The Loyalhanna Watershed Association and the Forbes Trail chapter of Trout Unlimited are among 10 groups statewide awarded $42,400 in grants from the Coldwater Heritage Partnership, a cooperative that includes the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and Pennsylvania Trout.

Grants are given to groups that implement and monitor stream improvements. Forbes Trail, for example, will work on Mill Creek while the Loyalhanna Watershed Association will make enhancements on the Loyalhanna Creek and key tributaries.

For information on the next round of grants, call Coldwater Heritage Partnership's Deborah Nardone at 814-359-5233 or visit www.patrout.org.

Nardone will speaks about how trout streams are regulated at the Penns Woods West Trout Unlimited March meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Brentwood VFW Post 1810, 3801 Clairton Blvd. across from McGinnis Sisters market.

Nardone also will speak at the Tri County Trout Club at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Burrell Lake Community Park's Fisher Hall in Lower Burrell. For details, visit www.tricountytrout.org.

Youth camp

Anglers ages 14 to 17 have until March 15 to apply for the 10th annual Rivers Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp to be held June 20-25 at the Allenberry Resort in Boiling Springs, Pa.

Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited, the camp includes all aspects of fly fishing from entomology to ethics and is limited to 32. The $275 cost includes room and board, though some scholarships are available.

For application and information, contact Mike Klimkos at (717) 243-3056 or at klimkos@epix.net or visit www.riverscamp.com.

Fly fishing class

One of the best bargains in town is the annual free fly fishing seminar that Penn's Woods West Trout Unlimited offers at the St. Bede's Church activities center in Point Breeze at 9 a.m. on March 20. Some of the area's most talented anglers, including George Aiken, Scott Loughner, Mike Boyle, Jim Hostal and Federation of Fly Fishers certified casting instructor Jeff Barefoot will offer tips.

You'll learn how to pack a vest, put together a rod, tie knots, cast and read a stream. For details, visit www.pwwtu.org or call 412-521-0714.

Outings scheduled

Fly Tyers Vice in Scott Township is offering a beginners' fly fishing weekend that includes guided fishing on Slippery Rock Creek, March 27-28. The cost is $50.

A bus trip with guided fishing on the Little Juniata, a stocked trophy trout stream, is scheduled for May 8. The cost is $45. For details, visit www.flytyersvice.com or call Tony Marasco at 412-276-2831.

BASS kickoff

If you're interested in tournament fishing mark your calendar for the Keystone Beer-Bass Buddies kickoff at noon on March 14 at the Dorseyville Fire Hall on Saxonburg Blvd. For details visit www.kbass.com.

Consumption advisory

Besides its one-meal-a-week game fish advisory, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has issued a one-meal-a-month PCB advisory for carp in pool six of the Allegheny River in Armstrong County, brook trout from the West Branch of the Schuylkill River in Schuylkill County (expanding from just the lower half of the basin) and channel catfish in the West Branch Susquehanna River at Williamsport, Lycoming County.

A two-meal-a-month mercury advisory was issued for brown trout in West Branch of Caldwell Creek in Warren County. The state lifted mercury consumption advisories for smallmouth bass in the lower Delaware River and Estuary in Bucks, Philadelphia and Delaware counties, and in the Clarion River near Cooksburg in Forest, Jefferson and Clarion counties, and for largemouth bass in Parker Dam State Park Lake in Clearfield County.

For details on these advisories, visit www.fish.state.pa.us.