NW PA Fishing Report: The third week of January, and so far this has been an On-n-Off winter. At the present time, there is no truly safe ice cover on area lakes – certainly nothing I would consider walking onto. The Allegheny River and French Creek remain extremely high, although receding…but with more rain com-ing. Erie tributary stream levels have settled down, and with reports of a fresh run of steelhead having moved in during high water so that is where most fishing action will take place in coming days. Of course if you choose to drop a line into small headwater streams, you might enjoy the success that Jeff Knapp did this week with a beautiful wild brown trout!
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