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Show Mona R.eservoir; Jordan River; Surplus Canal; San Juan River; Redmond Lake; Venice Canal, Cove Paver; Utah Lake; Weber River below Davis-Weber Canal Company dam in lower Weber Canyon. These waters are opepn to angling ang-ling for any species of game or trash fish that may be caught by legal methods and in limits prescribed pre-scribed by the 1953 angling proclamation. procla-mation. A requested total of 75,0000 deer proclamations covering the rules and regulations for the 1953 deer seasons have been mailed from the Utah Fish and Game Department offices. The majority have been issued to license agents. Several thousand have gone to resident, sportsmen, along with over 2,000 to non-residents who have wi'itten or called for information regarding regard-ing this largest of all the Utah big game hunts. Department "Director J. Perry Egan said that, "More than ever this year it is important that each sportsman going deer hunting know the rules' covering the area he intends to hunt." He noted that under the broad authority given Utah's Board.. .of Big Game Control by the 1953 legislature, leg-islature, a greater variety of types of hunting and length of seasons was scheduled by the Board this year in an attempt to realize a more equitable harvest in the state of Utah's sixty-two deer hunting units. Opening date for the general season is set for Saturday, October Octo-ber 17, with the length of season varying from six days near the Fish and Game Hews Notes Utah's general trout season closes October 11, at 9:00 p.m., with reports to date indicating an average or better angling year in all sections of the state. Three week ends remain of. the 128 day trout season which opened last June 6, in this longest of the yearly outdoor activities. Final days are expepcted to produce good angling, especially in the larger streams, lakes and reservoirs reser-voirs not so readily fished out during the early season. Bear Lake in Rich County, where angling is permitted all year, is the one exception of note to the above general closing of trout waters. Sportsmen planning a fishing trip .to Bear Lake should note that the waters within a radius of one and one-half miles from the mouth of South Eden Creek are closed to angling from October 10 through December 15 as a protection to spawning mack-inaw mack-inaw trout. Several other waters are open to angling throughout the whole year. They are not known as trout waters, but do offer a recreational outlet to an increasing number of sportsmen each year who angle for catfish, bass, walleyes, perch and several of the trash fish species. Waters open to year around angling are as follows: Minersville Reservoir; Bear River from the Utah-Idaho State Line to Great-Salt Great-Salt Lake; Logan River below Mendon Bridge on state highway number 142; Cutler Reservoir: Little Bear River from highway 91 to Cutler Reservoir; Green River; Duchesne River below confluence with Strawberry River; Colorado River; Sevier River below Joseph-Monroe Joseph-Monroe state highway 118 bridge; state s center of population to 61 days in some outlying sections. The types of hunts vary from buck only areas to several special hunts where a second deer may be taken with most units open to either sex hunting during the general gen-eral eleven day season. One early hunt is scheduled to get under way September 26. Continuing Con-tinuing through October 27, this hunt was set up for the Antimony, or Unit 50 area, and is open to anyone holding a regular deer tag wishing to bag their game during the early deer season on this unit. A fall trapping season starting October 16 and continuing through December 1 has been declared by the Utah State Fish and Game Commission. Trapping is limited to the taking of muskrats and mink only. A general opening of the whole state to such trappinpg is provided excepting state-owned properties known as Clear Lake, Farmington Bay, Locomotive Springs, Public Shooting Grounds, Ogden Bay, and Stewart's Lake. These closed lands are migratory waterfowl marshes where the hunting season will be in full swing during this period. |