Bowman Creek

Quiet wild-trout pocket water in the northeast PA mountains.

Bowman Creek drains the Endless Mountains in northeast Pennsylvania and joins the North Branch Susquehanna near Tunkhannock. PFBC manages substantial Class A Wild Trout sections on the creek and several of its tributaries — the kind of cold, brushy, native-leaning water that has largely disappeared from the more developed parts of the state.

It is not destination water. It is local, quiet, hike-in pocket-water fishing for wild brown trout, and it rewards stealth and small flies.