Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission

Fourth graders from Clarks Summit Elementary School in Lackawanna County released rainbow trout they helped raise in the South Branch of the Tunkhannock Creek.

In Lackawanna County fish shot out of a yellow hose and into the lake at Merli-Sarnoski Park. The surface of the water moved as hundreds of Brook Trout swam out into the lake. On Saturday, anglers across Pennsylvania will head out for the first day of Trout Season.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is restoring four lakes and their dams in Wayne County. The waterways once filled canals to float coal to larger rivers and big cities.

A truck full of walleye arrived at the Pleasant Mount State Fish Hatchery before noon on a cold April Friday. The gold and olive fish were there to help produce another generation for anglers to catch across Pennsylvania. The season for the freshwater fish began Saturday, May 4.

Protecting the Chesapeake Bay starts in small streams in Pennsylvania. Just over 2.2 miles of those streams are no longer considered impaired. Representatives from the state and Northcentral Pa. celebrated that milestone near a babbling Turtle Creek at the Griffin Farm in Union County.

Trout flopped into Dyberry Creek on Friday. The waterway in Wayne County was stocked with the fish ahead of the First Day of Trout season tomorrow.