I have a eight weight rod.
Thats generally very heavy for our waters. 3 to 6 wts are most common, with 5 wt being the best overall. But you're 8 will work. How long?
In June you can probably get away with wet wading.
And I was wondering really how do you fish for these species.
That depends highly on the streams you fish. We are rich with very small native brook trout streams. And here, a short rod with dry flies will work just fine, the fish aren't picky. They do tend to run small (6-10" is a typical range). On our larger streams, the wild fish are more often browns, and there are stocked browns and rainbows, and these fish run larger (10-14" is typical). But fishing is very different. Buggers and leeches will work in most situations. So will smaller nymphs, like size 14-18 pheasant tails and such, try to dead drift them. Bigger stoneflies too, fish them the same way. Evenings, specially right at dusk, should be a good time for dry flies at that time of year, but it's hard to tell you what to expect without picking a stream. You could have caddis flies, or any number of mayflies (size 14 BWO's, some leftover sulfurs, cahills, Blue Quills, etc.)
shavertown and really dot want to go anywhere out of the hour 2 hour radius. Any good spots?
Within 2 hours, too many to list. The Fish Commission has an app for that.
http://fishandboat.com/county.htm
On the right are check boxes. For terminology, special reg means it has different regulations than the standard state wide regs. For instance, catch and release only, artificial lures only, etc. You can search the website for the regs on the stream you're interested in.
Approved Trout waters mean the water is stocked with trout. These may or may not also have wild trout present, but often they're not our best wild trout streams. Some of them warm up too much for trout in the summer, and depending what part of June you're coming, on some of them the trout fishing may be largely over by then.
Class A streams represent our top wild trout streams, as rated by lbs of fish per acre.
There are many more wild trout streams that are not on this map, though, that are rated class B or below, but can still fish very well.
That is available here in list form by county:
http://www.fishandboat.com/trout_repro.pdf
Or here by map. http://orser7.erri.psu.edu/fishing2005/wild.htm
Tricky to use, go to the layers tab and check what you want to see, then use the pan and zoom functions to go to the area you are interested in. Then when you find a stream you're interested in, click info, and then click on the stream, and it'll tell you what species of wild fish, what sections hold wild populations, whether its also stocked, etc.
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