
Don’t give up on trout-stocked lakes
Importantly, you’re going to need to fish deep. Use a jig, either a flat-sided head, a ball jig or a bladed jig – and a ¼-ounce jig so it stays deep on a long trolled
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Importantly, you’re going to need to fish deep. Use a jig, either a flat-sided head, a ball jig or a bladed jig – and a ¼-ounce jig so it stays deep on a long trolled

Targeting catfish at night can result in nonstop action along with a thrill from an occasional bruiser. As for the time of year, successful outings can consistently occur from the late spring to the early

Despite heavy rainstorms making some streams muddy and temporarily unproductive, smallmouth bass fishing was reported to be excellent in many streams in recent weeks.


Yellow perch are one star. Multiple surveys done by Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission biologists over the past 15 years – as well as angler reports – indicate a lot of them reach nice sizes.

In recent weeks, bass fishing has been fairly hot.


It is realistic to envision catching 12 or more bronzebacks during a morning or an evening excursion. Smallmouths exceeding 12 inches provide lots of action and latching onto a 17-to 18-incher is possible.

Catch-and-release bass fishing has been hot.
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