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Pattern your shotgun now, and work ahead to avoid any unnecessary equipment or calling blunders when chasing gobblers
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Pattern your shotgun now, and work ahead to avoid any unnecessary equipment or calling blunders when chasing gobblers
Highpoint Lake (Somerset County) — Bass up to 16 inches, crappies up to 13 inches, and chain pickerel up to 24 inches were reported during late-season ice. One black crappie was 15-plus inches. Monongahela River
Penns Creek (Snyder County) — As conditions allowed through late March, TCO Fly Shop recommended streamers along the banks or going deeper with nymphs, especially bigger Stoneflies. Hatches included tiny Blue-Winged Olives (20-22) and midges
Armstrong, Clarks, Mahantango, Powells, Rattling creeks (Dauphin County); Children’s Lake at Boiling Springs (Cumberland County) — Freezing air temperatures put a dent in participation on these and other fisheries on Mentored Youth Trout Fishing Day,
Prompton Dam (Wayne County) — Ray’s Guide Service reported crappies and big numbers of nice bluegills were hitting in 18 to 20 feet of water through last ice as of March 28. Lackawanna Lake (Lackawanna
Hay, Antietam, Manatawny creeks (Berks County) — Water was slightly high and murky and air temperatures were freezing with even colder wind chills on these and other fisheries on Mentored Youth Trout Fishing Day, March

Anyone who’s been paying attention in recent years knows the Pennsylvania Game Commission has been growing the deer herd.

What started with a bang ended with a whimper in a suburb here whose first-ever deer cull soon became a bust.
The hunters’ voices were loud, clear and unified – “We want more deer.”
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