Fishing

Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is about to kick off the job of updating its trout-management plan. But it’s getting some ideas already. The agency will hold the first day-long meeting of

By P.J. Reilly Southeast Correspondent Lancaster, Pa. — Darryl Yost doesn’t get around as well as he used to. Muscular dystrophy has severely reduced the 61-year-old Hatboro, Montgomery County, resident’s ability to control his legs.

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg – In the late 1980s, when huge numbers of gypsy moths infested state game lands in central Pennsylvania, Game Commis-sion officials chose to do nothing as the caterpillars ate their

By Deborah Weisberg Southwest Correspondent Pittsburgh – Two hunting seasons collided tragically in southwestern Pennsylvania recently when a small game hunter, presumably targeting squirrels, shot another man in the face, as he waited with his

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg – There was some disagreement about exactly what Pennsylvania Game Commissioners did at their two-day meeting in early October to influence the debate about new dog regulations proposed by the

By Ad Crable Contributing Writer Lancaster, Pa. – Wind power may still be the darling of many alternative-energy advocates. But concerns that wind farms kill migratory birds and fragment the last of Pennsylvania’s unbroken forest

By Marcus Schneck Contributing Writer Harrisburg – The summer of 2007 was another disappointing one for young-of-the-year smallmouth bass and bass anglers in much of the Susquehanna River, and the future is not currently looking

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg – Although the lawsuit recently filed by the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsyl-vania against the state Game Commission asks for an immediate halt to the taking of antlerless deer on public

By Ad Crable Contributing Writer White Haven, Pa. – Could the the Lehigh River be one of the best trout-fishing destinations in the East? Could it be a 40-mile-long ribbon of gorgeous big water with