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I crawled out of bed a little stiff and sore from the previous day’s fishing. You don’t realize how much twisting, turning and bouncing you do in a sq...

The long-awaited, and much anticipated, ramps, kayak and canoe launch, and fishing pier — all accessible, and compliant with the Americans with Disabi...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced the temporary closure of Forest Road 508 in the Bradford Ranger District of the Allegheny National Forest. ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has certified a new state record flathead catfish caught in May in the Susquehanna River. Micha...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has certified a new state record for the biggest flathead catfish. According to the PFBC, angler Michael Whe...

Bass season opens in Pennsylvania on Saturday, but it’s more complicated than that. It’s the primary harvest season for largemouth, smallmouth and spo...

Dozens of Pennsylvania stream sections will be given increased protection following last week’s approval by the state Board of Fish and Boat Commissio...

On feral farmland near Slippery Rock and Sarver, two private lakes quietly hold bass genetically linked to ancestors that were likely stocked there ge...

ARREST: Senior Judge John Cleland, Kane native and longtime jurist in McKean County, shared with us a pretty neat piece of presidential history with t...

FISH STORIES: The Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau announced its 2023 Big Fish Contest, which runs April 1 through June 30. There is no sho...

Life moves on inexorably. Perhaps, it’s a good thing life presents us with so many difficult challenges. Opposition, it appears, is necessary in all t...

HARRISBURG — Trout season in Pennsylvania opens statewide April 1, following a Mentored Youth Trout Day March 25. As it has done through the past deca...

LIST : Pennsylvania Outdoor columnist Brian Whipkey has written about eight places to explore in Pennsylvania’s great outdoors. We started off with fo...

The sun was high in the cloudless sky, beating down upon me without pity. It was so bright, I wondered briefly if my sunglasses were on; the bright, s...

The alarm blared, and I rolled over and stretched out my hand to silence the din. Groggily, my bleary eyes focused on the red numbers — 4 a.m. My bedr...

When you spend hours, days, weeks fishing and making thousands of casts over many years, some strange things happen. Some seem unbelievable, but that ...

There is little doubt our favorite muskie lure on Buckhorn Lake, Ontario was the J-13 jointed Rapala. On darker days, the blue-backed color pattern wo...

There are all sorts of sayings about almost every subject. Some of them are quite insightful and to the point. Several that come readily to mind are: ...

Some of the things I really enjoy about retirement are very simple. Take, for example, the weather. Winter brings those bitter cold days when the wind...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The Appalachian Koi & Goldfish Farm has been working diligently since last year to build a multi-pond farm on Commerce Drive, as well ...