The Sportsman's Corner

At its recent quarterly meeting, the Board of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission announced changes for the upcoming 2021 trout season. These changes were prompted by the changes necessitated by the COVID-19 virus that dramatically altered things last year.

For a number of years, there have been two trout-season openers: one in 16 southeastern counties and another one two weeks later in the rest of the state. In addition, preceding the regular openers, there were two Mentored Youth Fishing Days.

For 2021 the board decided to consolidate the trout-fishing day for mentored youth and the stat...