Trout Approved Waters: Closed Season Dates?

Took a walk around Twin Lakes this morning and was surprised to see a few guys fishing the lower lake. Arent trout approved waters closed from March 1st to opening day?

Yes they started the approved trout waters open year round program last year.  I dont believe you are permitted to keep fish in march though. 

Wow, I didn't know about this new legislation. Thanks for the replies. Btw Fishinguy, I like the new avatar. Musky or pike? Sorry I failed at getting you your winter carp pic. Maybe next year.

I believe most, if not all of the new additions to the "ATW Open to year round fishing" waters used to fall under the old Early Season Trout Program regs or something like that.  Before they weren't closed for as long as the regular ATWs if I remember correctly, only a couple weeks I think. As said, you can fish them year round now.

The circus brings the pfbc too much money to eliminate it. I do like the program though. There's more than just trout in those waters.

I don't like like it, the early season was better. You could fish all through March with only two weeks of a closed season. Too many people,including me fish a lot of paste baits, Powerbait, Nitro etc when lake fishing from shore...  Trout tend to swallow these and if you can't keep them all you can do is cut the line. The "early" season allowed you to keep three a day, now you can't. I think there will be a lot of dead trout. I tend not to keep trout all year except in the old "early" season I would keep a few for my dad if the swallowed the hook. Now I probably won't fish it unless I throw some spinners. 
I do like that the fact that it will eliminate the opening day circus at some of these lakes. Most people won't even bother to read the regs and will still probaly camp out and have no clue that the lake hasn't been stocked in a month. I saw that this year while ice fishing these new lakes, people were keeping fish and there was no WCO in sight on two different lakes on multiple days of fishing. You would think with the new changes they would be patroling on the weekends at least.
I thought the old "early season was nice, but PA always wants to change things. Not always for the better in my mind.
 
 

More access to local trout water is fine by me, I love taking the kids to the local lake. We will use more jigs this year to prevent gut hooking.

Kind of along those lines FishinGuy I would think such a program might be a little more feasible in streams rather than lakes.  In terms of the new program in SWPA, I can't really see any new bodies of water that have been added that weren't under the old regs.  I know there are still anglers that'll throw a blob of powerbait or other live bait into a hole on a trout stream like they would on a lake, but the nature of stream fishing for trout in general lends itself much more to a catch and release program than much of what goes on at trout lakes.
 
I personally don't fish for trout on state stocked waterways very often anymore, so I really couldn't care less.   Back when it was something I did more often, I thought that the old early season regulations were just fine and allowed taking 3 fish for the high probability of trout mortality given the way most fishermen target them in lakes.  Then the opening day crowd, which is the backbone of PFBC revenue, got a fresh stocking.  I think it's just a convenient way for the PFBC to fool fishermen into thinking they're getting more opportunities while they continue to reduce stocking numbers and quality.  

ha, ya got me on the steelhead.  I do like to fish for those slimy buggers.
 
 

Can someone tell me why when you look I the book under Approved Trout Waters, Laurel Hill Lake and Virgin Run are not listed yet, they got stocked. Am I missing something?

I must have just missed it or I was looking under the wrong section. Thanks.