This fishing report, provided by the Department of Game and Fish, has been generated from the best information available from area officers, anglers, guides and local businesses. Conditions may vary as stream, lake and weather conditions alter fish and angler activities.

WITH THE SMELT fishing on Great Bay looking more and more doubtful because of lack of fishable ice, a family group consisting of wife Jane and her two sisters Gail and Put, along with Put8217s husband Roy and me, headed 8220down8221 Maine. Our destination was going to be James8217 Eddy Smelt Camps in Dresden Mills.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- The limestone streams of central Pennsylvania famously pour from the ground at precisely the cool temperatures favorable to trout. But on a chilly January mountain morning on Spring Creek, the brown trout waited for some warming sunlight to break through the clouds.