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Sportsmen Since 1968

Mark Nale

Commentary: Pennsylvania’s trout stream classification changes – gain or loss?

A recent phone call from a friend about the status of a small central Pennsylvania stream gave me pause to reflect. The stream in question – I’ll call it “Rhododendron Run” (not its real name) – was stocked by the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission with a couple hundred trout. A few adults fished there, but for local kids, it was a safe place where they could walk or ride their bikes to fish. Landowners were happy.
A while back, the commission halted stocking.

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Foundation makes wetlands, stream accessible for all in Pennsylvania

Twenty-two cars and pickups nearly filled the parking lot at the Soaring Eagle Wetlands near Julian, Pa. The vehicles mainly belonged to anglers taking advantage of the access to a section of Bald Eagle Creek delineated as Keystone Select – and stocked with buckets full of big trout.
It should be no surprise that anglers flock to the state’s Keystone Stocked Trout Waters, because they provide excellent catch-and-release fishing for large trout. For three months out of the year, the biggest attraction at Soaring Eagle by far is the trout fishing.

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Lin Gamble earns Pennsylvania Outdoor News’ 2025 Person of the Year honor

Many people had given up on Tubmill Creek, a stocked trout stream in northern Westmoreland County, Pa., but not Lin Gamble. Along with the non-profit Tubmill Trout Club, Gamble has been working to improve their namesake stream and its tributaries since 1998.
From its headwaters on Laurel Hill, Tubmill Creek flows northwest to where it is dammed to form Tubmill Reservoir.

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Pennsylvania’s Class A stream-stocking exemptions method altered

Since the beginning of “Operation FUTURE” in 1981, Pennsylvania streams having a thriving population of wild trout have been removed from the stocking list. These streams, labeled Class A because of their high trout biomass, can provide excellent fishing without stocking.
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission regularly receives requests for some of these formally stocked streams to be returned to the stocking list.

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Survey shows great numbers, size of wild brown trout on Pennsylvania’s Little Juniata River

The results of the summer 2024 electro-fishing survey of the lower Little Juniata River in Pennsylvania show a very healthy wild brown trout population. The details of this study were presented on Jan. 16 to the members of the Little Juniata River Association at its monthly meeting.
The Little Juniata River originates in Blair County near Altoona at the confluence of Spring Run and Kettle Creek. It flows northeasterly through the Borough of Tyrone and then cuts under I-99 and through the Bald Eagle Mountain, heading southeasterly to join with the Frankstown Branch near Petersburg in Huntingdon County. Anglers come from all over the eastern United States to fish the famous stream.

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Rhododendron is Mother Nature’s winter thermometer

Rhododendron leaves hang curled and seemingly lifeless on a frigid winter morning.
As temperatures rise into the 20s, rhododendron’s leathery, evergreen leaves uncurl slowly to greet the morning sun. When temperatures reach the 30s, its leaves look almost summer-like. This curling-uncurling characteristic makes the rhododendron Mother Nature’s winter thermometer.

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The chatty red squirrel: Known for scolding deer hunters

A machine-gun-like chatter echoing through the mixed hemlock, beech, and maple forest is the scolding that a deer hunter gets when he enters the territory of a feisty red squirrel. Weighing approximately 6 ounces and measuring only a foot long – half of which is tail  –  the little squirrel packs a large vocal punch.

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Thirty predator hunts scheduled in Pennsylvania this winter

At least 30 organized predator hunts are scheduled across Pennsylvania and hunters are eager to participate. Hunts began this month and continue through mid-March.
Thirteen hunts are planned to start in January – beginning with Endless Mountains Coon Hunters 20th annual Coyote & Fox Hunt centered in Susquehanna County.

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Court to decide access to tract along Spruce Creek — a world-famous limestone trout stream in Pennsylvania

For more than three years, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has been in a legal back-and-forth with landowners along a section of land that abuts Spruce Creek in Pennsylvania.
A close look at a map of Rothrock State Forest shows that over a quarter-mile of the state forest is adjacent to Spruce Creek – a world-famous limestone trout stream. Rothrock State Forest contains nearly 97,000 acres of primarily wooded land in Centre, Huntingdon and Mifflin counties.

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