Commentary: Do Pennsylvania trout fishing regulations need to be this complicated?
A friend recently emailed me, asking what the trout fishing regulations were on a stream that flows through his property. The stream was a popular trout fishing destination – Fishing Creek. The title of his email was “State of Confusion.”
I am a lifelong trout fisherman, and I have fished the stream in question, so I thought that this would be an easy question to answer. My friend even helped by providing screen shots of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission interactive stream map, and shots from the regulation booklet.
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