Lake Profile

Had anyone walked past us along the shoreline, they would likely have thought my younger son, Tyler, was sick. Stomach cramps, maybe. He was hunched over, sweating, with an occasional groan escaping his lips.

If you look around Pennsylvania, you’ll see that we have Indian names attached to many of our most iconic natural features. Rivers, streams, mountains – even entire regions – have the honor of carrying nomenclature

We’re now about a decade into Leaser Lake once again having water in it, and entering the third year of anglers being able to keep fish – of all kinds, not just stocked trout –

A tributary of the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River, Yellow Creek in Bedford County is a free-flowing limestone-influenced stream that can provide great opportunities for trout and a few other species.

If Mother Nature would only follow deadlines like outdoor writers must, then we all would know if there’s going to be fishable ice this season instead of it remaining a guessing game.
Point of

Hands down, Lackawanna Lake in the northeast region of Pennsylvania, is one of the best, if not the best panfish impoundment around.
I’ve been thinking and saying that for years and now a new

I have to start with the truth regarding ice fishing last year at Hills Creek Lake.
It just wasn’t the greatest of seasons – for two reasons.First, because it was the start of an

Unlike the stalwart servicemen and women at the Tobyhanna Army Depot on the cold Pocono Plateau, I don’t have to get up at reveille to start my day.
At the adjoining state park and

If Ricketts Glen State Park was Las Vegas, the Glens Natural Area would be its headliner.
A National Natural Landmark, the Glens is home to 22 named waterfalls, the largest being 94-foot-tall Ganoga Falls.