If you're in the neighborhood during these stockings or at the time of the derby, stop by and help a youngster catch a trout. Fishermen will find this section productive in the early season using baits ranging from worms and minnows to nymphs and streamers. In late summer and fall look for trout rising to small midge flies or terrestrials. In late fall and winter it is time to cycle again to nymphs and minnow imitations. From the southern city limits of Carbondale downstream to the Lackawanna Avenue bridge in Olyphant, the Lackawanna River is regulated under Class A Wild Brown Trout Water and does not receive any stocked trout.
Fishing is confined to artificial lures or flies.
This Special Regulation area is open to fishing year round with a creel limit of two trout over fourteen inches daily during the regular trout season. The average size brown trout in this section of the Lackawanna River is nine to fourteen inches, with many brown trout in the eighteen to twenty inch range. Wild Brown Trophy Trout regulations apply. An exception within this approximately 5.2 mile reach is a 0.7 mile section at Mellow Park in Peckville which is regulated under General Regulations. Approximately 20 miles of water from the Lackawanna Avenue bridge in Olyphant downstream to Scranton is unstocked water, although some wild brown trout do survive in this warmer and generally degraded water.