a fishing • Fishes in any Class A Wild Trout Waters or Wilderness of 60 consecutive days or more or was released early license. Those who are stationed in Pennsylvania under Trout Streams or their tributaries. from service because of an injury or disease incurred permanent change of station orders (PCS) for a duration • Fishes in streams and rivers designated as stocked in the line of duty. of 6 months or more, who produce documentation proving trout waters on March 1 through May 31.

4 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary PERMITS, MULTI-YEAR LICENSES MULTI-YEAR FISHING PERMIT EXEMPTIONS: The following persons LICENSES: A 3-year fishing 2019 MULTI-YEAR FISHING LICENSES are NOT required to possess a trout/salmon license is valid through Code Type of Fishing License or Permit Age Cost* permit or Lake Erie permit: 2021, a 5-year fishing 140 1-Year Trout/Salmon Permit ** 16 & up $9.90 • Persons under 16 years of age. license is valid through 141 1-Year Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $9.90 • Disabled persons and other individuals who are 142 1-Year Combo Trout/Salmon Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $15.90 2023, and a 10-year fishing 030 3-Year Resident 16-64 $64.90 exempt from fishing license requirements, or who license is valid through 031 3-Year Non-Resident 16 & up $154.90 are authorized to fish using an institutional license. 2028. Customers who buy 032 3-Year Senior Resident 65 & up $31.90 033 3-Year Trout-Salmon Permit 16 & up $25.90 • Persons who possess a 1-Day Tourist license. multi-year licenses save 034 3-Year Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $25.90 money by not having to pay 035 3-Year Combo Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $43.90 transaction and processing 050 5-Year Resident 16-64 $106.90 051 5-Year Non-Resident 16 & up $256.90 LAKE ERIE PERMIT fees each year. Anglers can 052 5-Year Senior Resident 65 & up $51.90 also purchase multi-year 053 5-Year Trout-Salmon Permit 16 & up $41.90 All anglers fishing in the trout/salmon, Lake Erie 054 5-Year Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $41.90 055 5-Year Combo Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $71.90 waters of Lake Erie, Presque and combo permits and 060 10-Year Resident 16 & up $211.90 Isle Bay and their tributaries, including waters experience similar savings 061 10-Year Non-Resident 16 & up $511.90 that flow into those tributaries are required to or purchase single year 063 10-Year Trout-Salmon Permit 16 & up $81.90 064 10-Year Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $81.90 possess a valid Lake Erie permit or Combination trout/salmon, Lake Erie and 065 10-Year Combo Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $141.90 trout/salmon/Lake Erie permit. See page 14 for combo permits. To order * Includes issuing agent fee of $1.00 and $0.90 electronic processing fee. ** May also be purchased as a trout a list of main tributaries that require a permit. and for more information on program donation. multi-year licenses and permits, including receiving a free subscription to the digital version of Pennsylvania COMBINATION Angler & Boater magazine: www.GoneFishingPa.com. TROUT/SALMON/ MULTI-YEAR LICENSE UPGRADE CARDS: Anglers can purchase a durable plastic card version of LAKE ERIE PERMIT the multi-year license. This upgrade is available for $11.90. Upgrades can also be purchased through either the PFBC Outdoor Shop (www.pa.wildlifelicense.com) or from a license issuing agent. In many cases, an angler may need both a trout/ salmon permit and a Lake Erie permit to fish in VOLUNTARY YOUTH FISHING LICENSE waters in the Erie area. Rather than purchasing To participate in a Mentored Youth Fishing Day, anglers 16 years of age or older (adult anglers) must possess a these individually, a combination Trout/Salmon/ valid Pennsylvania fishing license and be accompanied by a youth (less than 16 years of age) who has obtained a Lake Erie permit may be purchased. Mentored Youth Permit OR a Voluntary Youth Fishing License. In addition to a valid fishing license, the adult angler (mentor) must posses a valid trout permit when the Mentored Youth Fishing Day relates to trout. While mentors will be permitted to fish for trout, they are not permitted to harvest trout and must release them unharmed. Youth CHARTER BOAT/FISHING may harvest up to two trout (combined species) with a minimum size of 7 inches. All other Commonwealth Inland GUIDE PERMITS Water Regulations apply. • The Mentored Youth Permit is free, and the Voluntary Youth Fishing License is $2.90 ($1.00 cost plus $1.90 Charter boat operators and fishing guides are in agent/transaction fee). required to obtain a permit when conducting • While both the permit and the Voluntary Youth Fishing License provide the opportunity for youth to fish on Mentored business on the waters of the Commonwealth Youth Fishing Days, the Voluntary Youth Fishing License provides an extended return for both Pennsylvania’s youth including the boundary waters. The annual fee for and the Commission. For each license purchased for $2.90, the Commission receives $5 back in funding as a the permit is $100.00 for residents and $400.00 for federal reimbursement. The same applies for each Voluntary Youth Fishing License Voucher, once it is redeemed. non-residents. Permit applications are available The Commission receives no federal reimbursement for Mentored Youth Permits. from the Harrisburg office, regional headquarters • The funds received from the sales of the license reimbursement are then dedicated toward investment in youth or the PFBC website: www.fishandboat.com/ outreach and education programs. Fish/Pages/CharterBoatsFishingGuides.aspx. • While both the permit and the license provide the opportunity to participate in Mentored Youth Fishing Days, For additional information about Charter Boat/ the Commission encourages anglers to purchase either a Voluntary Youth Fishing License or a Voluntary Youth Fishing Guide permits, contact the Bureau of Law Fishing License Voucher—for the future of fishing! Enforcement at 717-705-7861. ANGLERS: NEW VOLUNTARY PERMITS To find a charter boat operator or fishing Voluntary Permits are guide for a fish species or location you wish designed to help maintain 2019 VOLUNTARY PERMITS funding levels for several key to fish, go to the Commission’s website: Code Type of Voluntary Permits Age Cost* www.fishandboat.com/chboat.htm. fishing-related programs. 070 Voluntary Habitat/Waterways Conservation Permit Any $11.90 Revenues generated from 071 Voluntary Musky Permit Any $11.90 072 Voluntary Wild Trout & Enhanced Waters Permit Any $26.90 the sale of these permits 073 Voluntary Bass Permit Any $11.90 will be reinvested into 074 3-Year Voluntary Habitat/Waterways Conservation Permit Any $31.90 the Habitat/Waterways 075 3-Year Voluntary Musky Permit Any $31.90 076 3-Year Voluntary Wild Trout & Enhanced Waters Permit Any $76.90 Conservation, Musky, 077 3-Year Voluntary Bass Permit Any $31.90 Wild Trout & Enhanced 078 5-Year Voluntary Habitat/Waterways Conservation Permit Any $51.90 079 5-Year Voluntary Musky Permit Any $51.90 Waters or Bass programs. 080 5-Year Voluntary Wild Trout & Enhanced Waters Permit Any $126.90 The Wild Trout & Enhanced 081 5-Year Voluntary Bass Permit Any $51.90 Waters Permit does not 082 10-Year Voluntary Habitat/Waterways Conservation Permit Any $101.90 Purchase fishing licenses, trout stamps, 083 10-Year Voluntary Musky Permit Any $101.90 meet the requirement to 084 10-Year Voluntary Wild Trout & Enhanced Waters Permit Any $251.90 subscriptions, launch permits and more! fish for trout or salmon in 085 10-Year Voluntary Bass Permit Any $101.90 www.GoneFishingPa.com Pennsylvania waters. * Includes issuing agent fee of $1.00 and $0.90 electronic processing fee.

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary www.fishandboat.com 5 6 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary CALLING ALL PENNSYLVANIA ANGLERS!

Common Mudpuppy Eastern Hellbender

We need your help. Pennsylvania is home to two giant salamanders, the Eastern Hellbender and the Common Mudpuppy. Both species are regularly found by anglers, often caught accidentally on fishing hooks or in minnow traps. Anglers have a great opportunity to help herpetologists figure out the distribution and status of these species by simply taking a picture of any specimens encountered and e-mailing the picture, date, time, and location of the observation to [email protected].

The Common Mudpuppy is found in the Ohio River and Lake Erie Drainages, in the western third of Pennsylvania. Mudpuppies have large, feathery gills on either side of the head. Adults grow to 19 inches in length.

The Eastern Hellbender was historically found in the Susquehanna and Ohio Drainages, covering two thirds of Pennsylvania. Hellbenders do not have external gills as adults and look wrinkled due to skin folds used for respiration. Adults grow to 29 inches in length.

PLEASE SUBMIT ALL SIGHTINGS WITH A PICTURE, DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION TO [email protected]

Common Mudpuppy Eggs Eastern Hellbender Eggs

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary www.fishandboat.com 7 GENERAL REGULATIONS, TACKLE AND BAIT

GENERAL FISHING REGULATIONS BAIT NURSERY WATERS are closed to fishing at all times. BAITFISH includes all forms of minnows; REFUGE AREAS on streams are CLOSED TO ALL ENTRY AND FISHING during the period March 1 suckers, chubs, Fallfish, lampreys; Gizzard through June 14. Shad 8 inches or less; and all forms of dart- FIELD DRESSING AND DISPOSAL OF FISH – It is unlawful to possess a fish in any form or condition ers, killifishes and stonecats (except those other than in the whole or having the entrails removed while on shore, along the waters of the Com- listed as threatened or endangered species). monwealth, onboard a boat or on a dock, pier, launch area or parking lot adjacent thereto. Fish may be Legally taken gamefish may be used as bait. It processed fully if they are being prepared for immediate consumption on site. This does not apply to fish is unlawful to use or possess goldfish, comets, processed at a fish cleaning station officially recognized by the Commission or by a permitted charter boat/ koi and Common Carp as baitfish while fishing. fishing guide operation. FISHBAIT includes crayfish, crabs, and It is unlawful to discard any fish carcass or parts thereof into the waters of the Commonwealth or upon the nymphs, larvae and pupae of all insects any public or private lands contiguous to the waters unless disposal is on lands with permission from the spending any part of their life cycle in the water. landowner or it is where fish are properly disposed into suitable garbage or refuse collection systems or at an officially recognized fish cleaning station. For all crayfish species, the head must be TAGGED FISH – The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission and agencies in adjacent states apply tags immediately removed behind the eyes upon to fish for special research purposes. If an angler catches a tagged fish and wishes to keep the fish, the tag capture unless used as bait in the water from number and location of the catch should be reported to the address or phone number on the tag or to the Fish which taken. & Boat Commission. If the angler doesn’t wish to keep the fish, no attempt should be made to remove the SEASON, SIZE, LIMIT: No closed season tag unless special instructions have been posted at access areas, by the media or elsewhere. For example, (except as noted below) and no minimum sometimes the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission uses two-part tags and parts of or all of the tags should size. The daily limit and possession limit is 50 be removed in some cases with scissors or a knife. This type of tag typically resembles rubber spaghetti, combined species. When purchasing bait, be and information such as tag numbers and toll-free phone numbers can be easily read. Tagged fish that are sure to obtain and keep the sales slip or receipt. not kept should be returned to the water immediately after removing the tag or recording the information from The receipt authorizes the possession of the the tag. In no case should tags be pulled from a fish as this will cause significant injuries. fishbait or baitfish so purchased for a period It is unlawful for a person to implant tracking devices in or to tag, brand, mark or fin clip any fish taken from of 15 days after its date of issue. Fishbait or Commonwealth waters, unless the fish are purchased from an authorized commercial aquaculture facility, baitfish purchased from a licensed dealer do are part of a Commission-recognized and sanctioned stocking by a cooperative nursery, are authorized by not have a possession limit and do not count a scientific collector’s permit issued by the Commission, are part of a tagged fish contest in a boundary lake toward your daily limit of fishbait and baitfish for which the Commission has issued a permit or are part of a Commission-partnered tagged fish contest. taken from Commonwealth waterways. Stocked trout waters are closed for taking fishbait and TACKLE AND EQUIPMENT baitfish from March 1 to the opening day of RODS, LINES AND HOOKS. An angler may use a maximum of three lines fished either by rod or hand when trout season. Most specially regulated trout fishing for gamefish, baitfish or both. An exception to this rule exists for those fishing through ice in winter (see Ice waters are closed to taking fishbait and baitfish Fishing Equipment below). On open water (not covered by ice), it is unlawful for a person to fish with more than at all times. three fishing rods at a time. There is no restriction on the number of hooks used on each fishing line. All rods, lines TAKING AND KEEPING BAIT is permit- and hooks shall be under the immediate control of the person using them. ted using rod and reel or handline, dip net SNAGGING HOOKS may not be used or possessed while in the act of fishing. A snagging hook is a device or minnow seine not over 4 feet square or in designed or modified to facilitate the snagging of fish and may be a hook with a single barb, weighted on a shank diameter, or a minnow trap with no more than below the eye and above the barbs; or a hook otherwise designed or modified to make the snagging of fish more two openings that shall not exceed 1 inch likely than it would be with a normal hook. in diameter. All devices must be under the ICE FISHING EQUIPMENT. It is unlawful while ice fishing to use more than five fishing devices, which may consist immediate control of the person using them. of rods, hand lines, tip-ups or any combination. Each device shall contain a single fishing line with no restriction on Unattended minnow traps or baitfish containers the number of hooks used for fishing, except when fishing in the Pymatuning Reservoir where no more than three hooks shall be attached to each line. Holes cut in ice may not exceed 10 inches between the farthest points as left in Commonwealth waters must be identified measured in any direction. All lines, rods or tip-ups shall be under the immediate control of the person using them. On with the owner’s or user’s name, address and Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission lakes, shelters or shanties must be removed when through fishing for the day. telephone number. If fishing in a group and the GAFF OR LANDING NET. A gaff or landing net is permitted to assist in landing fish caught using a lawful device. total number of fishbait or baitfish taken exceeds Nets of all types can be no larger (excluding the handle) than 4 feet square or 4 feet in diameter. It is unlawful to the possession limit (50), separate containers use any type of net or seine to catch or take gamefish. must be provided for the fishbait and baitfish. SPEARS OR GIGS. Spears or gigs may be used to take ONLY carp, suckers and catfish. Spears or gigs may not Total possession limit in any one container may be mechanically propelled, may not have more than five barbed points and may not be used in stocked trout waters. not exceed 50 baitfish or fishbait combined. BOW AND ARROW (including compound bows and crossbows) may be used for taking ONLY carp, suckers MUDBUGS (dragonfly nymphs): No daily and catfish on all Commonwealth waters, day or night, except in stocked trout waters during the closed season limit from lakes, ponds, swamps or adjacent and in special regulation waters. areas; the daily limit from rivers and streams is 50. FROGS AS BAIT: Except for those listed as ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN endangered or threatened or those with zero An adult who assists a child (12 years of age and under) by possession limit, frogs may be used as bait. casting or retrieving a fishing line or fishing rod is not required to Certain seasons and possession limits apply. possess a valid fishing license provided that the child remains Releasing fish from another state, province within arms’ reach of the assisting adult and is actively involved or country into Commonwealth waters is illegal in the fishing activity. An adult may assist a child by baiting hooks, without written permission from the Commis- removing fish from the line, netting fish, preparing the fishing rod sion. Transferring fish from one Pennsylvania for use and untangling the line without possessing a valid fishing license. An adult is required to pos- watershed to another where that species is not sess a fishing license if they intend to set the hook for the child. An adult may not fish or set the hook always present is also illegal without written for their child in a designated Children/Special Population Area. consent from the Commission.

8 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary UNLAWFUL ACTS AND ADA RESOURCES

IT IS UNLAWFUL . . . • To sell, offer for sale, purchase or barter any fish PERSONS with parts or fish eggs obtained from fish taken from waters • To possess, to introduce or import, transport, of this Commonwealth including boundary waters. DISABILITIES sell, purchase, offer for sale or barter the following This prohibition does not apply to fish parts or fish A copy of the Pennsylvania Fishing live species in the Commonwealth: snakehead eggs (1) lawfully taken or sold or offered for sale by Summary is available on our website at (all species), Black Carp, Bighead Carp, Silver holders of Lake Erie commercial fishing licenses if www.fishandboat.com and may be obtained Carp, Zebra Mussel, Quagga Mussel, European the particular species of fish is authorized for taking as a computer file (alternative accessible Rudd, Ruffe, Rusty Crayfish, Round Goby and by commercial licensees, or (2) those obtained from format). Persons using a TTY should dial Tubenose Goby. fish taken lawfully from waters outside of this Com- Pennsylvania Relay telephone number 711 • To fish with more than three fishing lines at any monwealth. to contact us. time when fishing for gamefish, baitfish or both. • To release any species of fish, except those Persons who are deprived of the use • To fish (includes taking baitfish and fishbait) listed as approved by the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat of a leg or both legs or who are disabled from March 1 to 8:00 a.m. on the opening day of Commission, in Commonwealth waters without in a manner that significantly limits their trout season in any stocked trout water. Excepted written permission from the executive director of the mobility may apply for a permit to use an are certain specially regulated waters and Stocked Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission. off-road motorized vehicle to access fishing Trout Waters Open to Year-round Fishing. • To place an obstruction in any waterway that and boating opportunities on Pennsylvania • To take or attempt to take fish, or keep fish ac- blocks the free movement of fish. Fish & Boat Commission property. Permit cidentally caught, by snatch-fishing, foul hooking or • To use or have in possession while on or along snag fishing. Handfishing is not permitted. Commonwealth waters, nets larger than 4 feet square applications may be requested in writing from • To catch, kill or possess more than one day’s or in diameter except with a special permit issued by the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, limit of any fish, except: (a) at your residence and the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission. Bureau of Law Enforcement, P.O. Box 67000, (b) you may possess two days’ limit while traveling • To conduct an organized fishing tournament Harrisburg, PA 17106-7000. to your residence from an overnight fishing trip of in which there are 10 or more participants without For a listing of waters available exclusively two or more consecutive days. a permit issued by the Commission. Applications for children 12 years of age and younger and • To have on a stringer or in a container or otherwise must be submitted 60 days before the date of the persons with disabilities, please contact a in possession, while in or along waters of the Com- proposed tournament. Fishing tournaments may region office or visitwww.fishandboat.com . monwealth or immediately returning therefrom, more not be conducted for a species of fish during the than the daily creel limit of any fish for one person. closed season for that species. Unless a special ACCOMMODATIONS for • To fail to immediately return unharmed to the exemption is granted, fishing tournaments may not waters from which it was taken, any fish caught out be conducted on the opening day of the season for Persons with of season, or undersize, or over the daily creel limit. any species of gamefish. Contact the nearest region Disabilities Any fish placed on a stringer, in any container or office (page 3) for further information and permit The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission given away, counts toward the possession limit of applications. Applications are also available online: facilities listed here have fishing piers or other the person having caught it, and the person to whom www.fishandboat.com. accommodations to provide angling opportuni- it was given. • To conduct an organized fishing tournament and ties for persons with disabilities. All areas may • To kill any fish and fail to make a reasonable fail to submit an accurate fishing tournament catch not be suitable for all disabilities. effort to lawfully dispose of it. report when required. • To fish in, or within 100 feet of, the entrance or • To conduct a tagged fishing tournament in bound- County Facilities exit points of any fishway, including fish ladders and ary waters without a permit issued by the Pennsylvania Bedford Lake Koon other fish passage facilities. Fish & Boat Commission. Butler Glade Run Lake • To use gamefish as bait except when taken by rod • To throw, leave, discard or deposit litter, debris or Carbon Mauch Chunk Lake and reel or handline in conformance with seasons, trash of any kind in or along waters or lands adjacent Centre Spring Creek (fly-fishing pier) sizes and creel limits or when purchased from an to or contiguous to waters of the Commonwealth. Columbia Briar Creek Lake authorized bait dealer. • To obstruct the ingress, egress or regress to a Erie North East Marina • To sell baitfish or fishbait taken from waters of the person’s property, cattleways or fields. (shoreline fishing) Commonwealth, except that licensed and authorized • To dig in or drive upon any lands. Erie Walnut Creek commercial fishermen may take and sell baitfish from • To cut or damage trees or shrubs. (shoreline fishing) Lake Erie and Presque Isle Bay. • To build or tend open fires without permission. Fayette Dunlap Creek Lake • To sell baitfish or fishbait within the Common- • To run any vehicle, except fording in the most Fayette Youghiogheny River wealth, or transport same out of the state, except direct manner, in any stream. Lake Outflow by authorized and licensed commercial bait dealers. • To interfere with officers authorized to enforce Jefferson Cloe Lake • To sell any species of fish, reptile (with the excep- the Fish and Boat Code in the performance of their Lackawanna Fords Lake tion of Snapping Turtles) or amphibian taken from duties or to refuse to accompany any officer after Lancaster Speedwell Forge Lake the Commonwealth. having been arrested for a violation of the Fish and Lehigh Leaser Lake Boat Code. Luzerne Harveys Lake Luzerne Lily Lake IF A VIOLATION OCCURS . . . Philadelphia Frankford Arsenal Access - Delaware River Persons accused of violating the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Code or rules and regulations may be (railed shoreline fishing area) issued a citation and have a right to a hearing before a district justice. Law enforcement personnel have Sullivan Hunters Lake the authority to confiscate or seize as evidence fish and fishing equipment that are illegal or used to violate Washington Canonsburg Lake fishing laws or regulations. The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission may, upon proper notice, suspend or Washington Cross Creek Lake revoke the fishing privileges, boating privileges or other permits of any person convicted (or acknowledging Wayne Lake Wallenpaupack guilt) of a violation of the Fish and Boat Code or Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission regulations. Mangan Cove Access If you have been convicted of or plead guilty to a second or subsequent violation within a 12-month period, Wyoming Lake Winola you may be assessed an additional fine of $200 for those offenses classified as summary offenses. Wyoming Oxbow Lake

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary www.fishandboat.com 9 ALL FISH SPECIES–INLAND WATERS COMMONWEALTH INLAND WATERS-2019 (includes the Youghiogheny River Lake and does not include special regulation areas.) Species Seasons Minimum Size Daily Limit ALL SPECIES OF TROUT AND SALMON Regional Opening Day of Trout Season* - March 30 at 7 inches 5-streams, lakes and ponds 8 a.m. through Sept. 2 (only 18 southeastern PA counties) (combined species)

Regular Season - April 13 at 8 a.m. through Sept. 2 7 inches 5-streams, lakes and ponds (combined species) Extended Season: Stocked trout waters and all 7 inches 3 (combined species) waters downstream of stocked trout waters. Additional regulations may apply- Jan. 1 through Feb. 28 and Sept. 3 through Dec. 31 see Trout Regulations-pages 20-29. See page 20 Extended Season: Class A wild trout stream sections. for stream sections that are both Stocked Trout NO HARVEST - Catch and immediate release only Waters and Class A Wild Trout Waters. Jan. 1 through Feb. 28 and Sept. 3 through Dec. 31 Class A stream listing: www.fishandboat.com/classa.pdf BASS-LAKES Jan. 1 through April 12 and Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 15 inches 4 (combined species) Largemouth, Smallmouth and Spotted April 13 through June 14 NO HARVEST - Catch and immediate release only (no tournaments permitted) Additional regulations may apply- See catch-and-release guidelines on page 15. see page 11 June 15 through Oct. 31 12 inches 6 (combined species) BASS-RIVERS AND STREAMS Jan. 1 through April 12 and Oct. 1 through Dec. 31 15 inches 4 (combined species) Largemouth, Smallmouth and Spotted April 13 through June 14 NO HARVEST - Catch and immediate release only (no tournaments permitted) Additional regulations may apply- see page 11 June 15 through Sept. 30 12 inches 6 (combined species) Muskellunge and Tiger Muskellunge** Open year-round 40 inches 1 (combined species) Pickerel** 18 inches 4 Northern Pike** 24 inches 2 Walleye and Saugeye (Hybrids) Jan. 1 through March 14 and May 4 through Dec. 31 15 inches 6 Sauger Jan. 1 through March 14 and May 4 through Dec. 31 12 inches 6 American Shad*** Open year-round No minimum 3 American Shad Open year-round - Lehigh River, Schuylkill River**** and tributaries NO HARVEST - Catch and immediate release only American Shad CLOSED YEAR-ROUND River Herring*** Susquehanna River and tributaries Hickory Shad*** CLOSED YEAR-ROUND Herring, Gizzard Shad Open year-round No minimum 50 (combined species) American Eel Open year-round 9 inches 25 Striped Bass and Striped Bass/ Open year-round 20 inches 2 (combined species) White Bass Hybrids Sunfish, Yellow Perch, White Perch, Crappies, Open year-round No minimum 50 (combined species) Catfish, Rock Bass, Suckers, Carp, White Bass, Bowfin and other gamefish not otherwise listed Additional regulations may apply- see Panfish Enhancement Special Regulations-page 15 Baitfish/Fishbait*****(except Mudbugs/includes Crayfish) Open year-round No minimum 50 (combined species) Mudbugs (Dragonfly Nymphs) Open year-round No minimum Unlimited if taken from lakes, ponds, swamps and adjacent areas. 50 per day if taken from moving waters (rivers and streams) Mussels/Clams CLOSED YEAR-ROUND Paddlefish, Spotted Gar and other threatened and endangered species CLOSED YEAR-ROUND SEASONS, SIZES AND CREEL LIMITS – Except for trout season, **** Lehigh River upstream of the first dam in Easton, Pennsylvania and its NOTE: It is legal to fish for trout in Class A trout streams year-round, which begins at 8 a.m., all regulatory periods in the fishing regulations tributaries and the Schuylkill River upstream of the I-95 Bridge and its tributaries. with no harvest beginning the day after Labor Day through the opening are based on the calendar day, one of which ends at midnight and the NOTE: It is not a violation of the bass regulations if a bass is immediately day of trout season the following year. The exception is those stream next of which begins immediately thereafter. returned unharmed to the waters from which it was taken. It is unlawful sections designated as both Class A Wild Trout Streams and Stocked * Includes only those waters in 18 southeastern PA counties and four for an angler to cast repeatedly into a clearly visible bass spawning nest Trout Waters. These stream sections are closed to fishing from March waters crossing from those counties listed in the Regional Opening or redd in an effort to catch or take bass. 1 until 8 a.m. on the opening day of trout season. Day of Trout Season Program (see pages 22, 23, 26 and 28). NOTE: For bass regulations, power dam pools and recreational dam ***** BAITFISH includes all forms of minnows; suckers, chubs, ** Except those species in waters listed in the Brood Stock Lakes pools on the Susquehanna River and navigational dam pools on the Ohio Fallfish, lampreys; Gizzard Shad 8 inches or less; and all forms of River drainage are “rivers.” It is unlawful to conduct a fishing tournament Program. Tiger Muskellunge is a muskellunge hybrid. on the North Branch, West Branch or main stem of the Susquehanna darters, killifishes and stonecats (except those listed as threatened or *** Unlawful to take, catch or kill American Shad in the Susquehanna River River that allows a tournament angler to harvest bass. endangered species). Legally taken gamefish may be used as bait. and all its tributaries. River Herring (Alewife and Blueback Herring) has a NOTE: Stocked trout waters are closed to fishing from March 1 to the It is unlawful to use or possess goldfish, comets, koi and Common closed year-round season with zero daily limit applied to Susquehanna opening day of the regular trout season in April, unless included in the Carp as baitfish while fishing. FISHBAIT includes crayfish, crabs, River and tributaries, Lehigh River and tributaries, Schuylkill River and Regional Opening Day of Trout Season Program or Stocked Trout and the nymphs, larvae and pupae of all insects spending any part tributaries, West Branch Delaware River, Delaware River, Delaware Waters open to Year-Round Fishing Program. of their life cycle in the water. estuary, Delaware River tributaries upstream to the limit of the tidal NOTE: Landlocked Alewife less than 8 inches in length taken from inland For all crayfish species, the head must be immediately removed influence, and Conowingo Reservoir. ponds, lakes or reservoirs that are collected by legal means may behind the eyes upon capture unless used as bait in the water from be harvested for use as baitfish. which taken.

10 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary LARGEMOUTH, SMALLMOUTH, SPOTTED BASS

Largemouth Bass Smallmouth Bass Spotted Bass LAKES BIG BASS PROGRAM Season Minimum Size Daily Limit SPECIAL REGULATIONS Jan. 1 through 15 inches 4 (combined species) April 12 and These special regulations apply to Largemouth, Smallmouth June 15 through and Spotted bass in the waters listed below. Stocked trout waters Dec. 31 (lakes) that are in the Big Bass Program are closed to all fishing April 13 through NO HARVEST- Catch and immediate release from March 1 until the opening day of the trout season. This June 14 only (no tournaments permitted) closure does not pertain to stocked trout waters (lakes) open to year-round fishing. For all other species, inland regulations apply. For the latest ANDinformation TRIBUTARY and regulation updates, PORTIONS please consult the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s website: www.fishandboat.com.

Waters Governed by These Regulations

County Water County Water County Water Allegheny Upper, Middle and Lower Deer Carbon Mauch Chunk Lake Somerset Lake Somerset (lake drained) Lakes Closed to fishing from March 1 Chester Chambers Lake Somerset Quemahoning Reservoir until 8 a.m. on opening day of trout. Chester Marsh Creek Lake Venango Two Mile Run Reservoir Allegheny Marshall Lake (State Park) (Justus Lake) Allegheny North Park Lake Clarion/Venango Kahle Lake Washington Cross Creek Lake Armstrong Keystone Lake Crawford Sugar Lake Washington Peters Twp. Lake (Res. #2) Beaver Bradys Run Lake Fayette Indian Creek Reservoir Wayne Lower Woods Pond (partial drawdown) Berks Blue Marsh Lake (Mill Run Reservoir) Westmoreland Bridgeport Reservoir Berks Carsonia Lake Fayette Bridgeport Reservoir Westmoreland Indian Lake Berks Hopewell Lake Indiana Yellow Creek Lake Westmoreland Keystone Lake (State Park) Berks Kaercher Creek Dam (State Park) Westmoreland Twin Lakes Number One Bedford Shawnee Lake (State Park) Jefferson Kyle Lake (lake drained) Reservoir (lower) Blair Canoe Creek Lake (State Park) Lackawanna Lackawanna Lake Westmoreland Mammoth Dam to include two small ponds (State Park) Westmoreland Northmoreland Lake and raceway adjacent to Luzerne Frances Slocum Lake Westmoreland Twin Lake Number Two Canoe Lake (State Park) Reservoir (upper) Bucks Lake Towhee Luzerne Harris Pond Wyoming Stevens Lake Bucks Nockamixon Lake (State Park) Luzerne Lily Lake York Lake Marburg Butler Lake Arthur Lycoming Rose Valley Lake (Codorus State Park) (Moraine State Park) Mercer Shenango River Lake York Lake Redman Cambria Beaverdam Run Reservoir Monroe Bradys Lake York Lake Williams (lake drained) Cambria Duman Dam Monroe/Wayne Gouldsboro Lake York Pinchot Lake (State Park) Cambria Hinckston Run Reservoir Montour Lake Chillisquaque Cambria Wilmore Dam Perry Little Buffalo Lake (Holman Lake)

See catch-and-release SMALLMOUTH AND LARGEMOUTH BASS–CATCH AND RELEASE guidelines on page 15. Counties Waters Season/Special Regulations STAY UP- Cumberland, Susquehanna River (98.0 miles) ● January 1 to December 31: NO HARVEST CATCH TO-DATE! Dauphin, Juniata, from the in atable dam near Sunbury AND IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONLY. It is unlawful for an Lancaster, downstream to Holtwood Dam, angler to cast repeatedly into a clearly visible bass The Commission has Northumberland, including all tributaries to a point spawning nest or redd in an effort to catch or take bass as established a centralized Perry, Snyder, York ½ mile upstream from the con uence. with Commonwealth Inland Waters angling regulations. web resource that houses From January 1 to April 12 and June 15 to news, stories, editorials, Dauphin, Juniata River (31.7 miles) from SR0075 December 31: Catch-measure-immediate release letters and other resources about the impairment of the Juniata, Perry bridge at Port Royal downstream to the tournaments permitted (see www.fishandboat.com FOR MORE BOATING INFORMATION: Susquehanna River. Visit, mouth, including all tributaries to a point for tournament requirement details). www.fishandboat.com/ ½ mile upstream from the con uence. From April 13 to June 14: No tournaments permitted. susq-impairment.htm

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary l=NEW www.fishandboat.com 11 PYMATUNING & CONOWINGO RESERVOIRS

PYMATUNING RESERVOIR FISHING PRIVILEGES Species Seasons Minimum Size Daily Limit IN BOUNDARY WATERS Walleye and Saugeye (Hybrids) Open year-round 15 inches 6 (combined species) The following fishing license agreements apply to Bass: Largemouth, Smallmouth Open year-round 12 inches 5 boundary waters. You must abide by all other rules Muskellunge and Open year-round 30 inches 2 (combined species) and regulations of the state in which fishing and where Tiger Muskellunge (Hybrids) you launch or retrieve your boat. A PENNSYLVANIA or MARYLAND LICENSE is valid Crappie** Open year-round 9 inches 20 on the Conowingo Reservoir or Youghiogheny River All Other Species Open year-round No minimum None Lake when fishing from a boat (excluding coves and Baitfish/Fishbait* Open year-round No minimum None See page 8 for definitions tributaries). DOES NOT INCLUDE SHORE FISHING. Frogs and Tadpoles July 1 through Oct. 31 No minimum 15 A PENNSYLVANIA or NEW YORK LICENSE is Snapping Turtles July 1 through Oct. 31 No minimum 15 daily limit valid on the Delaware River (including West Branch) 30 possession limit between New York and Pennsylvania when FISHING Turtles (all species other Open year-round No minimum 2 FROM A BOAT OR FROM EITHER SHORE. than Snapping Turtles) A PENNSYLVANIA or NEW JERSEY LICENSE Mussels/Clams CLOSED YEAR-ROUND is valid on the Delaware River between New Jersey Threatened and endangered and Pennsylvania when FISHING FROM A BOAT species CLOSED YEAR-ROUND OR FROM EITHER SHORE. A Pennsylvania fishing license is required to fish in all other waters identified ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS consist of rods, hand lines, tip-ups or any combination. on page 13 as being part of the Delaware Estuary. FOR PYMATUNING RESERVOIR Each device shall contain a single fishing line with no more A PENNSYLVANIA or OHIO LICENSE is valid on than three hooks attached to each line. Holes cut in ice the Pymatuning Reservoir when fishing from a boat. • Lights or firearms may not be used to take frogs. may not exceed 10 inches between the farthest points as DOES NOT INCLUDE SHORE FISHING. • Hooks used to take turtles shall be at least 3.5 inches long measured in any direction. All lines, rods or tip-ups shall with at least 1 inch space between the point and shank. be under the immediate control of the person using them. A PENNSYLVANIA LICENSE is required to fish • Spears, longbows, compound bows and crossbows may Kinzua Reservoir in McKean and Warren counties. ONLY be used to take carp and suckers. NOTE: See this page for reciprocal fishing privileges between Pennsylvania and Ohio. No agreement has been established with New York. • Minnow seines and dip nets are restricted to 4 feet in size; NO FISHING AGREEMENTS have been made on mesh must measure not less than 1/8 inch, nor larger than *For all crayfish species, the head must be immediately any other boundary waters. 1/2 inch on a side. removed behind the eyes upon capture unless used as bait • ICE FISHING – An Ohio or Pennsylvania fishing license is in the water from which taken. recognized anywhere on the lake. It is unlawful while ice TER ANGLER LTWA REG SA IST fishing to use more than five fishing devices, which may ** As per Panfish Enhancement Special Regulations--page 15 IA RY SALTWATER N P A R LV O Y G S R N A N M ANGLER E P

up to Holtwood Dam CONOWINGO RESERVOIR

REGISTRY:

P E N N DELAWARE RIVER N IO Species Seasons Minimum Size Daily Limit S SS YL I VA MM AND ESTUARY NIA T CO All Species of Open year-round No minimum 2 (combined species) FISH & BOA Trout and Salmon Anglers who target or catch shad, striped bass and Bass: Jan. 1 through Feb. 12 inches 5 (combined species) river herring from the Delaware River below Trenton Largemouth, 28 and June 16 Falls or in the Delaware Estuary are required to register Smallmouth through Dec. 31 through the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s Northern Pike Open year-round 30 inches 2 free online system (PA-SARP); register, for a fee, with Walleye Open year-round 15 inches 5 the National Saltwater Angler Registry administered by Muskellunge and Open year-round 36 inches 1 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Tiger Muskellunge (Hybrids) (NOAA); or meet the saltwater angler registration Pickerel Open year-round 14 inches 5 requirements of another state. Anglers do not need to Striped Bass and Striped Bass/ Open year-round 18 inches 2 (combined species) register if they meet one of the following exceptions: White Bass Hybrids only one of which may • Are under the age of 16. exceed 30 inches • Hold a Highly Migratory Species Angling Permit. Sunfish, Bluegill, Rock Bass Open year-round No minimum 15 (combined species) • Fish commercially under a valid license. Crappies Open year-round No minimum 15 • Possess a valid registration with the National Carp Open year-round No minimum 15 Saltwater Angler. Channel Catfish Open year-round No minimum 5 • Registry administered by NOAA or from another Suckers Open year-round No minimum 30 exempted state. American Eel Open year-round 9 inches 25 Pennsylvania fishing license holders may choose Yellow Perch Open year-round No minimum No daily limit to register for free with the Pennsylvania Fish & Baitfish/Fishbait* See page 8 Open year-round No minimum 35 Boat Commission. Visit www.pa-sarp.pa.gov for All Other Fish Species Open year-round No minimum No daily limit registration details. American Shad and Hickory Shad, Anglers may also register with the National Registry River Herring (Alewife and website at www.countmyfish.noaa.gov with NOAA Blueback Herring) CLOSED YEAR-ROUND by clicking on the Angler Registry link or call the toll-free registration line NATIONAL SALTWATER ANGLER Bivalves/Shellfish includes all threatened and endangered species (Mussels/Clams) REGISTRY: DELAWARE RIVER AND ESTUARY at 1-888-MRIP-411 (1-888-674-7411). Please note that *It is illegal to: catch or process any species of crayfish unless the head is immediately removed behind the eyes registered anglers must still possess a valid state upon capture; use any species of crayfish as bait unless the head is removed behind the eyes; catch and possess a female crayfish with eggs attached to the underside of the abdomen. fishing license. 12 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary DELAWARE RIVER FISHING DELAWARE RIVER AND ESTUARY DELAWARE RIVER The following seasons, sizes and creel daily limits apply to the Delaware River, West Branch Delaware River and Delaware ESTUARY River tributaries, from the mouths of the tributaries upstream to the limit of the tidal influence and the Lehigh River from its mouth upstream to the first dam in Easton, Pennsylvania. The Delaware River estuary waters are listed at the right. (including tributaries to limits of tidal influence) Species Seasons Minimum Size Daily Limit The Delaware River estuary consists of the water areas listed below to their upper tidal limits: Trout April 13 at 8 a.m. North of I-84: 1 (combined species) through Oct. 15 14 inches WATER AREA UPPER TIDAL LIMIT Chester Creek Kerlin Street South of I-84: 5 (combined species) No minimum (Chester city) Crum Creek U.S. Route 13 West Branch 2 (combined species) (Eddystone) Delaware River * 12 inches Darby Creek Pine Street (Darby borough) Bass Jan. 1 through April 12 and 12 inches 5 (combined species) Largemouth June 15 through Dec. 31 Delaware River From the PA state line Smallmouth upstream to the U.S. Route 1 bridge Frankford Creek U.S. Route 13 (Frankford Avenue) April 13 through June 14 NO HARVEST - Catch and immediate release only Marcus Hook Creek U.S. Route 13 (Marcus Hook borough) Muskellunge and Open year-round 40 inches 1 Tiger Muskellunge Neshaminy Creek Hulmeville Falls (Hybrids) Pennypack Creek U.S. Route 13 (Frankford Avenue) Northern Pike Open year-round 24 inches 2 Poquessing Creek State Road Pickerel Open year-round 12 inches 5 Ridley Creek MacDade Boulevard Walleye The portion of the Delaware 18 inches 3 (Chester city) River between New Jersey and Schuylkill River Fairmount Dam Pennsylvania - open year-round. The portion of the Delaware DELAWARE RIVER AND ESTUARY River between New York and ANGLERS: SALTWATER ANGLER Pennsylvania - Jan. 1 through REGISTRY-see page 12 March 14 and May 4 through Dec. 31 DELAWARE RIVER American Shad** Open year-round No minimum 3 BLUE CRABS American Eel Open year-round 9 inches 25 Striped Bass and From the Pennsylvania state line 1 FEMALE BLUE CRABS bearing eggs or Hybrid Striped Bass upstream to Calhoun Street Bridge; from which the egg pouch or bunion has been Jan. 1 through March 31 and 28 inches removed may not be possessed. June 1 through Dec. 31 CRAB POTS are limited to no more than April 1 through May 31 21 to 25 inches 2 two pots per person when taking crabs. In From Calhoun Street Bridge 28 inches 1 addition, two handlines may be used. upstream - open year-round UNATTENDED CRAB POTS must be Baitfish/Fishbait* Open year-round No minimum 50 (combined species) labeled with the name and address of the See page 8 for definitions owner or user. River Herring*** CLOSED YEAR-ROUND DISTURBING UNATTENDED CRAB POTS Hickory Shad, is unlawful, except by the owner, user or Sturgeon and other CLOSED YEAR-ROUND threatened and members of the immediate family, and officers endangered species or representatives of the Pennsylvania Fish Mussels/Clams CLOSED YEAR-ROUND & Boat Commission. Other Species Inland seasons, sizes and creel limits apply except for waters under special regs. HORSESHOE CRABS are unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or purchase any horseshoe * A special no-kill season with the use of artificial lures only year-round season with zero daily limit applied to Susquehanna has been established on the West Branch Delaware River River and tributaries, Lehigh River and tributaries, Schuylkill River crabs. It is unlawful to import into or transport (see page 16 for details). and tributaries, West Branch Delaware River, Delaware River, in this Commonwealth horseshoe crabs for ** American Shad is catch and release in the Schuylkill Delaware estuary, and Delaware River tributaries upstream to the purpose of sale. River from I-95 upstream including all tributaries and three the limit of the tidal influence. (3) American Shad in all other Delaware River tributaries, *For all crayfish species, the head must be immediately removed including those above tide. behind the eyes upon capture unless used as bait in the water * Measured *** River Herring (Alewife and Blueback Herring) has a closed from which taken point to point See fish consumption advisory for Delaware Estuary Striped Bass over 28”–see page 31.

DELAWARE RIVER BLUE CRABS Harvesting blue crabs from the Delaware River Season Minimum Size Daily Limit and its estuary waters is permitted pursuant Open year-round 4 inches * (hard shell) One (1) bushel to the regulations at left. 3.5 inches * (soft shell) (combined - hard shell and soft shell)

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary www.fishandboat.com 13 LAKE ERIE FISHING Because of diseases and invasive species, the Com- LAKE ERIE mission recommends as a good conservation practice The following seasons, sizes and daily limits apply to Lake Erie, Presque Isle Bay and peninsular waters, that anglers not transport any live fish out of the Lake all Lake Erie tributaries in their entirety which include Cascade Creek, Conneaut Creek, Crooked Creek, Erie Watershed and introduce those fish into other wa- East Branch Conneaut Creek, Eightmile Creek, Elk Creek, Fourmile Creek, Middle Branch Conneaut tersheds. For more information on invasive species, Creek, Marsh Run, Mill Creek, Mud Run, Raccoon Creek, Sevenmile Creek, Sixmile Creek, Sixteenmile please see “Aquatic Invasive Species” on page 18. Creek, Stone Run, Temple Run, Turkey Creek, Twelvemile Creek, Twentymile Creek, Walnut Creek, West Branch Conneaut Creek and all waters that flow into these tributaries. For more information on VHS, please contact the Com- mission’s Northwest Region Office (page 3) or visit Species Seasons Minimum Size Daily Limit www.fishandboat.com/pafish/all/vhs/vhs.htm. Muskellunge and Open year-round 40 inches 1 * It is unlawful to conduct or participate in a fishing Tiger Muskellunge tournament for bass on Lake Erie or Presque Isle Bay (Hybrids) during the period from opening day of the trout season Northern Pike Open year-round 24 inches 2 in April until midnight the first Saturday after June 11. ** It is unlawful to fish or possess trout or salmon in or along any Lake Erie tributary stream from 12:01 a.m. Walleye Jan. 1 through March 14 15 inches 6*** on April 12 until 8 a.m. on April 13 (32 hours total). and May 4 through Dec. 31 *** Adaptive management for daily limits: After the Bass* Jan. 1 through April 12 and 15 inches 4 (combined species) PFBC Executive Director establishes the daily limit Largemouth June 15 through Dec. 31 for the year, the information will be available from any Smallmouth April 13 through June 14* 20 inches 1 PFBC office and posted at www.fishandboat.com. Yellow Perch Dec. 1 through April 30 7 inches 30*** Special Regulations–Lake May 1 through Nov. 30 None Erie Tributary Streams Sunfish, Crappies, Catfish, Open year-round No minimum 50 (combined species) Rock Bass, Suckers, Eels, • Designated as Nursery Waters are Trout Carp, White Bass, Bowfin Run and its tributaries, Godfrey Run, Orchard and other gamefish not Beach Run, and Crooked Creek (where posted). otherwise listed It is unlawful to fish, wade or possess fishing Burbot (when taken by scuba June 1 through Sept. 30 No minimum 5 equipment while in or along Lake Erie tributary divers by use of nonmechanical streams designated as Nursery Waters. spears or gigs at a depth of at • Archery fishing or spear fishing is prohibited in least 60 feet) or along Lake Erie tributary streams. Burbot (when taken by Open year-round No minimum 5 hook and line) • From September 4 until the opening day of Smelt (when taken by hook Open year-round No minimum None trout season in April, all Lake Erie tributary streams and line) are closed to fishing from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. on the following day except for Walnut Creek north Trout Jan. 1 through 15 inches 3 (combined species), only and Salmon** of Manchester Bridge Road and Elk Creek north April 11 two (2) of which may be of Route 5. lake trout. • It is unlawful to fish from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. 8 a.m. April 13 through 9 inches 5 (combined species), only on the following day within 50 yards of the mouth Sept. 2 two (2) of which may be of both Trout Run and Godfrey Run while fishing lake trout. the Lake Erie shoreline. Sept. 3 through 15 inches 3 (combined species), only April 16, 2020 two (2) of which may be LAKE ERIE PERMIT lake trout. Baitfish/Fishbait* Open year-round No minimum 50 (combined species) All anglers fishing in the waters of Lake Erie, See page 8 for definitions Presque Isle Bay and their tributaries includ- American Eel Open year-round 9 inches 25 ing waters that flow into those tributaries are Mussels/Clams CLOSED YEAR-ROUND required to possess a valid Lake Erie permit or Combination Trout/Salmon/Lake Erie permit. Sturgeon, Spotted Gar and other threatened and CLOSED YEAR-ROUND The main tributaries where a permit is required endangered species are: Cascade Creek, Conneaut Creek, Crooked Creek, Eightmile Creek, Elk Creek, Fourmile Creek, For regulations and information about “Cast and Throw Net Permits,” visit www.fishinpa.com. Mill Creek, Raccoon Creek, Sevenmile Creek, Transportation of VHS-Susceptible Fish Out of the Lake Erie Watershed Sixmile Creek, Sixteenmile Creek, Turkey Creek, Twelvemile Creek, Twentymile Creek and Walnut An infectious fish disease, caused by a variant of Viral It is unlawful to transport or cause the transportation of Creek. A permit is also required for all of those Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus (VHS), has caused fish VHS-susceptible species of fish out of the portion of the waters that flow into these main tributaries. mortalities in the Great Lakes. The initial list of fish spe- Lake Erie Watershed in this Commonwealth into other Anglers fishing the East and West Basin ponds cies that are susceptible to VHS includes Black Crap- watersheds of this Commonwealth except when certain (Waterworks Ponds, Presque Isle State Park) are pie, Bluegill, Bluntnose Minnow, Brown Bullhead, Brown conditions are met. It is illegal to use VHS-susceptible not required to possess a Lake Erie Permit. Trout, Burbot, Channel Catfish, Chinook Salmon, Coho fish species, fish parts and eggs taken from the Lake Anglers fishing inland ponds, lakes and reservoirs Salmon, Emerald Shiner, Freshwater Drum, Gizzard Shad, Erie Watershed as fishbait in Commonwealth waters in Erie County are not required to possess a Lake Herring, Largemouth Bass, Muskellunge, Northern Pike, outside the Lake Erie Watershed except when the fish Erie Permit. Pink Salmon, Pumpkinseed, Rainbow Trout, Redhorse are certified as VHS-negative. It is legal to transport *For all crayfish species, the head must be im- Sucker, Rock Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, White dead recreationally caught fish out of the Lake Erie Wa- mediately removed behind the eyes upon capture Bass, White Perch, Whitefish and Yellow Perch. tershed solely for the purpose of human consumption. unless used as bait in the water from which taken.

14 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary MUSKELLUNGE, PIKE, PICKEREL & PANFISH BROOD STOCK LAKES PROGRAM These regulations are intended to restrict harvest and fish consumption from designated lakes during the FDA-mandated County Water Area County Water Area withdrawal period. During this period, fish anesthetics are used Crawford Conneaut Lake Mercer Lake Wilhelm during Muskellunge, Tiger Muskellunge (hybrids), Northern Pike Lake Canadohta Wayne Belmont Lake and pickerel culture operations. From April 1 through May 31, fishing for these species is permitted on a catch and Sugar Lake Prompton Dam release/no harvest basis. It is unlawful to take or possess Woodcock Creek Lake For all other species, Commonwealth inland any Muskellunge, Tiger Muskellunge (hybrids), Northern Pike Erie Edinboro Lake waters seasons, sizes and creel limits apply. and pickerel from these lakes during this period. When caught, Howard Eaton Reservoir these fish species shall be immediately returned unharmed. CATCH AND RELEASE LAKES PANFISH ENHANCEMENT SPECIAL REGULATIONS These lakes are regulated year-round as catch and These regulations are intended to increase the number, quality and size of panfish through the use release for all fish species. This means fishing is permitted of minimum length limits on sunfish, crappies and Yellow Perch. For all other species, Commonwealth on a catch and release/no harvest basis. It is unlawful inland waters seasons, sizes and creel limits apply, unless listed in other special regulation programs. to take, kill or possess any fish from these lakes. Once It is unlawful to fish in the Panfish Enhancement Special Regulations waters listed below except in caught, all fish shall be immediately returned unharmed. compliance with the following size and creel limits: Additional catch and release regulations specifically for trout can be found on page 21. These include: Catch County Water Area Species Minimum Size Daily Limit and Release Artificial Lures Only, Catch and Release Berks Blue Marsh Reservoir Crappie 20 All Tackle and Catch and Release Fly-Fishing Only. 9 inches Cambria Beaverdam Run Reservoir Yellow Perch 9 inches County Water Area Hinkston Run Reservoir Sunfish 7 inches When Panfish Allegheny Pine Township Park Pond Crappie 9 inches Enhancement Beaver Raccoon Creek State Park Wilmore Dam Sunfish 7 inches Regulations Upper Pond Crappie 9 inches apply to more Centre Colyer Lake Yellow Perch 9 inches than one Columbia and Bear Gap Reservoir Centre Foster Joseph Sayers Lake* Sunfish 7 inches species in the Northumberland McWilliams Reservoir Chester Chambers Lake Sunfish 7 inches same water- Columbia Klines Reservoir Crappie 9 inches way, the creel Lancaster Speedwell Forge Yellow Perch 9 inches limit is 20 for Luzerne and Lake Jean Crawford Pymatuning Reservoir Crappie 9 inches each species Sullivan Fayette/ Bridgeport Reservoir Crappie 9 inches with the total l McKean Bradford City Westmoreland Sunfish 7 inches creel not Number Two Reservoir Mercer l Shenango River Lake Crappie 9 inches to exceed Schuylkill Lower Owl Creek Reservoir Monroe Bradys Lake Sunfish 7 inches 50 panfish Schuylkill Owl Creek Reservoir Crappie 9 inches combined. Tioga Lake Nessmuk Yellow Perch 9 inches Westmoreland Lower Burrell Park Pond Gouldsboro Lake Sunfish 7 inches “Sunfish” Crappie 9 inches includes HOW TO RELEASE FISH Yellow Perch 9 inches Bluegills, CATCH AND RELEASE Pike Lower Lake Sunfish 7 inches Pumpkin- Some waters are managed strictly as “Catch and (Lower Promised Lake) Yellow Perch 9 inches seeds and Redear Release” waters. Minimum size limits require that fish Promised Land Lake Sunfish 7 inches less than the minimum must be released. Creel limits Sunfish. require that fish caught in excess of the limit must be (Upper Promised Land Lake) Yellow Perch 9 inches Somerset Quemahoning Reservoir Sunfish released. Closed seasons require the release of fish 7 inches “Crappie” species caught during a season when keeping them is Crappie 9 inches not permitted. The number of fish that survive depends includes Yellow Perch 9 inches both Black on several factors, including the length of the fight, Washington Cross Creek Lake Sunfish where the fish is hooked, water temperature, and how 7 inches Crappies the fish is handled and released. Crappie 9 inches and White To give fish released the best chance for survival, Peters Twp. Lake (Reservoir #2) Crappie 9 inches Crappies. follow these recommended guidelines: Westmoreland Indian Lake Crappie 9 inches 1. Use barbless hooks. Sunfish 7 inches * see Misc. 2. Play fish quickly. Special Try to land your fish as quickly as possible, Lower Twin Lake Crappie 9 inches Regulations and don’t play the fish to exhaustion. Northmoreland Lake Sunfish 7 inches for Crappies at 3. Use a landing net. Crappie 9 inches Foster Joseph Sayers Lake. 4. Keep the fish in the water. The chance of a Upper Twin Lake Crappie 9 inches fish being injured increases the longer it is held out of water. 5. Wet your hands, your net and other materials 8. Cut the line. When it is not possible to remove 11. Fish that are bleeding from the mouth or gills that may come in contact with the fish. the hook without harming the fish, cut the line. due to hook removal do not survive after being 6. Hold the fish upside down while removing the 9. Don’t touch the gills. Do not handle fish by released back into the water. Anglers may be hook. This can often pacify the fish and reduce placing your fingers in the gill slits. handling time. 10. Hold the fish upright underwater after hook charged with violating the Fish and Boat Code by 7. Remove hooks quickly. Hemostats or long- removal and allow it to swim away under its failing to immediately release the fish unharmed. nose pliers are essential tools for quickly own power. If necessary, hold the fish out of the If regulations permit, the angler should keep the removing hooks. current until it revives. fish and have it count towards his or her daily limit.

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MISCELLANEOUS WATERS WITH SPECIAL REGULATIONS

These special regulations apply to fish • Nursery waters closed to all fishing March 1 the water. The taking, catching, killing and possession species identified for each location and through May 1, 2019. Waters involved are Paden of any species of amphibian or reptile within the regulation. Fish species not covered by a Creek (Finley Creek) from the mouth upstream to boundaries of the Delaware Water Gap National special regulation in these locales – inland “Finley Bridge” on U.S. Route 6, Linesville Creek Recreation Area is prohibited. regulations apply unless otherwise designated from the mouth (Pymatuning Sanctuary) upstream NOTICE FOR INFORMATION ONLY: Anglers for these species. to the Conrail Railroad bridge north of U.S. Route are advised that the National Park Service 2016’s 6 in Linesville, and the Shenango River, from the Superintendent’s Compendium of Designations, Clo- BEAVER: Hopewell Township Park Lake Pymatuning Lake Sanctuary boundary at the Route sures, Permit Requirements and Other Restrictions • Bass – 15-inch minimum size, creel limit 2 per day. 285 bridge, locally known as Blair Bridge, upstream states: “The use of crayfish, clams, mussels, reptiles Panfish – Creel limit 10 combined species per day. 100 yards. or amphibians as fishbait is prohibited, unless it is a Use of live fish for bait is prohibited. Refer to Big Bass CRAWFORD/ERIE: Conneaut Creek commercially produced, preserved and packaged Program for NO HARVEST dates (see page 11). • Lake Erie Tributary Regulations apply (see page product.” – Duration until further notice within Delaware BLAIR/HUNTINGDON/JUNIATA/MIFFLIN/PER- 14) for entire stream in Crawford and Erie counties. Water Gap National Recreation Area. RY: Juniata River and tributaries CUMBERLAND: Opossum Lake SOMERSET/FAYETTE/WESTMORELAND/ • The daily creel limit of Rock Bass is 10; open • All species except trout – catch and release/no ALLEGHENY: Youghiogheny River – From the season year-round; no minimum size limit. harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess any fish confluence with the Casselman River downstream to BUTLER: Glade Run Lake except trout. All fish caught other than trout must the confluence with Ramcat Run and Youghiogheny • All species except trout – catch and release/no be immediately returned unharmed. This miscel- River from the PA Route 381 bridge at Ohiopyle harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess any fish laneous special regulation will remain in effect until downstream to the mouth of the river. except trout. All fish caught other than trout must further notice. • No closed season on trout. Daily limit – Opening be immediately returned unharmed. This miscel- Trout – inland regulations apply. day of the trout season through Labor Day – 5 trout; laneous special regulation will remain in effect until HUNTINGDON: Lake Perez the day after Labor Day through the opening day of further notice. • All species except trout – catch and release/no the trout season of the following year – 3 trout. For all Trout – inland regulations apply. harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess any fish other species, inland regulations apply. See All Tackle CENTRE: Foster Joseph Sayers Lake except trout. All fish caught other than trout must Trophy Trout regulations on page 21. • Black and white crappie: Daily creel limit is 10 be immediately returned unharmed. This miscel- WARREN: Allegheny River – 8.75 miles from the (combined crappie species). No more than 5 may be laneous special regulation will remain in effect until outflow of the Allegheny Reservoir downstream to the greater than 9 inches in size. Total panfish daily creel further notice. confluence of Conewango Creek. limit may not exceed 50 when other panfish species Trout – inland regulations apply. • From 8 a.m. on the opening day of the regular trout are in the creel (see page 10 and 15 applicable to HUNTINGDON: Raystown Lake and Raystown season through Labor Day, the minimum size for trout other panfish). Branch – From dam downstream to Juniata River. is 14 inches and the daily limit is 2 (combined species). CENTRE: Penns Creek– 7 miles from the confluence • Trout (all species) no closed season. Creel limit • From the day after Labor Day until 8 a.m. of the with Elk Creek downstream to the Catch and Release 5 per day during regular season; 3 per day from the opening day of the trout season of the following year, area located 600 meters downstream of Swift Run. day after Labor Day to 8 a.m. on the opening day of no trout may be killed or had in possession. • Trout (all species), all other species, inland regula- the next regular season, minimum size – 7 inches. l WARREN: Chapman Dam Reservoir tions apply. Open to fishing year-round. • Raystown Lake and Tributaries – Smelt may be • All species, except trout–catch and release/no • From 8 a.m. on the opening day of the regular taken with a dip net from the shore or by wading harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess any fish, trout season through Labor Day, the slot limit for trout only. Dip net may not exceed 20 inches in diameter except trout. All fish caught other than trout must be is at least 7 inches and less than 12 inches in length, or square. Daily limit – 200 smelt or one gallon by immediately returned unharmed. For trout, inland caught on, or in possession. and the daily limit is 2 volume, whichever is greater. regulations apply. This regulation will remain in effect (combined species). LEHIGH: Leaser Lake until further notice. • From the day after Labor Day until 8 a.m. of the • All species, except trout–catch and release/no WASHINGTON: Little Chartiers Creek – From opening day of the trout season of the following year, harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess any Canonsburg Lake Dam approximately 0.25 mile no trout may be killed or had in possession. fish, except trout. All fish caught other than trout downstream to the mouth. • Fishing may be done with artificial lures, flies or must be immediately returned unharmed. For trout, • No fishing from March 1 until 8 a.m. opening day streamers, natural bait, baitfish and fish bait. Spinning inland regulations apply. This regulation will remain of the trout season. or fly fishing gear may be used on this water. in effect until further notice. WAYNE: West Branch Delaware River – From the CLARION: Beaver Creek Ponds LUZERNE: Harveys Lake Pennsylvania/New York border downstream to the • Closed to fishing from Jan. 1 through opening day • Open year-round to fishing. The daily limit is 3 confluence with the East Branch of the Delaware River. of bass season. trout (combined species) during the period from 8 • Artificial Lures Only season runs from October 16 • Bass – 15-inch minimum size, creel limit 2 per day a.m. on the opening day of trout season through the until 8 a.m. on the opening day of the trout season. on entire project area. Panfish – Creel limit 10 per last day in February. Only one of the three (3) trout • Fishing may be done with artificial lures only, day combined species on entire area. daily limit may exceed 18 inches in length. No trout constructed of metal, plastic, rubber or wood, or with COLUMBIA AND NORTHUMBERLAND: South may be killed or had in possession from March 1 to flies and streamers constructed of natural or synthetic Branch of Roaring Creek – from the bridge on State the opening day of trout season. Inland regulations materials. All lures may be used with spinning or fly Route 3008 at Bear Gap upstream to the bridge on apply for other fish species. fishing gear. State Route 42 – This is a catch and release/no har- MONROE/NORTHAMPTON/PIKE: Delaware Water • The daily creel limit of trout is zero (0) during the vest fishery for all species. It is unlawful to take, kill or Gap National Recreation Area-The use of eel chutes, artificial-lures-only season. possess any fish. All fish caught must be immediately eel pots and fyke nets is prohibited. The taking of (see page 13 for additional regulation for the returned unharmed. the following fishbait is prohibited: Crayfish or crabs, Delaware River) CRAWFORD: Paden Creek, Linesville Creek and mussels, clams and the nymphs, larvae and pupae Shenango River of all insects spending any part of their life cycle in

16 www.fishandboat.com l =NEW 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, ENDANGERED SPECIES

REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS - SEASONS AND LIMITS

Species Season Daily Limit Possession Limit ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS for Bullfrog July 1 through October 31 10 (combined species) 20 (combined species) ALL Reptiles and Amphibians: American Green Frog July 1 through October 31 10 (combined species) 20 (combined species) • A fishing license is required to catch or take Snapping Turtle July 1 through October 31 15 30 reptiles and amphibians from the lands and waters Amphibian Eggs No closed season 15 (combined species) 15 (combined species) of the Commonwealth. and Tadpoles • Unless otherwise indicated, reptiles and am- Timber Rattlesnake* June 9 through July 31 1 annual limit** (must be at least 42 inches in phibians may only be taken by hand, hook, snake length, measured lengthwise along the dorsal tongs, turtle hooks, traps and nets less than four surface from the snout to the tail, excluding the rattle, feet square or four feet in diameter. and must possess 21 or more subcaudal scales.***) • It is unlawful to take, catch or kill a reptile or Eastern Copperhead June 9 through July 31 1 annual limit** amphibian through the use of firearms, chemicals, * It is unlawful to hunt, take, catch or kill Timber Rattle- permits). It is unlawful to possess more than one Timber explosives, winches, jacks or other devices. snakes west of Route 15 and south of Interstate 81 to the Rattlesnake or Eastern Copperhead at any time except as • It is unlawful to damage or disrupt the nest or Maryland line where there is no open season. provided in Chapter 79.7 (f) (Fish & Boat Code). eggs of a reptile or to gather, take or possess the ** It is unlawful to possess, take, catch or kill more than one *** Subcaudal scales are large flat scales located on the eggs of any reptile in the natural environment of Timber Rattlesnake or Eastern Copperhead per calendar underside of a Timber Rattlesnake between the vent (anal this Commonwealth. year except as provided in Chapter 79.7(f) (Fish & Boat scale) and the base of the tail rattle. Code) relating to organized reptile and amphibian hunt • It is unlawful to damage or destroy habitat in See page 30 for Snapping Turtle consumption advice. the pursuit of a reptile or amphibian. The following ENDANGERED and THREATENED native species have NO OPEN • It is unlawful to take, catch, kill or possess for the purposes of selling or offering for sale, SEASON. The DAILY LIMIT is 0 (zero) and POSSESSION LIMIT is 0 (zero). importing or exporting for consideration, trading The Commission has SALAMANDERS: New Jersey Chorus Kirtland’s Snake or bartering or purchasing an amphibian or reptile identified some species of Eastern Mud Salamander Frog (Endangered) (Endangered) whether dead or alive, in whole or in parts, includ- reptiles, amphibians, fish (Endangered) Eastern Cricket Frog Northern Rough ing the eggs or any life stage that was taken from and aquatic organisms as Green Salamander (Endangered) Greensnake lands or waters within this Commonwealth. endangered, threatened (Threatened) Coastal Plains Leopard (Endangered) • It is unlawful to transport or import into or within this Commonwealth a native species from another or candidate species. Blue-spotted Salamander Frog (Endangered) TURTLES: Endangered and (Endangered) jurisdiction. It is also unlawful to receive a native SNAKES: Bog Turtle (Endangered) species that was transported or imported into or threatened species face FROGS and TOADS: Eastern Massasauga Southeastern Mud Turtle within this Commonwealth from another jurisdiction. extirpation and have Eastern Spadefoot (Endangered) (Endangered) • Taking, catching and possessing amphibians NO OPEN SEASON. (Endangered) Northern Red-bellied and reptiles in Department of Conservation and Cooter (Endangered) Natural Resources natural areas designated by FOR A LIST OF ALL ENDANGERED, THREATENED AND CANDIDATE FISH SPECIES, visit www.fishandboat.com. posters is prohibited. Frogs: The following native reptile and amphibian species have NO OPEN SEASON. • The use of artificial light to take frogs at night The DAILY LIMIT is 0 (zero) and POSSESSION LIMIT is 0 (zero). is illegal. • Frogs may be taken with long bow and arrow, SALAMANDERS: FROGS and TOADS: Eastern Smooth TURTLES: including compound bows, crossbows, spears or Eastern Hellbender Mountain Chorus Frog Earthsnake Blanding’s Turtle gigs. Spears or gigs may not have more than five Four-toed Salamander Upland Chorus Frog Eastern Wormsnake Woodland Box Turtle barbs and cannot be used in stocked trout waters. Jefferson Salamander Western Chorus Frog Mountain Earthsnake Spotted Turtle Turtles: Marbled Salamander SNAKES: Queensnake Wood Turtle • Set-lines, turtle traps or other devices for Mudpuppy Eastern Hog-nosed Snake Short-headed SKINKS/LIZARDS: catching turtles must include a tag indicating the Northern Ravine Salamander Eastern Ribbonsnake Gartersnake Broadhead Skink name, address and phone number of the owner Smooth Greensnake Eastern Fence Lizard or user. Traps, nets or other devices must be of Northern Coal Skink a floating or partially submerged design so as to allow for the release of untargeted turtles. Hooks The following native reptile and amphibian species have NO CLOSED SEASON. must be at least 3.5 inches long with not less than The DAILY LIMIT is 1 (one) and POSSESSION LIMIT is 1 (one). one inch space between the point and shank of SALAMANDERS: Northern Two-lined Northern Leopard Frog Northern Ring-necked the hook. The number of lines or hooks per line Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander Pickerel Frog Snake is unlimited. Salamander Seal Salamander Spring Peeper Northern Watersnake PERMITS: Eastern Red-backed Spotted Salamander Wood Frog TURTLES: • A permit is required to hunt, take, catch, kill Salamander Wehrle's Salamander SNAKES: Eastern Musk Turtle or possess Timber Rattlesnakes and Eastern Red-spotted Newt Valley and Ridge Eastern Gartersnake Eastern Painted Turtle Copperhead snakes. Eastern Long-tailed Salamander Salamander Eastern Milksnake Eastern Spiny Softshell • A permit is required to hunt, take, catch or kill Northern Dusky Salamander FROGS and TOADS: Eastern Ratsnake Northern Map Turtle common Snapping Turtles for the purpose of sale, Northern Red Salamander Eastern American Toad Northern Black Racer Midland Painted Turtle barter or trade. Northern Slimy Salamander To purchase Venomous Snake and Commer- Gray Treefrog DeKay’s Brownsnake SKINKS/LIZARDS: Northern Spring Salamander Fowler's Toad Red-bellied Snake cial Turtle permits, visit your license issuing Common Five-lined Skink agent. Commercial Turtle Permits can also be The practice of catch and release of amphibians and reptiles is encouraged. purchased online at www.pa.wildlifelicense.com.

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary www.fishandboat.com 17 AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES Aquatic Invasive Species Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) may be microscopic and can be plants or animals. AIS have the potential to cause significant economic and ecologic harm to our waterways by competing with native and game species for space and food. Anglers, boaters, swimmers and others who contact this water can unknowingly spread AIS. • Do not move or release animals or plants to other waterways. • Dispose of unwanted fishing bait in the trash. Clean Your Gear! STOP ASIAN CARP! Before leaving this waterway, check for and remove any aquatic life Bighead, Silver and Black Carp are Asian carp* that are (plants and animals), mud and other organic debris. Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS). It is unlawful to possess, introduce or import, transport, sell, purchase, offer for sale or Use the following AIS Small Gear barter these species in Pennsylvania. These species pose a disinfection methods • For a minimum of 20 minutes, soak gear significant threat to the biodiversity of native species and habitat, along with imposing safety risks to boaters. before using your gear in hot water (120°-140° F) (may damage Gor-tex®) containing 1 cup of regular dish or equipment at a new detergent per gallon of water OR freeze Bighead Carp No scales on head waterway: No barbels on nose gear for at least 8 hours. Dark blotches Low set eyes • After cleaning or freezing, allow gear to along back Check these areas dry for a minimum of 48 hours before next use. Fishing rod, • Consider using your gear in only one Clothing reel and line waterway, thus eliminating the need to disinfect. No scales on head Boats and Heavy Equipment Silver Carp No barbels on nose Small scales Low set eyes Fishing • Before leaving this waterway, drain vests water from boat, motor, bilges, bladder tanks, live bait wells, any other wet compartments and portable bait containers. • Use a steam spray unit to thoroughly clean all parts of the boat or Nets and heavy equipment (including all wet tackle compartments such as the bilge, bait Black Carp Pointed, shaped face No barbels on nose Shoes compartments and storage bunkers). If Large scales No scales on head or boots steam cleaning is not available, use a high pressure hot water sprayer. If these cleaning options are not available, put your boat through a hot water car wash. • Thoroughly spray all parts of a boat trailer and towing vehicle that contact the water. • Thoroughly flush the cooling system of all Asian carp have had a devastating impact in the Mississippi boat motors. River system and now pose this threat to the Great Lakes basin. • After cleaning, allow equipment to dry for As AIS species, these fish do not naturally occur in Pennsylvania at least 48 hours. waters and would only occur if transported and released. These carp species are a threat due to their large size (some can grow to more than 100 pounds and 5 feet in length), reproductive success, habitat damage and large, year-round For more information, visit www.fishandboat.com/AIS.htm food consumption. In addition, Silver Carp, when startled, can jump up to 10 feet out of the water striking boaters, causing severe injury. REPORT AIS SIGHTINGS: http://fishandboat.com/ais-reporting.htm For more information and to report sightings or catches THESE ARE SOME OF THE AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES IN PENNSYLVANIA. of these fish species and other AIS, visit PFBC’s AIS web page at: www.fishandboat.com/AIS.htm. *Grass Carp are also known as Asian carp. Diploid Grass Carp are banned from stocking in Pennsylvania, but Triploid (sterile) Grass Carp are allowed to be stocked in lakes and ponds with a photos provided by USGS PFBC-approved permit. Rusty Crayfish Quagga Mussel Round Goby

18 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary LIFE JACKET WEAR/BUI

GENERAL BOATING REGULATIONS WHO MUST WEAR BOATING – A Coast Guard-approved wearable life jacket or personal flotation device (PFD) is required for A LIFE JACKET? each occupant on all types of boats in all waters. See additional PFD (life jacket) requirements on this page. • Children 12 years of age and younger on Motorboats (including boats powered by electric motors) must be registered, and they must be registered Commonwealth waters when underway in any in their state of principal use. Boat operators of boats with greater than 25 horsepower and born on or after boat 20 feet or less in length and in all canoes Jan. 1, 1982, may not operate unless they have obtained and have in possession a Boating Safety Education and kayaks. Certificate. All PWC (personal watercraft) operators must have obtained and have in possession a Boating • On Pittsburgh District U.S. Army Corps of Safety Education Certificate. Persons 11 years of age or younger may NOT operate a boat with greater than Engineers lakes (only), everyone in boats under 25 horsepower or a PWC. Persons 12–15 years of age may not operate a PWC with any passengers on 16 feet and in all canoes and kayaks. board 15 years of age or younger or rent a PWC. • All water skiers and anyone towed behind boats, Owners of unpowered boats (canoes, kayaks, rowboats, stand-up paddleboards, etc.) can launch their boats in addition to personal watercraft operators and at Commission lakes, access areas and properties, and at PA state parks and forests if their boats display the passengers, and sailboarders (windsurfers) are Commission’s launch use permit OR boat registration, OR PA state parks launch permit OR mooring permit. required to wear a life jacket. Inflatable life jackets An unpowered boat may have a registration OR launch permit, but it is not required to have both. The Com- are not acceptable for these activities. mission does NOT recognize launch permits from other states. • Boaters are required, by law, to wear life jackets on boats less than 16 feet in length or any canoe LIFE JACKET WEAR REQUIRED BY LAW NOVEMBER 1 TO APRIL 30 or kayak during the cold weather months from Boaters are required, by law, to wear life jackets on boats less than November 1 through April 30. 16 feet in length or any canoe or kayak during the cold weather months from November 1 through April 30. This requirement is intended to protect PERSONAL FLOTATION boaters from the dangers of cold water shock if they fall into the water. DEVICE (LIFE JACKET) The risk of an accident being fatal is significantly higher when the air REQUIREMENTS and water temperatures are colder in late fall through spring. Over the last 15 years, cold water incidents represented only eight percent of the • All boats must have a USCG-approved wearable boating-related accidents, but they resulted in 24 percent of the fatalities. life jacket on board for each person. Victims who are wearing a life jacket when exposed to cold water have • In addition to wearable life jackets, boats 16 feet potentially life-saving advantages. and over must have a USCG-approved throwable device (ring buoy, life ring or buoyant seat cushion) on board. Canoes and kayaks, regardless of length, MAKE SURE YOUR are not required to carry a throwable device. • Life jackets must be used in accordance with any LIFE JACKET FITS! requirements on the approval label. For a life jacket to work properly, not only does it need to be • All life jackets must be in good and serviceable on your body, it should fit properly as well. 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2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary www.fishandboat.com 19 TROUT FISHING REGULATIONS

NORTHWEST Find the regulation that applies NORTHEAST to where you want to fish. NORTHCENTRAL To assist trout anglers in knowing the regulations that apply to locations where they fish, the trout regulations are separated by PFBC Regions. From pages 22 through 29, each region contains a listing of SOUTHWEST SOUTHCENTRAL its counties separated by specific trout regulation. SOUTHEAST An explanation of each regulation and its requirements is on this page and the next page.

REGIONAL Streams designated as both Class A Wild Trout Streams OPENING DAY • and Stocked Trout Waters OF TROUT SEASON Stream sections that are designated as both Stocked Trout Waters and Class A Wild Trout Streams located within the Regional Opening Day of Trout Season area are closed to fishing The trout season begins earlier in 18 from March 1 to 8 a.m. on the Regional Opening Day of Trout Season. Stream sections that southeastern Pennsylvania counties. In these are designated as both Stocked Trout Waters and Class A Wild Trout Streams located within counties (and designated waters crossing the Regular Opening Day of Trout Season area are closed to fishing from March 1 to 8 a.m. into these counties), trout season will begin on the Regular Opening Day of Trout Season. Stream Sections Governed by These Regulations 8 a.m., March 30. Unless otherwise specified - Closed to fishing from March 1 until 8 a.m. on Opening Day of Trout Season. Extended Season: by special regulation, inland daily limits and September 3, 2019 through February 29, 2020–No Harvest–Catch and Immediate Release Only. minimum sizes apply. Water Name County Sect. Miles Limits Stocked trout waters in the Southeast, Bald Eagle Creek Centre 04 5.71 Confluence with Spring Creek near SR 144 bridge Southcentral, Northcentral and Northeast downstream to the inlet of Sayers Lake near Regions that have this early opening day are Boggs/Howard Township line listed beginning on page 22. Fishing Creek Clinton 13 1.49 Confluence with Cedar Run downstream to Axe Factory Hollow STOCKED Fishing Creek Clinton 14 1.60 Axe Factory Hollow downstream to Country Club Road Bridge (SR 2015) in Mill Hall TROUT WATERS Kishacoquillas Creek Mifflin 05 3.70 1.5 miles upstream from confluence with Tea Many streams, lakes, ponds and reservoirs are Creek downstream to Penn Central Railroad Bridge officially classified as “stocked trout waters.” This Little Lehigh Creek Lehigh 04 4.89 Confluence with Spring Creek downstream to means that these waters contain significant por- Wild Cherry Lane Bridge (T-508) tions that are open to public fishing and are stocked Little Lehigh Creek Lehigh 07 2.06 0.4 km upstream of Country Club Road Bridge with trout. The waters listed here are open to trout (T-473) downstream to Fish Hatchery Road harvest during the “extended season” (see page Bridge (SR 2010) 10). Unlisted tributary streams (those not included Martins Creek Northampton 01 4.72 Confluence of East Branch & West Branch in this list of “stocked trout waters”) are not open to Martins Creek downstream to the discharge from Bangor Sewage Treatment Plant harvest of trout during the “extended season.” Only Monocacy Creek Northampton 08 0.99 Illicks Mill Dam downstream to the stocked trout waters and all waters downstream of Schoenersville Road Bridge (SR 3017) stocked trout waters are open during this period. Monocacy Creek Lehigh/ 09 2.11 Schoenersville Road Bridge (SR 3017) Spearing fish is not permitted in any of these waters Northampton downstream to the mouth at any time of the year. Penns Creek Centre 02 8.10 SR 0045 downstream to the confluence These waters are closed to all fishing (including with Elk Creek taking of minnows) from March 1 to 8 a.m. on the Pohopoco Creek Carbon 04 2.90 Outlet of Beltzville Lake downstream to opening day of the trout season. A person shall be cable across creek at Hideaway Hunting & deemed to be fishing if he or she has in possession Fishing Club any fishing line, rod or other device that can be Yellow Creek Bedford 04 1.67 Confluence with Beaver Creek downstream used for fishing while on or in any water or on the to Red Bank Hill banks within 25 feet of any water where fishing is prohibited. Unless geographically designated in the STOCKED TROUT WATERS Region Regulated Trout Waters section, the term trout-stocked waters includes the entire stream OPEN TO YEAR-ROUND FISHING from headwaters to mouth. Waters with this designation are considered “stocked trout waters.” From 8 a.m. opening day of trout Special note: Although the list was up to date at the through Sept. 2, Commonwealth inland sizes and creel limits apply. From Jan. 1 through Feb. 28, time this booklet was printed, it is possible that some and from Sept. 3 through Dec. 31, “extended season” sizes and creel limits apply. These waters are streams may later be deleted or added as “stocked trout open to fishing from March 1 to opening day of trout season; however, no trout may be taken or possessed waters” because of last-minute changes in water quality on these waters during this period. It is unlawful to fish in rivers and streams designated as stocked trout conditions. Check with the nearest Pennsylvania Fish waters open to year-round fishing without a current trout/salmon permit. A trout/salmon permit is not required & Boat Commission office (see page 3) if there is any to fish in lakes and ponds that have been designated as stocked trout waters open to year-round fishing question about whether or not a water area is “stocked.” unless the person takes, kills or possesses, while in the act of fishing, a trout or salmon on or in these waters.

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The Commission establishes specially engaging in the act of fishing or the boat angler puts in regulated areas on some trout waters. These CATCH AND RELEASE or takes out his boat at an access point within the Catch specially regulated areas are assigned to one of ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY and Release All Tackle area. • A current trout/salmon permit is required. the programs on this page with the regulations • Open to fishing year-round. for each program included. These program • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. regulations apply only to those waters designated • Use or possession of any other lures or sub- ALL TACKLE by the Commission as being part of that program, stance is prohibited. TROPHY TROUT not to all trout waters. When applicable, a list of • No trout may be killed or had in possession. • Open to fishing year-round. specially regulated waters appears at the end of • Fishing may be done with artificial lures only • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. the stocked trout waters section for each region constructed of metal, plastic, rubber or wood, or with • Minimum size – 14 inches, caught on, or in of the state. flies or streamers constructed of natural or synthetic possession on, the waters under these regulations materials. All such lures may be used with spinning from 8 a.m. on the opening day of the regular trout or fly fishing gear. DELAYED HARVEST season through Labor Day. • Wading is permitted unless otherwise posted. • The daily creel limit is two trout – combined ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY • Taking baitfish or fishbait is prohibited. species except for the period from the day after • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish • Open to fishing year-round. Labor Day to 8 a.m. of the first Saturday after April caught in compliance with the seasons, sizes and • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. 11 of the following year, when no trout may be killed creel limits in effect for a water from which it was • Minimum size – 9 inches, caught on or in or had in possession. taken, provided that the boat angler floats through the possession on, the waters under these regulations • There are no tackle restrictions. Catch and Release area without stopping or engaging from June 15 through Labor Day. • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish caught in the act of fishing or the boat angler puts in or takes • The daily creel limit is three trout (combined in compliance with the seasons, sizes and creel limits out his boat at an access point within the Catch and species) from June 15 through Labor Day, caught in effect for a water from which it was taken, provided Release area. on or in possession on the waters under these that the boat angler floats through the All Tackle Trophy • A current trout/salmon permit is required. regulations. From the day after Labor Day until Trout area without stopping or engaging in the act of June 15, the daily creel limit is zero. fishing or the boat angler puts in or takes out his boat at • Fishing may be done with artificial lures only CATCH AND RELEASE an access point within the All Tackle Trophy Trout area. constructed of metal, plastic, rubber or wood, or with FLY-FISHING ONLY • A current trout/salmon permit is required. flies and streamers constructed of natural or synthetic • The regulations apply to trout only; all other spe- materials. All such lures may be used with spinning • Open to fishing year-round. cies, inland regulations apply. or fly fishing gear. • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. • Taking baitfish or fishbait is prohibited. • No trout may be killed or had in possession. • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish caught • Fishing may be done with artificial flies and stream- TROPHY TROUT in compliance with the seasons, sizes and creel limits ers constructed of natural or synthetic materials, so ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY in effect for a water from which it was taken, provided long as all flies are constructed in a normal fashion that the boat angler floats through the Delayed Harvest with components wound on or about the hook. Fish- • Open to fishing year-round. Artificial Lures Only area without stopping or engaging in ing must be done with tackle limited to fly rods, fly • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. the act of fishing or the boat angler puts in or takes out reels and fly line with a maximum of 18 feet in leader • Minimum size – 14 inches, caught on, or in his boat at an access point within the Delayed Harvest material of monofilament line attached. Anything possession on, the waters under these regulations Artificial Lures Only area. other than these items is prohibited. from 8 a.m. on the opening day of the regular trout • A current trout/salmon permit is required. • Taking baitfish or fishbait is prohibited. season through Labor Day. • Wading is permitted unless otherwise posted. • The daily creel limit is two trout – combined The Keystone Select Stocked • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish species except for the period from the day after Trout Waters program caught in compliance with the seasons, sizes and Labor Day to 8 a.m. of the first Saturday after April provides anglers with an creel limits in effect for a water from which it was taken, 11 of the following year, when no trout may be killed exciting opportunity to fish for provided that the boat angler floats through the Catch or had in possession. larger trout. Under the program, and Release Fly-Fishing Only area without stopping or • Fishing may be done with artificial lures only, approximately 6,500 large trout, engaging in the act of fishing or the boat angler puts constructed of metal, plastic, rubber or wood, or with 2-to 3-years old and measuring in or takes out his boat at an access point within the flies and streamers constructed of natural or synthetic between 14 to 20 inches, will be Catch and Release Fly-Fishing Only area. materials. All lures may be used with spinning or fly distributed among these select • A current trout/salmon permit is required. fishing gear. waters under the Delayed Harvest • Taking baitfish or fishbait is prohibited. Artificial Lures Only special regulation. These larger • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish caught trout are stocked only during the spring stocking CATCH AND RELEASE in compliance with the seasons, sizes and creel limits periods to coincide with the period of peak angler ALL TACKLE in effect for a water from which it was taken, provided use. As with many waters managed under Delayed that the boat angler floats through the Trophy Trout Harvest Artificial Lures Only special regulation, not • Open to fishing year-round. • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. area without stopping or engaging in the act of fishing all of the waters managed under the Keystone or the boat angler puts in or takes out his boat at an Select Stocked Trout Waters program receive a fall • No trout may be killed or had in possession. • Fishing may be done with artificial lures, flies or access point within the Trophy Trout area. stocking. Fall stocking is limited to stream sections • A current trout/salmon permit is required. that act as destination fisheries and tend to provide streamers, natural bait, baitfish and fishbait. Spinning better angler use at this time of year. Currently, 12 or fly fishing gear may be used in these areas. of the 22 stream sections in this program receive • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish Special regulation waters a fall stocking. In the stocked trout water listings caught in compliance with the seasons, sizes and appear on pages 22 through 29 creel limits in effect for a water from which it was on the following pages, look for the red keystone, after each region’s section of which indicates that this water is a taken, provided that the boat angler floats through the Keystone Select Stocked Trout Water.* Catch and Release All Tackle area without stopping or stocked trout waters.

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary www.fishandboat.com 21 SOUTHEAST REGION TROUT WATERS SOUTHEAST REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS REGIONAL OPENING Neshaminy Creek (Two sections: Conoy Creek (Saegerville Rd. East Branch Perkiomen Mahoning Creek DAY OF TROUT Valley Road to Mill Road near downstream to mouth) Creek (from near Salfordville Pine Creek (trib to Little Schuylkill SEASON Jamison and from the dam at East Branch Octoraro Creek Rd. downstream to Bergey’s River) (Steelville Rd. downstream Mill Rd. - inseason only) STOCKED TROUT the causeway in Tyler State Pine Creek (trib to Mahantango Park downstream to the bridge to Knight Run confluence - Kepner Creek Creek) WATERS on SR 332) inseason only) Loch Alsh Reservoir Pine Creek (trib to Schuylkill OPENING DAY: Tohickon Creek (Dark Hollow Fishing Creek Manatawny Creek River) MARCH 30 Rd. to mouth) Hammer Creek Pennypack Creek Rabbit Run Reservoir (off East BERKS: Unami Creek (Milford Indian Run (Lorimer Park) Valley Rd. SW of Tamaqua) Antietam Creek Township Park downstream Little Beaver Creek Perkiomen Creek (county line Upper Little Swatara Creek Antietam Reservoir to Trumbauersville Road Little Chiques Creek downstream to first unnamed Whipoorwill Dam Furnace Creek (Robesonia) (SR 4051)) Little Cocalico Creek trib downstream of Fruitville Hay Creek CHESTER: Little Conestoga Creek (powerline Road (T-414)) STOCKED TROUT Kistler Creek Beaver Creek (at Downingtown) upstream of Miller Road (T- Skippack Creek WATERS OPEN TO 707) downstream to Harrisburg Stony Creek Little Lehigh Creek Big Elk Creek YEAR-ROUND FISHING Pike (SR 4020)) Unami Creek Little Swatara Creek Buck Run (Compass Rd. BERKS: Little Muddy Creek Wissahickon Creek (from Maiden Creek (confluence with downstream to SR 372) Tulpehocken Creek (from Kistler Creek in Kempton (Bowmansville Rd. Lafayette Ave. downstream covered bridge at T-921 East Branch Brandywine Creek downstream to 150 yards, to Stenton Ave.) downstream to dam in (SR 4031 in Glenmoore downstream to the mouth) Lenhartsville) below SR 897) NORTHAMPTON: downstream to U.S. Business Kaercher Creek Dam Manatawny Creek Meetinghouse Creek Bushkill Creek Route 30 in Downingtown) BUCKS: Mill Creek (trib. to Sacony Creek) Middle Creek (PGC’s Middle Hokendauqua Creek East Branch Elk Creek Lake Luxembourg Mill Creek (trib. to Schuylkill Creek Dam downstream to Indian Creek East Branch White Clay Creek LANCASTER: River) W. Lime Rock Rd.) Jacoby Creek French Creek Muddy Run Rec Lake Mill Creek (trib. to Tulpehocken Muddy Creek (Pleasant Valley Lehigh Canal (0.6 mile Middle Branch White Clay Creek SCHUYLKILL: Creek) Road downstream to SR 897) downstream of Carbon County Pickering Creek Sweet Arrow Lake Northkill Creek Muddy Run (most northern line downstream to confluence Tuscarora Lake (fall stocking) Ontelaunee Creek (Spring Pocopson Creek SR 772 crossing Intercourse with Bertsch Creek, and first House Road Bridge (SR West Branch Brandywine downstream to powerline lock upstream of Monocacy CATCH AND RELEASE Creek (SR 4005 Cedar Knoll above Monterey Rd.) 4024 downstream to mouth) Creek crossing downstream NORTHAMPTON: downstream to SR 0340) Pequea Creek (Wanner Drive to confluence with Nancy Perkiomen Creek Bushkill Creek– 1.19 miles; West Valley Creek (T-515) downstream to 110 Run Crossing) Pine Creek (trib to Maiden from the dam at Binney and White Clay Creek yards downstream of School Little Bushkill Creek Creek) Smith downstream to the 13th Lane (T-948)) l Martins Creek Sacony Creek (Bowers Road DELAWARE: Street Bridge Rock Run (Bowmansville) l (T-616) downstream to SR Chester Creek (confluence of Monocacy Creek Stewart Run 222 Kutztown By-pass) West Branch Chester Creek Saucon Creek Swarr Run (Yellow Goose Road PHILADELPHIA: CATCH AND RELEASE Scotts Run Lake downstream to Bridgewater (T-802) downstream to SR 0741) Pennypack Creek (county line ALL TACKLE Spring Creek Road (SR 3018)) CHESTER/MONTGOMERY: West Branch Little Conestoga downstream to Frankford Tulpehocken Creek (Marion Twp Chester Creek (upstream from Creek Avenue (SR 0013)) Valley Creek– at Valley Forge R&G Club downstream to confluence with West Branch West Branch Octoraro Creek Wissahickon Creek and tributaries including Little vicinity of Charming Forge Rd.) - inseason only) Valley Creek. Be aware that Darby Creek (0.5 mile upstream LEHIGH: (Germantown Pike West Branch Conestoga River Cedar Creek (Lake Muhlenburg downstream to tributary at Valley Forge National Historic (approximately 350 yards confluence with Little Darby Park has imposed special Creek downstream to Hill- outflow downstream to mouth) intersection of Forbidden above powerline, downstream Coplay Creek bait restrictions. Check local dale Road) Drive and Lincoln Drive) to mouth in Morgantown) Jordan Creek posters. Ithan Creek SCHUYLKILL: Willow Creek Kistler Creek Bear Creek Little Darby Creek Wyomissing Creek (throughout Laurel Run (South Branch Saucon Deep Creek CATCH AND RELEASE Ridley Creek (Two sections: 1.25 Mohnton downstream to Creek) Little Catawissa Creek FLY-FISHING ONLY SR 0222) miles upstream from Gradyville Leaser Lake Little Mahanoy Creek CHESTER: BUCKS: Rd. downstream to falls in Lehigh Canal (from first lock Little Schuylkill River (Two French Creek – 0.9 mile; from the Delaware Canal (Two Sections- Ridley Creek State Park and upstream of Monocacy Creek sections: from confluence with dam at Camp Sleepy Hollow Upper Washington Crossing Brookhaven Rd. downstream downstream to Monocacy Creek Locust Creek downstream downstream to Hollow Road State Park and Lower to Chestnut Street) Crossing) to confluence with Panther DELAWARE: Washington Crossing State West Branch Chester Creek l Little Lehigh Creek Creek, preseason and Ridley Creek – 0.6 mile; from Park downstream to Ferry LANCASTER: l Monocacy Creek inseason; from mouth the falls in Ridley Creek State Road in Morrisville) Big Beaver Creek Ontelaunee Creek upstream 1.1 miles within Park downstream to the mouth East Branch Perkiomen Creek Bowery Run Swabia Creek Port Clinton, inseason only) of Dismal Run (Branch Road Bridge Conowingo Creek Switzer Creek Lizard Creek LANCASTER: (T-431) downstream through (T-341 Black Bear Rd. Trout Creek (Big Trout Creek - Locust Creek Donegal Creek – 2.21 miles; Sellersville) downstream to Black Slatington) Locust Lake from 275 yards below SR Levittown Lake Barron Rd.) MONTGOMERY: Lower Little Swatara Creek 772 downstream to T-334 Deep Creek Dam Mahantango Creek

22 www.fishandboat.com l =Section(s) of this Stocked Trout Water is also a Class2019 A WildPennsylvania Trout Stream-see Fishingchart on page Summary 20 for listing. SOUTHEAST/SOUTHCENTRAL REGIONS West Branch Octoraro Little Lehigh Creek – 0.83 mile; DELAYED HARVEST Pickering Creek – 1.5 miles; from upstream of SR 2020 Creek – 2.0 miles; From from the upstream face of Fish ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY SR 1019 (Charlestown Road) (Boot Road) downstream 30 yards downstream of Hatchery Road bridge downstream BERKS: downstream to 330 yards to 0.25 miles of the SR 0472 downstream to to near the Oxford Dr. Bridge Tulpehocken Creek– 3.8 upstream of the railroad bridge Railroad Tunnel 230 yards upstream of the TROPHY TROUT miles; from the first deflector Middle Branch White Clay SCHUYLKILL: second unnamed tributary ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY below Blue Marsh Dam Creek – 1.67 miles; from Bear Creek – 1.74 miles; from downstream of SR 2010 NORTHAMPTON: downstream to the T-921 SR 3009 (Good Hope a cable 800 yards above (Puseyville Road) Monocacy Creek – 2.21 miles; covered bridge Road) downstream to the T-662 downstream to the LEHIGH: from Illick’s Mill Dam upstream CHESTER: confluence with the East downstream side of the Little Lehigh Creek – 1.54 miles; to and including the Gertrude East Branch Brandywine Branch bridge on T-676 from the downstream face Fox Conservation Area Creek – 1.2 miles; from SR West Valley Creek – 1.2 Little Schuylkill River – 1.7 of the bridge on T-508 (Wild Saucon Creek – 2.1 miles; from the 4019 (Dorlan’s Mill Road) miles from the confluence miles; from SR 0895 in Cherry Lane) downstream to upstream boundary of the city of downstream to SR 4004 with the unnamed New Ringgold downstream the upstream face of the bridge Bethlehem property downstream (Dowlin Forge Road) tributary (locally known to the T-848 Bridge near on T-510 (Millrace Road) to the SR 0412 bridge as Colebrook Run) Rauschs SOUTHCENTRAL REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS REGIONAL OPENING South Fork Powell Creek LEBANON: Beaver Creek Town Creek DAY OF TROUT Stony Creek Bachman Run Codorus Creek (Tannery Wills Creek (county line SEASON West Branch Rattling Creek Conewago Creek (first SR Road (T-399) downstream downstream to B & O STOCKED TROUT Wiconisco Creek 241 bridge NE of Lawn to to confluence with West Railroad Bridge about WATERS FRANKLIN: Little Conewago) Branch Codorus Creek) 1.0 mile downstream of OPENING DAY: Buck Run (Dickeys Run) Hammer Creek Deer Creek Hyndman) Carbaugh Run l Yellow Creek MARCH 30 Indiantown Run East Branch Codorus Creek Conococheague Creek (former Lions Lake Fishing Creek (trib to BLAIR: ADAMS: dam at Birch Run Reservoir Marquette Lake Susquehanna River near Bald Eagle Creek Bermudian Creek downstream to Boyers Mill Craley) Beaverdam Creek Carbaugh Run Mill Creek Road Bridge (T-481)) Fishing Creek (trib to Bells Gap Run Conewago Creek (SR 0234 Quittapahilla Creek Conodoguinet Creek Susquehanna River near Blair Gap Run Bridge downstream to SR Snitz Creek (confluence with Bear Valley Goldsboro) Canoe Creek 3001) Stovers Lake Run downstream to SR 0997) Muddy Creek (confluence Clover Creek (SR 2005 Bridge Conococheague Creek Dennis Creek Trout Run at Henrietta downstream to East Branch Antietam Creek Tulpehocken Creek of North Branch Muddy East Branch Antietam Creek Creek and South Branch Larke Road Bridge near Larke) Latimore Creek Falling Spring Branch PERRY: Frankstown Branch Juniata River Muddy Creek downstream Little Marsh Creek Letterkenny Reservoir Bixler Run (confluence with Pine Run to powerline crossing 1.6 Marsh Creek (SR 3011 Little Cove Creek Buffalo Creek (Heritage near Claysburg downstream to miles downstream of SR downstream to SR 0030) Rowe Run Hills Road Bridge (T-326) confluence with Halter Creek Middle Creek West Branch Antietam Creek downstream to SR 0849 0425 in Woodbine) near East Freedom) Opossum Creek West Branch Bridge downstream of North Branch Muddy Creek Poplar Run Otter Creek Orrtanna Pond Conococheague Creek Walnut Grove) Riggles Gap Run Sheppard-Myers Reservoir Toms Creek (Mount Hope (Amberson Road Bridge Bull Run South Poplar Run South Branch Codorus Road Bridge (T-300) (SR 4005) downstream Fishing Creek Vanscoyoc Run Creek downstream to SR 0116) to U.S. 30 Bridge at Fort Fowler Hollow Run FULTON: South Branch Muddy Creek Waynesboro Reservoir Loudon) Horse Valley Run Big Cove Creek Yellow Breeches Creek CUMBERLAND: JUNIATA: Laurel Run (Liberty Valley Run) Cowans Gap Lake Big Spring Creek Big Run Little Buffalo Creek Laurel Fork Childrens Lake (Boiling Springs) Blacklog Creek STOCKED TROUT Licking Creek (SR 0522 (Mannsville Road Bridge Doubling Gap Lake Cocolamus Creek WATERS Bridge downstream to (SR 4003) downstream to Fuller Lake Delaware Creek OPENING DAY: confluence with Baby Run Green Spring Creek East Licking Creek from Mifflin mouth) APRIL 13 at Soliam Church) Laurel Lake County and Juniata County Little Juniata Creek BEDFORD: Little Aughwick Creek Middle Spring Creek line downstream McCabe Run Beaver Creek Little Brush Creek Mountain Creek Horning Run Montour Creek Bobs Creek Little Tonoloway Creek (Moss Opossum Lake Horse Valley Run Panther Creek Clear Creek Road Bridge (T-318) Yellow Breeches Creek Laurel Run (Liberty Valley Run) Raccoon Creek Cove Creek downstream to SR 0655 DAUPHIN: Lost Creek (SR 0035 Bridge Sherman Creek (lower Evitts Creek Bridge) Armstrong Creek upstream of confluence with Tuscarora State Forest Gladdens Run North Branch Little Aughwick Clark Creek Little Lost Creek at Oakland boundary downstream to Little Wills Creek Creek Mahantango Creek Mills downstream to mouth) Couchtown Road Bridge Maple Run Oregon Creek Manada Creek Tuscarora Creek (county line (SR 3008) at Cisna Run) Raystown Branch Juniata River Sideling Hill Creek Middletown Reservoir downstream to confluence Shultz Creek (Browns Run) (county line downstream to (confluence of Oregon Pine Creek with Horse Valley Run in YORK: confluence with Shobers Run) Creek and Laurel Fork Powell Creek East Waterford) Bald Eagle Creek Sherman Valley Run downstream to intersection Rattling Creek West Branch Mahantango Creek of SR 4013 and SR 0913)

2019l=Section Pennsylvania of this Stocked TroutFishing Water is Summary also a Class A Wild Trout Stream-see chart on page 20 for listing. www.fishandboat.com 23 SOUTHCENTRAL/SOUTHWEST REGIONS South Branch Little Aughwick Lingle Creek Boiling Springs downstream Letort Spring Run – 1.7 miles; DELAYED HARVEST Creek Meadow Creek to the vicinity of Allenberry from 300 yards upstream of ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY Spring Run Strodes Run HUNTINGDON: bridge on T-481 (Bonnybrook DAUPHIN: Wooden Bridge Creek Treaster Run Spruce Creek– 0.5 mile; Road) downstream to the Manada Creek – 1.8 miles; HUNTINGDON: West Licking Creek Penn State Experimental Reading Railroad Bridge at from Fogarty Road Blacklog Creek (from county STOCKED TROUT Fisheries Area (about 0.6 the southern edge of Letort downstream to Furnace line downstream to mouth) WATERS OPEN TO mile above the village of Spring Park Road (T-616) Globe Run YEAR-ROUND FISHING Spruce Creek) DAUPHIN: Wiconisco Creek– 0.74 Great Trough Creek (Newburg MIFFLIN/UNION: BEDFORD: Clark Creek –2.4 miles; PGC mile: from the western Park Road Bridge (T-370) l Penns Creek–7.45 miles; Koon Lake rifle range parking area on edge of the Ned Smith downstream to 200 yards from approximately 600 BLAIR: SR 325 downstream to Center for Nature and downstream of former dam) meters downstream of Canoe Creek Lake PGC access road at the Art Walking Bridge Greenwood Lake Swift Run downstream to CUMBERLAND: Iron Furnace downstream to the power Laurel Run the downstream extent of Mountain Creek (from Adams FRANKLIN: line crossing located 1.7 Lake Perez the island near the end of County line downstream to the East Branch Antietam Creek miles upstream from the North Branch Little Aughwick Jolly Grove Lane backwaters of Laurel Lake) – 0.88 mile; from SR 16 mouth Creek (Nine Mile Creek) DAUPHIN/LEBANON: CATCH AND RELEASE downstream to T-365 FRANKLIN: North Spring Branch Stony Creek (from .4-mile ALL TACKLE (Welty Rd.) Falling Spring Branch– 1.02 Saddler Creek upstream of Cold Spring BLAIR/HUNTINGDON: Falling Spring Branch – miles; from Walker Road Shade Creek Road downstream to State Little Juniata River– 13.7 miles 2.5 miles; from the first downstream to Fifth Avenue Shaver Creek (Perez Lake Game Lands #211 gate) from the railroad bridge at the private lane located 672 FULTON: downstream to SR 305 LEBANON: east (downstream) border of Big Cove Creek– 0.93 bridge at Bethel Church) feet upstream of Briar Lane Lakeside Quarry Ironville downstream to mouth Standing Stone Creek (Penn bridge downstream to a wire mile; from 200 yards PERRY: Roosevelt Dam downstream CATCH AND RELEASE fence crossing the Thomas downstream of the SR Little Buffalo Lake (Holman to powerline crossing 400 FLY-FISHING ONLY L. Geisel property 0928 bridge downstream Lake) yards downstream of SR ADAMS: YORK: to the lower Buchanan YORK: 0026 Black’s Bridge) Conewago Creek – 1.1 miles; Muddy Creek – 1.6 miles; from State Forest boundary South Branch Codorus Three Springs Creek from 0.1 mile downstream of 300 yards downstream of JUNIATA/MIFFLIN: Creek (from SR 0616 in Tuscarora Creek T-340 (Russel Tavern Rd.) Bruce Road Bridge (T-628) East Licking Creek – 4.0 miles; Centerville downstream to West Licking Creek downstream to SR 34 in Bruce downstream to 300 from the Texas Eastern gas T-527) Whipple Lake BEDFORD: yards upstream of Bridgeton pipeline crossing downstream MIFFLIN: CATCH AND RELEASE Yellow Creek – 0.9 mile from Road (SR 2032) Bridge in to the upstream boundary East Licking Creek ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY mouth of Maple Run (Jacks Bridgeton of the Karl B. Guss State Havice Creek CUMBERLAND: Run) upstream to cable near Forest Picnic Area Honey Creek (from the lower Yellow Breeches Creek– Red Bank Hill TROPHY TROUT LEBANON: boundary of the Delayed 1.17 miles; 0.17 miles of CUMBERLAND: ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY Quittapahilla Creek – Harvest Area downstream the Unnamed Tributary to Big Spring Creek – 1.52 YORK: 1.1 miles; from Spruce to SR 1002 Bridge 0.5 mile Yellow Breeches Creek (from miles; from 100 feet below Codorus Creek – 2.0 miles; Street Bridge on T-398 downstream of confluence the outfall of Children’s Lake the source (Big Spring) from the confluence of the downstream to the SR with Treaster Run) to the confluence with Yellow downstream to the Nealy West Branch downstream 0934 Bridge l Kishacoquillas Creek Breeches Creek at Boiling Road Bridge to a point that is .4 mile MIFFLIN: (Bunker Road Bridge (T-340) Springs) and 1.0 mile of Green Spring Creek – 1.2 mile; downstream from SR 3082 Honey Creek – 1.75 miles; downstream to railroad Bridge Yellow Breeches Creek from mouth upstream to near (Porters Road) from the upper Bald Eagle St. at Yeagertown and Mill Street from the confluence with confluence with Bulls Head Forest boundary downstream Bridge downstream to mouth) the Unnamed Tributary at Branch 1.75 miles SOUTHWEST REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS STOCKED TROUT Pine Creek (from headwaters Little Sandy Creek North Fork Little Beaver Creek Elton Sportsmens Dam WATERS downstream to East North Fork Pine Creek (county line downstream to Hinckston Run OPENING DAY: Pennview Avenue) Patterson Creek 100 meters downstream of Howells Run Turtle Creek (from headwaters Plum Creek SR 551 Bridge) Killbuck Run APRIL 13 downstream to SR 48 on Redbank Creek (county line to South Branch Brady Run Lake Rowena ALLEGHENY: Mosside Blvd) confluence with Little Sandy Traverse Creek Laurel Lick Run Big Sewickley Creek (from West Deer Lake (Upper Deer Lake) Creek) CAMBRIA: Laurel Run (trib to headwaters downstream to ARMSTRONG: Scrubgrass Creek Beaverdam Run Conemaugh River) Merriman Avenue) Buffalo Creek (from South Fork Pine Creek Bens Creek Laurel Run (trib to South Fork Bull Creek headwaters downstream to BEAVER: Chest Creek Little Conemaugh River) Deer Creek Little Buffalo Creek) Big Sewickley Creek (from Clearfield Creek (confluence Little Paint Creek Flaugherty Run Cherry Run headwaters downstream to with Beaverdam Run Noels Creek Long Run Cornplanter Run Merriman Avenue) downstream to 330 yards North Branch Blacklick Creek Lower Deer Lake Cowanshannock Creek Brush Creek Park Pond downstream of T-510 North Branch Little Middle Deer Lake Glade Run Mill Creek Bridge at Condron) Conemaugh River Montour Run Huling Run North Fork Big Sewickley Creek Duman Lake Stewart Run

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SOUTHWEST/NORTHWEST REGIONS FAYETTE: Casselman River (from MD - Jacobs Creek (from Acme CATCH AND RELEASE ARMSTRONG/BUTLER: Back Creek PA state line downstream to Dam downstream to FLY-FISHING ONLY Buffalo Creek– 3.7 miles; from Big Sandy Creek Moser Road (T-353) Bridge) Bridgeport Dam) FAYETTE: Little Buffalo Run downstream Chaney Run Clear Shade Creek Linn Run Dunbar Creek – 4.22 miles; to 0.6 mile above SR 4035 in Dunbar Creek Cub Run Loyalhanna Creek (from from the confluence of Glade Craigsville Dunlap Creek (from headwaters Elk Lick Creek Zimmerman Run Run downstream to the stone CAMBRIA: downstream to Mon-Fayette Flaugherty Creek downstream to SR 981) quarry along SR 1055 Chest Creek – 1.8 miles; from Expressway) Gladdens Run Mammoth Lake INDIANA: the northern Patton borough Georges Creek (headwaters Glade Run Mill Creek Little Mahoning Creek – 3.6 line downstream to the SR downstream to York Run) Jones Mill Run Sewickley Creek miles; from Oberlin Road 4022 bridge at Thomas Mills Indian Creek Kimberly Run Shannon Run Bridge abutments upstream FAYETTE: Meadow Run Kooser Lake Tubmill Creek of SR 1041 Bridge upstream Meadow Run–2.2 miles; from Mill Run (tributary to Indian Kooser Run Turtle Creek to Cesna Run the SR 2011 bridge (Dinner Creek) Laurel Hill Creek STOCKED TROUT SOMERSET: Bell Road) adjacent to the Mountain Creek Little Piney Creek WATERS OPEN TO Clear Shade Creek – 1 mile; Ohiopyle St. Park office Virgin Run Lake McClintock Run YEAR-ROUND FISHING from the cable at Windber downstream to mouth GREENE: Middle Creek Water Dam upstream SOMERSET: Miller Run ALLEGHENY: Laurel Hill Creek – 2.33 miles; Browns Creek (Bates Fork North Park Lake CATCH AND RELEASE “Sycamore” downstream to Piney Creek from 200 yards downstream Piney Run ARMSTRONG: ALL TACKLE of the T-364 (Countryman mouth) Mahoning Creek (Mahoning CAMBRIA/INDIANA: Dunkard Fork Raystown Branch Juniata River Bridge) downstream to the Creek Dam outflow l West Branch Susquehanna River T-364 Bridge upstream of Enlow Fork Shafer Run downstream to the (from outflow of AMD treatment Laurel Hill Lake Lake Wilma Shaffers Run South Fork Bens Creek confluence of Pine Run) plant near Watkins downstream Laurel Hill Creek – 1.26 miles; North Fork Dunkard Fork Stonycreek River (from BEAVER: to confluence of Cush Creek from the footbridge on State South Fork Dunkard Fork Yonai Road (T-515) Bridge Bradys Run Lake near Dowler Junction) Game Lands #111 Road in Whiteley Creek (headwaters Main Lake (Raccoon Lake) downstream to railroad retaining ALL TACKLE TROPHY Humbert downstream to downstream to SR 0088) wall 0.25 mile downstream of FAYETTE: Paddytown Hollow Run INDIANA: Dunlap Creek Lake TROUT PROJECTS Covered Bridge Road (T-565) FAYETTE/SOMERSET: WASHINGTON: Blacklegs Creek Tub Mill Run FAYETTE/SOMERSET: Dutch Fork – 1.59 miles; Brush Creek Youghiogheny River (from the lake Youghiogheny River– 9.16 miles; Whites Creek from the confluence with Ramcat from the first bridge (SR Canoe Creek Wills Creek downstream to the confluence 0070) upstream of the Cush Creek of the Casselman River) Run downstream to the Route WASHINGTON: 381 bridge at Ohiopyle Columbia Gas Compressor Cush Cushion Creek Aunt Clara Fork INDIANA: Station downstream to Laurel Run Dutch Fork Cummings Reservoir (Blue DELAYED HARVEST the Dutch Fork Lake Little Mahoning Creek Dutch Fork Lake Spruce Lake) ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY backwaters at T-487 bridge (intersection of T-836 and Enlow Fork SOMERSET: ALLEGHENY: just off SR 3001 (Lake SR 1037 at Antioch Church Kings Creek Blue Hole Creek (from confluence Deer Creek – 1.9 miles; from Road) to 700 meters downstream Little Chartiers Creek with Garys Run downstream the SR 0910 Bridge at T-678 Pike Run – 1.1 miles; from West Mahoning and North Millers Run to mouth) intersection downstream to the confluence with Mahoning Township Line) Mingo Creek Fall Creek (from confluence the lower boundary of Rose the unnamed tributary Little Yellow Creek Pike Run with Ansell Run downstream Ridge Golf Course upstream of the SR 2079 Mudlick Run Templeton Fork to mouth) Pine Creek – 1.4 miles; from the bridge downstream to South Branch Two Lick Creek Tenmile Creek (from SR 0018 Laurel Hill Lake abandoned railroad bridge the powerline crossing Toms Run downstream to SR 0019) WASHINGTON: near the T-575 and Duncan downstream of the SR Yellow Creek WESTMORELAND: Canonsburg Lake Ave. intersection downstream 2036 bridge SOMERSET: Fourmile Run WESTMORELAND: to 150 yards downstream of WESTMORELAND: Allen Creek Hannas Run Keystone Lake the SR 4019 bridge Indian Creek – 1.6 miles; from Beaverdam Creek Hendricks Creek Northmoreland Lake Bull Creek – 1.0 mile; from the the T-916 bridge downstream Beaverdam Run Indian Creek (from the SR 381 Twin Lakes Number One Reservoir first bridge on T-721 (above the to the SR 0381 bridge. Bens Creek bridge in Jones Mill downstream (Lower Twin Lake) T-721 and T-719 intersection) Loyalhanna Creek – 1.67 miles; Breastwork Run to Mill Run Reservoir) Twin Lakes Number Two downstream to the T-721 bridge from SR 711 downstream to Brush Creek Indian Lake Reservoir (Upper Twin Lake) in Millerstown SR 2045 (Two Mile Run Road) NORTHWEST REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS STOCKED TROUT Glade Run Lake Canoe Creek Toms Run Fivemile Creek WATERS Harbar Acres Lake Cathers Run Turkey Run Little Sugar Creek OPENING DAY: Little Buffalo Run Coon Creek CRAWFORD: McLaughlin Creek (T-890 APRIL 13 Little Connoquenessing East Sandy Creek Caldwell Creek Bridge downstream to Creek Leatherwood Creek Conneaut Creek mouth) BUTLER: North Branch Slippery Rock Mill Creek (Dicksonburg Road (SR Muddy Creek (T-794 Bear Creek Creek Piney Creek 4004) downstream to downstream to SR 1033) Bonnie Brook Silver Creek Redbank Creek (county line Missing Bridge (Pennside North Deer Creek Buffalo Creek Slippery Rock Creek to confluence with Little Road)) Oil Creek (confluence with Connoquenessing Creek Thorn Creek Sandy Creek) East Branch Oil Creek (Clear Mosey Run near Lincolnville Cornplanter Run (county line CLARION: Richey Run Lake outflow downstream downstream to county line) to Moorehead Road (T-658)) Beaver Creek to mouth) Pine Creek

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary l=NEW www.fishandboat.com 25 NORTHWEST/NORTHCENTRAL REGIONS Sugar Creek (Center Road West Branch Little Sandy Creek Tionesta Creek WARREN: (T-549) downstream to Millstone Creek Little Scrubgrass Creek Twomile Run Caldwell Creek – 1.49 miles; county line) West Hickory Creek Little Sugar Creek West Branch Caldwell Creek from Selkirk highway bridge Thompson Creek (SR 2031 LAWRENCE: Lower Twomile Run West Branch Tionesta Creek downstream to approximately downstream to mouth) Bessemer Lake Mill Creek West Hickory Creek 0.5 miles upstream of the Woodcock Creek Big Run Oil Creek (county line Dotyville Bridge ERIE: Deer Creek downstream to SR 0008 STOCKED TROUT Cascade Creek Hickory Run Bridge at Rynd Farm) WATERS OPEN TO DELAYED HARVEST Conneauttee Creek Honey Creek Pine Run YEAR-ROUND FISHING ARTIFICIAL LURES FOREST: Crooked Creek Little Neshannock Pithole Creek ONLY Tionesta Creek (from Tionesta East Basin Pond (Waterworks Creek Prather Creek CLARION: Dam outflow downstream) Ponds, Presque Isle State Park) Neshannock Creek Richey Run Piney Creek – 1.2 miles; SR LAWRENCE: Elk Creek North Fork Little Sandy Creek (county line 2016 bridge downstream Cascade Quarry French Creek( from the state line Beaver Creek downstream to SR 3013 to 0.2 mile upstream of the MERCER: downstream to the confluence Slippery Rock Creek (old Route 8) Bridge in SR 0066 bridge l Shenango River (Hamburg with West Branch French (county line Pecan) FOREST: Road Bridge in New Hamburg Creek) downstream to Sugar Creek East Hickory Creek– 1.7 to pipeline crossing upstream Lake Pleasant Heinz Camp lower Twomile Run (Upper miles; from the Queen of Big Bend access area) South Branch French Creek property line) Twomile Run) Creek Bridge downstream VENANGO: Twentymile Creek Taylor Run West Pithole Creek to the Otter Creek Bridge Two Mile Run Reservoir Upper Gravel Pit MERCER: WARREN: LAWRENCE: (Justus Lake) West Basin Pond Buhl Lake Akeley Run Neshannock Creek – 2.67 (Waterworks Ponds, Cool Spring Creek Blue Eye Run CATCH AND RELEASE miles; from the base of the Mill Presque Isle State Park) Little Neshannock Creek Brokenstraw Creek ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY Dam in Volant downstream to FOREST: Little Shenango River Browns Run WARREN: the covered bridge on T-476 Beaver Run Mill Creek (trib to Cool Spring Caldwell Creek West Branch Caldwell Creek– MERCER: Bluejay Creek Creek) East Branch Spring Creek 2.75 miles; West Branch Bridge Cool Spring Creek – 1.18 Coon Creek Neshannock Creek (SR 0058 East Branch Tionesta Creek upstream to Three Bridge Run miles; from SR 2014 East Hickory Creek at Mercer downstream to East Hickory Creek bridge upstream to the Little Hickory Run county line) Farnsworth Branch CATCH AND RELEASE abandoned railroad grade Maple Creek North Deer Creek Fourmile Run FLY-FISHING ONLY VENANGO: Queen Creek Pine Run Hemlock Run LAWRENCE: Oil Creek – 1.55 miles; Ross Run Sandy Creek (SR 173 Bridge Jackson Run Slippery Rock Creek – 0.5 mile; from bridge at Petroleum Salmon Creek downstream to county line) Little Brokenstraw Creek from Heinz Camp property Center downstream South Branch West Branch Little Perry Magee Run downstream to 0.25 mile to railroad bridge at Tionesta Creek Neshannock Creek Pine Creek below SR 2022 Bridge Columbia Farm Spring Creek Wolf Creek Queen Creek VENANGO: Oil Creek – 1.0 mile; from The Branch VENANGO: Sixmile Run Little Sandy Creek – 1.3 the two green posts near Tionesta Creek (county line East Branch Sugar Creek South Branch Tionesta Creek miles; from the old bridge at the Drake Well Museum downstream to Kelletville East Sandy Creek Spring Creek Polk Center Pump House downstream to Oil Creek Bridge) Hemlock Creek Thompson Run downstream to the bridge on State Park hiking trail Toms Run Horse Creek Tidioute Creek Savannah Road (SR 3024) bridge

NORTHCENTRAL REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS REGIONAL OPENING DAY CAMERON: l Bald Eagle Creek (from the con- confluence with Elk Creek) East Branch Mahoning Creek OF TROUT SEASON Brooks Run fluence with Spring Creek near Pine Creek (Stony Run Road (confluence with Beech Run STOCKED TROUT Clear Creek SR 144 bridge downstream to Bridge downstream to first bridge downstream to county line) WATERS Driftwood Branch the inlet of Sayers Lake near the on Pine Creek Road) Gazzam Run OPENING DAY: Sinnemahoning Creek Boggs-Howard Township line) Poe Lake Gifford Run MARCH 30 East Branch Cowley Run Big Poe Creek Seven Mountains Boy Scout Goss Run Dam These waters flow beyond the First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek Black Moshannon Creek Pond Janesville Dam counties designated as part of the Regional Opening Day of Trout Hicks Run Cold Stream (from outflow of Cold Sinking Creek Juniata Lake (Tannery Dam) and are included as part of this Mix Run Stream Dam upstream 1.0 Sixmile Run Laborde Branch trout program. North Creek mile to the power line crossing) South Fork Beech Creek Laurel Run (tributary NORTHUMBERLAND: Sinnemahoning Portage Creek Cold Stream Dam Wallace Run to Bennett Branch Mahantango Creek West Branch Cowley Run Eddy Lick Run White Deer Creek Sinnemahoning Creek) SNYDER West Branch Hicks Run Little Fishing Creek (SR 0064 Wolf Run Laurel Run (tributary to East West Branch Mahantango Creek Wykoff Run Bridge near Hublersburg CLEARFIELD: Branch Mahoning Creek) STOCKED TROUT CENTRE: downstream to county line) Anderson Creek Little Clearfield Creek WATERS Bald Eagle Creek (T-305 near Marsh Creek Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Little Muddy Run OPENING DAY: Port Matilda downstream to Mountain Branch Creek Medix Run APRIL 13 the confluence with Spring l Penns Creek (SR 0045 Bridge Chest Creek Moose Creek Creek) in Spring Mills downstream to Curry Run North Witmer Run

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NORTHCENTRAL REGION TROUT WATERS Parker Lake Fivemile Run Potato Creek (confluence of TIOGA: LYCOMING/TIOGA: l Shaggers Inn Pond (trib to Sandy Lick Creek) East Branch Potato Creek and Asaph Run Pine Creek (from SR 0414 South Witmer Run Laurel Run (trib to East Branch Havens Run downstream to Corey Creek bridge in Blackwell down- Wolf Run (county line to mouth) Mahoning Creek) confluence with Marvin Creek) Cowanesque River (county line stream to the confluence CLINTON: Little Sandy Creek Red Mill Brook downstream to confluence with Slate Run) Baker Run Little Toby Creek Sartwell Creek (county line with Troupes Creek) MCKEAN: Cooks Run Mill Creek (trib to Clarion River) to mouth) East Branch Stony Fork Meade Run l Fishing Creek (confluence Mill Creek (trib to Sandy Lick Sevenmile Run Long Run (trib to Pine Creek) TIOGA: with Cedar Run downstream Creek) Skinner Creek Marsh Creek (SR 3024 Beechwood Lake to mouth) North Fork Redbank Creek South Branch Kinzua Creek downstream to mouth) Hamilton Lake Hyner Run Pekin Run Sugar Run Mill Creek Kettle Creek (county line Rattlesnake Creek Twomile Run Pine Creek CATCH AND RELEASE downstream to Owl Hollow) Rattlesnake Run West Branch Clarion River Stony Fork ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY Left Branch Young Womans Redbank Creek West Branch Potato Creek Tioga River (county line CAMERON: Creek Sandy Lick Creek Willow Creek downstream to confluence Hunts Run– 4.7 miles; from Little Fishing Creek Walburn Run MONTOUR: with Fall Brook) confluence with McNuff Young Womans Creek Wolf Run Mahoning Creek (from SR 0054 UNION: Branch downstream to the ELK: LYCOMING: to the mouth) Buffalo Creek (T-366 Bridge mouth Bear Creek Hoagland Run Mauses Creek downstream to confluence CLINTON: Belmouth Run Larrys Creek (first SR Roaring Creek with Rapid Run) Fishing Creek– 2.0 miles; Bennett Branch 973 bridge upstream of NORTHUMBERLAND: Halfway Lake from State Game Lands Sinnemahoning Creek Salladasburg downstream Little Shamokin Creek Laurel Run #295 boundary (located 300 North Branch Buffalo Creek Big Mill Creek to 0.2 miles downstream Schwaben Creek yards downstream of the Penns Creek (downstream Boggy Run Old Forge Road) South Branch Roaring Creek upstream SR 2002 bridge) extent of the island near Byrnes Run Little Bear Creek Zerbe Run Rod & Gun Club Pond downstream to a point 1.3 the end of Jolly Grove Crooked Creek Little Muncy Creek (SR 0118 POTTER: miles upstream of the lower Bridge downstream to Allegheny River Lane downstream to SR 2002 bridge Dents Run (Hodag Trail crossing Creek Road near the downstream to mouth) confluence with Big Run) Bailey Run Rauchtown Creek– 1.12 Little Pine Creek intersection of Libby Road) East Branch Clarion River Bell Run miles; from the confluence Loyalsock Creek (county line Rapid Run East Branch Millstone Creek Cowanesque River of Rockey Run and Krape downstream to SR 0973) Spring Creek East Branch Spring Creek East Branch Cowley Run Run downstream to the SR Lycoming Creek (confluence Spruce Run Elk Creek East Branch Fishing Creek 0880 crossing upstream of with Roaring Branch White Deer Creek (from Cooper Hicks Run East Fork Sinnemahoning Creek the Ravensburg St. Park downstream to confluence Elevenmile Creek Mill bridge to mouth) Hoffman Run Picnic Area. with Hoagland Run) First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek Laurel Run Reservoir STOCKED TROUT Young Womans Creek – 5.7 Mill Creek (Warrensville) (0.5 Fishing Creek Little Toby Creek WATERS OPEN TO miles; from the Beechwood mile upstream of T-846 Freeman Run Maxwell Run YEAR-ROUND FISHING Trail downstream to a point Bridge downstream to SR Genesee River Mead Run CAMERON: .7 mile upstream of the 2039 Bridge downstream Kettle Creek Medix Run George B. Stevenson Reservoir confluence with the Left of Warrensville) Little Kettle Creek West Creek Branch Young Womans Creek Millstone Creek Muncy Creek (county line Lyman Run Mix Run CLEARFIELD: LYCOMING: downstream to confluence Lyman Run Reservoir West Branch Susquehanna Powers Run Grays Run– 2.2 miles; from with Little Muncy Creek) Middle Branch Genesee River River (SR 1001 Bridge near Ridgway Reservoir the Grays Run Hunting Club Pleasant Stream Oswayo Creek (confluence Hyde to first Railroad Bridge Rocky Run property line downstream to Rock Run (trib to Lycoming Creek) with Clara Creek downstream of the confluence Spring Creek the concrete bridge on T-842 Spring Creek downstream to Sharon with Moose Creek) (Grays Run Road) at the old Twin Lakes White Deer Hole Creek Center Bridge (T-372)) l West Branch Susquehanna West Branch Clarion River CCC camp MCKEAN: Pine Creek River (confluence with MIFFLIN/UNION: West Branch Hicks Run Allegheny River (county line South Branch Oswayo Creek Anderson Creek to SR 2024 West Branch Millstone Creek l Penns Creek– 7.45 miles; downstream to confluence South Woods Branch crossing at Porters Bridge) from approximately 600 Wilson Run with Allegheny Portage West Branch Cowley Run CLINTON: meters downstream of Wolf Run Creek) West Branch Genesee River Kettle Creek Lake Swift Run downstream to JEFFERSON: Bell Run West Branch Pine Creek ELK: the downstream extent of Big Run (trib to Little Sandy Bradford City Number Three SNYDER: Straight Creek the island near the end of Creek) Reservoir Kern Run West Creek (SR 1008 at Jolly Grove Lane Big Run (trib to Mahoning Brewer Run Middle Creek (headwaters Rathbun downstream to POTTER: Creek) Chappel Fork downstream to 0.5 mile SR 3001 at Howard Siding) Cross Fork– 5.02 miles; Callen Run Combs Creek downstream of SR 0522 LYCOMING: from Bear Trap Lodge Canoe Creek East Branch Tionesta Creek Bridge at Middleburg) Little Pine Lake downstream to the Weed Cathers Run Hamlin Lake North Branch Mahantango Pine Creek (from confluence with property located 0.2 Clear Creek Havens Run Creek Bonnell Run at DCNR Clark Clear Run Kinzua Creek North Branch Middle Creek Farm Access Area downstream miles downstream of the Cloe Lake Marvin Creek South Branch Middle Creek to the confluence with Little T-416 bridge East Branch Mahoning Creek North Branch Sugar Run Swift Run Pine Creek)

l 2019=Section Pennsylvania of this Stocked Trout Fishing Water is Summaryalso a Class A Wild Trout Stream-see chart on page 20 for listing. l =NEW www.fishandboat.com 27 NORTHCENTRAL/NORTHEAST REGIONS UNION: McKEAN: LYCOMING: DELAYED HARVEST Lycoming Creek – 1.3 miles; Cherry Run– 2.7 miles; from the Marvin Creek – 0.9 miles; from Pine Creek – 2.88 miles; from ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY from the SR 0015 bridge (Old mouth upstream a distance the vicinity of the high voltage the confluence with Slate CENTRE: Route 15) near Haleeka of 2.7 miles line 3 miles south of Smethport Run downstream to the Black Moshannon Creek – upstream 1.3 miles to the first downstream for a distance confluence with Bonnell overhead utility line crossing CATCH AND RELEASE 1.3 miles; from Dry Hollow of 0.9 miles Run at DCNR Clark Farm downstream to 0.3 mile upstream of Powys Curve FLY-FISHING ONLY Access Area POTTER: downstream of the Huckleberry Muncy Creek – 1.1 miles; CAMERON: POTTER/TIOGA: Kettle Creek – 1.7 miles; from a sign Road bridge from R. Sullivan property Driftwood Branch Upper Kettle Creek basin – 28.3 located 500 feet downstream CLEARFIELD: 600 yards upstream of Sinnemahoning Creek – miles; Kettle Creek from the of the SR 0144 bridge to a sign Little Clearfield Creek– 1.1 miles; T-650 bridge downstream 1.55 miles; from the Shippen headwaters downstream to located 1.7 miles upstream of from 0.4 miles downstream of to vicinity of confluence of Township Building downstream the confluence with Long Run the lower boundary the T-584 Bridge downstream Big Run at Tivoli to 330 yards upstream of and all tributaries including TIOGA: to 0.2 miles upstream of the McKEAN: the SR 0120 Bridge near Long Run upstream to the Francis Branch Tributary to Slate SR 2023 (Turkey Hill) Bridge Kinzua Creek– 2.29 miles; Emporium headwaters. Run – 1.7 miles; from mouth Sandy Lick Creek– 1.71 miles; From SR 219 at Tallyho CENTRE: upstream to Kramer Hollow from the mouth of Laborde downstream to Camp Run Spring Creek (Fisherman’s TROPHY TROUT UNION: Branch downstream to the West Branch Tunungwant Creek Paradise) – 1.3 miles; from ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY – 1.2 miles; from T-499 bridge White Deer Creek – 3.16 miles; SR 219 bridge a point adjacent to the CENTRE: downstream to pipeline crossing from Cooper Mill Road upstream ELK: Stackhouse School Pistol Lick Run – 2.5 miles; from the near confluence of Gates Hollow to Union/Centre County line Big Mill Creek– 1.5 miles; from Range downstream to the headwaters to the mouth POTTER: CATCH AND RELEASE the confluence of Rocky Run lower Bellefonte Hatchery CLINTON: Allegheny River – 2.7 miles; ALL TACKLE downstream to 0.3 mile grounds Fishing Creek – 1.18 miles; from from Pond Road 0.3 mile CLEARFIELD: downstream of the Allegheny ELK: the private lane bridge at the downstream of Colesburg West Branch Susquehanna National Forest, Forest Road, West Branch Clarion River – Tylersville State Fish Hatchery downstream to ford 0.3 mile River (from outflow of AMD 135 Bridge downstream of Prosser Hol- 0.68 mile; from intersection downstream to the State Game treatment plant near Watkins East Branch Clarion River– low Bridge of SR 219 and SR 4003 Lands #295 boundary (located downstream to confluence 1.15 miles; from 110 yards First Fork Sinnemahoning upstream to the former Texas 300 yards downstream of the of Cush Creek near Dowler downstream of the outflow Creek – 1.67 miles; from Gulf Sulphur property line upstream SR 2002 bridge) Junction) from East Branch Clarion mouth of Bailey Run down- 0.6 miles upstream of SR and 2.1 miles; from a point 1.3 CENTRE: River Lake downstream to stream to a bend above Berge 4003 bridge miles upstream of the lower Spring Creek– 16.22 miles; from the State Gameland boundary Run Bridge JEFFERSON: SR 2002 bridge downstream the Boalsburg Road Bridge (SR 1.15 miles downstream of the SNYDER: North Fork Redbank Creek – to Fleming’s Bridge (SR 2004) Middle Creek – 1.2 3010) at Oak Hall upstream upstream limit 1.9 miles; from SR 322 in at the Lamar Fish Hatchery miles; from the bridge on of Hanson Quarry (formerly LYCOMING: Brookville upstream 1.9 miles, LYCOMING/TIOGA: SR 4007 (Pine Swamp HRI/Neidig Bros. Quarry) Little Pine Creek – 1.1 miles; from except a 110-yard section Cedar Run – 7.44 miles; from Road) to the downstream downstream to the mouth the confluence of Otter Run from the Brookville Water the confluence with Buck boundary of State Game with the exception of special downstream to the confluence Authority Dam downstream Run downstream to the Lands #188 regulations area at Fisherman’s of Schoolhouse Hollow to the wire across the creek mouth TIOGA: Paradise and the Exhibition Loyalsock Creek – 1.49 miles; LYCOMING/TIOGA: McKEAN: Pine Creek – 1.06 Area in Bellefonte from the Lycoming - Sullivan mile; from Darling Run Slate Run – 7.13 miles; from the East Branch Tunungwant Creek – ELK: 3.0 miles; from the confluence County line downstream to downstream to 0.1 confluence of the Cushman and Clarion River– 8.48 miles; with Pigeon Run downstream Sandy Bottom mile downstream of the Francis branches downstream from the confluence of the to the Main Street Bridge in confluence with Owassee to the mouth East and West branches Lewis Run Slide Hollow downstream to the Main St. Bridge (SR 948) in Ridgway NORTHEAST REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS REGIONAL OPENING DAY STOCKED TROUT South Branch Sugar Creek Hickory Run Lake COLUMBIA: OF TROUT SEASON WATERS downstream to SR 0006 in Lehigh Canal (Long Run Level Beaver Run (Moyers Farm STOCKED TROUT OPENING DAY: East Troy) near Weissport) downstream to mouth) WATERS APRIL 13 Sunfish Pond Mauch Chunk Creek (outlet Briar Creek OPENING DAY: BRADFORD: Towanda Creek (South Ave., Mauch Chunk Lake Fishing Creek (SR 4049 MARCH 30 Gaylord Creek T-998 downstream to SR downstream to upstream downstream to Light Street) *These Northeast Region Little Schrader Creek (confluence 3001 Bridge) face of Lentz Trail (SR Huntington Creek (Forks Farm waters flow beyond the with Marsh Creek downstream Tuscarora Creek 3012) bridge downstream to Twin Bridges counties designated as part to mouth) Wysox Creek Nesquehoning Creek Park) of the Regional Opening Day of North Branch Sugar Creek CARBON: l Pohopoco Creek (outlet of Little Fishing Creek (Talmar Road Trout Season and are included (Alparon Park Fairgrounds Aquashicola Creek Beltzville Lake downstream (SR 4032) downstream to as part of this trout program. downstream to mouth) Buckwha Creek to Hideaway Hunting and Eyers Grove Road (SR 4021)) CARBON: Schrader Creek Drakes Creek Fishing Club cable across Mugser Run Lizard Creek South Branch Towanda Creek Hickory Run (outlet of Hickory the creek) Pine Creek Mahoning Creek South Creek Run Lake downstream to Sand Spring Run Roaring Creek Sugar Creek (confluence with Saylorsville Dam) Scotch Run

28 www.fishandboat.com l =Section of this Stocked Trout Water is also a Class 2019 A Wild PennsylvaniaTrout Stream-see chart Fishing on page 20 Summary for listing. NORTHEAST REGION TROUT WATERS South Branch Roaring Creek Lower Lake (Lower Promised Shehawken Creek WAYNE: DELAYED HARVEST West Branch Briar Creek Land Lake, including outlet Van Auken Creek Duck Harbor Pond ARTIFICIAL LURES West Creek from Upper Lake) West Branch Dyberry Creek Upper Woods Pond ONLY LACKAWANNA: Masthope Creek (Upper SGL West Branch Lackawaxen River WYOMING: BRADFORD: Aylesworth Creek Lake #316 boundary downstream (from outflow of Prompton Lake Winola Towanda Creek – 1.7 miles; Desandis Pond to lower SGL #316 boundary) Reservoir to mouth) Mehoopany Creek (from confluence from SR 3001 downstream Eston Wilson Lake Middle Branch Bush Kill West Branch Wallenpaupack with Kasson Brook downstream to Con’s Road (T-350) Gardner Creek Saw Creek (Bushkill Falls Road Creek to confluence of North Fork CARBON: Lackawanna River (from (SR 2003) downstream to WYOMING: Mehoopany Creek) Mud Run – 2.5 miles; in Hickory Old Stillwater Reservoir State Forest boundary Bowman Creek CATCH AND RELEASE Run State Park downstream to Simpson) downstream of Whitaker Horton Creek ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY LACKAWANNA/WYOMING: Road (T-324)) Lehigh River Leonard Creek CARBON: South Branch Tunkhannock Shohola Creek (SR 0739 Merli-Sarnoski Martins Creek Hickory Run– 3.12 miles; from Creek – .99 mile; from SR downstream to the SGL Park Lake Mehoopany Creek the outlet of Saylorsville Dam 6 downstream through #180 ford crossing) Roaring Brook Meshoppen Creek downstream to the mouth Keystone College campus Shohola Creek (from the outlet of South Branch North Branch Mehoopany Creek LACKAWANNA: LUZERNE: Shohola Lake downstream to Tunkhannock Creek Oxbow Lake Roaring Brook– 3.84 miles; from Harveys Creek – 1.7 miles; lower boundary of SGL #180) West Branch Wallenpaupack Riley Creek Hollisterville Dam downstream from Jackson Road (T-812) SULLIVAN: Creek South Branch Tunkhannock to Elmhurst Reservoir downstream to Pavlick Road Elk Creek LUZERNE: Creek PIKE: (T-497) Hoagland Branch (confluence Big Wapwallopen Creek Tuscarora Creek Toms Creek– 2.17 miles; from the Nescopeck Creek – 2.24 miles; (Nuangola Road (SR with Porter Creek West Branch Meshoppen Creek from the upstream boundary downstream to mouth) Delaware Water Gap National 2042) downstream to (White Creek) Recreation Area boundary of State Game Lands #187 county road) Kings Creek (intersection of Tall downstream to a cable across Maple Road (T-395) and SR STOCKED TROUT downstream to the mouth Harvey’s Creek WATERS OPEN TO the stream Kitchen Creek (Shady Hill 4008 downstream to mouth) CATCH AND RELEASE MONROE: Little Loyalsock Creek (SR YEAR-ROUND FISHING FLY-FISHING ONLY Road (T-559) downstream BRADFORD: McMichael Creek – 1.66 to mouth) 0087 Bridge south of Dushore MONROE: miles; from a point 0.71 mile downstream to the confluence l Cooks Pond Bush Kill – 6.1 miles; on Lake Frances Mountain Lake downstream of the bridge Nescopeck Creek with Big Bottom Run) the Resica Falls Scout on Turkey Hill Road (T-416) Loyalsock Creek Sugar Run Pine Creek Reservation property except downstream to Glen Brook Mill Creek (Hillsgrove) CARBON: 200 yards on each side of MONROE: Rd. (SR 2004) bridge Muncy Creek l Lehigh River (0.33 miles the falls Brodhead Creek (Cherry Tobyhanna Creek – 1 mile; North Branch Mehoopany Creek upriver from railroad bridge WAYNE: Lane Bridge (SR 1002) from the confluence of Still Schrader Creek at Glenn Onoko downriver to Dyberry Creek – 0.87 mile; downstream to SR 0080 Swamp Run, downstream West Branch Fishing Creek Mauch Chunk Creek) from 300 meters (.19 mile) Bridge east of Exit 309) to the PPL service bridge SUSQUEHANNA: CARBON/LUZERNE: downstream from the third Buckwha Creek PIKE: Canawacta Creek Francis E. Walter Reservoir bridge on Dug Rd. (SR 4009) Bush Kill Dingmans Creek – 1.56 miles; East Branch Tunkhannock Creek (Bear Creek Reservoir) upstream of the mouth, Lehigh River from the base of Deer East Branch Wyalusing Creek Lehigh River (Carbon/Luzerne downstream to the second McMichael Creek Leap Falls downstream to Fall Brook county line from outlet of F. E. bridge on Dug Rd. (SR 4009) Pocono Creek Dingmans Falls Gaylord Creek Walter Reservoir downstream upstream from the mouth Princess Run SUSQUEHANNA: Horton Creek to confluence with Sandy WYOMING: Snow Hill Dam Run) Salt Lick Creek – 1.45 miles; from Lackawanna River Bowman Creek – 0.8 mile; 90 yards downstream from Tobyhanna Creek Martins Creek COLUMBIA: from SR 0292 downstream Beaver Creek downstream Tobyhanna Lake Meshoppen Creek Briar Creek Lake to Marsh Creek to boundary of State Game PIKE: North Branch Wyalusing Creek LACKAWANNA: Lands #35 Bush Kill Riley Creek Lackawanna Lake TROPHY TROUT WAYNE: Decker Brook (SR 0006 Bridge Salt Lick Creek LUZERNE: ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY West Branch Wallenpaupack downstream to lower SGL Silver Creek Frances Slocum Lake LACKAWANNA: Creek – 1.74 miles; from #183 boundary) Snake Creek Harvey’s Lake (see Lackawanna River – 4.9 0.6 miles downstream from Fairview Lake South Branch Canawacta Creek miscellaneous special miles; from the Gilmartin the Jones Creek confluence Lackawaxen River (county line Starrucca Creek regulations on page 16) Street Bridge in Archbald downstream to the Callapoose downstream to mouth) Tunkhannock Creek Lake Irena downstream to the Rd. (SR 3009) bridge Lake Loch Lomond West Branch Meshoppen Creek Lake Took A While Lackawanna Avenue Bridge Lake Minisink (White Creek) (Riverlands) (SR 0347) in Olyphant. Lily Pond WAYNE: Lily Lake Excepted is a mid-section Little Bush Kill (lower limit of Dyberry Creek Moon Lake area extending .7 mile from Lehman Lake club property East Branch Dyberry Creek Sylvan Lake the Depot Street Bridge in An explanation downstream to upper limit Equinunk Creek MONROE: Jessup downstream to the of each trout of Bushkill Rod & Gun Club Jones Creek Hidden Lake foot bridge in Robert Mellow property and Bushkill Falls Lackawanna River SULLIVAN: Park regulation is on boundary downstream to Lackawaxen River Hunters Lake pages 20 and 21. mouth) Long Pond SUSQUEHANNA: Little Mud Pond Rose Pond Branch Quaker Lake

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary l=NEW www.fishandboat.com 29 FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORY

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY 2019 FISH CONSUMPTION

HEALTH BENEFITS OF EATING FISH is that you eat no more than one meal (1/2 pound) per Fish are nutritious and good to eat. Fish are low in fat, high week of sport fish caught in the state’s waterways. This in protein and provide substantial human health benefits. general advice was issued to protect against eating large Fish provide valuable vitamins and minerals and beneficial amounts of fish that have not been tested or that may FATTY oils that are low in saturated fat. Omega-3 fatty acids found in contain unidentified contaminants. AREAS fish are also beneficial, particularly in terms of cardiovascular health. The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) HOW TO USE THIS ADVISORY recommends that consumers eat a balanced diet, choos- Follow the general, statewide one meal per week ing a variety of foods including fruits and vegetables, foods advisory to limit your exposure to contaminants. To de- that are low in trans fat and saturated fat, as well as foods termine if more protective advice applies to the fish you rich in high fiber grains and nutrients. A diet that includes have caught, find the locations and species of fish you’ve a variety of fish and shellfish can be an important part of a caught in the tables that follow. Find the meal advice for balanced healthy diet. The U.S. FDA, EPA, the American the fish you’ve caught. “Do Not Eat” means no one should TRIM AWAY Heart Association and other nutrition experts recommend eat those fish because of very high contamination. The DOTTED AREAS eating two meals (12 oz.) of fish per week. Following these other groups (“Two meals a Month”, “One Meal a Month”, advisories means that you should feel comfortable making “One Meal Every Two Months”) are advice for how often one of those meals (up to 8 oz.) a recreationally caught to eat a fish meal. Pennsylvania sport fish. One meal is assumed to be 1/2pound of fish (8 oz. before cooking) for a 150-pound person. The meal advice is CONTAMINANTS IN FISH equally protective for larger people who eat larger meals IMPORTANT: You must follow these cleaning and While most recreationally caught sport fish in Pennsylva- and smaller people who eat smaller meals. cooking directions. The meal advice is for eating nia are safe to eat, chemicals such as mercury and PCBs People who regularly eat sport fish, women of child- skinned and trimmed fish. have been found in some fish from certain waters. While bearing age and children are particularly susceptible to Also remember that larger and older fish tend to the levels of these unavoidable chemical contaminants are contaminants that build up over time. If you fall into one collect more contaminants, and fatty fish (such as usually low, they could potentially be a health concern to of these categories, you should be especially careful to Channel Catfish, carp and eels) tend to collect PCBs pregnant and breast-feeding women, women of childbearing space fish meals out according to the advisory tables that and other organic chemicals. Therefore, eating smaller, age, children and individuals whose diet consists of a high follow. Your body can get rid of some contaminants over younger fish and avoiding fatty species can help limit percentage of fish. time. Spacing the meals out helps prevent the contami- your exposure. Your exposure depends not only on Long lasting contaminants such as PCBs, chlordane and nants from building up to harmful levels in the body. For levels in the fish, but also the amount of fish you eat. mercury build up in your body over time. It may take months example, if the fish you eat is in the “One Meal a Month The consumption of any fish from contaminated waters or years of regularly eating contaminated fish to build up Group”, wait a month before eating another meal of fish is a matter of personal choice. amounts that are a health concern. Health problems that from any restricted category. Trout stocked from Pennsylvania Fish & Boat may result from the contaminants found in fish range from Women beyond their childbearing years and men Commission state fish hatcheries are subject to the small changes in health that are hard to detect to birth generally face fewer health risks from these contaminants. blanket one-meal-per-week consumption advisory defects and cancer. Mothers who eat highly contaminated However, it is recommended that you also follow the that applies to recreationally caught sport fish in fish for many years before becoming pregnant may have advisory to reduce your total exposure to contaminants. Pennsylvania. If additional consumption advisories children who are slower to develop and learn. The meal For these groups, it is the total number of meals that you for state fish hatchery trout are appropriate for 2019, advice in this advisory is intended to protect children from eat during the year that becomes important and many they will be announced in February or March 2019. these potential developmental problems. Adults are less of those meals can be eaten during a few months of the Snapping Turtle Consumption Advice: Snapping likely to have health problems at the low levels that affect year. If most of the fish you eat are from the “One Meal a Turtle meat has been found to contain only small children. If you follow this advisory over your lifetime, you will Month” category, you should not exceed 12 meals per year. amounts of PCBs and is safe to eat without restric- minimize your exposure and reduce health risks associated Sometimes, anglers catch fish with external growths, tions. Snapping Turtles do retain PCBs in their fat and with contaminants in fish sores or other lesions. Such abnormalities generally result internal organs. If you choose to eat Snapping Turtles, INTRODUCTION TO FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORIES from viral or bacterial infections and may occasionally be you can reduce your exposure by carefully trimming It is important to note that we are not recommending that caused by exposure to certain chemical contaminants. The away all fat and internal organs and discarding them you stop eating sport caught fish, except where “Do Not Eat” appearance of viral or bacterial infections in fish may be before cooking the meat or making soup. is shown in the advisory listing. When properly prepared, unsightly, but there is no evidence to suggest that these FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION eating fish regularly offers important health benefits as a infections pose a threat to consumers of these fish. Whether The advisory listing was current at the time this good choice to replace high fat foods. You will gain those or not to eat such fish is a matter of personal choice. summary went to press. Fish consumption advisories benefits if you follow the sport fish consumption advisory CLEANING AND COOKING YOUR FISH may have been issued or lifted since that time. Notice carefully to: choose safer places to fish; pick safer species PCBs and most other organic contaminants usually build of such actions has been released to the public through to eat; trim and cook your catch correctly; and follow the up in a fish’s fat deposits and just underneath the skin. By press releases. recommended meal frequencies. Using this advice, you will removing the skin and fat before cooking, you can reduce For further information or the most current advice, reduce your exposure to possible contaminants. the levels of these chemicals. Mercury, however, collects in contact: Consumption advisories provide guidance to individuals the fish’s muscle and cannot be reduced by cleaning and PA Department of Environmental Protection: or segments of the population that are at greater risk from cooking methods. To reduce PCBs and other organics: 717-787-9637, website: www.dep.pa.gov. exposure to contaminants in fish. Advisories are not regula- • Remove all skin. Questions concerning current advisory listings, tory standards but are recommendations intended to provide • Slice off fat belly meat along the bottom of the fish. waters sampled, sampling methods. additional information of particular interest to high-risk groups. • Cut away any fat above the fish’s backbone. PA Department of Health: 717-787-3550, These advisories apply only to recreationally caught sport • Cut away the V-shaped wedge of fat along the lateral website: www.health.pa.gov. fish in Pennsylvania, not commercial fish. The federal Food line on each side of the fish. Questions about effects of chemicals on human and Drug Administration establishes the legal standards • Bake or broil trimmed fish on a rack or grill so some of health. for contaminants in food sold commercially, including fish. the remaining fat drips away. Fish & Boat Commission: 814-359-5147, • Discard any drippings. Do not eat them or use them for STATEWIDE ADVISORY website: www.fishandboat.com. cooking other foods or in preparing other sauces. Pennsylvania has issued a general, statewide health Questions about effects of chemicals on fisheries, advisory for recreationally caught sport fish. That advice current advisory listings.

30 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary 2019 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORIES l=NEW ADDITION l=CHANGE DELAWARE RIVER BASIN Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Belmont Lake(Wayne Co.) Entire lake Rock Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Beltzville Lake (Beltzville State Park) (Carbon Co.) Entire lake Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury l Brady’s Lake (Monroe Co.) Entire lake Chain Pickerel 6 meals/year Mercury Yellow Perch 1 meal/month Mercury Broadhead Creek (Monroe Co.) Entire basin Rock Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Bushkill Creek (Monroe & Pike Co.) Entire basin American Eel, All suckers 2 meals/month Mercury Chester Creek (Delaware Co.) Confluence of West Branch Chester Ck. to mouth Channel Catfish 2 meals/month Mercury Darby Creek (Delaware & Philadelphia Co.) Entire basin Channel Catfish 1 meal/month PCB Delaware River Source to Trenton, NJ-Morrisville, PA bridge Rock Bass, Walleye over 17” 2 meals/month Mercury Smallmouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Delaware Estuary, including the tidal portion of all Trenton, NJ-Morrisville, PA Bridge White Perch, 1 meal/month PCB PA tributaries and the Schuylkill River to the Fair- to PA/DE border Flathead Catfish, mount Dam (Bucks, Philadelphia & Delaware Co.) Channel Catfish Striped Bass: over 28” 1 meal/month PCB Carp 6 meals/year PCB American Eel Do Not Eat PCB Hickory Lake (Wayne Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Maskenozha (Pike Co.) Entire lake Yellow Perch 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Towhee (Bucks Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Wallenpaupack (Pike & Wayne Co.) Entire lake Walleye 1 meal/month Mercury Lehigh River (Northampton Co.) Confluence of Saucon Creek to mouth Carp, American Eel 1 meal/month PCB l Little Bushkill Creek (Pike Co.) Lake Maskenozha to mouth American Eel 2 meals/month Mercury Little Neshaminy Creek (Bucks Co.) Entire basin Carp 1 meal/month PCB Long Pond (Wayne Co.) Entire lake Walleye 1 meal/month Mercury Marsh Creek Lake (Chester Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Miller Pond (Wayne Co.) Entire lake Chain Pickerel, Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Yellow Perch 2 meals/month Mercury Promised Land Lake (Promised Land State Park) (Pike Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Prompton Reservoir Entire lake Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury (West Branch Lackawaxen River) (Wayne Co.) Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury Red Clay Creek (Chester Co.) l Entire basin l All species l 3 meals/year l PCB, DDT, Dioxins, Chlorinated- Pesticides Schuylkill River (Schuylkill Co.) Confluence of Mill Creek at Port Carbon Trout 1 meal/month PCB to Auburn Dam Schuylkill River (Schuylkill & Berks Co.) Confluence of Mahannon Creek at Landingville Brown Bullhead, All suckers 1 meal/month PCB to Kernsville Dam Schuylkill River (Berks Co.) Kernsville Dam to Maiden Creek All suckers 1 meal/month PCB Schuylkill River Confluence of Maiden Creek to Black Rock Dam All suckers 1 meal/month PCB (Berks, Chester & Montgomery Co.) above Phoenixville Carp, Channel Catfish 6 meals/year PCB Schuylkill River Black Rock Dam to Fairmount Dam Carp, American Eel, Do Not Eat PCB (Chester, Montgomery & Philadelphia Co.) in Philadelphia All suckers, Channel Catfish, 1 meal/month PCB Flathead Catfish, Corbicula (Asiatic clam*) Schuylkill River Confluence of Maiden Creek to Fairmount Dam American Eel Do Not Eat PCB (Berks, Chester, Montgomery & Philadelphia Co.) All suckers 1 meal/mouth PCB Shohola Lake (Pike Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Stairway Pond (Pike Co.) Entire pond Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Tobyhanna Creek (Carbon & Monroe Co.) Pocono Lake Dam to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury West Branch Brandywine Creek (Chester Co.) From business Rt. 30 (Lincoln Highway) American Eel 1 meal/month PCB in Coatesville to confluence of Buck Run West Branch Schuylkill River (Schuylkill Co.) Entire basin Brook Trout 1 meal/month PCB White Clay Creek (Chester Co.) Entire basin American Eel 2 meals/month Mercury White Oak Pond Lake (Wayne Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN * The harvest of live mussels and clams in Pennsylvania is prohibited. Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Beechwood Lake (Tioga Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Black Moshannon State Park Lake (Centre Co.) Entire lake Chain Pickerel l 2 meals/month Mercury Bearwallow Pond (Sullivan Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel 2 meals/month Mercury Chemung River (Bradford Co.) NY/PA border to mouth Channel Catfish 2 meals/month Mercury Smallmouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Conestoga River (Lancaster Co.) Slackwater to mouth Rock Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Cowanesque River and Reservoir (Tioga Co.) Cowanesque River Mouth to PA/NY border Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Black Crappie, Yellow Perch, 1 meal/month Mercury Largemouth Bass First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek-George B. Stevenson Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Dam (Sinnemahoning State Park) (Cameron & Potter Co.) First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek (Cameron Co.) George B. Stevenson Dam to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Francis Slocum Lake (Luzerne Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Hunters Lake (Sullivan Co.) Entire lake All species 2 meals/month Mercury Jacks Creek (Mifflin Co.) Paintersville Bridge to mouth Bluegill, Rock Bass, Fallfish 1 meal/month PCB Kettle Creek Lake (Kettle Creek State Park) (Clinton Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass, 2 meals/month Mercury Black Crappie, Yellow Perch Kettle Creek (Clinton Co.) Alvin R. Bush Dam to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lackawanna Lake (Lackawanna State Park) (Lackawanna Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Jean (UNT Kitchen Cr.) Entire lake Chain Pickerel, Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury (Ricketts Glen State Park) (Sullivan and Luzerne Co.) Yellow Perch 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Makoma (Mill Cr.) (Sullivan Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Winola (Wyoming Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Laurel Lake (Cumberland Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lily Lake (Luzerne Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Little Pine Creek (Clinton Co.) Entire basin Yellow Perch 2 meals/month Mercury Logan Branch (Centre Co.) Axemann to mouth Brown Trout 1 meal/month PCB Lopez Pond (Sullivan Co.) Entire lake Yellow Perch 2 meals/month Mercury Lyman Run Reservoir (Potter Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury

2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary www.fishandboat.com 31 Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Maple Lake (Lackawanna Co.) Entire lake Chain Pickerel 2 meals/month Mercury McWilliams Reservoir (Northumberland and Columbia Co.) Entire reservoir Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Mountain Mud Pond (Merli-Sarnoski Park)(Lackawanna Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Pine Creek (Tioga Co.) Confluence of Painter Run to confluence of Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Fourmile Run near Colton Point State Park Shumans Lake (Loyalsock Creek) (Sullivan Co.) Entire lake Chain Pickerel 2 meals/month Mercury Silver Lake (Susquehanna Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Steven Foster Lake (Bradford Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Sugar Creek (Bradford Co.) Confluence of Bailey Run to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Sunfish Pond(Bradford Co.) Entire pond Largemouth Bass, Yellow Perch 2 meals/month Mercury Susquehanna River (Susquehanna Co.) Entire section in PA from the NY border above Smallmouth Bass, Fallfish 2 meals/month Mercury Starrucca Creek to the NY border below Great Bend Susquehanna River (Bradford and Wyoming Co.) NY border above Sayre to PA Route 92 bridge at Falls Walleye, Smallmouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Channel Catfish, Carp 1 meal/month PCB Susquehanna River (Wyoming, Lackawanna, PA Route 92 bridge at Falls to confluence Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Luzerne, Columbia, Northumberland and Montour Co.) with West Branch Channel Catfish, Quillback, 1 meal/month PCB Carp and Walleye Susquehanna River (Snyder, Northumberland, Juniata, West Branch to PA/MD border Channel Catfish over 20”, 1 meal/month PCB Perry, Dauphin, Cumberland, York and Lancaster Co.) l Flathead Catfish over 30” Mercury Tioga Reservoir (Tioga Co.) Entire Reservoir Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Towanda Creek (Bradford Co.) Confluence of Schrader Creek to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Trindle Spring Run (locally Silver Spring Run) Silver Spring Meeting House to mouth (approx. 1 mile) All trout 1 meal/month PCB (Cumberland Co.) Tunkhannock Creek (Wyoming Co.) Confluence of South Branch to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Tuscarora Creek (Juniata Co.) SR 3008 bridge above Port Royal to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury West Branch Susquehanna River (Clinton, Bald Eagle Creek to confluence with l Walleye l 2 meals/month l Mercury Lycoming, Union and Northumberland Co.) Susquehanna River White Deer Creek (l Clinton, Centre and Union Co.) l Entire basin Brown Trout 2 meals/month Mercury Wyalusing Creek (Bradford Co.) SR 0706 bridge at Camptown to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Yellow Breeches Creek (Cumberland Co.) SR 3017 bridge at Huntsdale to confluence of Spruce Run Brown Trout 1 meal/month PCB

OHIO RIVER BASIN l=NEW ADDITION l=CHANGE Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Allegheny River (McKean Co.) Confluence of Potato Creek to PA/NY border Smallmouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Allegheny Res. (Warren and McKean Co.) Entire lake Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Allegheny River (Warren, Forest & Venango Co.) Kinzua Dam to confluence of Witherup Run at St. George Smallmouth Bass, Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury Allegheny River (Armstrong Co.) Pool 6 - Lock & Dam 7 to Lock & Dam 6 Carp 1 meal/month PCB Allegheny River (Armstrong Co.) Pool 5 - Lock & Dam 6 to Lock & Dam 5 Carp, Channel Catfish 1 meal/month PCB Allegheny River (Armstrong & Allegheny Co.) Pool 4 - Lock & Dam 5 to Lock & Dam 4 Carp, Channel Catfish 1 meal/month PCB Allegheny River (Allegheny Co.) Pool 3 - Lock & Dam 4 to Lock & Dam 3 Carp, Channel Catfish 1 meal/month PCB Allegheny River (Allegheny Co.) Pool 2 - Lock & Dam 3 to Lock & Dam 2 Carp, Channel Catfish 1 meal/month PCB Allegheny River (Allegheny Co.) Lock & Dam 2 to Montgomery Lock & Dam on the Ohio River See Ohio River (Allegheny & Beaver Co.) Beaver River (Lawrence & Beaver Co.) Confl. of Mahoning and Shenango Rivers to mouth Carp Do Not Eat PCB Smallmouth Bass, 1 meal/month PCB Channel Catfish Beaver Run Reservoir (Westmoreland Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Brokenstraw Creek (Warren Co.) Confluence of Hare Creek to mouth All suckers, 2 meals/month Mercury Smallmouth Bass Chapman Dam Reservoir (Warren Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Chartiers Creek and Little Chartiers Creek Chartiers Creek - Canonsburg to mouth Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month PCB (Allegheny & Washington Co.) L. Chartiers Creek - Canonsburg Lake Dam to mouth Carp Do Not Eat PCB Smallmouth Bass 6 meals/year PCB Clarion River (Clarion Co.) Confl.of Canoe Creek above Callensburg to confl. of Turkey Run Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury Clarion River (Clarion, Clearfield & Elk Co.) Basin upstream of Piney Dam Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Conemaugh R. (Indiana & Westmoreland Co.) Conemaugh Lake Dam to mouth Carp 1 meal/month PCB Conewango Creek (Warren Co.) NY/PA border to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Conneaut Lake (Crawford Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Northern Pike 1 meal/month Mercury Crystal Lake (Crawford Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Dunkard Creek (Greene Co.) Confluence of Toms Run to confluence of Roberts Run Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Dunkard Creek (Greene Co.) SR 2021 bridge to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury East Branch Lake (E. Br. Clarion R.) (Elk Co.) Entire lake Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Eaton Reservoir (Erie Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass, 2 meals/month Mercury Walleye Edinboro Lake (Erie Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury French Creek (Erie, Crawford, Mercer & Venango Co.) Entire mainstem Smallmouth Bass, 2 meals/month Mercury Walleye Justus Lake (Venango Co.) Entire lake Smallmouth Bass, 2 meals/month Mercury Largemouth Bass Lake Canadohta (Crawford Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass, Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury Lake LeBoeuf (Erie Co.) Entire lake Muskellunge 1 meal/month Mercury Largemouth Bass, Carp 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Pleasant (Erie Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury Mahoning River (Lawrence Co.) Entire portion in PA Carp 6 meals/year PCB Channel Catfish Do Not Eat PCB 32 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORY Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Monongahela River (Fayette & Greene Co.) Point Marion Lock & Dam to Maxwell Locks & Dam Carp 1 meal/month PCB Monongahela River (Fayette & Washington Co.) Pool 4 - Maxwell Locks & Dam to Locks & Dam 4 Carp 1 meal/month PCB Monongahela River Pool 3 - Locks & Dam 4 to Locks & Dam 3 Carp 1 meal/month PCB (Allegheny, Washington & Westmoreland Co.) Monongahela River (Allegheny Co.) Pool 2 (Braddock Pool)- Locks & Dam 3 to Locks & Dam 2 Carp 1 meal/month PCB Monongahela River (Allegheny Co.) From Locks & Dam 2 to the Montgomery Locks & Dam See Ohio River on the Ohio River (Allegheny & Beaver Co.) Ohio River (Allegheny and Beaver Co.) From the Locks & Dam 2 on the Monongahela River and Locks Freshwater Drum, Spotted Bass, 1 meal/month PCB & Dam 2 on the Allegheny River to the Montgomery Locks & Largemouth Bass, Black Crappie, Dam Smallmouth Bass, White Crappie Based on recommendation from the Ohio River Consumption Advisory Workgroup Sauger, Walleye All suckers, Flathead Catfish, 6 meals/year PCB Hybrid-Striped Bass, White Bass Channel Catfish under 18” Carp, Channel Catfish over 18” Do Not Eat PCB Ohio River (Beaver Co.) From Montgomery Locks & Dam to the state border. All suckers, Flathead Catfish, 1 meal/month PCB Based on recommendation from the Ohio River Consumption Advisory Workgroup Black Crappie, White Crappie Largemouth Bass, Spotted Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Sauger, Walleye, Freshwater Drum Channel Catfish under 18”, Carp, 6 meals/year PCB Hybrid Striped Bass, White Bass Channel Catfish over 18” Do Not Eat PCB Oil Creek (Venango Co.) SR 1004 bridge at Petroleum Center to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Shenango River (Mercer & Lawrence Co.) Pymatuning Dam to Shenango Reservoir Channel Catfish 2 meals/month Mercury Shenango River (Mercer & Lawrence Co.) Shenango Reservoir Dam to mouth All species Do Not Eat PCB Sugar Lake (Crawford Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass, l Chain Pickerel 2 meals/month Mercury Tamarack Lake (Crawford Co.) Entire lake Muskellunge 1 meal/month Mercury Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury Tionesta Creek (Warren and Forest Co.) SR 0666 bridge at Henrys Mills to Tionesta Res. Dam Smallmouth Bass, All suckers 2 meals/month Mercury Tionesta Reservoir (Forest Co.) Entire lake Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Traverse Creek (Beaver Co.) Source to dam in Raccoon State Park Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Tunungwant Creek (McKean Co.) Confluence of East and West branches to PA/NY border Carp, All suckers 2 meals/month Mercury Union City Reservoir (Erie Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury West Branch Caldwell Creek (Warren Co.) Entire basin Brown Trout 2 meals/month Mercury Youghiogheny Lake (Fayette/Somerset Co.) Entire lake Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Youghiogheny River (Fayette and Somerset Co.) Youghiogheny Lake Dam to confluence of Lick Run Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury LAKE ERIE BASIN Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant Lake Erie (Erie Co.) Open waters Walleye, Coho Salmon*, Steelhead* (Rainbow Trout), Brown Trout*, 1 meal/month PCB Smallmouth Bass, White Perch, White Bass, Lake Whitefish, Carp under 20”, Freshwater Drum, Lake Trout under 30” and Channel Catfish Carp over 20”, Lake Trout over 30”. Do Not Eat PCB Lake Erie (Erie Co.) Presque Isle Bay Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, White Perch, Freshwater Drum, Bowfin, Carp, 1 meal/month PCB Coho Salmon* and Steelhead* (Rainbow Trout), Brown Trout* Conneaut Creek (Erie Co.) SR 0215 bridge to PA/OH border Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury * Salmon and trout are migratory. They may be found seasonally in Presque Isle Bay or Lake Erie tributary streams. Trout, salmon and other fish, whether caught in the lake or tributaries, should be treated as Lake Erie fish. POTOMAC RIVER BASIN There are currently no advisories for the Potomac River Basin. However, the statewide advisory of 1 meal per week does apply to all waters throughout the Commonwealth, including the Potomac River Basin.

Recognizing and Reporting POLLUTION or DISTURBANCE of Waterways

POLLUTION or DISTURBANCE of any wa- are: Dead fish including crayfish, frogs and any other waterway. Various types of permits are required terway or watershed is a serious violation of the types of aquatic life; strange odors like manure, sew- for any such work. Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Code that must be age or chemicals; muddy, cloudy or discolored water; If you see anything suspected to be a pollution recognized and reported to a Pennsylvania Fish shiny, oily sheen on water’s surface; foamy material or disturbance of any waterway, regardless of how & Boat Commission region law enforcement office. floating on the surface; and extremely muddy water. seemingly insignificant, report it immediately by call- The law provides for criminal penalties for pollution DISTURBANCE of waterways or watersheds ing the local Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission or disturbances. includes any alteration of a waterway, its banks, bed region law enforcement office listed on page 3 of POLLUTION is an introduction into any waterway or fish habitat that “might” cause damage to or kill this publication or the Pennsylvania Department of anything that “might” harm or kill fish. Examples fish. Common disturbance indicators are: Removal of Environmental Protection at 1-800-541-2050 of “pollutants” are: Electricity, explosives, sediment of gravel from stream beds; earth-moving in or along (24 hours a day, 7 days a week). runoff, sewage, insecticides, poisons, high volumes a waterway; dragging logs across stream banks and of extremely hot water, liquid concrete or cement, through stream beds; installing pipes or culverts; build- See WATER POLLUTION paint, chemicals, petroleum products like gasoline ing or installing bridges; making roadways through or POACHING? REPORT IT! or oil, brine runoff from gas or water well drilling and or along a stream; draining a waterway, wetland PFBC TOLL-FREE HOTLINE manufacturing waste. Common pollution indicators or watershed; or changing the channel flow of a 855-FISH-KIL

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2020 FISHING DATES* Commonwealth Inland Waters Regional Opening Day of Trout**: April 4, 2020 *Dates subject to change by regulation until Statewide Opening Day of Trout: April 18, 2020 publication of the 2020 Opening Day of Walleye/Sauger: May 2, 2020 PA Fishing Summary. Opening Day of Bass: June 13, 2020 **18 southeastern Extended Trout Season: September 8, 2020 counties

Pennsylvania’s Best Fishing Waters is a program established by the Commission, using the expertise and knowledge of its fisheries biologists, to highlight statewide locations for 2019 Mentored Youth different categories of fish to assist anglers in Trout Days: March 23 (regional) knowing the prime fishing hotspots. Confirmed and April 6 (statewide) by survey catch rates and the availability of public Take part in the Commission’s Mentored Youth access, the program waters offered are provided to help increase anglers’ success and convenient Trout Days. Youth under the age of 16 can join a www.PaBestFishing.com mentor (adult) angler who has a current fishing access to this information. You deserve the best! license and trout permit to fish on Saturday, March 23 on stocked trout waters within the 2019 FISH-FOR-FREE DAYS! Fish-For-Free Days 18 southeastern regional counties for regional Sunday, May 26 trout season and to fish stocked trout waters in Independence Day, Thursday, July 4 the other counties on Saturday, April 6. Youth anglers must obtain a Mentored Youth Fishing No fishing license is needed to fish on either of these Permit or Voluntary Youth Fishing License from days. It’s a great way to introduce someone to the world of fishing. Check the Commission’s website for the Commission. For more information, visit: May 26 & July 4, 2019 www.fishandboat.com/mentoredyouth.htm events. Remember that all other regulations apply.

MORE DETAILS HOW TO MEASURE A FISH INTERACTIVE MAPS MORE INFORMATION The Fish & Boat Tail slightly compressed Commission Tail in natural position maintains up-to-date ONLINE! online maps at Close mouth www.fishandboat.com to measure Family Fishing Programs are educational programs designed for families with little or no fishing experience. Families will learn basic fishing skills and have an opportunity to practice those skills while fishing together during the program. In addition to family fishing, there are specialized programs Fork length: Not used in Pennsylvania. for family ice fishing, family fly-fishing and a SMART angler program for youth between Total length: This is the measurement Commission biologists and law the ages of 8 and 12. For a current listing of enforcement personnel use. Compress tail slightly to obtain this measurement. scheduled programs, visit: www.GoneFishingPa.com This booklet is a summary of the laws and regulations applicable to fish and fishing in Penn- sylvania in effect or proposed as of October 1, 2018. It is not, nor is it intended to portray, a verbatim reproduction of the text of the laws and regulations. Users are advised that regulations summarized in this book are subject to changes, which, as made, are printed in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Official text is found in 58 Pa. Code and online at: www.pacode.com. For detailed and up-to-date information, contact the nearest office of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission. This publication is partially paid for through the sale of advertising. The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission neither endorses products or services listed nor accepts any liability arising from the use of listed products or services.

Federal and state laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex or dis- ability. The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is an equal opportunity employer, and it complies with applicable federal and Pennsylvania nondiscrimination laws and regulations. In addition, the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission receives federal aid in sport fish restoration and boating enhancement. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin or disability in federally assisted programs. If you believe that you have been discriminated against in any program, activity or facility as described above, or if you desire further information, contact the Human Resources Office, PA Fish & Boat Commission, P.O. Box 67000, Harrisburg, PA 17106-7000, or the U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20420.

34 www.fishandboat.com 2019 Pennsylvania Fishing Summary ALWAYS WEAR YOUR LIFE JACKET WHILE BOATING. Some 80% of boating For trout stocking information, visit: fatalities happen to www.fishandboat.com/stocking boaters who are not PENNSYLVANIA! wearing a life jacket. www.WearItPennsylvania.com

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Purchase your fishing license online at: www.GoneFishingPa.com 2019 VOLUNTARY PERMITS

Voluntary Permits are designed to help maintain funding levels for several key fishing-related programs. Revenues generated from the sale of these permits will be reinvested into the Habitat/ Waterways Conservation, Musky, Wild Trout & Enhanced Waters or Bass programs (see page 5). The Wild Trout & Enhanced Waters Permit does not meet the requirement to fish for trout or salmon in Pennsylvania waters.

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