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The Excitement of
Keystone Select
Stocked Trout
Streams
by Ben Moyer
photos by the author
Laurel Hill Creek, Somerset County, and Meadow Run,
Fayette County, are two streams I have enjoyed fishing
most of my life. Both are lovely mountain streams,
graced by lush hemlock and flowing through state parks
within the scenic Laurel Highlands. Not long ago, I could
not have imagined that these fishing waters could be
further enhanced.
But, Laurel Hill Creek and Meadow Run now lure
anglers with new excitement. Both are part of the
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's (PFBC's)
Keystone Select Stocked Trout Waters program, offering
anglers a better
opportunity to catch big
trout than ever before,
in pleasing settings
open to public fishing
year-round.
Twenty-three stream
sections, in all regions
of Pennsylvania, are
included in the Keystone
Select Stocked Trout
Waters program.
Designated segments
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average 2½ miles in length, providing a total of 55 streammiles where anglers can cast to denser concentrations of
big trout than on other stocked trout waters.
All the streams selected for the Keystone Select
Stocked Trout Waters program are also managed as
Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only waters. Only flies
or artificial lures may be used, and trout may be killed or
possessed only from June 15 through Labor Day. During
that period, the creel limit is three trout of minimum
9-inch size.
To make the program work, the PFBC hatcheries
reserve 9,500 larger trout, measuring 14- to 20-inches,
for stocking within Keystone Select Stocked Trout Waters
sections. By crude mathematical analysis, that averages to
nearly 175 big trout per stream-mile. However, to catch
the big ones, you still need to read the water and detect
the kinds of places where a lunker trout is likely to lurk.
The Keystone Select Stocked Trout Waters program has
grown since it began with eight streams in 2016. Laurel
Hill Creek was one of the original streams selected, and
my quick success with Keystone Select Stocked Trout
Waters lunkers there surprised me. On my first Keystone
Select Stocked Trout Waters attempt on Laurel Hill
Creek, I caught a 16-inch Rainbow Trout and a 20-inch
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