I grew up on Long Island and fished mostly lakes, ponds and salt water, I don't have any experience here in PA really. I'm interested in any fishing but I will say I'm not just about sport fishing, I do like to take some to eat so I would really love to catch my first trout, would also love to go for walleye, even crappie, never caught any of those. I do have some physical limitations, bad knees so I'm not gonna be going on long hikes or any steep terrain. So if anyone is near me and would like to show me the ropes I would be grateful. Now, this is Reddit, so I'm going to mention that I'm married, male and 55 years old. This is strictly fishing lol. The pic is me back in 1985 about, ever see an albino catfish?
Posted by Gardener_Mike
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Stocked fish exist entirety for this purpose. Check out your mnr/dnr’s website to find out which water bodies they stock trout in.
Born and raised lancaster multispecies angler, we have a few options depending on the species you wish to target. Wild trout are very few and far between in the county unfortunately but we have a ton of streams that are stocked throughout spring. The conastoga river (feeds into the susquehanna) is a great place to target smallmouth throughout its range, the bigger fish being located towards the main river it feeds. Speedwell forge dam is a dam that was drained and refilled in 2016, and since been under the big bass program. It is now a fishery that can be quite tough due to pressure and certainly has a lot of small fish, but some 5lb + bass as well. Most of our rivers and streams and lakes hold carp as well. If you enjoy catfishing, channels can be found in the lower conastoga river as well as in the susquehanna. Enormous flathead catfish can be found in the larger sections of the susquehanna, especially the lake aldred hydroelectric reserve.
ill come n take ur fish
then ill filet tha mighty beast give it a flour dance and then a sizzle in tha skillet and then ill eat it