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2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws PERMITS, MULTI-YEAR LICENSES, BUTTONS

2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws PERMITS, MULTI-YEAR LICENSES, BUTTONS

2018PENNSYLVANIA FISHING SUMMARY Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws

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WHAT’s New FOR 2018

l Addition to Panfish Enhancement Waters–page 15 l Changes to Misc. Regulations–page 16 l Changes to Stocked Waters–pages 22-29 www.PaBestFishing.com Multi-Year Fishing Licenses–page 5

18 Southeastern Regular Opening Day 2 TROUT OPENERS Counties March 31 AND April 14 for Trout Statewide www.GoneFishingPa.com Use the following contacts for answers to your questions or better yet, go onlinePFBC to the LOCATION PFBC S/TABLE OF CONTENTS website (www.fishandboat.com) for a wealth of information about fishing and boating. THANK YOU FOR MORE INFORMATION: for the purchase STATE HEADQUARTERS Centre Region Office FISHING LICENSES: 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: license! Phone: (866) 262-8734 Phone: (717) 705-7800 Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The mission of the Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday PUBLICATIONS: and Boat Commission is to Monday through Friday BOATING SAFETY Phone: (717) 705-7835 protect, conserve, and enhance the PFBC WEBSITE: Commonwealth’s aquatic resources EDUCATION COURSES FOLLOW US: 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 Education for information about fishing and boating programs and boating safety education. REGULATIONS BY LOCATION (all fish species) Northwest Region Southcentral Region Inland Waters...... 10 11528 SH 98, Meadville, PA 16335 1704 Pine Road, Newville, PA 17241 Pymatuning ...... 12 Law Enforcement: Education: Law Enforcement: Education: (814) 337-0444 (814) 336-2426 (717) 486-7087 (717) 486-7352 Conowingo Reservoir...... 12 Fax (814) 337-0579 Fax (814) 337-0579 Fax (717) 486-8227 Fax (717) 486-8227 and estuary...... 13 Counties: Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Counties: Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cumberland, Erie and .. 14 , Lawrence, Mercer, Venango, Warren Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Catch and Release ...... 15 Juniata, Lebanon, Mifflin, Perry, York SOUTHWEST REGION Miscellaneous Waters...... 16 236 Lake Road, Somerset, PA 15501 NORTHEAST REGION Law Enforcement: Education: 5566 Main Road, Sweet , PA 18656 REGULATIONS BY SPECIES (814) 445-8974 (814) 443-9841 Law Enforcement: Education: Big Bass Program...... 11 Fax (814) 445-3497 Fax (814) 445-3497 (570) 477-5717 (570) 477-2206 Catch and Release Bass...... 11 Counties: Allegheny, Armstrong, , 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 & Amphibians...... 17 Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming NORTHCENTRAL REGION 595 East Rolling Ridge Drive SOUTHEAST REGION TROUT FISHING REGULATIONS Bellefonte, PA 16823 P.O. Box 9, Elm, PA 17521 Trout Fishing Regulations...... 20 Law Enforcement: Education: Law Enforcement: Education: Southeast Region...... 22 (814) 359-5250 (814) 359-5193 (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 Counties: Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Counties: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Southwest Region...... 24 Clinton, Elk, Jefferson, Lycoming, McKean, Lancaster, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Northwest Region...... 25 Montour, Northumberland, Potter, Snyder, , Schuylkill Northcentral Region...... 26 Tioga, Union Office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday Northeast Region...... 28 REQUIREMENTS & LAW STATE FISH HATCHERIES Fishing Licenses...... 4 BELLEFONTE* BENNER SPRING OSWAYO* REYNOLDSDALE* Permits...... 5 1115 Spring Creek Road RESEARCH STATION 96 State Route 244 East 162 Fish Hatchery Road General Fishing Regulations...... 8 Bellefonte, PA 16823 1225 Shiloh Road Coudersport, PA 16915 New Paris, PA 15554 Tackle, Equipment and Bait...... 8 (814) 355-3371 State College, PA 16801 (814) 698-2102 (814) 839-2211 Unlawful Acts...... 9 CORRY* (814) 355-4837 PLEASANT TIONESTA* 13365 Route 6 HUNTSDALE* 450 Robinson Lane 172 Fish Hatchery Lane ADA ACCOMMODATIONS...... 9 Corry, PA 16407 195 Lebo Road Pleasant Gap, PA 16823 Tionesta, PA 16353 BOUNDARY WATERS...... 12 (814) 664-2122 Carlisle, PA 17013 (814) 359-5121 (814) 755-3524 SALTWATER ANGLER REGISTRY...... 12 (717) 486-3419 FAIRVIEW PLEASANT MOUNT* TYLERSVILLE ENDANGERED/THREATENED SPECIES.... 17 2000 Lohrer Road LINESVILLE* P.O. Box 3 43 Hatchery Lane Fairview, PA 16415 13300 Hartstown Road Pleasant Mount, PA Loganton, PA 17747 AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES...... 18 (814) 474-1514 Linesville, PA 16424 18453 (570) 725-3965 Boating, BUI and Life Jackets...... 19 (814) 683-4451 (570) 448-2101 UNION CITY Fish Consumption Advisory...... 30 * Includes visitor center. Visitors are welcome 9450 Route 6 Reporting ...... 33 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. Union City, PA 16438 Groups should make advance arrangements. (814) 438-2222 © 2018 Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission

TO2018 FIND Pennsylvania THE STOCKING Summary DAY OFof Fishing TROUT Regulations STREAMS AND and LawsLAKES N E AR YOU, VI S IT www.fishandboat.com WWW.FISHANDBOAT.COM. 3 Licenses, Pricing, Proof of residency Reduced Disabled Veterans Licenses – Any dis- FISHING LICENSES abled veteran who has a disability incurred in any war Fishing licenses are sold by license issuing agents through an electronic point-of-sale (P.O.S.) or armed conflict who is between 60 and 99 percent system. This system brings increased efficiency, more options, and easier upgrades for anglers. disabled as certified by the Veterans Internet fishing licenses are sold online at: www.pa.wildlifelicense.com. Administration and is a resident of this Commonwealth A current license, signed in ink, is required of persons age 16 and over to fish or angle for any spe- may obtain a reduced fee resident fishing license upon cies of fish and to take fishbait, baitfish and species of amphibians and reptiles from Commonwealth application to the Fish & Boat Commission or waters by those legal methods described in this booklet. treasurer. FISHING is defined as the act of angling, or to catch, take, kill or remove, or the attempt to catch, Military personnel are required to purchase a fish- take, kill or remove, from any waters or other areas within or bordering this Commonwealth any fish ing license. Those who are stationed in Pennsylvania by any means or method for any purpose whatsoever. CASTING and/or RETRIEVING, whether by under permanent change of station orders (PCS) for a rod, reel and line, or by handline, for oneself or for others, requires a current license, unless specifically duration of 6 months or more, who produce documenta- exempted by law. See “Assistance to Children” on page 8 for specifics on when a license is required tion proving same, qualify for a resident fishing license. when assisting a child (12 years of age and under). All others must obtain a tourist or non-resident license. Certain active duty military personnel are exempt from Pennsylvania’s fishing license requirement. To be eligible 2018 FISHING LICENSES for the military waiver, an angler must be a bona fide LICENSE YEAR Code Type of Fishing License or Permit Age Cost* Pennsylvania resident, be on active duty, be stationed Annual licenses are valid 101 Resident (Annual) 16-64 $22.90 outside Pennsylvania and be here on authorized leave. from December 1, 2017, 104 Senior Resident (Annual) 65 & up $11.90 While in the act of fishing, the military personnel must through December 31, 105 Senior Resident (Lifetime) 65 & up $51.90 carry proof of each of these requirements, such as a 2018. WHILE FISHING, 108 1-Day Resident (not valid March 15–April 30) 16 & up $11.90 your license must be 102 Non-Resident (Annual) 16 & up $52.90 PA driver’s license, a military ID and valid military orders signed in ink and must 106 1-Day Tourist **(not valid March 15–April 30) 16 & up $26.90 showing the place of assignment and leave status. be displayed on an outer 103 3-Day Tourist 16 & up $26.90 garment. In addition, Under the law, a qualifying soldier, sailor, airman or anglers must be prepared 107 7-Day Tourist 16 & up $34.90 Marine does not receive a free Pennsylvania fishing to furnish positive proof 110 Voluntary Youth Fishing License (Annual) Less than 16 $2.90 license. Instead, eligible active duty military person- of identification. 109 Mentored Youth Permit Less than 16 $0.00 nel can legally fish without a license under the limited * Includes issuing agent fee 150 Trout-Salmon Permit 16 & up $9.90 of $1.00 and $0.90 electronic 140 1-Year Trout/Salmon Permit *** 16 & up $9.90 circumstances outlined in the law. The Pennsylvania processing fee. Excludes the 109 143 3-Year Senior Lifetime Trout-Salmon Permit 65 & up $25.90 Mentored Youth Permit. Fish & Boat Commission recommends that anyone **Includes Trout-Salmon and 144 5-Year Senior Lifetime Trout-Salmon Permit 65 & up $41.90 taking advantage of this provision display a military ID Lake Erie permits, not valid 145 10-Year Senior Lifetime Trout-Salmon Permit 65 & up $81.90 March 15–April 30. while in the act of fishing in much the same way as one *** Applies to Senior Lifetime 151 Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $9.90 purchased on or after 1/1/2015 152 Combination Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $15.90 would display a conventional fishing license. or may also be purchased as a The law does not exempt military personnel on leave trout program donation. 136 Alternate Display Annual Fishing License Button Any Age $5.00 from any other requirements of fishing or boating laws OBTAIN YOUR LICENSE: person was deployed overseas as a member of the and regulations. a) at more than 900 license-issuing agents reserve component of the armed forces for a period Students from out of state who are attending b) at county treasurers offices of 60 consecutive days or more or was released early school in Pennsylvania but who have not become c) at Fish & Boat Commission offices from service because of an injury or disease incurred residents of Pennsylvania are not eligible to purchase d) on the Internet at www.pa.wildlifelicense.com. in the line of duty. a resident fishing license and must obtain a tourist or A lost fishing license or replacements – All Prisoner of War (POW) licenses are available to non-resident license. replacement licenses include permits or privileges persons who provide military documentation stating Social Security Number Requirements – Since previously purchased by the customer. The total cost the person is a former prisoner of war. 1998, federal and state laws require purchasers for a replacement license and previously purchased Senior resident and senior lifetime licenses are of a Pennsylvania fishing license to provide their permits or privileges that were printed on the base available to those persons at anytime during the year social security number when applying to purchase license is $6.90. Replacement cost for 1-year permits in which they will become age 65. a fishing license. or multi-year Senior trout/salmon permits is $6.90 • Persons who possess a RESIDENT SENIOR LIFE- Vouchers - A voucher may be purchased as a You qualify for a RESIDENT fishing license if you TIME license dated before Jan. 1, 1991, are not gift for another individual that can be redeemed for are a bona fide resident of Pennsylvania. When required to purchase a trout/salmon permit. However, a a license and/or stamp or privilege. A voucher may purchasing a resident fishing license, you must show Senior Resident Lifetime license holder who purchased be redeemed at any issuing agent. The voucher is positive proof of permanent residency by presenting a trout/salmon permit or a Combination trout/Lake Erie non-refundable and expires as noted. A voucher is one of the following documents: permit before Jan. 1, 2015, remains exempt from the not a fishing license and individuals using a voucher a) valid PA driver’s license requirement to purchase a trout/salmon permit annually. to fish are in violation of the Fish and Boat Code b) a valid non-driver photo identification card RESIDENT SENIOR LIFETIME license holders who and may be subject to legal action. Individuals wish- c) a previous year’s PA state income tax return purchase their license as of Jan. 1, 2015, are required ing to purchase vouchers for Christmas presents showing proof of payment of personal income tax as to purchase a trout/salmon permit each year that the need to wait until December 1 of that year before a resident of PA license holder desires to fish for trout. License holders can purchasing a voucher. d) a previous year’s local earned income tax return purchase the trout/salmon permit annually or purchase One-Day Tourist and One Day Resident License showing tax paid to a PA municipality the permit for a 3-,5-,10-year period.License holders - One-Day Tourist and One-Day Resident Licenses e) a current PA voter registration card. are required to purchase only one Lake Erie permit for are not valid for fishing during the period from March All issued resident fishing licenses will remain a lifetime. In the event the license holder is no longer a 15th to April 30th of any year. One-Day Tourist or valid for the year or years for which they are is- Pennsylvania resident, the license continues to be valid. One-Day Resident licenses issued to be used on sued, regardless of whether the license holder Disabled Veterans Licenses – Any disabled veteran March 14 will expire at 11:59 p.m. on March 14 is no longer a bona fide Pennsylvania resident. who has a disability incurred in any war or armed conflict regardless of what time the license begins. National Guard & Armed Forces Reserve licenses that consists of the loss of one or more limbs or the loss and Prisoner of War (POW) licenses are available of use of one or more limbs, or total blindness, or who SENIOR RESIDENT LIFETIME LICENSE UPGRADE only at Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission and is 100 percent disabled as certified by the United States A durable plastic card version of the Senior Resi- county treasurer offices. Veterans Administration and is a resident of this Com- dent Lifetime license is available. This upgrade is National Guard & Armed Forces Reserve li- monwealth may obtain a free resident fishing license available for $11.90. Upgrades can also be purchased censes are available to those persons who provide upon application to the Commission or county treasurer. through issuing agents. documentation that within the previous 24 months the

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TROUT/SALMON PERMIT EXEMPTIONS: The following persons • Disabled persons and other individuals who are PERMIT are NOT required to possess a trout/salmon permit exempt from fishing license requirements, or who or Lake Erie permit: are authorized to fish using an institutional license. A current Pennsylvania trout/salmon permit is • Persons under 16 years of age. • Persons who possess a 1-day tourist license. required to fish for trout or salmon in Pennsylvania waters. Permits are printed on the license. An angler “ for trout or salmon” when he or she: 2018 MULTI-YEAR FISHING LICENSES • Takes, kills or possesses, while in the act of fishing, WHILE FISHING, your Code Type of Fishing License or Permit Age Cost* a trout or salmon from any PA or boundary waters. license must be signed in 140 1-Year Trout/Salmon Permit ** 16 & up $9.90 • Fishes in waters under special trout/salmon ink and must be displayed 141 1-Year Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $9.90 regulations. on an outer garment. In 142 1-Year Combo Trout/Salmon Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $15.90 • Fishes in any Class A Wild Trout Waters or addition, anglers must be 030 3-Year Resident 16-64 $64.90 prepared to furnish positive 031 3-Year Non-Resident 16 & up $154.90 Wilderness Trout Streams or their . proof of identification. 032 3-Year Senior Resident 65 & up $31.90 • Fishes in streams and rivers designated as stocked 033 3-Year Trout-Salmon Permit 16 & up $25.90 trout waters on March 1 through May 31. 034 3-Year Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $25.90 3-YEAR, 5-YEAR, 035 3-Year Combo Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $43.90 Lake Erie Permit AND 10-YEAR 050 5-Year Resident 16-64 $106.90 FISHING LICENSES 051 5-Year Non-Resident 16 & up $256.90 All anglers fishing in the waters of Lake Erie, 052 5-Year Senior Resident 65 & up $51.90 ARE AVAILABLE. 053 5-Year Trout-Salmon Permit 16 & up $41.90 Presque Isle Bay and their tributaries, includ- 054 5-Year Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $41.90 ing waters that flow into those tributaries are * Includes issuing agent fee 055 5-Year Combo Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $71.90 of $1.00 and $0.90 electronic 060 10-Year Resident 16 & up $211.90 required to possess a valid Lake Erie permit processing fee. or Combination trout/salmon/Lake Erie permit. ** May also be purchased as 061 10-Year Non-Resident 16 & up $511.90 a trout program donation. 063 10-Year Trout-Salmon Permit 16 & up $81.90 See page 14 for a list of main tributaries that 064 10-Year Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $81.90 require a permit. 065 10-Year Combo Trout-Salmon/Lake Erie Permit 16 & up $141.90

COMBINATION TROUT/ MULTI-YEAR FISHING LICENSES: A 3-year fishing license is valid through 2020, a 5-year license is SALMON/Lake Erie Permit valid through 2022, and a 10-year fishing license is valid through 2027. Customers who buy multi-year In many cases an angler may need both a trout/ licenses save money by not having to pay transaction and processing fees each year. Anglers can also salmon permit and a Lake Erie permit to fish in purchase multi-year trout/salmon, Lake Erie and combo permits and experience similar savings or purchase waters in the Erie area. Rather than purchasing single year trout/salmon, Lake Erie and combo permits. To order and for more information on multi-year these individually, a Combination Trout/Salmon/ licenses and permits, including receiving a free subscription to the digital version of Pennsylvania Angler Lake Erie permit may be purchased. & Boater magazine: www.GoneFishingPa.com. MULTI-YEAR LICENSE UPGRADE CARDS: Anglers can purchase a durable plastic card version of CHARTER BOAT/FISHING the multi-year license. This upgrade is available for $11.90. Upgrades can also be purchased through GUIDE PERMITS either the PFBC Outdoor Shop (www.pa.wildlifelicense.com) or from a license issuing agent. Charter boat operators and fishing guides are voluntary youth fishing license required to obtain a permit when conducting busi- To participate in a Mentored Youth Fishing Day, anglers 16 years of age or older (adult anglers) must ness on the waters of the Commonwealth includ- possess a valid Pennsylvania fishing license be accompanied by a youth (less than 16 years of age) ing the boundary waters. The annual fee for the who has obtained a Mentored Youth Fishing Permit OR a Voluntary Youth Fishing License. In addition permit is $100.00 for residents and $400.00 for to a valid fishing license, the adult angler (mentor) must posses a valid trout permit when the Mentored non-residents. Permit applications are available Youth Fishing Day relates to trout. While mentors will be permitted to fish for trout, they are not permit- from the Harrisburg office, regional headquarters, ted to harvest trout and must release them unharmed. Youth may harvest up to two trout (combined or the PFBC website: www.fishandboat.com/ species) with a minimum size of 7 inches. All other Commonwealth Inland Water Regulations apply. chboat_app.pdf. For additional information about • The Mentored Youth Fishing Permit is free, and the Voluntary Youth Fishing License is $2.90 ($1.00 Charter Boat/Fishing Guide permits, contact the Bureau of Law Enforcement at 717-705-7861. cost plus $1.90 in agent/transaction fee). • While both the permit and the Voluntary Youth Fishing License provide the opportunity for youth to fish ANGLERS: on Mentored Youth Fishing Days, the Voluntary Youth Fishing License provides an extended return for To find a charter boat operator or fish- both Pennsylvania’s youth and the Commission. For each license purchased for $2.90, the Commission ing guide for a fish species or location you receives $5 back in funding as a federal reimbursement. The same applies for each Voluntary Youth wish to fish, go to the Commission’s website: Fishing License Voucher, once it is redeemed. The Commission receives no federal reimbursement for www.fishandboat.com/chboat.htm. Mentored Youth Fishing Permits. VINTAGE FISHING • The funds received from the sales of the license reimbursement are then dedicated toward investment LICENSE BUTTONS in youth outreach and education programs. • While both the permit and the license provide the opportunity to participate in Mentored Youth Fishing Previously issued annual fishing license buttons are Days, the Commission encourages anglers to purchase either a Voluntary Youth Fishing License or a available through a separate online store, beginning Voluntary Youth Fishing License Voucher—for the future of fishing! with the first button issued in 2014 of this series. To purchase these vintage fishing license buttons, visit Alternate Display Annual Fishing License Button www.PaVintageFishingButtons.com. The annual buttons are available to all current, adult and youth Pennsylvania fishing license customers Purchase fishing licenses, trout stamps, who possess a valid Pennsylvania fishing license that enables them to fish for the entire year. Lifetime subscriptions, launch permits and more! Senior License and Multi-Year License holders can also purchase the buttons. For all eligible customers, the buttons are NOT required by law, and they are an optional purchase. The fee is $5.00 per button. www.GoneFishingPa.com Use of a valid Alternate Display Annual Fishing License Button meets the fishing license display requirement as long as the angler has a license certificate in their possession.

2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws www.fishandboat.com 5 GENERAL REGULATIONS, TACKLE AND BAIT

GENERAL FISHING REGULATIONS BAIT NURSERY WATERS are closed to fishing at all times. BAITFISH includes all forms of ; REFUGE AREAS on streams are CLOSED TO ALL ENTRY AND FISHING during the period March suckers, chubs, Fallfish, lampreys; Gizzard 1 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 koi and Common Carp as baitfish while fishing. boat/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 For all crayfish species, the head must be at an officially recognized fish cleaning station. immediately removed behind the eyes upon TAGGED FISH – The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission and agencies in adjacent states apply tags capture unless used as bait in the water from to fish for special research purposes. If an angler catches a tagged fish and wishes to keep the fish, the tag 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 size. sometimes the Fish & Boat Commission uses two-part tags and parts of or all of the tags should be removed The daily limit and possession limit is 50 com- in some cases with scissors or a knife. This type of tag typically resembles rubber spaghetti and information bined species. When purchasing bait, be sure such as tag numbers and toll-free phone numbers can be easily read. Tagged fish that are not kept should to obtain and keep the sales slip or receipt. be returned to the water immediately after removing the tag or recording the information from the tag. In no The receipt authorizes the possession of the 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 trout RODS, LINES AND HOOKS. An angler may use a maximum of three lines fished either by rod or hand when season. Most specially regulated trout waters are fishing for gamefish, baitfish or both. An exception to this rule exists for those fishing through ice in winter (see Ice closed to taking fishbait and baitfish at all times. Fishing Equipment below). On open water (not covered by ice), it is unlawful for a person to fish with more than TAKING AND KEEPING BAIT is permitted three fishing rods at a time. There is no restriction on the number of hooks used on each fishing line. All rods, lines using rod and reel or handline, dip net or and hooks shall be under the immediate control of the person using them. seine not over 4 feet square or in diameter, or SNAGGING HOOKS may not be used or possessed while in the act of fishing. A snagging hook is a device a minnow trap with no more than two openings designed or modified to facilitate the snagging of fish and may be a hook with a single barb, weighted on a shank that shall not exceed 1 inch in diameter. All below the eye and above the barbs; or a hook otherwise designed or modified to make the snagging of fish more devices must be under the immediate control likely than it would be with a normal hook. of the person using them. Unattended minnow ICE FISHING EQUIPMENT. It is unlawful while ice fishing to use more than five fishing devices, which may consist traps or baitfish containers left in Commonwealth of rods, hand lines, tip-ups or any combination. Each device shall contain a single fishing line with no restriction waters must be identified with the owner’s or on the number of hooks used for fishing, except when fishing in the Pymatuning Reservoir where no more than user’s name, address and telephone number. If three hooks shall be attached to each line. Holes cut in ice may not exceed 10 inches between the farthest points fishing in a group and the total number of fishbait as measured in any direction. All lines, rods or tip-ups shall be under the immediate control of the person using or baitfish taken exceeds the possession limit them. On Fish & Boat Commission lakes, shelters or shanties must be removed when through fishing for the day. (50), separate containers must be provided for GAFF OR LANDING NET. A gaff or landing net is permitted to assist in landing fish caught using a lawful device. the fishbait and baitfish. Total possession limit in Nets of all types can be no larger (excluding the handle) than 4 feet square or 4 feet in diameter. It is unlawful to any one container may not exceed 50 baitfish use any type of net or seine to catch or take gamefish. SPEARS OR GIGS. Spears or gigs may be used to take ONLY carp, suckers and catfish. Spears or gigs may not or fishbait combined. be mechanically propelled, may not have more than five barbed points and may not be used in stocked trout waters. MUDBUGS (dragonfly nymphs): No daily BOW AND ARROW (including compound bows and crossbows) may be used for taking ONLY carp, suckers limit from lakes, ponds, or adjacent ar- and catfish on all Commonwealth waters, day or night, except in stocked trout waters during the closed season eas; the daily limit from rivers and streams is 50. and in special regulation waters. AS BAIT: Except for those listed as endangered or threatened or those with zero ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN possession limit, frogs may be used as bait. An adult who assists a child (12 years of age and under) by Certain seasons and possession limits apply. casting or retrieving a fishing line or fishing rod is not required Releasing fish from another state, province to possess a valid fishing license provided that the child re- or country into Commonwealth waters is illegal mains within arms’ reach of the assisting adult and is actively without written permission from the Commis- involved in the fishing activity. An adult may assist a child by sion. Transferring fish from one Pennsylvania baiting hooks, removing fish from the line, netting fish, preparing watershed to another where that species is not the fishing rod for use and untangling the line without possessing a valid fishing license. An adult is always present is also illegal without written required to possess a fishing license if they intend to set the hook for the child. An adult may not fish or consent from the Commission. set the hook for their child in a designated Children/Special Population Area.

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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, holders of Lake Erie commercial fishing licenses if www.fishandboat.com and may be Carp, Zebra Mussel, Quagga Mussel, European the particular species of fish is authorized for tak- obtained as a computer file (alternative Rudd, Ruffe, Rusty Crayfish, Round Goby and ing by commercial licensees, or (2) those obtained accessible format). Persons using a TTY Tubenose Goby. from fish taken lawfully from waters outside of this should dial Pennsylvania Relay telephone • To fish with more than three fishing lines at any Commonwealth. number 711 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 Fish & Boat Commission, of a leg or both legs or who are disabled from March 1 to 8:00 a.m. on the opening day of in Commonwealth waters without written permission in a manner that significantly limits their trout season in any stocked trout water. Excepted from the executive director of the Pennsylvania Fish are certain specially regulated waters and Stocked & Boat Commission. mobility may apply for a permit to use an Trout Waters Open to Year-round Fishing. • To place an obstruction in any waterway that off-road motorized vehicle to access fishing • To take or attempt to take fish, or keep fish ac- blocks the free movement of fish. and boating opportunities on Fish & Boat cidentally caught, by snatch-fishing, foul hooking or • To use or have in possession while on or along Commission property. Permit applications snag fishing. Handfishing is not permitted. Commonwealth waters, nets larger than 4 feet square may be requested in writing from the PA • To catch, kill or possess more than one day’s or in diameter except with a special permit issued Fish & Boat Commission, Bureau of Law limit of any fish, except: (a) at your residence and by the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission. Enforcement, P.O. Box 67000, Harrisburg, (b) you may possess two days’ limit while traveling • To conduct an organized fishing tournament 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 re- in possession, while in or along waters of the Com- proposed tournament. Fishing tournaments may gional 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 • To fail to immediately return unharmed to the exemption is granted, fishing tournaments may not be waters from which it was taken, any fish caught conducted on the opening day of the season for any ACCOMMODATIONS out of season, or undersize, or over the daily creel species of fish. Contact the nearest regional for Persons with limit. Any fish placed on a stringer, in any container headquarters (page 3) for further information and Disabilities or given away, counts toward the possession limit of permit applications. Applications are also available the person having caught it, and the person to whom online: www.fishandboat.com. The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission it was given. • To conduct an organized fishing tournament and facilities listed here have fishing piers or • To kill any fish and fail to make a reasonable fail to submit an accurate fishing tournament catch other accommodations to provide angling effort to lawfully dispose of it. report when required. opportunities for persons with disabilities. All • To fish in, or within 100 feet of, the entrance or • To conduct a tagged fishing tournament in areas may not be suitable for all disabilities. exit points of any fishway, including fish ladders and boundary waters without a permit issued by the other fish passage facilities. Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission. County Facilities • To use gamefish as bait except when taken by rod • To throw, leave, discard or deposit litter, debris or Bedford Lake Koon and reel or handline in conformance with seasons, trash of any kind in or along waters or lands adjacent Butler Lake sizes and creel limits or when purchased from an to or contiguous to waters of the Commonwealth. Carbon Mauch Chunk Lake authorized bait dealer. • To obstruct the ingress, egress or regress to a Centre Spring Creek (fly-fishing pier) • To sell baitfish or fishbait taken from waters of the person’s property, cattleways or fields. Columbia Briar Creek Lake Commonwealth, except that licensed and authorized • To dig in or drive upon any lands. Erie North East Marina commercial fishermen may take and sell baitfish from • To cut or damage or . (shoreline fishing) Lake Erie and Presque Isle Bay. • To build or tend open fires without permission. Erie Walnut Creek • To sell baitfish or fishbait within the Common- • To run any vehicle, except fording in the most (shoreline fishing) wealth, or transport same out of the state, except by direct manner, in any . Fayette Dunlap Creek Lake authorized and licensed commercial bait dealers. • To interfere with officers authorized to enforce Fayette • To sell any species of fish, reptile (with the excep- the Fish and Boat Code in the performance of their Lake Outflow tion of Snapping ) or amphibian taken from duties or to refuse to accompany any officer after Jefferson Cloe Lake the Commonwealth. having been arrested for a violation of the Fish and Lackawanna Fords 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 Washington Canonsburg Lake violate fishing laws or regulations. The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission may, upon proper notice, Washington Cross Creek Lake suspend or revoke the fishing privileges, boating privileges or other permits of any person convicted (or Wayne Lake Wallenpaupack acknowledging guilt) of a violation of the Fish and Boat Code or 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

2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws www.fishandboat.com 9 ALL FISH SPECIES–INLAND WATERS COMMONWEALTH INLAND WATERS-2018 (includes the 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 31 at 7 inches 5-streams, lakes and ponds 8 a.m. through Sept. 3 (only 18 southeastern PA counties) (combined species)

Regular Season - April 14 at 8 a.m. through Sept. 3 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. 4 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. 4 through Dec. 31 Class A stream listing: http://www.fishandboat.com/classa.pdf Bass-Lakes Jan. 1 through April 13 and Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 15 inches 4 (combined species) Largemouth, Smallmouth and Spotted April 14 through June 15 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 16 through Oct. 31 12 inches 6 (combined species) Bass-Rivers and Streams Jan. 1 through April 13 and Oct. 1 through Dec. 31 15 inches 4 (combined species) Largemouth, Smallmouth and Spotted April 14 through June 15 NO HARVEST - Catch and immediate release only (no tournaments permitted) Additional regulations may apply- see page 11 June 16 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 5 through Dec. 31 15 inches 6 Sauger Jan. 1 through March 14 and May 5 through Dec. 31 12 inches 6 American Shad*** Open year-round No minimum 3 American Shad Open year-round - , **** and tributaries NO HARVEST - Catch and immediate release only American Shad CLOSED YEAR-ROUND River Herring*** 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, , 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 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. NOTE: For bass regulations, power dam pools and recreational dam Day of Trout Season Program (see pages 22, 23, 26 and 28). ***** BAITFISH includes all forms of minnows; suckers, chubs, pools on the Susquehanna River and navigational dam pools on the Fallfish, lampreys; Gizzard Shad 8 inches or less; and all forms of ** Except those species in waters listed in the Brood Stock Lakes 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 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 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 2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws LARGEMOUTH, SMALLMOUTH, SPOTTED BASS

Largemouth Bass Spotted Bass LAKES BIG BASS PROGRAM Season Minimum Size Daily Limit Special Regulations Jan. 1 through 15 inches 4 (combined species) April 13 and These special regulations apply to Largemouth, Smallmouth June 16 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 14 through NO HARVEST- Catch and immediate release from March 1 until the opening day of the trout season. This June 15 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 Perry Little Buffalo Lake Lakes Closed to fishing from March 1 Chester Chambers Lake (Holman Lake) until 8 a.m. on opening day of trout. Chester Creek Lake Somerset Lake Somerset (lake drained) Allegheny Marshall Lake (State Park) Somerset Quemahoning Reservoir Allegheny North Park Lake Clarion/Venango Kahle Lake Venango Two Mile Run Reservoir Armstrong Keystone Lake Crawford Sugar Lake (Justus Lake) Beaver Bradys Run Lake Fayette Indian Creek Reservoir Washington Cross Creek Lake Berks Blue Marsh Lake (Mill Run Reservoir) Washington Peters Twp. Lake (Res. #2) Berks Carsonia Lake Fayette Bridgeport Reservoir Wayne Lower Woods Pond (partial drawdown) Berks Hopewell Lake Indiana Yellow Creek Lake Westmoreland Bridgeport Reservoir Berks Kaercher Creek Dam (State Park) Westmoreland Indian Lake Bedford Lake (State Park) Jefferson Kyle Lake (lake drained) Westmoreland Keystone Lake (State Park) Blair Creek Lake (State Park) Lackawanna Lackawanna Lake Westmoreland Twin Lakes Number One to include two small ponds (State Park) Reservoir (lower) and raceway adjacent to Luzerne Frances Slocum Lake Westmoreland Mammoth Dam Canoe Lake (State Park) Westmoreland Northmoreland Lake Bucks Lake Towhee Luzerne Harris Pond Westmoreland Twin Lake Number Two Bucks Nockamixon Lake (State Park) Luzerne Lily Lake Reservoir (upper) Butler Lake Arthur Lycoming Rose Valley Lake Wyoming Stevens Lake () Mercer Shenango River Lake York Lake Marburg Cambria Beaverdam Run Reservoir Monroe Bradys Lake () Cambria Duman Dam Monroe/Wayne Gouldsboro Lake York Lake Redman Cambria Hinckston Run Reservoir Montour Lake Chillisquaque York Lake Williams Cambria Wilmore Dam Northampton Minsi Lake (lake drained) York Pinchot Lake (State Park)

See catch-and-release SMALLMOUTH AND –CATCH AND RELEASE guidelines on page 15. Counties Waters Season/Special Regulations STAY UP- Cumberland, Susquehanna River (98.0 miles) From 12:01 a.m. on May 1 through June 15: TO-DATE! Dauphin, Juniata, from the in atable dam near Sunbury CLOSED SEASON, NO TOURNAMENTS. During the Lancaster, downstream to Holtwood Dam, closed season, it is unlawful to target or attempt to The Commission has Northumberland, including all tributaries to a point catch a bass. A bass that is accidentally caught during established a centralized Perry, Snyder, York 1/2 mile upstream from the con uence. the closed season must be immediately released web resource that houses unharmed without being removed from the water. It is news, stories, editorials, Dauphin, (31.7 miles) from SR0075 unlawful to possess bass in, on or along these waters. letters and other resources about the impairment of the Juniata, Perry bridge at Port Royal downstream to the Remainder of the year: NO HARVEST FOR MORE BOATING INFORMATION: Susquehanna River. Visit, mouth, including all tributaries to a point CATCH AND IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONLY; catch- www.fishandboat.com/ 1/2 mile upstream from the con uence. measure-immediate release tournaments only. susq-impairment.htm

2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws www.fishandboat.com 11 PYMATUNING & CONOWINGO RESERVOIRS

PYMATUNING RESERVOIR FISHING PRIVILEGES Species Seasons Minimum Size Daily Limit IN BOUNDARY WATERS The following fishing license agreements apply to Walleye and Saugeye (Hybrids) Open year-round 15 inches 6 (combined species) boundary waters. You must abide by all other rules Bass: Largemouth, Smallmouth Open year-round 12 inches 5 and regulations of the state in which fishing and where Muskellunge and Open year-round 30 inches 2 (combined species) you launch or retrieve your boat. Tiger Muskellunge (Hybrids) A PENNSYLVANIA or LICENSE is Crappie** Open year-round 9 inches 20 valid on the Conowingo Reservoir or Youghiogheny All Other Species Open year-round No minimum None River Lake when fishing from a boat (excluding coves Baitfish/Fishbait* Open year-round No minimum None See page 8 for definitions and tributaries). DOES NOT INCLUDE SHORE Frogs and Tadpoles July 1 through Oct. 31 No minimum 15 FISHING. Snapping Turtles July 1 through Oct. 31 No minimum 15 daily limit A PENNSYLVANIA or LICENSE is 30 possession limit valid on the Delaware River (including West Branch) 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 CLOSED YEAR-ROUND and Pennsylvania when FISHING FROM A BOAT species 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. Each device shall contain a single fishing line with no more on page 13 as being part of the Delaware Estuary. FOR PYMATUNING RESERVOIR than three hooks attached to each line. Holes cut in ice A PENNSYLVANIA or OHIO LICENSE is valid on • Lights or firearms may not be used to take frogs. may not exceed 10 inches between the farthest points as the Pymatuning Reservoir when fishing from a boat. • Hooks used to take turtles shall be at least 3.5 inches long measured in any direction. All lines, rods or tip-ups shall DOES NOT INCLUDE SHORE FISHING. 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 NOTE: See this page for reciprocal fishing privileges Kinzua Reservoir in McKean and Warren counties. ONLY be used to take carp and suckers. between Pennsylvania and Ohio. • Minnow seines and dip nets are restricted to 4 feet in size; No agreement has been established with New York. mesh must measure not less than one-eighth inch, nor *For all crayfish species, the head must be immediately NO FISHING AGREEMENTS have been made on larger than one-half inch on a side. removed behind the eyes upon capture unless used as bait any other boundary waters. • 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 ** As per Panfish Enhancement Special Regulations--page 15 IA RY fishing to use more than five fishing devices, which may 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 DELAWARE RIVER N IO N S SY IS Species Seasons Minimum Size Daily Limit LV M AN OM AND ESTUARY IA FIS OAT C All Species of Open year-round No minimum 2 (combined species) H & B 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 Smallmouth through Dec. 31 register through the Fish and Boat Commission’s free Northern Pike Open year-round 30 inches 2 on-line system (PA-SARP); register, for a fee, with the Walleye Open year-round 15 inches 5 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 register if they meet one of the following exceptions: Striped Bass and Striped Open year-round 18 inches 2 (combined species) Bass/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, , 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 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 to register for free with the Fish and Boat Commission. Yellow Perch Open year-round No minimum No daily limit Visit www.pa-sarp.pa.gov for registration details. Baitfish/Fishbait*See page 8 Open year-round No minimum 35 Anglers may also register with the National Registry All Other Fish Species No minimum Open year-round No daily limit website at www.countmyfish.noaa.gov with NOAA American and Hickory Shad, by clicking on the Angler Registry link or call the River Herring (Alewife and toll-free registration line NATIONAL SALTWATER Blueback Herring) CLOSED YEAR-ROUND ANGLER REGISTRY: DELAWARE RIVER AND Bivalves/Shellfish includes all threatened and endangered species ESTUARY at 1-888-MRIP-411 (1-888-674-7411). (Mussels/Clams) Please note that registered anglers must still possess *For all crayfish species, the head must be immediately removed behind a valid state fishing license. the eyes upon capture unless used as bait in the water from which taken. 12 www.fishandboat.com 2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws DELAWARE RIVER FISHING

DELAWARE RIVER AND ESTUARY DELAWARE RIVER The folllowing 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 14 at 8 a.m. North of I-84: 1 (combined species) through Oct. 15 14 inches WATER AREA UPPER TIDAL LIMIT South of I-84: 5 (combined species) Chester Creek Kerlin Street 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 13 and 12 inches 5 (combined species) Largemouth June 16 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 14 through June 15 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 5 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 Hybrid Striped Bass upstream to Calhoun Street Bridge; or from which the egg pouch or bunion Jan. 1 through March 31 and 28 inches has been 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 Hickory Shad, POTS is unlawful, except by the owner, user Sturgeon and other CLOSED YEAR-ROUND threatened and or members of the immediate family, and of- endangered species ficers or representatives of the Pennsylvania Mussels/Clams CLOSED YEAR-ROUND Fish & Boat Commission. Other Species Inland seasons, size and creel limits apply except for waters under special regs. HORSESHOE CRABS are unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or purchase any horse- * 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 shoe crabs. It is unlawful to import into or (see page 16 for details). River and tributaries, West Branch Delaware River, Delaware transport in this Commonwealth horseshoe ** American Shad is catch and release in the Schuylkill River, Delaware estuary, and Delaware River tributaries crabs for the purpose of sale. River from I-95 upstream including all tributaries and three upstream to the limit of the tidal influence. (3) American Shad in all other Delaware River tributaries, *For all crayfish species, the head must be immediately including those above tide. removed behind the eyes upon capture unless used as bait * Measured *** River Herring (Alewife and Blueback Herring) has a closed in the water from which taken point to point See fish consumption advisory for Delaware River estuary Striped Bass over 28”–see page 31.

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

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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 that anglers not transport any live fish out of the Lake waters, all Lake Erie tributaries in their entirety which include Cascade Creek, Conneaut Creek, Erie Watershed and introduce those fish into other wa- Crooked Creek, East Branch Conneaut Creek, Eightmile Creek, Elk Creek, Fourmile Creek, Middle tersheds. For more information on invasive species, Branch Conneaut Creek, Marsh Run, Mill Creek, Mud Run, Creek, Sevenmile Creek, Sixmile please see “Aquatic Invasive Species” on page 18. Creek, Sixteenmile Creek, Stone Run, Temple Run, Turkey Creek, Twelvemile Creek, Twentymile Creek, For more information on VHS, please contact the Com- Walnut Creek, West Branch Conneaut Creek and all waters that flow into these tributaries. mission’s Northwest Regional 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 13 until 8 a.m. on April 14 (32 hours total). and May 1 through Dec. 31 *** Adaptive management for daily limits: After the Bass* Jan. 1 through April 13 and 15 inches 4 (combined species) PFBC Executive Director establishes the daily limit Largemouth June 16 through Dec. 31 for the year, the information will be available from any Smallmouth April 14 through June 15* 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, Open year-round No minimum 50 (combined species) • Designated as Nursery Waters are Trout Catfish, Rock Bass, Run and its tributaries, Godfrey Run, Orchard Suckers, Eels, Beach Run, and Crooked Creek (where posted). Carp, White Bass It is unlawful to fish, wade or possess fishing Burbot (when taken by June 1 through Sept. 30 No minimum 5 equipment while in or along Lake Erie tributary scuba divers by use of non- streams designated as Nursery Waters. mechanical spears or gigs at • Archery fishing or spear fishing is prohibited in a depth of at 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 Open year-round No minimum None trout season in April, all Lake Erie tributary streams hook 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 12 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 14 through 9 inches 5 (combined species), only on the following day within 50 yards of the mouth Sept. 3 two (2) of which may be of both Trout Run and Godfrey Run while fishing lake trout. the Lake Erie shoreline. Sept. 4 through 15 inches 3 (combined species), only April 11, 2019 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 CLOSED YEAR-ROUND The main tributaries where a permit is required and 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 . 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, ) 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, , 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 2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws 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-All Berks Blue Marsh Reservoir Crappie 9 inches 20 Tackle and Catch and Release Fly-Fishing Only. Cambria Beaverdam Run Reservoir Yellow Perch 9 inches When Panfish County Water Area Hinkston Run Reservoir Sunfish 7 inches Enhancement Allegheny Pine Township Park Pond Crappie 9 inches Regulations Beaver Wilmore Dam Sunfish 7 inches apply to more Upper Pond Crappie 9 inches than one Centre Colyer Lake Yellow Perch 9 inches species in the Columbia and Bear Gap Reservoir Centre Foster Joseph Sayers Lake* Sunfish 7 inches same water- Northumberland McWilliams Reservoir Chester Chambers Lake Sunfish 7 inches way, the creel Columbia klines Reservoir Crappie 9 inches limit is 20 for Lancaster Speedwell Forge Yellow Perch 9 inches each species Luzerne and Lake Jean Crawford l Pymatuning Reservoir Crappie 9 inches with the total Sullivan Fayette/ Bridgeport Reservoir Crappie 9 inches creel not Schuylkill Lower Owl Creek Reservoir Westmoreland Sunfish 7 inches to exceed Schuylkill Owl Creek Reservoir Montour Lake Chillisquaque Sunfish 7 inches 50 panfish Tioga Lake Nessmuk Crappie 9 inches combined. Westmoreland Lower Burrell Park Pond Monroe Bradys Lake Sunfish 7 inches Crappie 9 inches “Sunfish” HOW TO RELEASE FISH Yellow Perch 9 inches Gouldsboro Lake Sunfish 7 inches includes Catch and Release Crappie 9 inches , Some waters are managed strictly as “Catch and Yellow Perch 9 inches - seeds Release” waters. Minimum size limits require that fish Pike Lower Lake Sunfish 7 inches and Redear less than the minimum must be released. Creel limits (Lower Promised Lake) Yellow Perch 9 inches Sunfish. require that fish caught in excess of the limit must be Promised Land Lake Sunfish 7 inches released. Closed seasons require the release of fish (Upper Promised Land Lake) Yellow Perch 9 inches species caught during a season when keeping them is “Crappie” not permitted. The number of fish that survive depends Somerset Quemahoning Reservoir Sunfish 7 inches includes on several factors, including the length of the fight, Crappie 9 inches both Black where the fish is hooked, water temperature, and how Yellow Perch 9 inches and White the fish is handled and released. Washington Cross Creek Lake Sunfish 7 inches Crappies. To give fish released the best chance for survival, Crappie 9 inches follow these recommended guidelines: Peters Twp. Lake (Reservoir #2) Crappie 9 inches * see Misc. Special 1. Use barbless hooks. Westmoreland Indian Lake Crappie 9 inches 2. Play fish quickly. Regulations Sunfish 7 inches for Crappies at Try to land your fish as quickly as possible Lower Twin Lake Crappie 9 inches Foster Joseph and don’t play the fish to exhaustion. Sayers Lake. 3. Use a landing net. Northmoreland Lake Sunfish 7 inches 4. Keep the fish in the water. The chance of a Crappie 9 inches fish being injured increases the longer it is held Upper Twin Lake Crappie 9 inches 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. charged with violating the Fish and Boat Code by handling time. 10. Hold the fish upright underwater after hook failing to immediately release the fish unharmed. removal and allow it to swim away under its 7. Remove hooks quickly. Hemostats or long- If regulations permit, the angler should keep the nose pliers are essential tools for quickly own power. If necessary, hold the fish out of 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 CRAWFORD: Paden Creek, Linesville Creek MONROE/NORTHAMPTON/PIKE: Delaware species identified for each location and and Shenango River National Recreation Area-The use of eel regulation. Fish species not covered by • Nursery waters closed to all fishing March 1 chutes, eelpots and fyke nets is prohibited. The tak- a special regulation in these locales – through May 1, 2018. Waters involved are Paden ing of the following fishbait is prohibited: Crayfish or inland regulations apply unless otherwise Creek (Finley Creek) from the mouth upstream to crabs, mussels, clams and the nymphs, larvae and designated for these species. “Finley Bridge” on U.S. Route 6, Linesville Creek pupae of all insects spending any part of their life from the mouth (Pymatuning Sanctuary) upstream cycle in the water. The taking, catching, killing and BEAVER: Hopewell Township Park Lake to the Conrail Railroad bridge north of U.S. Route possession of any species of amphibian or reptile • Bass – 15-inch minimum size, creel limit 2 per 6 in Linesville, and the Shenango River, from within the boundaries of the Delaware Water Gap day. Panfish – Creel limit 10 combined species per the Pymatuning Lake Sanctuary boundary at the National Recreation Area is prohibited. day. Use of live fish for bait is prohibited. Refer to Route 285 bridge, locally known as Blair Bridge, NOTICE FOR INFORMATION ONLY: Anglers Big Bass Program for NO HARVEST dates (see upstream 100 yards. are advised that the 2016’s page 11). CRAWFORD/ERIE: Conneaut Creek Superintendent’s Compendium of Designations, Clo- BLAIR/HUNTINGDON/JUNIATA/MIFFLIN/ • Lake Erie Tributary Regulations apply (see sures, Permit Requirements, and Other Restrictions PERRY: Juniata River and tributaries page 14) for entire stream in Crawford and Erie states: “The use of crayfish, clams, mussels, reptiles • The daily creel limit of Rock Bass is 10; open counties. or amphibians as fish bait is prohibited, unless it is season year-round; no minimum size limit. CUMBERLAND: Opossum Lake a commercially produced, preserved and packaged BUTLER: Glade Run Lake • All species except trout – catch and release/ product.” – Duration until further notice within Dela- • All species except trout – catch and release/ no harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess ware Water Gap National Recreation Area. no harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess any fish except trout. All fish caught other than SOMERSET/FAYETTE/WESTMORELAND/ any fish except trout. All fish caught other than trout must be immediately returned unharmed. ALLEGHENY: Youghiogheny River – From the trout must be immediately returned unharmed. This miscellaneous special regulation will remain with the downstream to This miscellaneous special regulation will remain in effect until further notice. the confluence with Ramcat Run and Youghiogheny in effect until further notice. Trout – inland regulations apply. River from the PA Route 381 bridge at Ohiopyle Trout – inland regulations apply. HUNTINGDON: Lake Perez downstream to the mouth of the river. CENTRE: Foster Joseph Sayers Lake • All species except trout – catch and release/ • No closed season on trout. Daily limit – Opening • Black and White Crappie: Daily creel limit is 10 no harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess day of the trout season through Labor Day – 5 trout; (combined crappie species). No more than 5 may any fish except trout. All fish caught other than the day after Labor Day through the opening day be greater than 9 inches in size. Total panfish daily trout must be immediately returned unharmed. of the trout season of the following year – 3 trout. creel limit may not exceed 50 when other panfish This miscellaneous special regulation will remain For all other species, inland regulations apply. See species are in the creel (see page 10 and 15 in effect until further notice. All-Tackle Trophy-Trout regulations on page 21. applicable to other panfish). Trout – inland regulations apply. WARREN: – 8.75 miles from the CENTRE: – 7 miles from the confluence HUNTINGDON: Raystown Lake and Raystown outflow of the Allegheny Reservoir downstream to with Elk Creek downstream to the Catch and Release Branch – From dam downstream to Juniata River. the confluence of Conewango Creek. area. • Trout (all species) no closed season. Creel • From 8 a.m. on the opening day of the regular • Trout (all species), all other species, inland limit 5 per day during regular season; 3 per day trout season through Labor Day, the minimum size regulations apply. Open to fishing year-round from the day after Labor Day to 8 a.m. on the for trout is 14 inches and the daily limit is 2 (com- • From 8 a.m. on the opening day of the regular opening day of the next regular season, minimum bined species). trout season through Labor Day, the slot limit for size – 7 inches. • From the day after Labor Day until 8 a.m. of the trout is at least 7 inches and less than 12 inches in • Raystown Lake and Tributaries – Smelt may opening day of the trout season of the following year, length, caught on, or in possession. and the daily be taken with a dip net from the shore or by wad- no trout may be killed or had in possession. limit is 2 (combined species). ing only. Dip net may not exceed 20 inches in WASHINGTON: Little Chartiers Creek – From • From the day after Labor Day until 8 a.m. of the diameter or square. Daily limit – 200 smelt or one Canonsburg Lake Dam approximately 0.25 mile opening day of the trout season of the following gallon by volume, whichever is greater. downstream to the mouth. year, no trout may be killed or had in possession. LEHIGH: Leaser Lake • No fishing from March 1 until 8 a.m. opening day • Fishing may be done with artificial lures, flies or • All species, except trout–catch and release/ of the trout season. streamers, natural bait, baitfish and fish bait. Spin- no harvest; it is unlawful to take, kill or possess WAYNE: West Branch Delaware River – From the ning or gear may be used on this water. any fish, except trout. All fish caught other than Pennsylvania/New York border downstream to the CLARION: Beaver Creek Ponds trout must immediately returned unharmed. For confluence with the East Branch of the Delaware • Closed to fishing from Jan. 1 through opening trout, inland regulations apply. This regulation will River. day of bass season. remain in effect until further notice. • Artificial-Lures-Only season runs from October • Bass – 15-inch minimum size, creel limit 2 per LUZERNE: Harveys Lake 16 until 8 a.m. on the opening day of the trout day on entire project area. Panfish – Creel limit • Open year-round to fishing. The daily limit is season. 10 per day combined species on entire area. 3 trout (combined species) during the period from • Fishing may be done with artificial lures only, COLUMBIA AND NORTHUMBERLAND: 8 a.m. on the opening day of trout season through constructed of , plastic, rubber or wood, or South Branch of Roaring Creek – from the bridge the last day in February. Only one of the three (3) with flies and streamers constructed of natural or on State Route 3008 at Bear Gap upstream to the trout daily limit may exceed 18 inches in length. synthetic materials. All lures may be used with bridge on State Route 42 – This is a catch and No trout may be killed or had in possession from spinning or fly fishing gear. release/no harvest fishery for all species. It is March 1 to the opening day of trout season.Inland • The daily creel limit of trout is zero (0) during the unlawful to take, kill or possess any fish. All fish regulations apply for other fish species. artificial-lures-only season. caught must be immediately returned unharmed. (see page 13 for additional regulation for the Delaware River)

16 www.fishandboat.com 2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws 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: Northern Green July 1 through October 31 10 (combined species) 20 (combined species) • A fishing license is required to catch or take Snapping 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 Timber * June 9 through July 31 1 annual limit** (must be at least 42 inches in amphibians may only be taken by hand, hook, length, measured lengthwise along the dorsal snake tongs, turtle hooks, traps and nets less surface from the snout to the tail, excluding the rattle, than four 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 Northern 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- hunt permits). It is unlawful to possess more than one explosives, winches, jacks or other devices. snakes west of Route 15 and south of to the Timber Rattlesnake or Northern Copperhead at any time • It is unlawful to damage or disrupt the nest Maryland line where there is no open season. except as provided in Chapter 79.7 (f) (Fish & Boat Code). or eggs of a reptile or to gather, take or possess ** It is unlawful to possess, take, catch or kill more than *** Subcaudal scales are large flat scales located on the the eggs of any reptile in the natural environment one Timber Rattlesnake or Northern Copperhead per underside of a Timber Rattlesnake between the vent (anal of this Commonwealth. calendar year except as provided in Chapter 79.7(f) (Fish scale) and the base of the tail rattle. & Boat Code) relating to organized reptile and amphibian • It is unlawful to damage or destroy 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) Northern Cricket Frog Rough Green Snake ing the eggs or any life stage that was taken from and aquatic organisms as Green Salamander (Endangered) (Endangered) lands or waters within this Commonwealth. endangered, threatened (Threatened) Southern Leopard Frog • It is unlawful to transport or import into or TURTLES: within this Commonwealth a native species or candidate species. Blue-spotted Salamander (Endangered) Turtle (Endangered) Endangered and (Endangered) from another jurisdiction. It is also unlawful to SNAKES: Eastern Mud Turtle receive a native species that was transported or threatened species face FROGS and TOADS: Eastern Massasauga (Endangered) imported into or within this Commonwealth from extirpation and have Eastern Spadefoot (Endangered) Redbelly Turtle another jurisdiction. NO OPEN SEASON. (Threatened) (Threatened) • Taking, catching and possessing amphibians FOR A LIST OF ALL ENDANGERED, THREATENED AND CANDIDATE FISH SPECIES visit www.fishandboat.com. and reptiles in Department of Conservation and Natural Resources natural areas designated by posters is prohibited. The following native reptile and amphibian species have NO OPEN SEASON. Frogs: The DAILY LIMIT is 0 (zero) and POSSESSION LIMIT is 0 (zero). • The use of artificial light to take frogs at night is illegal. SALAMANDERS: FROGS and TOADS: Eastern Smooth Earth TURTLES: • Frogs may be taken with long bow and arrow, Eastern Hellbender Chorus Frog Snake Blanding’s Turtle including compound bows, crossbows, spears or Four-toed Salamander Upland Chorus Frog Eastern Smooth Green Eastern Box Turtle gigs. Spears or gigs may not have more than five Jefferson Salamander Western Chorus Frog Snake Spotted Turtle barbs and cannot be used in stocked trout waters. Marbled Salamander SNAKES: Eastern Worm Snake Wood Turtle Turtles: Mudpuppy Eastern Hognose Snake Mountain Earth Snake SKINKS/LIZARDS: • Set-lines, turtle traps or other devices for Northern Salamander Eastern Ribbon Snake Queen Snake Broadhead Skink catching turtles must include a tag indicating the Shorthead Garter Snake Eastern Fence Lizard name, address and phone number of the owner Northern Skink or user. Traps, nets or other devices must be of a floating or partially submerged design so as to The following native reptile and amphibian species have NO CLOSED SEASON. allow for the release of untargeted turtles. Hooks The DAILY LIMIT is 1 (one) and POSSESSION LIMIT is 1 (one). must be at least 3.5 inches long with not less than SALAMANDERS: Northern Two-lined Northern Leopard Frog Northern Ringneck one inch space between the point and shank of Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander Pickerel Frog Snake the hook. The number of lines or hooks per line Salamander Seal Salamander Spring Peeper Northern Water Snake is unlimited. Eastern Redback Spotted Salamander Wood Frog TURTLES: PERMITS: Salamander Wehrle's Salamander SNAKES: Eastern Musk Turtle • A permit is required to hunt, take, catch, kill or Eastern Red-Spotted Valley and Ridge Eastern Garter Snake Eastern Painted Turtle possess Timber and Northern Cop- Longtail Salamander Salamander Eastern Milksnake Eastern Spiny Softshell perhead snakes. Northern Dusky Salamander FROGS and TOADS: Eastern Ratsnake Map Turtle • A permit is required to hunt, take, catch or kill Northern Red Salamander Eastern American Toad Northern Black Racer Midland Painted Turtle common Snapping Turtles for the purpose of sale, Northern Slimy Salamander barter or trade. Eastern Gray Treefrog Northern Brown Snake SKINKS/LIZARDS: Northern Spring Salamander Fowler's Toad Northern Redbelly Snake Permit applications for these two species per- Five-lined Skink mits can be found online at: http://fishandboat. The practice of catch and release of amphibians and reptiles is encouraged. com/forms_nongame.htm.

2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws www.fishandboat.com 17 AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES Aquatic Invasive Species Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) may be microscopic and can be plants or . 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 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 , any other wet compartments and portable bait containers. • Use a steam spray unit to thoroughly Nets and clean all parts of the boat or tackle heavy equipment (including all wet Black Carp Pointed, shaped face No barbels on nose Shoes compartments such as the bilge, bait Large scales No scales on head or boots compartments and storage bunkers). If 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. Asian carp have had a devastating impact in the Mississippi • Thoroughly flush the cooling system of all River system and now pose this threat to the Great Lakes basin. boat motors. As AIS species, these fish do not naturally occur in Pennsylvania • After cleaning, allow equipment to dry for waters and would only occur if transported and released. at least 48 hours. These carp species are a threat due to their large size (some can grow to more than 100 pounds and five feet in length), reproductive success, habitat damage and large, year-round For more information, visit www.fishandboat.com/AIS.htm food consumption. In additon, 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 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

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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 boat 20 feet or less in length and in all after Jan. 1, 1982, may not operate unless they have obtained and have in possession a Boating Safety and . Education Certificate. All PWC (personal watercraft) operators must have obtained and have in possession • On District U.S. Army Corps of a Boating Safety Education Certificate. Persons 11 years of age or younger may NOT operate a boat with Engineers lakes (only), everyone in boats under greater than 25 horsepower or a PWC. Persons 12–15 years of age may not operate a PWC with any 16 feet and in all canoes and kayaks. passengers on board 15 years of age or younger or rent a PWC. • All water skiers and anyone towed behind Owners of unpowered boats (canoes, kayaks, rowboats, stand-up paddleboards, etc.) can launch their boats, in addition to personal watercraft operators boats at Commission lakes, access areas and properties, and at PA state parks and if their boats and passengers, and sailboarders (windsurfers) display the Commission’s launch use permit OR boat registration, OR PA state parks launch permit OR are required to wear a life jacket. Inflatable life mooring permit. An unpowered boat may have a registration OR launch permit, but it is not required to jackets are not acceptable for these activities. have both. The Commission 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 LIFE JACKET WEAR REQUIRED BY LAW NOVEMBER 1 TO APRIL 30 any canoe or during the cold weather Boaters are required, by law, to wear life jackets on boats less months from November 1 through April 30. than 16 feet in length or any canoe or kayak during the cold weather months from November 1 through April 30. This requirement is in- PERSONAL FLOTATION tended to protect boaters from the dangers of cold water shock if they DEVICE (Life Jacket) fall into the water. Requirements The risk of an accident being fatal is significantly higher when the air and water temperatures are colder in late fall through spring. Over • All boats must have a USCG-approved wearable the last 15 years, cold water incidents represented only eight percent life jacket on board for each person. of the boating-related accidents, but they resulted in 24 percent of the • In addition to wearable life jackets, boats 16 feet fatalities. Victims who are wearing a life jacket when exposed to cold and over must have a throwable device (ring buoy, water have potentially life-saving advantages. life ring or buoyant seat cushion) on board. Canoes and kayaks, regardless of length, are not required to carry a throwable device. MAKE SURE YOUR • Life jackets must be used in accordance with any requirements on the approval label. LIFE JACKET FITS! • All life jackets must be in good and serviceable For a life jacket to work properly, not only does it need to be condition and legibly marked showing the USCG on your body, it should fit properly as . A properly fitting approval number. This means the life jacket must life jacket is more comfortable (meaning you are more likely be fully functional, free of tears or defects in the to wear it) but more important, it functions better. Life jackets material. All buckles, straps, zippers and other that are too small or large can ride up or even come off when closures must be operable. you are in the water. • Wearable life jackets must be “readily accessible,” It’s easy to check a conventional life jacket for proper fit–just which means that they are stowed where they can be put it on. The jacket should fit you snugly with all zippers, straps, easily reached or that they are out in the open ready ties and snaps correctly secured. With a partner behind you, raise to wear. Throwables devices must be “immediately your arms like you are signaling a touchdown in a football game. available,” which means that the device cannot be in Have the partner lift the jacket by the shoulders. 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NORTHWEST Find the regulation that applies to where you want to fish. NORTHCENTRAL NORTHEAST 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 31. 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 4, 2018 through February 28, 2019–No Harvest–Catch and Immediate Release Only. minimum sizes apply. Water Name County Section 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 Boggs/Howard Township line Regions that have this early opening day are Fishing Creek Clinton 13 1.49 Confluence with Cedar Run downstream listed beginning on page 22. to Axe Factory Hollow Fishing Creek Clinton 14 1.60 Axe Factory Hollow downstream to Country Stocked Club Road Bridge (SR 2015) in Mill Hall trout waters Mifflin 05 3.70 1.5 miles upstream from confluence with Tea Creek downstream to Penn Central Railroad Bridge Many streams, lakes, ponds and reservoirs are Little Lehigh Creek Lehigh 04 4.89 Confluence with Spring Creek downstream to officially classified as “stocked trout waters.” Wild Cherry Lane Bridge (T-508) This means that these waters contain significant Little Lehigh Creek Lehigh 07 2.06 0.4 km upstream of Country Club Road Bridge portions that are open to public fishing and are (T-473)downstream to Fish Hatchery Road stocked with trout. The waters listed here are open Bridge (SR 2010) to trout harvest during the “extended season” (see Martins Creek Northampton 01 4.72 Confluence of East Branch & West Branch page 10). Unlisted tributary streams (those not Martins Creek downstream to the from Bangor Treatment Plant included in this list of “stocked trout waters”) are Monocacy Creek Northampton 08 0.99 Illicks Mill Dam downstream to the not open to harvest of trout during the “extended Schoenersville Road Bridge (SR 3017) season.” Only stocked trout waters and all waters Monocacy Creek Lehigh/ 09 2.11 Schoenersville Road Bridge (SR 3017) downstream of stocked trout waters are open Northampton downstream to the mouth during this period. Spearing fish is not permit- Penns Creek Centre 02 8.10 SR 0045 downstream to the confluence ted in any of these waters at any time of the year. with Elk Creek These waters are closed to all fishing (including Pohopoco Creek Carbon 04 2.90 Outlet of Beltzville Lake downstream to taking of minnows) from March 1 to 8 a.m. on the cable across creek at Hideaway & opening day of the trout season. A person shall Fishing Club be deemed to be fishing if he or she has in pos- Yellow Creek Bedford 04 1.67 Confluence with Beaver Creek downstream to Red Bank Hill session any fishing line, rod or other device that can be used for fishing while on or in any water or on the banks within 25 feet of any water where STOCKED TROUT WATERS fishing is prohibited. OPEN TO YEAR-ROUND FISHING Special note: Although the list was up to date at the Waters with this designation are considered “stocked trout waters.” From 8 a.m. opening day of trout time this booklet was printed, it is possible that some through Sept. 3, Commonwealth inland size and creel limits apply. From Jan. 1 through Feb. 28, and streams may later be deleted or added as “stocked from Sept. 4 through Dec. 31, “extended season” size and creel limits apply. These waters are open to trout waters” because of last-minute changes in wa- fishing from March 1 to opening day of trout season; however, no trout may be taken or possessed on these ter quality conditions. Check with the nearest Fish waters during this period. It is unlawful to fish in rivers and streams designated as stocked trout waters and Boat Commission office (see page 3) if there open to year-round fishing without a current trout/salmon permit. A trout/salmon permit is not required to fish is any question about whether or not a water area in lakes and ponds that have been designated as stocked trout waters open to year-round fishing unless the is “stocked.” 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 regulated areas on some trout waters. These CATCH AND RELEASE in or takes out his boat at an access point within the specially regulated areas are assigned to ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY Catch and Release All Tackle area. one of the programs on this page with the • A current trout/salmon permit is required. regulations for each program included. These • Open to fishing year-round. • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. program regulations apply only to those waters ALL TACKLE • Use or possession of any other lures or sub- designated by the Commission as being part stance is prohibited. TROPHY TROUT of that program, not to all trout waters. When • No trout may be killed or had in possession. • Open to fishing year-round. applicable, a list of specially regulated waters • Fishing may be done with artificial lures only appears at the end of the stocked trout waters • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. constructed of metal, plastic, rubber or wood, or with • Minimum size – 14 inches, caught on, or in section for each region 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 DELAYED HARVEST or fly fishing gear. season through Labor Day. ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY • Wading is permitted unless otherwise posted. • The daily creel limit is two trout – combined • Taking baitfish or fishbait is prohibited. species except for the period from the day after • Open to fishing year-round. • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish Labor Day to 8 a.m. of the first Saturday after April • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. caught in compliance with the seasons, sizes and 11 of the following year, when no trout may be • Minimum size – 9 inches, caught on or in creel limits in effect for a water from which it was killed or had in possession. possession on, the waters under these regulations taken, provided that the boat angler floats through the • There are no tackle restrictions. from June 15 through Labor Day. Catch and Release area without stopping or engaging • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish • The daily creel limit is three trout (combined in the act of fishing or the boat angler puts in or takes caught in compliance with the seasons, sizes and species) from June 15 through Labor Day, caught out his boat at an access point within the Catch and creel limits in effect for a water from which it was on or in possession on the waters under these Release area. taken, provided that the boat angler floats through regulations. From the day after Labor Day until • A current trout/salmon permit is required. the All Tackle Trophy Trout area without stopping or June 15, the daily creel limit is zero. engaging in the act of fishing or the boat angler puts • Fishing may be done with artificial lures only CATCH AND RELEASE in or takes out his boat at an access point within the constructed of metal, plastic, rubber or wood, or FLY-FISHING ONLY All Tackle Trophy Trout area. with flies and streamers constructed of natural or • A current trout/salmon permit is required. synthetic materials. All such lures may be used with • Open to fishing year-round. • The regulations apply to trout only; all other spe- spinning or fly fishing gear. • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. cies, inland regulations apply. • 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 • Fishing may be done with artificial flies and stream- TROPHY TROUT caught in compliance with the seasons, sizes and ers constructed of natural or synthetic materials, so ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY creel limits in effect for a water from which it was long as all flies are constructed in a normal fashion taken, provided that the boat angler floats through with components wound on or about the hook. Fish- • Open to fishing year-round. the Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only area without ing must be done with tackle limited to fly rods, fly • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. stopping or engaging in the act of fishing or the boat reels and fly line with a maximum of 18 feet in leader • Minimum size – 14 inches, caught on, or in angler puts in or takes out his boat at an access point material of monofilament line attached. Anything possession on, the waters under these regulations within the Delayed Harvest 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 exciting opportunity to fish for provided that the boat angler floats through the Catch killed 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 4,500 large trout, constructed of metal, plastic, rubber or wood, or with 2-to 3-years old and measuring engaging in the act of fishing or the boat angler puts flies and streamers constructed of natural or synthetic between 14 to 20 inches, will be in or takes out his boat at an access point within the materials. All lures may be used with spinning or fly distributed among these select Catch and Release Fly-Fishing Only area. waters under the Delayed Harvest, Artificial Lures • A current trout/salmon permit is required. fishing gear. Only special regulation. These larger trout are • Taking baitfish or fishbait is prohibited. stocked only during the spring stocking periods CATCH AND RELEASE • An angler in a boat may possess bait and fish caught in compliance with the seasons, sizes and creel limits to coincide with the period of peak angler use. ALL TACKLE As with many waters managed under Delayed in effect for a water from which it was taken, provided Harvest, Artificial Lures Only special regulation, • Open to fishing year-round. that the boat angler floats through the Trophy Trout not all of the waters managed under the Keystone • Fishing is permitted on a 24-hour basis. area without stopping or engaging in the act of fishing Select Stocked Trout Waters program receive a fall • No trout may be killed or had in possession. or the boat angler puts in or takes out his boat at an stocking. Fall stocking is limited to stream sections • Fishing may be done with artificial lures, flies or access point within the Trophy Trout area. that act as destination fisheries and tend to provide streamers, natural bait, baitfish and fishbait. Spinning • A current trout/salmon permit is required. better angler use at this time of year. Currently, four or fly fishing gear may be used in these areas. of the eight 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 on the following pages, look for the red keystone creel limits in effect for a water from which it was which indicates that this water is a taken, provided that the boat angler floats through the after each region’s section of Keystone Select Stocked Trout Water.* Catch and Release All Tackle area without stopping or stocked trout waters.

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SOUTHEAST REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS REGIONAL OPENING East Branch Perkiomen Creek Switzer Creek Locust Creek DAY OF TROUT (Branch Road Bridge (T341 Black Bear Rd. Trout Creek (Big Trout Creek Locust Lake SEASON (T-431) downstream through downstream to Black - Slatington) Lower Little Sellersville) Barron Rd.) MONTGOMERY: STOCKED TROUT Levittown Lake (Saegerville Rd. Deep Creek Dam Mahoning Creek WATERS Neshaminy Creek (Two downstream to mouth) East Branch Perkiomen Pine Creek (trib to Little Schuylkill OPENING DAY: sections: Valley Road to Mill East Branch Creek (from near Salfordville River) MARCH 31 Road near Jamison and from (Steelville Rd. downstream Rd. downstream to Bergey’s Pine Creek (trib to Mahantango BERKS: the dam at the causeway in to Knight Run confluence - Mill Rd. - inseason only) Creek) Allegheny Creek Tyler State Park downstream inseason only) Kepner Creek Pine Creek (trib to Schuylkill River) (inseason only) to the bridge on SR 332) Fishing Creek Loch Alsh Reservoir Rabbit Run Reservoir (off East Val- Tohickon Creek (Dark Hollow Manatawny Creek ley Rd. SW of Tamaqua) Antietam Reservoir Rd. to mouth) Indian Run Pennypack Creek Upper Furnace Creek (Robesonia) Unami Creek (Milford Little Beaver Creek (Lorimer Park) Whipoorwill Dam Hay Creek Township Park downstream Little Perkiomen Creek (county line Stocked trout Kistler Creek to Trumbauersville Road Little downstream to first unnamed waters OPEN TO Little Lehigh Creek (SR 4051)) trib downstream of Fruitville (powerline upstream of Miller YEAR-ROUND FISHING Little Swatara Creek CHESTER: Road (T-414)) Road (T-707) downstream to BERKS: Maiden Creek (confluence with Beaver Creek (at Downingtown) Skippack Creek Harrisburg Pike (SR 4020)) Tulpehocken Creek (from covered Kistler Creek in Kempton Big Elk Creek Stony Creek Little Muddy Creek bridge at T-921 downstream to downstream to dam in Buck Run (Compass Rd. Unami Creek the mouth) Lenhartsville) (Bowmansville Rd. Wissahickon Creek (from downstream to SR 372) downstream to 150 yds, Kaercher Creek Dam Manatawny Creek East Branch Brandywine Creek Lafayette Ave. downstream BUCKS: Mill Creek (trib. to Sacony below SR 897) to Stenton Ave.) (SR 4031 in Glenmoore Meetinghouse Creek Lake Luxembourg Creek) downstream to U S Business NORTHAMPTON: LANCASTER: Middle Creek (PGC’s Middle Bushkill Creek Mill Creek (trib. to Schuylkill Route 30 in Downingtown) Muddy Run Rec Lake Creek Dam downstream to Hokendauqua Creek River) East Branch Elk Creek NORTHAMPTON: W. Lime Rock Rd.) Indian Creek Mill Creek (trib. to Tulpehocken East Branch White Clay Creek Minsi Lake (under drawdown) Muddy Creek (Pleasant Valley Jacoby Creek Creek) French Creek SCHUYLKILL: Road downstream to SR 897) Lehigh (0.6 mile Northkill Creek Middle Branch White Clay Creek Sweet Arrow Lake Muddy Run (most northern downstream of Carbon County Ontelaunee Creek (Spring Pickering Creek Tuscarora Lake (fall stocking) House Road Bridge (SR SR 772 crossing Intercourse line downstream to confluence Pocopson Creek 4024) downstream to mouth) downstream to powerline with Bertsch Creek, and first CATCH AND RELEASE West Branch Brandywine Perkiomen Creek above Monterey Rd.) lock upstream of Monocacy NORTHAMPTON: Creek (SR 4005 Cedar Knoll (Wanner Drive Pine Creek (trib to Maiden Creek crossing downstream Bushkill Creek– 1.19 miles; from downstream to SR 0340) (T-515) downstream to 110 Creek) to confluence with Nancy Run the dam at Binney and Smith West Valley Creek yards downstream of School Sacony Creek (Bowers Road Crossing) downstream to the 13th Street White Clay Creek Lane (T-948)) (T-616) downstream to SR Little Bushkill Creek Bridge DELAWARE: Rock Run (Bowmansville) 222 Kutztown By-pass) l Martins Creek Chester Creek (confluence of Stewart Run CATCH AND RELEASE Scotts Run Lake l Monocacy Creek West Branch Chester Creek Swarr Run (Yellow Goose ALL TACKLE Spring Creek Saucon Creek downstream to Bridgewater Road (T-802) downstream CHESTER/MONTGOMERY: Creek (aproximately PHILADELPHIA: Valley Creek– at Valley Forge and Road (SR 3018)) to SR 0741) Pennypack Creek (county line 350 yards above powerline, West Branch Little Conestoga tributaries including Little Valley downstream to mouth in Chester Creek (upstream from downstream to Frankford Creek. Be aware that Valley Forge confluence with West Branch Creek Avenue (SR 0013)) Morgantown) West Branch Octoraro Creek National Historic Park has imposed Tulpehocken Creek (Marion - inseason only) Wissahickon Creek special bait restrictions. Check Darby Creek (0.5 mile upstream LEHIGH: (Germantown Pike Twp R&G Club downstream Cedar Creek (Lake Muhlenburg local posters. confluence with Little Darby downstream to tributary at to vicinity of Charming Forge outflow downstream to mouth) Creek downstream to Hill- intersection of Forbidden Rd.) Coplay Creek CATCH AND RELEASE dale Road) Drive and Lincoln Drive) Willow Creek Jordan Creek FLY-FISHING ONLY Ithan Creek SCHUYLKILL: Wyomissing Creek (headwaters Kistler Creek CHESTER: Little Darby Creek Bear Creek downstream to SR 0222) Laurel Run (South Branch French Creek – 0.9 mile; from the dam Ridley Creek (Two sections: Deep Creek BUCKS: Saucon Creek) at Camp Sleepy Hollow downstream 1.25 miles upstream from Little Delaware Canal (Two Sections- Leaser Lake to Hollow Road Gradyville Rd. downstream Little Upper Washington Crossing Lehigh Canal (from first lock DELAWARE: State Park and Lower to falls in Ridley Creek State upstream of Monocacy Creek Little Schuylkill River (Two Ridley Creek – 0.6 mile; from the Washington Crossing Park and Brookhaven Rd. downstream to Monocacy sections: from confluence with falls in State Park downstream to downstream to Creek Crossing) Locust Creek downstream to downstream to the mouth of East Street Bridge in Street) l Little Lehigh Creek confluence with Panther Creek, Dismal Run preseason and inseason; from Morrisville) West Branch Chester Creek l Monocacy Creek LANCASTER: LANCASTER: Ontelaunee Creek mouth upstream 1.1 miles to – 2.21 miles; Big Beaver Creek Swabia Creek Port Clinton, inseason only) from 275 yards below SR 772 Bowery Run Lizard Creek downstream to T-334

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West Branch Octoraro Little Lehigh Creek – 0.83 mile; from DELAYED HARVEST Pickering Creek – 1.5 miles; upstream of SR 2020 Creek – 2.0 miles; From the upstream face of Fish Hatchery ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY from SR 1019 (Charlestown (Boot Road) downstream 30 yards downstream of Road bridge downstream to near BERKS: Road) downstream to 330 yards to 0.25 miles of the SR 0472 downstream to the Oxford Dr. Bridge Tulpehocken Creek– 3.8 upstream of the railroad bridge Railroad 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 bridge Little Lehigh Creek – 1.54 miles; to and including the Gertrude East Branch Brandywine Branch on T-676 from the downstream face of Fox Conservation Area Creek – 1.2 miles; from SR West Valley Creek – 1.2 Little Schuylkill River – 1.7 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 New Cherry Lane) downstream to upstream boundary of the city of downstream to SR 4004 with the unnamed Ringgold downstream to the the upstream face of the bridge Bethlehem property downstream (Dowlin Forge Road) tributary (locally known T-848 Bridge near Rauschs on T-510 (Millrace Road) to the SR 0412 bridge as Colebrook Run) SOUTHCENTRAL REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS REGIONAL OPENING Stony Creek LEBANON: (Tannery Wills Creek (county line DAY OF TROUT West Branch Rattling Creek Bachman Run Road (T-399) downstream downstream to B & O SEASON (first to confluence with West Railroad Bridge about STOCKED TROUT FRANKLIN: bridge upstream from Branch Codorus Creek) 1.0 mile downstream of WATERS Buck Run (Dickeys Run) Colebrook downstream to Hyndman) l OPENING DAY: Carbaugh Run T-304 Eckert Road) East Branch Codorus Creek Yellow Creek BLAIR: MARCH 31 (former Hammer Creek Fishing Creek (trib to dam at Birch Run Reservoir Indiantown Run Susquehanna River near Bald Eagle Creek ADAMS: downstream to Boyers Mill Lions Lake Craley) Beaverdam Creek Road Bridge (T-481)) Marquette Lake Fishing Creek (trib to Bells Gap Run Carbaugh Run Mill Creek Susquehanna River near Blair Gap Run Conewago Creek (SR 0234 (confluence with Bear Valley Goldsboro) Canoe Creek Bridge downstream to SR Run downstream to SR 0997) Snitz Creek Leibs Creek Clover Creek (SR 2005 Bridge 3001) Dennis Creek Stovers Lake Muddy Creek (confluence at Henrietta downstream to Conococheague Creek East Branch Antietam Creek Trout Run of North Branch Muddy Larke Road Bridge near Larke) East Branch Antietam Creek Falling Spring Branch Tulpehocken Creek Creek and South Branch Frankstown Branch Juniata Letterkenny Reservoir PERRY: Muddy Creek downstream River (confluence with Little Marsh Creek Little Cove Creek Bixler Run to powerline crossing 1.6 Pine Run near Claysburg Marsh Creek (SR 3011 Rowe Run Buffalo Creek (Heritage miles downstream of SR downstream to confluence downstream to SR 0030) West Branch Antietam Creek Hills Road Bridge(T-326) with near East Middle Creek 0425 in Woodbine) downstream to SR 0849 Freedom) Opossum Creek West Branch North Branch Muddy Creek Conococheague Creek Bridge downstream of Otter Creek Poplar Run Orrtanna Pond Riggles Gap Run Toms Creek (Mount Hope (Amberson Road Bridge Walnut Grove) Sheppard-Myers Reservoir (SR 4005) downstream Bull Run South Branch Codorus South Poplar Run Road Bridge (T-300) Vanscoyoc Run to US 30 Bridge at Fort Fishing Creek Creek downstream to SR 0116) FULTON: Loudon) Fowler Hollow Run South Branch Muddy Creek Waynesboro Reservoir Big Cove Creek JUNIATA: Horse Valley Run CUMBERLAND: Cowans Gap Lake Big Run Laurel Run (Liberty Valley Run) Big Spring Creek Laurel Fork Little Buffalo Creek Stocked trout Childrens Lake (Boiling Springs) Licking Creek (SR 0522 (Mannsville Road Bridge waters Doubling Gap Lake Bridge downstream to Delaware Creek (SR 4003) downstream to OPENING DAY: Fuller Lake APRIL 14 confluence with Baby Run Green Spring Creek from Mifflin mouth) at Soliam Church) Laurel Lake County and Juniata County Little Juniata Creek BEDFORD: Beaver Creek Little line downstream McCabe Run Little Brush Creek Mountain Creek Horning Run Montour Creek Bobs Creek Clear Creek Little Opossum Lake Horse Valley Run Panther Creek (Moss Road Bridge (T-318) Cove Creek Yellow Breeches Creek Laurel Run (Liberty Valley Run) Raccoon Creek downstream to SR 0655 Evitts Creek DAUPHIN: Lost Creek (SR 0035 Bridge Sherman Creek (lower Bridge) Gladdens Run Armstrong Creek upstream of confluence with North Branch Little Aughwick Little Wills Creek Clark Creek Little Lost Creek at Oakland boundary downstream to Creek Mahantango Creek Mills downstream to mouth) Couchtown Road Bridge Maple Run Oregon 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 Creek and Laurel Powell Creek East Waterford) Bald Eagle Creek Run) Fork downstream to Rattling Creek West Branch Mahantango Beaver Creek Sherman Valley Run intersection of SR 4013 South Fork Powell Creek Creek Town Creek and SR 0913)

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South Branch Little Aughwick Lingle Creek Boiling Springs downstream Letort Spring Run – 1.7 miles; the confluence with the first Creek Creek to the vicinity of Allenberry from 300 yards upstream of unnamed tributary entering Spring Run Strodes Run HUNTINGDON: bridge on T-481 (Bonnybrook from the west just south of Wooden Bridge Creek Spruce Creek– 0.5 mile; Road) downstream to the Fostoria HUNTINGDON: West Licking Creek Penn State Experimental Reading Railroad Bridge at DAUPHIN: Blacklog Creek (from county Stocked trout Fisheries Area (about 0.6 the southern edge of Letort Manada Creek– 1.8 miles; line downstream to mouth) mile above the village of Spring Park from Fogarty Road Globe Run waters OPEN TO Spruce Creek) DAUPHIN: downstream to Furnace (Newburg YEAR-ROUND FISHING MIFFLIN/UNION: Clark Creek –2.4 miles; PGC rifle Road (T-616) Park Road Bridge (T-370) BEDFORD: Penns Creek– 3.65 miles; range parking area on SR 325 Wiconisco Creek– 0.74 downstream to 200 yards Koon Lake from approximately 650 downstream to PGC access mile: from the western downstream of dam) BLAIR: yards downstream of road at the Furnace edge of the Ned Smith Greenwood Lake Canoe Creek Lake Swift Run downstream to FRANKLIN: Center for Nature and Laurel Run CUMBERLAND: approximately 550 yards East Branch Antietam Creek Art Walking Bridge Lake Perez Mountain Creek (from Adams downstream of Cherry Run – 0.88 mile; from SR 16 downstream to the power County line downstream to North Branch Little Aughwick CATCH AND RELEASE downstream to T-365 (Welty line crossing located 1.7 Creek (Nine Mile Creek) the backwaters of Laurel Rd.) miles upstream from the North Spring Branch Lake) ALL TACKLE Falling Spring Branch – 2.5 mouth Saddler Creek DAUPHIN/LEBANON: BLAIR/HUNTINGDON: miles; from the first private lane FRANKLIN: Shade Creek Stony Creek (from .4-mile – 13.7 miles located 672 feet upstream of Falling Spring Branch– 1.02 Shaver Creek (Perez Lake upstream of Cold Spring from the railroad bridge at the Briar Lane bridge downstream miles; from Walker Road downstream to SR 305 Road downstream to State east (downstream) border of to a wire fence crossing the downstream to Fifth Avenue bridge at Bethel Church) Game Lands #211 gate) Ironville downstream to mouth Thomas L. Geisel property FULTON: (Penn LEBANON: CATCH AND RELEASE YORK: Big Cove Creek– 0.93 Roosevelt Dam downstream Lakeside FLY-FISHING ONLY Muddy Creek – 1.6 miles; from mile; from 200 yards PERRY: to powerline crossing 400 ADAMS: 300 yards downstream of downstream of the SR Little Buffalo Lake (Holman yards downstream of SR Conewago Creek – 1.1 miles; Bruce Road Bridge (T-628) 0928 bridge downstream Lake) 0026 Black’s Bridge) from 0.1 mile downstream of in Bruce downstream to 300 to the lower Buchanan YORK: Three Springs Creek T-340 (Russel Tavern Rd.) yards upstream of Bridgeton State Forest boundary South Branch Codorus Tuscarora Creek downstream to SR 34 Road (SR 2032) Bridge in JUNIATA/MIFFLIN: Creek (from SR 0616 in West Licking Creek BEDFORD: Bridgeton East Licking Creek – 4.0 miles; Centerville downstream Whipple Lake Yellow Creek – 0.9 mile from from the Texas Eastern gas to T-527) TROPHY TROUT MIFFLIN: mouth of Maple Run (Jacks pipeline crossing downstream East Licking Creek ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY to the upstream boundary CATCH AND RELEASE Run) upstream to cable near YORK: Havice Creek of the Karl B. Guss State ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY Red Bank Hill Codorus Creek – 2.0 miles; from Honey Creek (from the lower Forest Picnic Area CUMBERLAND: CUMBERLAND: the confluence of the West boundary of the Delayed LEBANON: Yellow Breeches Creek– Big Spring Creek – 1.52 Branch downstream to a point Harvest Area downstream 1.17 miles; 0.17 miles of Quittapahilla Creek – miles; from 100 feet below that is .4 mile downstream to SR 1002 Bridge 0.5 mile the Unnamed Tributary to 1.1 miles; from Spruce the source (Big Spring) from SR 3082 (Porters Road) downstream of confluence Yellow Breeches Creek (from downstream to the Nealy Street Bridge on T-398 with Treaster Run) the outfall of Children’s Lake Road Bridge DELAYED HARVEST downstream to the SR 0934 l Kishacoquillas Creek to the confluence with Yellow Green Spring Creek – 1.2 mile; ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY Bridge (Bunker Road Bridge (T- Breeches Creek at Boiling from mouth upstream to near BLAIR: MIFFLIN: 340) downstream to railroad Springs) and 1.0 mile of confluence with Bulls Head Little Juniata River– 0.7 Honey Creek – 1.75 miles; from Bridge at Yeagertown and Mill Yellow Breeches Creek Branch miles; from the first bridge the upper Bald Eagle St. Street Bridge downstream from the confluence with on SR 0220 just northeast Forest boundary downstream to mouth) the Unnamed Tributary at of Bellwood downstream to 1.75 miles SOUTHWEST REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS Stocked trout Pine Creek (from Glade Run North Fork Big Sewickley Creek Bridge at Condron) waters headwaters downstream Huling Run North Fork Little Beaver Creek Duman Lake OPENING DAY: to East Pennview Avenue) Little Sandy Creek (county line downstream to Elton Sportsmens Dam APRIL 14 Turtle Creek (from headwaters North Fork Pine Creek 100 meters downstream of Hinckston Run ALLEGHENY: downstream to SR 48 on Patterson Creek SR 551 Bridge) Howells Run Big Sewickley Creek (from Mosside Blvd) Plum Creek South Branch Brady Run Killbuck Run headwaters downstream West Deer Lake (Upper Deer Redbank Creek (county line to Traverse Creek Lake Rowena to Merriman Avenue) Lake) confluence with Little Sandy CAMBRIA: Laurel Lick Run Bull Creek ARMSTRONG: Creek) Beaverdam Run Laurel Run (trib to Deer Creek Buffalo Creek (from Scrubgrass Creek Bens Creek Conemaugh River) Flaugherty Run headwaters downstream South Fork Pine Creek Laurel Run (trib to South Fork Long Run to Little Buffalo Creek) BEAVER: (confluence Little Conemaugh River) Lower Deer Lake Cherry Run Big Sewickley Creek with Beaverdam Run Little Killbuck Run Middle Deer Lake Cornplanter Run Brush Creek Park Pond downstream to 330 yards Little Paint Creek Montour Run Cowanshannock Creek Mill Creek downstream of T-510 Noels Creek

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Laws SOUTHWEST/NORTHWEST REGIONS North Branch Blacklick Beaverdam Run Indian Creek (from the SR WESTMORELAND: ARMSTRONG/BUTLER: Creek Bens Creek 381 bridge in Jones Mill Keystone Lake Buffalo Creek– 3.7 miles; from North Branch Little Breastwork Run downstream to Mill Run Northmoreland Lake Little Buffalo Run downstream Conemaugh River Brush Creek Reservoir) Twin Lakes Number One Reservoir to 0.6 mile above SR 4035 in Stewart Run Casselman River (from MD - Indian Lake (Lower Twin Lake) Craigsville FAYETTE: PA state line downstream to Jacobs Creek (from Acme Twin Lakes Number Two CAMBRIA: Back Creek Moser Road (T-353) Bridge) Dam downstream to Reservoir (Upper Twin Lake) Chest Creek – 1.8 miles; from Big Sandy Creek Clear Shade Creek Bridgeport Dam) CATCH AND RELEASE the northern Patton borough Chaney Run Cub Run Linn Run FLY-FISHING ONLY line downstream to the SR Dunbar Creek Elk Lick Creek (from 4022 bridge at Thomas Mills Dunlap Creek (from headwaters Flaugherty Creek FAYETTE: Zimmerman Run Dunbar Creek – 4.22 miles; FAYETTE: downstream to Mon-Fayette Gladdens Run downstream to SR 981) Meadow Run–2.2 miles; from Expressway) Glade Run from the confluence of Glade Mammoth downstream to the stone the SR 2011 bridge (Dinner Bell Georges Creek (headwaters Jones Mill Run Mill Creek Road) adjacent to the Ohiopyle downstream to York Run) Kimberly Run quarry along SR 1055 Sewickley Creek INDIANA: St. Park office downstream Indian Creek Kooser Lake Shannon Run to mouth Meadow Run Kooser Run Little Mahoning Creek – 3.6 miles; Tubmill Creek SOMERSET: Mill Run (tributary to Indian Laurel Hill Creek from Oberlin Road Bridge Turtle Creek Laurel Hill Creek – 2.33 miles; Creek) Little Piney Creek abutments upstream of SR from 200 yards downstream of Mountain Creek McClintock Run Stocked trout 1041 Bridge upstream to Virgin Run Lake Middle Creek waters OPEN TO Cesna Run the T-364 (Countryman Bridge) GREENE: Miller Run YEAR-ROUND FISHING SOMERSET: downstream to the T-364 Bridge upstream of Laurel Hill Lake Browns Creek (Bates Fork Piney Creek ALLEGHENY: Clear Shade Creek – 1 mile; Laurel Hill Creek – 1.26 miles; from “Sycamore” downstream Piney Run North Park Lake from the cable at Windber Water Dam upstream the footbridge on State Game to mouth) Raystown Branch Juniata River ARMSTRONG: Lands #111 Road in Humbert Dunkard Fork Shafer Run Mahoning Creek (Mahoning ALL TACKLE TROPHY downstream to Paddytown Enlow Fork Shaffers Run Creek Dam outflow TROUT PROJECTS Hollow Run Lake Wilma South Fork Bens Creek downstream to the FAYETTE/SOMERSET: WASHINGTON: North Fork Dunkard Fork Stonycreek River (from confluence of Pine Run) Youghiogheny River– 9.16 Dutch Fork – 1.59 miles; from South Fork Dunkard Fork Yonai Road (T-515) Bridge BEAVER: miles; from the confluence the first bridge (SR 0070) Whiteley Creek (headwaters downstream to railroad retaining Bradys Run Lake with Ramcat Run downstream upstream of the Columbia downstream to SR 0088) wall 0.25 mile downstream of Main Lake (Raccoon Lake) to the Route 381 bridge at Gas Compressor Station INDIANA: Covered Bridge Road (T-565) FAYETTE: Ohiopyle downstream to the Dutch Blacklegs Creek Tub Mill Run Dunlap Creek Lake Brush Creek DELAYED HARVEST Fork Lake backwaters at Whites Creek FAYETTE/SOMERSET: Canoe Creek Wills Creek ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY T-487 bridge just off SR Youghiogheny River (from the lake Cush Creek WASHINGTON: ALLEGHENY: 3001 (Lake Road) downstream to the confluence Cush Cushion Creek Aunt Clara Fork Deer Creek – 1.9 miles; from Pike Run – 1.1 miles; from of the Casselman River) Laurel Run Dutch Fork the SR 0910 Bridge at T-678 the confluence with INDIANA: Little Mahoning Creek Dutch Fork Lake intersection downstream to the unnamed tributary Cummings Reservoir (Blue the lower boundary of Rose (intersection of T-836 and Enlow Fork upstream of the SR 2079 Spruce Lake) Ridge Golf Course SR 1037 at Antioch Church Kings Creek bridge downstream to SOMERSET: Pine Creek – 1.4 miles; from the to 700 meters downstream Little Chartiers Creek the powerline crossing Blue Hole Creek (from abandoned railroad bridge West Mahoning and North Millers Run downstream of the SR 2036 confluence with Garys Run near the T-575 and Duncan Mahoning Township Line) Mingo Creek bridge downstream to mouth) Ave. intersection downstream Little Yellow Creek Pike Run WESTMORELAND: Mudlick Run Templeton Fork Fall Creek (from confluence to 150 yards downstream of the SR 4019 bridge Indian Creek – 1.6 miles; from South Branch Two Lick Creek (from SR 0018 with Ansell Run downstream Bull Creek – 1.0 mile; from the the T-916 bridge downstream Toms Run downstream to SR 0019) to mouth) first bridge on T-721 (above the to the SR 0381 bridge. Yellow Creek WESTMORELAND: Laurel Hill Lake T-721 and T-719 intersection) Loyalhanna Creek – 1.67 SOMERSET: WASHINGTON: Fourmile Run downstream to the T-721 bridge miles; from SR 711 downstream Allen Creek Hannas Run Canonsburg Lake in Millerstown to SR 2045 Beaverdam Creek Hendricks Creek 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 14 Little Connoquenessing East Sandy Creek Caldwell Creek Bridge downstream to mouth) Creek Leatherwood Creek Conneaut Creek Muddy Creek (T-794 BUTLER: North Branch Slippery Rock Mill Creek (Dicksonburg Road (SR downstream to SR 1033) Bear Creek Creek Piney Creek 4004) downstream to North Deer Creek Bonnie Brook Silver Creek Redbank Creek (county line Missing Bridge (Pennside Oil Creek (confluence with Buffalo Creek Slippery Rock Creek to confluence with Little Road)) Mosey Run near Lincolnville Connoquenessing Creek Thorn Creek Sandy Creek) East Branch Oil Creek (Clear downstream to county line) Cornplanter Run (county line CLARION: Richey Run Lake outflow downstream Pine Creek to Moorehead Road (T-658)) Beaver Creek to mouth)

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Sugar Creek (Center Road West Branch Wolf Creek Sixmile Run WARREN: (T-549) downstream to Millstone Creek VENANGO: South Branch Tionesta Creek Caldwell Creek – 1.49 miles; county line) West Hickory Creek East Branch Sugar Creek Spring Creek from Selkirk highway bridge Thompson Creek (SR 2031 LAWRENCE: East Sandy Creek Thompson Run downstream to approximately downstream to mouth) Bessemer Lake Hemlock Creek Tidioute Creek 0.5 miles upstream of the Woodcock Creek Big Run Horse Creek Tionesta Creek Dotyville Bridge ERIE: Deer Creek Little Sandy Creek Cascade Creek Hickory Run Little Scrubgrass Creek West Branch Caldwell Creek DELAYED HARVEST Conneauttee Creek Honey Creek Little Sugar Creek West Branch Tionesta Creek ARTIFICIAL LURES Crooked Creek Little Neshannock Lower Twomile Run West Hickory Creek ONLY East Basin Pond (Waterworks Creek Mill Creek CLARION: Oil Creek (county line Stocked trout Ponds, Presque Isle State Neshannock Creek waters OPEN TO Piney Creek – 1.2 miles; SR Park) North Fork Little downstream to SR 0008 2016 bridge downstream Beaver Creek Bridge at Rynd Farm) YEAR-ROUND Elk Creek FISHING to 0.2 mile upstream of French Creek( from the state line Slippery Rock Creek Pine Run the SR 0066 bridge (county line Pithole Creek FOREST: downstream to the confluence Tionesta Creek (from Tionesta FOREST: with West Branch French downstream to Prather Creek East Hickory Creek– 1.7 Heinz Camp lower Richey Run Dam outflow downstream) Creek) LAWRENCE: miles; from the Queen Lake Pleasant property line) Sandy Creek (county line Creek Bridge downstream Taylor Run downstream to SR 3013 Cascade Quarry South Branch French Creek VENANGO: to the Otter Creek Bridge Twentymile Creek MERCER: (old Route 8) Bridge in LAWRENCE: Buhl Lake Pecan) Two Mile Run Reservoir Upper Pit (Justus Lake) Neshannock Creek – 2.67 West Basin Pond Cool Spring Creek Sugar Creek miles; from the base of the Mill (Waterworks Ponds, Little Neshannock Creek Twomile Run (Upper CATCH AND RELEASE Dam in Volant downstream to Twomile Run) Presque Isle State Park) Little Shenango River ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY the covered bridge on T-476 West Pithole Creek FOREST: Mill Creek (trib to Cool WARREN: MERCER: WARREN: Beaver Run Spring Creek) West Branch Caldwell Creek– Cool Spring Creek – 1.18 Akeley Run Bluejay Creek Neshannock Creek 2.75 miles; West Branch Bridge miles; from SR 2014 Blue Eye Run Coon Creek (SR 0058 at Mercer upstream to Three Bridge Run bridge upstream to the downstream to county Brokenstraw Creek East Hickory Creek abandoned railroad grade line) Browns Run Little Hickory Run CATCH AND RELEASE VENANGO: North Deer Creek Caldwell Creek Maple Creek FLY-FISHING ONLY Oil Creek – 1.55 miles; Pine Run East Branch Spring Creek Queen Creek LAWRENCE: from bridge at Petroleum Sandy Creek (SR 173 Bridge East Branch Tionesta Creek Ross Run Slippery Rock Creek – 0.5 mile; Center downstream downstream to county line) East Hickory Creek Salmon Creek from Heinz Camp property to railroad bridge at l Shenango River Farnsworth Branch South Branch downstream to 0.25 mile Columbia Farm (Hamburg Road bridge in Fourmile Run Tionesta Creek below SR 2022 Bridge Oil Creek – 1.0 mile; from New Hamburg to pipeline Hemlock Run Spring Creek VENANGO: the two green posts near crossing 600 yards Jackson Run The Branch Little Sandy Creek – 1.3 the Drake Well Museum upstream Valley Road Little Brokenstraw Creek Tionesta Creek (county line miles; from the old bridge downstream to Oil Creek bridge) Perry Magee Run downstream to Kelletville at Polk Center Pump House State Park hiking West Branch Little Neshannock Pine Creek downstream to the bridge on Bridge) Creek Queen Creek bridge Toms Run Savannah Road (SR 3024) NORTHCENTRAL REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS REGIONAL OPENING CAMERON: l Bald Eagle Creek (from confluence with Elk Creek) (confluence with Beech Run DAY OF TROUT SEASON Brooks Run the confluence with Spring Pine Creek ( Road downstream to county line) Stocked trout Clear Creek Creeknear SR144 bridge Bridge downstream to first waters Driftwood Branch downstream to the inlet of bridge on Pine Creek Road) Gifford Run OPENING DAY: Sayers Lake near the Boggs- Poe Lake Goss Run Dam MARCH 31 East Branch Cowley Run Howard Township line) Seven Boy Scout Janesville Dam These waters flow beyond the East Branch Hicks Run Big Poe Creek Pond Juniata Lake (Tannery Dam) counties designated as part of the Regional Opening Day of First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek Black Sinking Creek Laborde Branch Trout and are included as part Hicks Run Cold Stream (from outflow of Cold Sixmile Run Laurel Run (tributary of this trout program. Mix Run Stream Dam upstream 1.0 mile South Fork Beech Creek to Bennett Branch NORTHUMBERLAND: North Creek to the power line crossing) Wallace Run Sinnemahoning Creek) Mahantango Creek Sinnemahoning Portage Creek Cold Stream Dam Laurel Run (tributary to East SNYDER Upper Jerry Run Eddy Lick Run Wolf Run Branch Mahoning Creek) West Branch Mahantango West Branch Cowley Run (SR 0064 CLEARFIELD: Creek West Branch Hicks Run Bridge near Hublersburg Anderson Creek Little Muddy Run Stocked trout Wykoff Run downstream to county line) Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Medix Run waters CENTRE: Marsh Creek Creek Moose Creek OPENING DAY: Bald Eagle Creek (T-305 near Mountain Branch Chest Creek North Witmer Run APRIL 14 Port Matilda downstream to the l Penns Creek (SR 0045 Bridge Curry Run Parker Lake confluence with Spring Creek) in Spring Mills downstream to East Branch Mahoning Creek South Witmer Run

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West Branch Susquehanna Fivemile Run Marvin Creek North Branch Mahantango LYCOMING: River (confluence with (trib to Sandy Lick Creek) North Branch Little Pine Lake Anderson Creek to SR 2024 Laurel Run (trib to East Branch Potato Creek (confluence of North Branch Middle Creek Pine Creek (from confluence with crossing at Porters Bridge) Mahoning Creek) East Branch Potato Creek South Branch Middle Creek Bonnell Run at DCNR Clark Wilson Run Little Sandy Creek and Havens Run downstream Swift Run Farm Access Area downstream Wolf Run (county line to mouth) Little to confluence with Marvin TIOGA: to the confluence with Little CLINTON: Mill Creek (trib to Clarion River) Creek) Asaph Run, Pine Creek) Baker Run Mill Creek (trib to Sandy Lick Red Mill Brook Corey Creek LYCOMING/TIOGA: Pine Creek (from SR 0414 bridge Cooks Run Creek) Sartwell Creek (county line (county line l Fishing Creek (confluence in Blackwell downstream to North Fork Redbank Creek to mouth) downstream to confluence the confluence with ) with Cedar Run downstream Pekin Run Sevenmile Run with Troupes Creek) MCKEAN: to mouth) Rattlesnake Creek Skinner Creek East Branch Stony Fork Hyner Run Meade Run Rattlesnake Run South Branch Kinzua Creek Long Run (trib to Pine Creek) TIOGA: Kettle Creek (county line Redbank Creek Sugar Run Marsh Creek (SR 3024 Beechwood Lake downstream to Owl Hollow) Sandy Lick Creek Twomile Run downstream to mouth) Hamilton Lake Left Branch Young Womans Walburn Run West Branch Clarion River Mill Creek Creek Wolf Run West Branch Potato Creek Pine Creek CATCH AND RELEASE Little Fishing Creek LYCOMING: Willow Creek Seeley Creek ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY Hoagland Run MONTOUR: Stony Fork ELK: CAMERON: (water company Mahoning Creek (from SR Tioga River (county line Hunts Run– 4.7 miles; from Bear Creek filtration plant downstream 0054 to the mouth) downstream to confluence Belmouth Run confluence with McNuff to 1 mile downstream of Mauses Creek with Fall Brook) Branch downstream to the Bennett Branch confluence with First Fork Roaring Creek UNION: Sinnemahoning Creek mouth Larrys Creek) NORTHUMBERLAND: Buffalo Creek (T-366 Bridge CLINTON: Big Mill Creek Little Bear Creek Little Creek downstream to confluence Boggy Run Fishing Creek– 2.0 miles; Little (SR 0118 with Rapid Run) Byrnes Run from State Game Lands Bridge downstream to South Branch Roaring Creek Halfway Lake Crooked Creek #295 boundary (located 300 confluence with Big Run) Rod & Gun Club Laurel Run East Branch Clarion River yards downstream of the Pond North Branch Buffalo Creek East Branch Hicks Run upstream SR 2002 bridge) (county East Branch Millstone Creek POTTER: Penns Creek (0.3 mile downstream to a point 1.3 East Branch Spring Creek line downstream to SR Allegheny River downstream of confluence miles upstream of the lower Elk Creek 0973) Bailey Run with Cherry Run SR 2002 bridge Hicks Run (confluence Bell Run downstream to SR 0235 Rauchtown Creek– 1.12 Hoffman Run with Roaring Branch Cowanesque River Bridge in Glen Iron) miles; from the confluence Laurel Run Reservoir downstream to confluence East Branch Cowley Run Rapid Run (from outflow of of Rockey Run and Krape Little Toby Creek with Hoagland Run) East Branch Fishing Creek Halfway Lake to mouth) Run downstream to the SR Maxwell Run Mill Creek (Warrensville) (0.5 East Fork Sinnemahoning Creek Spring Creek 0880 crossing upstream of Mead Run mile upstream of T-846 Elevenmile Creek Spruce Run the Ravensburg St. Park Medix Run Bridge downstream to SR First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek White Deer Creek (from Cooper Picnic Area. Millstone Creek 2039 Bridge downstream of Fishing Creek Mill bridge to mouth) Young Womans Creek – 5.7 Mix Run Warrensville) Freeman Run Stocked trout miles; from the Beechwood Powers Run Muncy Creek (county line waters OPEN TO Trail downstream to a point Ridgway Reservoir downstream to confluence Kettle Creek YEAR-ROUND .7 mile upstream of the Rocky Run with ) Little Kettle Creek FISHING confluence with the Left Spring Creek Pleasant Stream Lyman Run CAMERON: Branch Young Womans Creek Twin Lakes Rock Run (trib to Lycoming Lyman Run Reservoir George B. Stevenson Reservoir LYCOMING: West Branch Clarion River Creek) Middle Branch Genesee River West Creek Grays Run– 2.2 miles; from West Branch Hicks Run Spring Creek Oswayo Creek (confluence CLEARFIELD: the Grays Run Hunting Club West Branch Millstone Creek with Clara Creek West Branch Susquehanna property line downstream to Wilson Run MCKEAN: downstream to Sharon River (SR 1001 Bridge near the bridge on T-842 Wolf Run Allegheny River (county line Center Bridge (T-372)) Hyde to first Railroad Bridge (Grays Run Road) at the old JEFFERSON: downstream to confluence Pine Creek downstream of the confluence CCC camp Big Run (trib to Little Sandy with Allegheny Portage Sartwell Creek with Moose Creek) MIFFLIN/UNION: Creek) Creek) South Branch Oswayo Creek CLINTON: Penns Creek– 3.65 miles; from Big Run (trib to Mahoning Bell Run South Woods Branch Kettle Creek Lake approximately 650 yards Creek) Bradford City Number Three West Branch Cowley Run ELK: downstream of Swift Run Callen Run Reservoir West Branch Genesee River Straight Creek downstream to approximately Canoe Creek Brewer Run West Creek (SR 1008 at 550 yards downstream of Cathers Run Chappel Fork SNYDER: Rathbun downstream Cherry Run Clear Creek Combs Creek Kern Run to SR 3001 at Howard POTTER: Clear Run East Branch Tionesta Creek Middle Creek (headwaters Siding) – 5.02 miles; Cloe Lake Hamlin Lake downstream to 0.5 mile from Bear Trap Lodge East Branch Havens Run downstream of SR 0522 downstream to the Weed Mahoning Creek Kinzua Creek Bridge at Middleburg) property

2018l=Section Pennsylvania of this Stocked Trout Summary Water is also of a Class Fishing A Wild TroutRegulations Stream-see chart and on pageLaws 20 for listing. 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; ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY from the SR 0015 bridge mouth upstream a distance the vicinity of the high voltage from the confluence with CENTRE: (Old Route 15) near Haleeka of 2.7 miles line 3 miles south of Smethport Slate Run downstream upstream 1.3 miles to the first downstream for a distance of to the confluence with overhead utility line crossing CATCH AND RELEASE – 1.3 miles; from Dry 0.9 miles Bonnell Run at DCNR Hollow downstream to 0.3 upstream of Powys Curve FLY-FISHING ONLY Clark Farm Access Area POTTER: mile downstream of the Muncy Creek – 1.1 miles; CAMERON: POTTER/TIOGA: Kettle Creek – 1.7 miles; Huckleberry Road bridge from R. Sullivan property Driftwood Branch Upper Kettle Creek basin – from a sign located 500 CLEARFIELD: 600 yards upstream of Sinnemahoning Creek 28.3 miles; Kettle Creek from feet downstream of the SR Little Clearfield Creek– 1.1 T-650 bridge downstream – 1.55 miles; from the the headwaters downstream 0144 bridge to a sign located miles; from 0.4 miles to vicinity of confluence of Shippen Township Building to the confluence with Long 1.7 miles upstream of the downstream of the T-584 Big Run at Tivoli downstream to 330 yards Run and all tributaries lower boundary Bridge downstream to 0.2 McKEAN: upstream of the SR 0120 including Long Run TIOGA: miles upstream of the SR Kinzua Creek– 2.29 miles; Bridge near Emporium upstream to the headwaters. Francis Branch Tributary to Slate 2023 (Turkey Hill) Bridge From SR 219 at Tallyho CENTRE: Run – 1.7 miles; from mouth Sandy Lick Creek– 1.71 miles; downstream to Camp Run Spring Creek (Fisherman’s TROPHY TROUT upstream to Kramer Hollow from the mouth of Laborde West Branch Tunungwant Creek Paradise) – 1.3 miles; from ARTIFICIAL LURES ONLY – 1.2 miles; from T-499 bridge UNION: Branch downstream to the a point adjacent to the CENTRE: downstream to pipeline cross- White Deer Creek – 3.16 miles; SR 219 bridge Stackhouse School Pistol Lick Run – 2.5 miles; from the ing near confluence of Gates from Cooper Mill Road upstream ELK: Range downstream to the headwaters to the mouth Hollow to Union/Centre County line Big Mill Creek– 1.5 miles; from lower Bellefonte Hatchery CLINTON: POTTER: the confluence of Rocky grounds CATCH AND RELEASE Fishing Creek – 1.18 miles; Allegheny River – 2.7 miles; Run downstream to 0.3 mile ELK: ALL TACKLE from the private lane bridge from Pond Road 0.3 mile downstream of the Allegheny West Branch Clarion River – 0.68 CAMBRIA/CLEARFIELD: at the Tylersville State Fish downstream of Colesburg National Forest, Forest Road, downstream to 0.3 mile mile; from intersection of SR l West Branch Susquehanna Hatchery downstream to the 135 Bridge downstream of Prosser Hol- 219 and SR 4003 upstream to River (from outflow of AMD State Game Lands #295 East Branch Clarion River– low Bridge the former Texas Gulf Sulphur treatment plant near Watkins boundary (located 300 yards 1.15 miles; from 110 yards First Fork Sinnemahoning property line 0.6 miles upstream downstream to confluence of downstream of the upstream downstream of the outflow Creek – 1.67 miles; from of SR 4003 bridge Cush Creek near Dowler Junction SR 2002 bridge) and 2.1 from East Branch Clarion mouth of Bailey Run down- JEFFERSON: CENTRE: miles; from a point 1.3 Lake downstream to stream to a bend above Berge North Fork Redbank Creek – Spring Creek– 16.22 miles; from upstream of the lower SR the State Gameland boundary Run Bridge 1.9 miles; from SR 322 in the Boalsburg Road Bridge (SR 2002 bridge downstream to SNYDER: 1.15 miles downstream of Brookville upstream 1.9 miles, 3010) at Hall upstream of Fleming’s Bridge (SR 2004) Middle Creek – 1.2 the upstream limit except a 110-yard section Hanson Quarry (formerly HRI/ at the Lamar Fish Hatchery miles; from the bridge on LYCOMING: from the Brookville Water Neidig Bros. Quarry) downstream LYCOMING/TIOGA: SR 4007 (Pine Swamp Little Pine Creek – 1.1 miles; from Authority Dam downstream to the mouth with the exception Cedar Run – 7.44 miles; Road) to the downstream the confluence of Otter Run to the wire across the creek of special regulations area at from the confluence with boundary of State Game downstream to the confluence LYCOMING/TIOGA: Fisherman’s Paradise and the Buck Run downstream to Lands #188 of Schoolhouse Hollow Slate Run – 7.13 miles; Exhibition Area in Bellefonte the mouth TIOGA: Loyalsock Creek – 1.49 miles; Pine Creek – 1.06 from the confluence of ELK: McKEAN: from the Lycoming - Sullivan mile; from Darling Run the Cushman and Francis Clarion River– 8.48 miles; East Branch Tunungwant County line downstream to downstream to 0.1 branches downstream to from the confluence of the Creek – 3.0 miles; from the East and West branches confluence with Pigeon Run Sandy Bottom mile downstream of the the mouth confluence with Owassee downstream to the Main St. downstream to the Main Slide Hollow Bridge (SR 948) in Ridgway Street Bridge in Lewis Run

NORTHEAST REGION REGULATED TROUT WATERS REGIONAL OPENING Stocked trout Sugar Creek (confluence with Hickory Run Lake Spring Run DAY OF TROUT SEASON waters South Branch Sugar Creek Lehigh Canal (Long Run Level COLUMBIA: Stocked trout OPENING DAY: downstream to SR 0006 in near Weissport) Beaver Run (Moyers Farm waters APRIL 14 East Troy) l Lehigh River (0.33 miles downstream to mouth) OPENING DAY: BRADFORD: Sunfish Pond upriver from railroad bridge Briar Creek MARCH 31 l Cooks Pond (South Ave., at Glen Onoko down river to Fishing Creek (SR 4049 *These Northeast Region Gaylord Creek T-998 downstream to SR Mauch Chunk Creek) downstream to Light Street) waters flow beyond the Little 3001 Bridge) Mauch Chunk Creek (outlet Huntington Creek (Forks Farm counties designated as part (confluence with Marsh Tuscarora Creek Mauch Chunk Lake downstream to Twin Bridges of the Regional Opening Day of Creek downstream to mouth) downstream to upstream Park) Trout Season and are included North Branch Sugar CARBON: face of Lentz Trail (SR Little Fishing Creek (Talmar Road as part of this trout program. Creek (Alparon Park Aquashicola Creek 3012) bridge (SR 4032) downstream to CARBON: Fairgrounds downstream Buckwha Creek Eyers Grove Road (SR 4021)) Lizard Creek to mouth) Drakes Creek l Pohopoco Creek (outlet of Mahoning Creek Schrader Creek Hickory Run (outlet of Hickory Beltzville Lake downstream Pine Creek South Branch Towanda Creek Run Lake downstream to to Hideaway Hunting and Roaring Creek South Creek Saylorsville Dam) Fishing Club cable across Scotch Run the creek) 28 www.fishandboat.com l =NEW l =Section 2018 of this StockedPennsylvania Trout Water is Summaryalso a Class A Wildof TroutFishing Stream-see Regulations chart on page 20and for listing.Laws NORTHEAST REGION TROUT WATERS

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

2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws www.fishandboat.com 29 FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORY

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY 2018 FISH CONSUMPTION

HEALTH BENEFITS OF EATING FISH is that you eat no more than one meal (one-half pound) Fish are nutritious and good to eat. Fish are low in fat, high per week of sport fish caught in the state’s waterways. in protein and provide substantial human health benefits. This general advice was issued to protect against eating Fish provide valuable vitamins and and beneficial large amounts of fish that have not been tested or that FATTY oils that are low in saturated fat. Omega-3 fatty acids found in may 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 one-half pound of fish (8 oz before cooking) for a 150-pound person. The meal CONTAMINANTS IN FISH advice is equally protective for larger people who eat IMPORTANT: You must follow these cleaning and While most recreationally caught sport fish in Pennsylva- larger meals 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 Fish & Boat Commission may result from the contaminants found in fish range from Women beyond their childbearing years and men state fish hatcheries are subject to the blanket small changes in health that are hard to detect to birth generally face fewer health risks from these contaminants. one-meal-per-week consumption advisory that defects and cancer. Mothers who eat highly contaminated However, it is recommended that you also follow the 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 hatchery trout are appropriate for 2018 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 2018. 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 Dept. 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 regulatory • Remove all skin. Questions concerning current advisory listings, 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. Dept. 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. • Discard any drippings. Do not eat them or use them for Fish & Boat Commission: 814-359-5147, STATEWIDE ADVISORY cooking other foods or in preparing other sauces. website: www.fishandboat.com. 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 2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws 2018 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 () (Carbon Co.) Entire lake Walleye 2 meals/month Mercury l Broadhead Creek (Monroe Co.) Entire basin Rock Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Bushkill Creek (Monroe & Pike Co.) Entire basin American Eel, l 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: > 28 inches length 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 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 () (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.) Entire basin (except East Branch Red Clay Creek) American Eel 1 meal/month PCB 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 Valley Creek at Valley Forge (Chester Co.) Entire basin 1 meal/month PCB No Harvest–PFBC Catch and Release All Tackle Regulation 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 1 meal/month PCB White Clay Creek (Chester Co.) Entire basin American Eel 2 meals/smonth Mercury White Oak Pond Lake (Wayne Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury * The harvest of live mussels and clams in Pennsylvania is prohibited. SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN 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 1 meal/month Mercury Bearwallow Pond (Sullivan Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass, l Chain Pickerel 2 meals/month Mercury l Brady’s Lake (Monroe Co.) Entire lake Chain Pickerel 6 meals/year Mercury Yellow Perch 1 meal/month Mercury (Bradford Co.) NY/PA border to mouth Channel Catfish 2 meals/month Mercury Smallmouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury (Lancaster Co.) Slackwater to mouth Rock Bass 2 meals/month Mercury l Cowanesque River and Reservoir (Tioga Co.) Entire basin Largemouth Bass, Black Crappie 1 meal/month Mercury Yellow Perch Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek-George B. Stevenson Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Dam () (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 l 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 () (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 Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury Lake Jean (UNT Kitchen Cr.) Entire lake Chain Pickerel, Largemouth Bass 1 meal/month Mercury () (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 2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws www.fishandboat.com 31 Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant l 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 Shumans Lake (Loyalsock Cr) (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 >20” 1 meal/month PCB Perry, Dauphin, Cumberland, York and Lancaster Co.) Tioga Reservior (Tioga Co.) Entire Reservior 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 Channel Catfish 1 meal/month PCB Lycoming, Union and Northumberland Co.) Susquehanna River White Deer Creek (Union Co.) I-80 bridge to mouth 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 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 l 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 l 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, lWalleye 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 2018 Pennsylvania Summary of Fishing Regulations and Laws FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORY Water Body Area Under Advisory Species Meal Frequency Contaminant (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 l Channel Catfish < 18” Carp, l Channel Catfish > 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 < 18”, Carp, 6 meals/year PCB Hybrid Striped Bass, White Bass Channel Catfish > 18”, Do Not Eat PCB Oil Creek (Venango Co.) SR 1004 bridge at Petroleum Center to mouth Smallmouth Bass 2 meals/month Mercury l 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 l All species Do Not Eat PCB Sugar Lake (Crawford Co.) Entire lake Largemouth Bass 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 < 20”, Freshwater Drum, Lake Trout < 30” and Channel Catfish Carp > 20”, Lake Trout > 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. 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, inlcuding the Potomac River Basin.

Recognizing and Reporting POLLUTION or DISTURBANCE of Waterways

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

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2019 FISHING DATES* Commonwealth Inland Waters Regional Opening Day of Trout**: March 30, 2019 *Dates subject to change by regulation until Statewide Opening Day of Trout: April 13, 2019 publication of the 2019 Opening Day of Walleye/Sauger: May 4, 2019 PA Fishing Summary. Opening Day of Bass: June 15, 2019 **18 southeastern Extended Trout Season: September 3, 2019 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 different categories of fish to assist anglers in 2018 Mentored Youth knowing the prime fishing hotspots. Confirmed by Trout Days: March 24 (regional) survey catch rates and the availability of public and April 7 (statewide) access, the program waters offered are provided Take part in the Commission’s Mentored Youth to help increase anglers’ success and convenient www.PaBestFishing.com Trout Days. Youth under the age of 16 can join a access to this information. You deserve the best! mentor (adult) angler who has a current fishing license and trout permit to fish on Saturday, 2018 FISH-FOR-FREE DAYS! Fish-For-Free Days March 24 on stocked trout waters within the Sunday, May 27 18 southeastern regional counties for regional trout season and to fish stocked trout waters in Independence Day, Wednesday, July 4 the other counties on Saturday, April 7. No fishing license is needed to fish on either of these For more information, visit: days. It’s a great way to introduce someone to the www.fishandboat.com/mentoredyouth.htm world of fishing. Check the Commission’s website for events. Remember that all other regulations apply. May 27 & July 4, 2018

MORE DETAILS INTERACTIVE MAPS MORE INFORMATION The Fish & Boat How to measure a fish Commission Tail slightly compressed maintains up-to-date Tail in natural position ONLINE! online maps at www.fishandboat.com Close mouth 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 for family ice fishing, family fly- Fork length: Not used in Pennsylvania. fishing and a SMART angler program for youth between the ages of 8 and 12. For a Total length:This is the measurement Commission biologists and law enforcement personnel use. Compress tail slightly to obtain this measurement. current listing of scheduled programs, visit: www.GoneFishingPa.com This booklet is a summary of the laws and regulations applicable to fish and fishing in Pennsylvania in effect or proposed as of October 1, 2017. 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 disability. 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.

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