Wild trout are the heart of Troutbitten. We chase these fish so we can be part of the extraordinary places where they're found, if just for a little while. Eventually, the environs become part of us, and we carry a piece of the river inside our own thoughts and...
A slate of 146 streams are proposed to be added to the Pennsylvania Class A Wild Trout Waters and Wild Trout Streams lists, but they need your help. Surprisingly, streams that have trout populations meeting the Class A requirement are not automatically designated as...
** NOTE** This is an article from the winter of 2017. It came to mind, recently, as a contrast to the way things have been on the water lately."Kinda Slow" usually happens for some weeks at a time every winter season. But that's not this winter. Not yet. And...
Sunup to sundown. There’s nothing as simple and yet so full of variation as a full day on the water. The diversity of situations challenges the will of a fisherman: Exhaustion from the forces of water -- its speed, its numbing cold, the pressure of its depth....
The sixty-day period allotted by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for comments on the proposed changes to specially regulated waters designated Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only (DHALO) is coming to an end. I'm not going to go into a diatribe here listing...
I spent most of the last two days in, on and around it, partially covered and burdened by it; and breaking, chipping and melting it --- ICE. I've fished the single digit temps a handful of times before, but it's been a while since I've had that chance, so when I read...
So it's been a Troutbitten theme lately to do the unusual instead of the doing the usual. Burke started it a few months ago with "Out of the Ordinary October," and I think most of us jumped on the wagon and haven't gotten off. It's a good wagon. If you are into...