Daniel Bryan

thanks for all your replies ^.^ very helpful. just like to get the word of the people before some official starts blaring some nonsensical terms at me.

I'm not looking for generally excepted. Like going 5 mph over the speed limit. It's generally accepted but you could still get a ticket. What I really want to know is, if a game preserve official came out on the ice and checked my license and saw it didn't have a trout stamp, could I be ticketed? I saw other stories where the person was going out for small mouth bass, but he couldn't fish in that location because it was trout regulated waters. The streams off of Lake Ontelaunee are indeed trout regulated, so does that mean the lake itself is?

I am ice fishing with my father, and out of the blue he informs me that you need a trout stamp to fish in Lake Ontelaunee. That is the most ridiculous absurd thing I ever heard of, especially when catching a trout at this time at that lake is unheard of. I read the official fishing rules a few times over in the trout section and I could not find the trout fishing rule I am breaking by not having a trout stamp. There is a section in there that signifies "Ontelaunee Creek" as being trout regulated waters, but it specifies "(Spring House Road Bridge (SR 4024) downstream to mouth)". We are mainly fishing for large mouth bass, pike, pickerel, musky, maybe some catfish or panfish... but no trout/salmon, so why the heck would I need a trout stamp. Perhaps there is a sign posted at the lake I didn't read? Or maybe there is something I am missing online? I mean its only 9 bucks so its not a huge deal, but if I didn't have to pay that extra amount to fish that would be great. Someone please shed some light. Here is the rules in case you missed them. "A current Pennsylvania trout/salmon permit is required to fish for trout or salmon in Pennsylvania waters. Permits are printed on the license. An angler “fishes for trout or salmon” when he or she: • Takes, kills or possesses, while in the act of fishing, a trout or salmon from any PA or boundary waters. (Obviously irrelevant to my situation, because I am clearly not fishing for trout and would have no problem immediately releasing one) • Fishes in waters under special trout/salmon regulations. (Lake Ontelaunee is not listed. It's streams are but they are very specific indicating it stops at the mouth of the river and shows no indication that the Lake is trout regulated) • Fishes in any Class A Wild Trout Waters or Wilderness Trout Streams or their tributaries. (This is where they may have me. Idk how one finds out of Lake Ontelaunee is a Class A Wild Trout Water. Its not a stream, nor a tributary though) • Fishes in streams and rivers designated as stocked trout waters on March 1 through May 31. (Right now its the middle of January lol)"