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Best for bluegills? Try these six waters if you’re looking in eastern Pennsylvania
When it comes to ice fishing, defining “best” is a tricky grade. And it gets trickier when it comes to the ubiquitous bluegill.
Are we talking about size of individual bluegills? Are we talking

New commercial baitfish harvest rules approved in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved new rules that will apply to commercial harvesters of baitfish in 2024.
The rules, adopted at the board’s Dec. 13 meeting, apply to minnows, and other wild

New York Fishing Report – January 5-19, 2024
Steelhead are being found throughout this fishery.

Five essential minnow tricks for ice anglers – video
If you ice fish with minnows using set lines, whether that be on tip-ups, flag boards, rattle reels or deadsticks, this video is a must see.

Protected in parts of Pennsylvania, brown trout have a bounty on them in stretch of Colorado River
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission last November adopted a change to trout-harvesting regulations on 12 streams located in eastern and central parts of the state.
The law, known as a “miscellaneous special regulation,”

Ben Moyer: Notice of Stocking form in Pennsylvania simple but sketchy
I’m affiliated with an organization that sponsors a Fish & Boat Commission Cooperative Trout Nursery. Early in December our group received a letter introducing the just unveiled Notice of Stocking form which, effective Jan. 1,

New York’s public hearings on striped bass regulations yield varying opinions
In December, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation hosted two public hearings on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Draft Addendum II to Amendment 7 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic

Army Corps of Engineers triples down on invasive carp barrier effort
The best hope for keeping invasive Asian carp from infiltrating the Great Lakes, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the Brandon Road Project.
That project, however, is about a billion

Think structure for deep, hard-water walleyes
Deep water is a relative term since it can vary from one system to the next. Deep might only be 15 feet on one lake, but as much as 30-plus on another.
Regardless, walleyes