2 or 3 rods per person in 2012

 I am trying to confirm a rumor that I heard at work. My co worker told me that he had heard that PA Fish and Boat Comm. changed the regulation to 3 rods per person starting 2012. Has anyone else heard anything about this. I have looked on their website and haven't found anything. Thanks

Confirmed...Jan 1st, 2012

I was wondering if anybody knows if this applies to ice fishing.

XTOP, Ice fishing has been any five devices for the past few years. i.e. (Five rods), (one rod 4 tip-ups), (two rods-three tip-ups), etc, etc. If I'm not running and gunning I might use two rods and then set out two or three tip-ups. I find the tip-ups tend to keep me in one place too long. Hope this helps. Lou

With PA going 3 rods per person will make first day of trout quite interesting LOL. I might have to go to NPL to watch and have a good laugh LOL. I think it will make trolling better for some and others well let the tangles begin,Man imagine seeing a boat with lets say 4 fishermen and 12 rods in the water OOOHHHH what a mess and lose of equipment. Should make for some comical sites.Heck almost can't wait. My self I think I'll try a couple times for FLATS but I'm thinking 2 rods is enough. Thinking of the past year how many times 3-4 in one boat anchored down with the river current and 2 rods a piece was kinda tough,Maybe have to run planner boards to spread them out a bit. Dave

ORIGINAL: BIGHEAD

With PA going 3 rods per person will make first day of trout quite interesting LOL. I might have to go to NPL to watch and have a good laugh LOL. I think it will make trolling better for some and others well let the tangles begin,Man imagine seeing a boat with lets say 4 fishermen and 12 rods in the water OOOHHHH what a mess and lose of equipment. Should make for some comical sites.Heck almost can't wait. My self I think I'll try a couple times for FLATS but I'm thinking 2 rods is enough. Thinking of the past year how many times 3-4 in one boat anchored down with the river current and 2 rods a piece was kinda tough,Maybe have to run planner boards to spread them out a bit. Dave

 
Running 12 rods on Erie is a piece of cake, as long as your boat is set up for it.  Shouldn't matter if you have 6 guys or 4 guys.  Now, if you get 4 or 5 lines firing all at once, then I could see where you'd have a problem but then again, that is a good problem to have. 

ORIGINAL: XtopwaterkingX

Yeah just didnt know if you would be allowed 3 rods out of your 5 total lines instead of only being allowed 2 rods out of your 5 total. Another dead stick rod would be nice. More fun on a rod than a tip up haha.

 
2 RODS AND 3 TIP UPS OR 1 & 4  WAS THE OLD LAW.
AS PORK SAID, ITS ANY COMBO ON NON COMBO OF 5 DEVICES.

See it as a non factor for charters, mostly they had rods covered when counting the 4 rods for the captain and mate. Will be nice for those of us that occasionally fish with only 2 people on board, will be nice to have 6 rods out rather than 4. Don't see running 12 rods as a problem for experienced trollers, I've run 8 with no problem but won't be running 12 any time soon. Can see where it might be a cluster for some fishing trout though...

The wall at Walnut is gonna be a fun place with everyone having an extra rod out..

EYES I am/was referring to not so experienced trollers. I have seen a few boat on Arthur using 2 rods per man,was quite amusing and ended up with catching their cut-off tangles with my prop.