Outdoors-related clubs and organizations can submit items to be considered for publication in “Outdoors Briefs” by emailing to outdoors@republicanherald.com.
PFBC seeks public input for trout plan
Public comment is being accepted by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission concerning the agency’s 2016-17 Trout Management Plan draft.
Details of the plan can be viewed online at www.fishandboat.com/troutplan.htm, and comments may be submitted online at www.fishandboat.com/promo/form/trout-plan2016.htm or by mail and submitted to Mackenzie Ridgway, PFBC, 450 Robinson Lane, Bellefonte, Pa. 16823 through Thursday, Dec. 31.
It is the goal of the strategic plan to ensure that adequate protection is afforded to wild trout resources and that fisheries provided through the management of wild trout and the stocking of adult and fingerling trout will continue to provide angling opportunities in Pennsylvania. It includes input provided by a work group that consisted of commission staff, anglers affiliated with a variety of sportsmen’s organizations and independent anglers not affiliated with a sportsmen’s organization.
As part of the plan, 22 priority issues have been identified encompassing four primary resource categories, which are comprised of management of wild trout streams, stocked trout streams, stocked trout lakes and trout in Lake Erie.
Fishing licenses
for 2016 available
Fishing licenses for the 2016 season, which begins Jan. 1, are now on sale by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission online through “The Outdoor Shop” at http://www.theoutdoorshop.state.pa.us/ and at issuing agents throughout the state.
Resident licenses for those ages 16-64 are priced at $22.70 annually, $64.70 for three years and $106.70 for five years. Senior resident lifetime licenses are $51.70, and all anglers must have a trout stamp to fish for trout.
Fishing guide Bates
radio show guest
Koinonia Guide Service president Rod Bates is today’s guest of Republican-Herald outdoors editor Doyle Dietz on “Experience The Outdoors,” 7-7:30 a.m. on WLSH 1410-AM, 9:30-10 a.m. on WMGH, Magic 105.5-FM, and on the Web at http://www.wmgh.com/ by clicking the “Experience The Outdoors” link.
Clubs should email schedules for calendar
Sportsmen’s clubs and organizations are encouraged to email a schedule of their activities for 2016, including meets, shoots and special events, to
outdoors@republicanherald.com for inclusion in the master list of Outdoors Briefs to ensure publication.
Today’s events
Sporting clays, 9 a.m., Friedensburg Fish and Game, 169 Stone Mountain Road, Pine Grove; for information, contact Lamar Hummel at (570) 763-4925. Port Clinton Fish and Game meeting, noon; for information, contact Ted Knoblauch at (610) 562-4310 or email pcfg1j@yahoo.com.
This week’s events
• Monday: Orwigsburg Gun Club meeting, 6:30 p.m., Gun Club Road, off Route 443 East, Orwigsburg; for information, email grammyminch@gmail.com. Friedensburg Fish and Game meeting, 8 p.m., 169 Stone Mountain Road, Pine Grove; for information, contact Lamar Hummel at (570) 617-8416, or email clhummel@epix.net.
• Thursday: Trap, 6-9 p.m., Orwigsburg Gun Club, Gun Club Road, off Route 443 East, Orwigsburg; for information, email grammyminch@gmail.com.
— Compiled by Doyle Dietz