• Protect • Conserve • Enhance by Executive Director Douglas J. Austen, Ph.D.
• Casting Around by Spring Gearhart
• Mail
• Ice Fishing:  Beyond Basics by Darl Black
• Fly Fishing:  Getting Started as a Family by Marcus Schneck
• Hope for the Future by Jennifer Bilott
• Reflecting on the Water by Ron Kuhn
• 20 New Year Fishing Tips by Jeff Knapp
• The Beadhead Tan Caddis by Charles R. Meck
• Your Fishing Field Guide by Carl Haensel
• Hellbender and other Odd Critters by Deborah Weisberg
• Five East-State Ice Waters for Trout by Vic Attardo
• Fast Facts About the 2009 Pennsylvania Trout Season
• Best Fishing and Boating in PA State Parks (M.K. Goddard State Park) by Kelly Houghton
• Fine-tuning, Touching-up and Creating Fishing Tackle by Mike Bleech
• Ice-Out Crappies by John Allen
• Joe’s Oddball Lures by Jeff Knapp
• Recycling Soft Plastics by Chris Gorsuch
• Notes from the Stream
• WCO Diary by WCO Jeffrey Sabo
• Winter PLAY Newsletter by Andy Desko and Andy Fedor
• The Pennsylvania Wild Resource Conservation Program by Linda Steiner
• Currents
• Fishin’ from the Kitchen by Wayne Phillips
• Angler’s Notebook by Jerry Bush
• Cast & Caught

On the Cover
As a touring pro bass angler, Dave Lefebre of Union City spends three seasons of the year traveling the United States. During winter, he looks forward to ice fishing for crappies on the waters of Northwest Pennsylvania, including a small pond near his home where he scored these fish.

Photo by Darl Black.