Steve Hegedus of the Tri County Trout Club will talk about fishing small streams for trout in Pennsylvania and North Carolina's Blue Ridge mountain region 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at Fisher Hall, Burrell Lake Park, in Lower Burrell.

Hegedus will show slides and cover quarry, tackle and techniques. Admission is $2 for non-members and free to members and children under age 12. For more information, call 724-335-2679.

Fishing specials

The new one-day $25 tourist fishing license that includes all specialty fishing permits, such as a trout stamp, is now available. Like the $11 resident one-day license, which does not include a trout stamp, it cannot be used in the month of April.

Both are good for 24 consecutive hours, so they can be set up to cover fishing on an afternoon, evening and following morning. The one-day resident license has been a dud, with just more than 400 sold this year.

For a limited time, anglers who buy a fishing license of any kind on-line can also purchase a special edition fishing T-shirt at $8, which is half the usual price.

For more information, visit www.fish.state.pa.us.

Bass numbers

Despite the recent die-off from bacterial infection, the number of juvenile bass in the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers is up 25 percent over the past two decades, which bodes well for adult populations in three or four years, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has reported.

Biologists recorded about 8.6 young of the year smallmouth per 50 meters this year, which is higher than the 19-year average of 6.9, the commission said. Commission biologists will survey adult bass this fall.

The commission blamed low, warm water for the outbreak of columnaris bacteria that killed large numbers of young of the year smallmouth, but hasn't ruled out pollution as a culprit.