Getting Lost In The Finding Anthony Naples
I've heard it said that Pennsylvania is home to more miles of trout streams than any other state except Alaska— and of course Alaska is over 14 times the size of Pennsylvania so it's hard to feel bad losing out to Alaska in that regard. Of the trout streams in Pennsylvania there are many hundreds that are considered Class A Wild Trout Streams adding up to more than 1500 stream miles of Class A trout water. And this doesn't even represent all the miles of stream that have natural trout reproduction, Class A is only the highest ranking for streams that harbor naturally reproducing trout.
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Most of the wild trout water is home to the native brook trout or the naturalized brown trout. With brookies mostly holding sway in the smaller headwater streams. Wild rainbows are not very common in Pennsylvania. I've personally caught them in four streams and have heard tale of them in a few more. Considering the thousands of miles of wild trout streams it's always puzzled me why there are so few with wild rainbows. My puzzlement is compounded by the way wild rainbows have ourished (sadly to the detriment of the native brook trout) in