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Trout Fishing Regulations
NORTHWEST REGION - Regulated Trout Waters
Northwest Region  

Opening Day of Trout Season for counties in this region: April 18, 2008. In effect for all approved trout waters (listed below) within the Northwest Region.

Special regulations in this region:

Approved 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 -- 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 Kelletville Bridge) -- Toms Run -- West Branch Millstone Creek -- West Hickory Creek

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

MERCER
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) -- Shenango River (outlet of Shenango Dam downstream to Buckeye Drive Bridge (SR 3025)) -- West Branch Little Neshannock Creek -- Wolf Creek -- Yellow 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 -- Two Mile Run Reservoir (Justus Lake) -- Twomile Run (Upper Twomile Run) -- West Pithole Creek

WARREN
Akeley Run -- Blue Eye Run -- Brokenstraw Creek -- Browns Run -- Caldwell Creek -- Chapman Dam Reservoir -- Coffee 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

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Approved Trout Waters Open to Year-Round Fishing [view regulation]
FOREST
bulletTionesta Creek -- from Tionesta Dam outflow downstream

LAWRENCE
bulletCascade Quarry

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Catch & Release [view regulation]
WARREN
bulletWest Branch Caldwell Creek – 3.6 miles; West Branch Bridge upstream to Three Bridge Run
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Catch & Release Fly-Fishing Only [view regulation]
LAWRENCE
bulletSlippery Rock Creek – 0.5 mile; from Heinz Camp property downstream to 0.25 mile below SR 2022 Bridge

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

WARREN
bulletCaldwell Creek – 1.4 miles; from Selkirk highway bridge downstream to approximately 0.5 miles upstream of the Dotyville Bridge

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Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only [view regulation]
CLARION
bulletPiney Creek – 1.2 miles; SR 2016 bridge downstream to 0.2 mile upstream of the SR 0066 bridge

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

LAWRENCE
bulletNeshannock Creek – 2.7 miles; from the base of the Mill Dam in Volant downstream to the covered bridge on T-476

MERCER
bulletCool Spring Creek – 1.25 miles; from SR 2014 bridge upstream to the abandoned railroad grade

VENANGO
bulletOil Creek – 1.6 miles; from bridge at Petroleum Center down-stream to railroad bridge at Columbia Farm
bulletOil Creek – 1.0 mile; from the two green posts near the Drake Well Museum downstream to Oil Creek State Park hiking trail bridge

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Early Season Trout-Stocked Waters Program [view regulation]
BUTLER
bulletGlade Run Lake
bulletHarbar Acres Lake

ERIE
bulletEast Basin Pond (Waterworks Pond, Presque Isle)
bulletLake Pleasant
bulletUpper Gravel Pit
bulletWest Basin Pond (Waterworks Pond, Presque Isle)

LAWRENCE
bulletBessemer Lake

MERCER
bulletShenango River tailwaters

VENANGO
bulletTwo Mile Run Reservoir (Justus Lake)

WARREN
bulletChapman Dam Reservoir

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Wild Brook Trout Enhancement Program [view regulation]
FOREST/WARREN
bulletMinister Creek – 5 miles; includes main stem and tributaries
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