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Show CATFISH, BASS PLANTED AT GARRISON Fishing at Garrison Reser-vcir. Reser-vcir. 70 miles wes-t of Milford. should be "fabulous'' in about two years, according to Dall Winn, conservation officer assigned as-signed to the Cedar City office of the Utah Department of Fish and Game. Mr. Winn announced an-nounced this week that 12,000 channel catfish and 22,000 larg? mouth bass have been planted in the reservoir. The cats came from a federal fed-eral fish hatchery in Kansas, and the bass from a federal hatchery in Texas, Mr. Winn . said. He estimated that cat-fishing cat-fishing may be "good" next year, but it will be two years before the bass will be catch-able catch-able size. Garrison Reservoir, a body of water about two miles long and possibly half a mile wide, is fed from Big Springs in Nevada, Ne-vada, where a stream of water "as big as a wagon wheel" gushes from the ground. As the stream winds through the desert six or eight miles to the Dearden Ranch in Utah, it picks up more water from springs along the way, and first use of the water is to irrigate pasture and some hay lands along a 10-mile stretch of sloughs, which are very popular popu-lar with duck hunters in the fall. The iwater stored in the reservoir irrigates farm lands in the Garrison area. The reservoir has been popular popu-lar in past years as a bass and crappie fish pond. |