Northwest Region
Crawford County
Conneaut Lake
Anglers are catching panfish and Largemouth Bass throughout the lake. Anglers are targeting the panfish on the north end of the lake. Pleasure boating is on the rise.
Pymatuning Reservoir
Anglers are catching crappies, Channel Catfish, Yellow Perch, Largemouth Bass, and Walleye. For panfish, anglers should target the shallow areas out to about 6 foot of water.
French Creek
Anglers are catching Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, and Northern Pike. Canoers and kayakers are reminded that they must have an unpowered registration or a launch permit to use PFBC launch areas along French Creek.
Mercer County
Lake Wilhelm
Anglers are catching Bluegills, crappies, and Largemouth Bass throughout the lake. Panfish are hitting live bait under a float. Wax, meal, or red worms have all been working lately.
Western Erie County
Walnut Creek
Anglers are catching Walleye out in front of the Walnut Creek Access Area. Night time fishing for Walleye is pretty good and the daytime has just now started. The Walleye are in shallow but there are a lot of little ones again this year. That is a good sign for future fishing. There will be some construction going on in the creek starting soon and will last for 3 weeks.
Eastern Erie County
Anglers are catching panfish out of Lake Pleasant, Union City Reservoir, and Howard Eaton Reservoir. Worms and minnows are the bait of choice. Most of the Walleye action is on the west side of the county. Smallmouth Bass are being caught from the W’s to East Avenue using soft plastics and jerk baits.
French Creek
French Creek has been heavily used by kayakers. Make sure to have your life jacket with you.
Lake Erie
For current Lake Erie conditions, call Northeast Marina at 814-725-8244.
Northeasatern Region
Eastern Bradford County
Walleye, smallmouth bass, rock bass and channel cats are active. Chicken liver at night is working for the catfish.
Northern Wayne County
Trout are still abundant in most trout streams. Fly fishermen are doing well early in the morning and later in the afternoon. Crappie and bluegill are hitting small jigs and worms at Prompton Dam. Large pickerel are being taken at Long Pond on large crank baits.
Northern Susquehanna County
Walleye and smallmouth bass are active on the Susquehanna River near Great Bend.
Southern Wayne County and Pike County
The recent warming of water temperatures have crappie, sunfish and pickerel cooperating nicely with anglers.
Northcentral Region
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Cameron County
Anglers are catching Smallmouth Bass using crayfish or crayfish imitations. The crayfish are molting early this year, resulting in great fishing!
Anglers are still catching trout in streams across the County. On hot days, target shade lines and fish early morning/late evening hours.
Clinton County
Fishing Creek
Despite warm weather, water temperature remains in the mid 50s. With rain events predicted over the next few days, water clarity and levels will fluctuate. Be prepared to switch up your game!
Anglers are catching trout using mayfly, stonefly and caddis nymphs(e.g. Frenchie #14-16; gold bead pheasant tail #12-18; Prince #12-16; swimming ISO nymph #10-12). Fish small nymphs mid-day, in the shallow riffles. Trout are rising sporadically mid-day into the evening hours.
Carry the following dry flies, just in case you see a few trout rising (e.g. Slate Drake #10-12; March Brown #12; midges #22-26, Bluewing Olives size #18-22, Tan Caddis #12-14).
Centre County
Foster Joseph Sayers Lake
Anglers are catching bass, Yellow Perch, Bluegill and Crappie using red worms, butter worms and live minnows.
Spring Creek
Water levels are perfect right now! Sulphers are past their peak, but are still the hatch of choice, mostly in the late evening hours. During the day caddis larvae and emergers are working well. Water temperature is in the 50s.
Anglers are catching most of their trout subsurface, using nymphs (e.g. sulphur nymphs, hot spot sow bug, walt’s worm, black zebra midge, deep sparkle pupa and a variety of other caddis larvae patterns).
Anglers are also catching trout using dry flies (e.g. tan caddis #14-16); sulphur#14-16; blue wing olives sizes #18-22;midges sizes 22-26).
Southeastern Region
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N. Chester County
Marsh Creek Lake
Bluegills and crappies are taking mealworms, wax worms, minnows and small jigs. Bass are taking live bait (worms & minnows) as well as jigs, spinners and crankbaits. The best soft plastic colors to use are black, purple, dark green rubber and pumpkin seed. The best live baits are crayfish, minnows and nightcrawlers.
Streams
French Creek, Pickering Creek, East Brandywine Creek and West Valley Creek have good flows with plenty of trout and very few anglers fishing for them. Water temps are in the 60s. Fly anglers have reported taking trout on blue winged olives, midges and a few taken on sulfurs. Small pheasant tail and hares ears nymphs are a good bet for nymph anglers. Remember, you may never have bait in your possession in any of the Special Regulation Areas, Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures & Fly Fishing Only Areas. The Fly Fishing Area is Catch & Release Only.
Schuylkill River (Black Rock area)
Smallmouth bass fishing has been hit and miss, but a few anglers have had success with artificial lures. Catfish anglers have reported catching several large Channel Catfish and are also getting into Flathead Catfish as well.
S. Chester County
The next meeting of the White Clay Fly Fishers will be held on Tuesday June 20 starting at 7:00P at the London Tract Baptist Meetinghouse which is at the intersection of Sharpless and London Tract Road in Landenberg, PA 19350. For more information on the club or the meeting you can visit the website at whiteclayflyfishers.org
The Orvis Store in Downingtown at 70 Quarry Rd, Downingtown Pa. 19335 will offer a free Fly-Fishing 101 course on Saturday June 17 from 09:00A to 11:30A. The course will cover everything that the beginning fly angler will need to know including rigging and casting and would be a great way to get started in the sport. For more information you can call the store at 610-873-8400 or visit the website at orvis.com/downingtown
The next meeting of The Friends of Hibernia will be this Thursday, June 22 at 7:00P at the Hibernia County Park Historical Annex. Membership information can be obtained by mail to Friends of Hibernia, Post Office Box 355, Wagontown, PA 19376. You can also get more information by contacting the Hibernia County Park Office at 610-383-3812.