SE PA Opening Day has been Delayed

Hi all. WVSkip posted a question about a delayed start to the PA Trout Season in certain areas. I just got off the PA Fishing site and WVS is correct. PA is going to a statewide starting day of 4/18 due to COV. AT their site is an alert banner with details - it affects SE PA and a boatload of counties are included. In addition, volunteers are NOT going to be used this year.
I’m inept at posting a link on forums, but easy to google it up. Thanks WVSkip for the heads up, even though the news isn’t great.
Bob

Here is the info, on trout season. {Posting 3 different sites, and you can read 1 or all of them.

Coronavirus leads to changes to 2020 Pa. trout season: What to know

Coronavirus prompts changes to Pa. trout stocking, trout season | TribLIVE.com

Early trout season opener canceled because of coronavirus, statewide opener set - The Morning Call

That's just not right. People need to get out away from all this virus crap. Guess I'll have to wait till next year to get back to York co. and opening day. Sure do miss it.

Thanks for posting the links, Keith. Crazy times. Two of the grocery stores around here have started special hours for seniors early in the AM.
Bob

Crappieday, the reason is because they won't use volunteers to help with the stockings. So it will take them longer to stock all of them, I'm guessing. Also to keep their employees healthy.

But what they are forgetting, is that, they are endangering the fishing people. The one year I went, people were lined up elbow, to elbow, and I'm not lying either. So tell me how this keeps people separated, for their health? Nope, will never go again.

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Crappieday, the reason is because they won't use volunteers to help with the stockings. So it will take them longer to stock all of them, I'm guessing. Also to keep their employees healthy.

But what they are forgetting, is that, they are endangering the fishing people. The one year I went, people were lined up elbow, to elbow, and I'm not lying either. So tell me how this keeps people separated, for their health? Nope, will never go again.

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Those are very good points, and I may skip the opener as well. Fortunately the Neshaminy thru Tyler Park is almost all open water with just a relatively short stretch stocked and posted. A short hike/wade up the creek and I pretty much have the water to myself. More peaceful that way.
Bob

I can understand every ones concern about changes in the fish commissions policies. However my Wife is sick. Very sick. She has a high fever and can not eat anything and keep it down. It has been 3 days and we are waiting for her doctor to call us back. Anyone who watches the news can see why changes were made in our lives. My suggestion would be skip the opening day so you will not put yourself and others at risk. As a licensed fishing guide this is hurting my business but that is OK. Our personal health and lives are much more important then a little pleasure of the opening day party atmosphere.We will ( should) have plenty of time to go fishing with a more personal experience. Please just consider my thoughts and please be safe.

Prayers, may God heal you wife Addictangler.

I don’t do any trout fishing since they stopped stocking my favorite areas. Never cared for opening day as I’d be on the lakes in my boat crappie fishing but enjoyed it later when things died down and were more peaceful. Never cared for that shoulder to shoulder fishing anyway.

AddictedAngle... Hope your wife gets to feeling better. .........This will be my first year not getting a trout stamp or trout fishing. Usually wife and I took our camper to Warren county for at least 2 weeks in April and May. Now the State Parks are closed to camping. It's been 20 years since I fished the first day and called it combat fishing. Just not worth the aggravation and prefer the quiet alone time on the stream. Avoiding coming into close contact with others is my #1 priority. Doesn't matter if it's fishing or grocery shopping. Being in that high risk age I'd love to get about 20 -30 more years out of my lifetime license. I wish you all good health. Be safe on the water or wherever life leads you.

Thanks for the kind words and prayers for my wife. It is day 3 and she seems a lot better. Her fever is down but is taking meds for it. She took her first shower in 3 days. Yes she was that sick! She also was able to eat a little broth last evening and hold it down. I can not express my thoughts on how sick she was. She is 70 but very healthy normally.
It is good to hear people are using common sense. I want and need to go grocery shopping in a few days. However I will not. A young man that I know has offered to go for me. Wow! Not all young people are irresponsible.
Please try to keep your distance from others and use common sense.

Tony

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AddictedAngle... Hope your wife gets to feeling better. .........This will be my first year not getting a trout stamp or trout fishing. Usually wife and I took our camper to Warren county for at least 2 weeks in April and May. Now the State Parks are closed to camping. It's been 20 years since I fished the first day and called it combat fishing. Just not worth the aggravation and prefer the quiet alone time on the stream. Avoiding coming into close contact with others is my #1 priority. Doesn't matter if it's fishing or grocery shopping. Being in that high risk age I'd love to get about 20 -30 more years out of my lifetime license. I wish you all good health. Be safe on the water or wherever life leads you.

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I hear you, but at my age maybe 20 tops! LOL I have one of the good grandfathered lifetime licenses where the trout stamp really IS for life, not the current “lifetime lite” stamp. I’m just waiting for the stream to come up a little more in temp and start chasing the pans and some smallies!
Bob

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I hear you, but at my age maybe 20 tops! LOL I have one of the good grandfathered lifetime licenses where the trout stamp really IS for life, not the current “lifetime lite” stamp. I’m just waiting for the stream to come up a little more in temp and start chasing the pans and some smallies!
Bob

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Well Bob I wish you at least 25 more years!!

We were able to get my wife tested yesterday. I ended up calling our local county commissioner as no one in the medical field knew where or if my county even had a test site. My hats off to there quick response with good information. It took 4 hours from when she filled out her paper work and got tested. She was also tested for the regular flu and that was negative. It will take 4 or 5 days for the test results to come back . However she is felling much better and able to eat a very light diet. She is still quarantined and I have no contact with her except to get her food and other needed items. On a some what funny note we have one bathroom and currently it is hers. It is a good thing we live in the country and have many trees. I think they will grow very well with all the fertilizer I am giving them. Also I made a home made shower pump from a pump up sprayer. Not bad. It is kind of like camping. Hope all on the site is well.

Boy the wait, for the results to come back, isn't something I would want to go thru. Will keep her and you in my prayers, until she is all thru this. So you took her to get tested, and if she has it, you also have a chance of having it too. Please keep us posted. You know you can make a potty, by using a 5 gallon bucket, line it with a plastic bag, and then put a pool noodle around the top. Use cheap cat litter in it.

Thanks S10. Yes but you have to get rid of the bag of crap! I do have a pee bottle inside. I also have a home improvement business and that can come in handy especially for a 65 yr old man.
Yes it is possible I am infected however I have taken every precaution as they would in the hospital. My doctor said it has been over 7 days today so it is not likely. I stopped for groceries after she told me I was OK to go if need be but was more worried about me getting infected from a stranger then me passing it on.
Karen my wife is getting much better. She even ate a small lunch today. A half sandwich,some grapes and a piece of celery. I think she even used the hair dryer and did a little extra to it. She asked to go and sit on the porch in the sun also. I can imagine how that was a real treat instead of being in her room 24 hours x 6 days. I guess no mater if she has the corona virus or not the treatment will be the same at this point. However she will be quarantined another 7 days after her fever is gone with out meds and she feels up to it with corona v.

Yea, guess a port-a-potti would be better, lol. Keep us posted.

Prayers to your wife and you, AA. My wife and I are laying pretty low and when we get out for a walk we are very careful to stay away from anyone!

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Prayers to your wife and you, AA. My wife and I are laying pretty low and when we get out for a walk we are very careful to stay away from anyone!

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That sounds like a good plan. If everyone would do that this could shorten the pandemic. In times like this to consider yourself and family first. However we are all in this together. Thanks for your prayers. We should know tomorrow if the test is positive. No matter what she was seriously sick and I have a deeper fear of what is going on.

Prayers sent for you and your wife, glad she is feeling better.


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AddictedAngler hope your wife has gotten better and you are both doing well. I believe the main reason the PA Fish and Boat Commission didn't allow volunteers is because they didn't stock all the streams on the list in the beginning and keeping streams that were stocked a secret would cause less numbers of people to fish a particular area and people would be more spread out. Don't know if that worked. I'm one of the guys who have a life time license including for trout and Lake Erie. Can't get those any more but to be younger I'd gladly pay for the license. Pop

Thanks for every ones concerns for my wife. She is 95% OK. Still very tired and still sleeping 10 hours a day. However other then that she is 99%. It has been about 7 weeks since she got sick so I guess whatever she had is just hanging on a little.
We celebrated our 41 wedding anniversary yesterday however it did not seem like a normal one. We always went out to dinner and usually would go and get our outside flowers for outside planting. Well that was totally put on hold. I - we did not mind and we went for a 1 hour ride. I got to fish for about1/2 hour and landed two 5 inch wild brook trout. That made my day. Those fish are some of the most beauty full things mother nature has provided for us. IMO.
I go to see the surgeon tomorrow to get my wrist operated on. Just a simple car pol tunnel op. At 66 years old I guess I am lucky to be in decent health but I sometimes think I am 21 again.
I hope every one remains in good health and stays safe.

Happy Anniversary, to the both of you. Good deal on the trout. We are supposed to get some (dirty word) snow, later this week. This weather for spring, is just crazy this year.

Yes, Happy Anniversary and best wishes for good carpal surgery. Right now I’m holding my own and hope I won’t need to get mine operated on. I wear wrist braces at night and then I can get thru the day ok. So far the last couple of seasons I have done plenty of casting and no numbness or anything like that. I keep an eye on it and if I notice a change I will get it done.

Thanks guys. I went to the surgeon yesterday and the neurologist gave a wrong diagnosis. The surgeon said the problem is a radial nerve that is aggravated. No cure or operation to repair it. I was diagnosed with flyfishermen elbow(right arm) a few years ago. My doctor said that that mine may be the first one described with that diagnosis. Since I do not play tennis she said tennis elbow was a incorrect diagnosis. I have not swung a hammer any more then I have to for many years but I refuse to quit fishing. I tried to fly fish left handed a few times. Casting is not a problem but my right hand does not seem to work well with line control. I did this to try to understand why some beginners have problems casting a fly rod. ???
It is hard to believe we may have freezing temperatures tomorrow. I can remember having snow on the ground near Hancock NY a week before Memorial Day. We were camping on the Delaware river at our spring fishing camp and woke up to a winter wonder land. That same year the temperature got down into the lower 20s one night. I had a cup of water near my bed and it was frozen solid. I used to sleep under a cap in my truck bed. No heat. Bur!! I just bought a Aliner camper with a furnace as my worn out old body does not do well in cold rainy conditions. I assume some can understand my thoughts on this.
This change in weather will more then likely change all fishing conditions and adjust spawning in the near future. Be safe

Agree on the spawn. Shenango temps, have held in the low 50's, but will see what they post today.

Chaunc, posted in the main forum, that it is possible, that we might end up not having a spawn this year, because of the weather. Let's hope not, but it is possible. Yes some might still try to spawn, but it could mean a very poor year.