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Trout Fishing Regulations
NORTHWEST REGION - Regulated Trout Waters
 
Northwest Region   Opening Day of Trout Season is  April 2, 2022. In effect for all stocked trout waters (listed below) within the Northcentral Region.  

Special regulations in this region:

Stocked Trout Waters [view regulation]
BUTLER
Bear Creek – Bonnie Brook – Buffalo Creek – Connoquenessing Creek – Cornplanter Run (county line to Moorehead Road (T-658)) – Glade Run Lake – Harbar Acres Lake – Little Buffalo Run – Little Connoquenessing Creek – North Branch Slippery Rock Creek – Silver Creek – Slippery Rock Creek – Thorn Creek

CLARION
Beaver Creek – Canoe Creek – Cathers Run – Coon Creek – East Sandy Creek – Leatherwood Creek – Mill Creek – Piney Creek – Redbank Creek (county line to confluence with Little Sandy Creek) – Richey Run – Toms Run – Turkey Run

CRAWFORD
Caldwell Creek – Conneaut Creek (Dicksonburg Road (SR 4004) downstream to Missing Bridge (Pennside Road)) – East Branch Oil Creek (Clear Lake outflow downstream to mouth) – Fivemile Creek – Little Sugar Creek – McLaughlin Creek (T-890 Bridge downstream to mouth) – Muddy Creek (T-794 downstream to SR 1033) – North Deer Creek – Oil Creek (confluence with Mosey Run near Lincolnville downstream to county line) – Pine Creek – Sugar Creek (Center Road (T-549) downstream to county line) – Thompson Creek (SR 2031 downstream to mouth) – Woodcock Creek

ERIE
Cascade Creek – Conneauttee Creek – Crooked Creek – East Basin Pond (Waterworks Ponds, Presque Isle State Park) – Elk Creek – French Creek (from the state line downstream to the confluence with West Branch French Creek) – Lake Pleasant – South Branch French Creek – Twentymile Creek – Upper Gravel Pit – West Basin Pond (Waterworks Ponds, Presque Isle State Park)

FOREST
Beaver Run – Bluejay Creek – Coon Creek – East Hickory Creek – Little Hickory Run – Maple Creek – Queen Creek – Ross Run – Salmon Creek – South Branch Tionesta Creek – Spring Creek – The Branch – Tionesta Creek (county line downstream to Kellettville Bridge) – Toms Run – West Branch Millstone Creek – West Hickory Creek

LAWRENCE
Bessemer Lake – Big Run – Deer Creek – Hickory Run – Honey Creek – Little Neshannock Creek – Neshannock Creek – North Fork Little Beaver Creek – Slippery Rock Creek (county line downstream to Heinz Camp lower property line) – Taylor Run

MERCER
Buhl Lake – Cool Spring Creek – Little Neshannock Creek – Little Shenango River – Mill Creek (trib. to Cool Spring Creek) – Neshannock Creek (SR 0058 at Mercer downstream to county line) – North Deer Creek – Pine Run – Sandy Creek (SR 173 Bridge downstream to county line) – West Branch Little Neshannock Creek – Wolf Creek

VENANGO
East Branch Sugar Creek – East Sandy Creek – Hemlock Creek – Horse Creek – Little Sandy Creek – Little Scrubgrass Creek – Little Sugar Creek – Lower Twomile Run – Mill Creek – Oil Creek (county line downstream to SR 0008 Bridge at Rynd Farm) – Pine Run – Pithole Creek – Prather Creek – Richey Run – Sandy Creek (county line downstream to SR 3013 (old Route 8) Bridge in Pecan) – Sugar Creek – Twomile Run (Upper Twomile Run) – West Pithole Creek

WARREN
Blue Eye Run – Brokenstraw Creek – Browns Run – Caldwell Creek – East Branch Spring Creek – East Branch Tionesta Creek – East Hickory Creek – Farnsworth Branch – Fourmile Run – Hemlock Run – Jackson Run – Little Brokenstraw Creek – Perry Magee Run – Pine Creek – Queen Creek – Sixmile Run – South Branch Tionesta Creek – Spring Creek – Thompson Run – Tidioute Creek – Tionesta Creek – Twomile Run – West Branch Caldwell Creek – West Branch Tionesta Creek – West Hickory Creek


* Section of this Stocked Trout Water is also a Class A Wild Trout Stream - see Stream sections that are designated as both Stocked Trout Waters and Class A Wild Trout Streams
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Stocked Trout Waters Open to Year-Round Fishing [view regulation]
FOREST
Tionesta Creek – from Tionesta Dam outflow downstream

LAWRENCE
Cascade Quarry

MERCER
Shenango River – Hamburg Road Bridge in New Hamburg to pipeline crossing upstream Big Bend access area

VENANGO
Two Mile Run Reservoir (Justus Lake)

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Catch & Release Artificial Lures Only [view regulation]
WARREN
West Branch Caldwell Creek – 2.75 miles; West Branch Bridge upstream to Three Bridge Run
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Catch & Release Fly-Fishing Only [view regulation]
LAWRENCE
Slippery Rock Creek – 0.5 mile; from Heinz Camp property downstream to 0.25 mile below SR 2022 Bridge

VENANGO
Little Sandy Creek – 1.3 miles; from the old bridge at Polk Center Pump House downstream to the bridge on Savannah Road (SR 3024)

WARREN
Caldwell Creek – 1.49 miles; from Selkirk highway bridge downstream to approximately 0.5 mile upstream of the Dotyville Bridge

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Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only [view regulation]

CLARION

Piney Creek – 1.2 miles; SR 2016 bridge downstream to 0.2 mile upstream of the SR 0066 Bridge

FOREST

East Hickory Creek – 1.7 miles; from the Queen Creek Bridge downstream to the Otter Creek Bridge

LAWRENCE

Keystone Select Stocked Trout WaterNeshannock Creek – 2.67 miles; from the base of the Mill Dam in Volant downstream to the covered bridge on T-476

MERCER

Cool Spring Creek – 1.18 miles; from SR 2014 bridge upstream to the abandoned railroad grade

VENANGO

Oil Creek (Section 5) – 1.0 mile; from the two green posts near the Drake Well Museum downstream to Oil Creek State Park hiking trail bridge

Keystone Select Stocked Trout WaterOil Creek (Section 7) – 1.55 miles; from bridge at Petroleum Center downstream to railroad bridge at Columbia Farm

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Red keystoneThe red keystone and yellow highlighting indicates that this water is a Keystone Select Stocked Trout Water.
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