Show V i t ’f’’ - t V ? - r- - V 6B THE OGDEN (UTAH) C 1H © ffir Deal OTTQ “3 V "S Rotenone Kills Unwanted Species But Does Not Damage Plants Organisms V' t -- v' "k V ) XV’S V inT gi i ' - V ' Zz-- ' si ‘‘''O ' f-- ft 0 --J- $ 5 crr By ROLLO ROBINSON '"'Vx &' - X$2--' v Occasionally it is necessary to control or eliminate a population of fish They may be stunted or diseased Usually however the removal is to obtain information for popu- lation studies or to make room for more desirable species W!SM ' ' ' V-- v ' TJ 11 JYM:f MTOSS 'w '": ' w$&r MM Thousands of Dead Chubs Utah Hunting Rules Drafted Recommendations and regulations covering the fall big game hurting seasons were recently formulated by members of the Utah Wildlife Federation’s big game comffiiftee The committee is headed by! Lee C Warburton and is made up of sportsmen members elected from the state’s five fish andj game districts The committee formulates recommendations concerning big Mishap Smothers Trout Hatchery 1000 of Approximately pounds rainbow trout were recently lost through suffocation at the state’s Fountain Green hatchery according to Department of Fish and Game spokesmen The loss occurred through an inadvertent water shut-of- f to a section of the during that body’s executive ses- liatchery ponds during the night sion in June Warburton is the A large portion of the fish ere elected representative of the tate salvaged and given to the hospitals at Provo and state’s organized Sportsmen on American Fork The loss amounts to about three per cent of the the Board hatchery’s yearly production game animal harvest' for its affiliated member clubs throughout the state These are then presented by Mr Warburton to th Utah Board of Big Game Control CHEYENNE "Woodstock" DRY FLIES i Favorite SO Yd Pat-tar- n 4 soloct-- d Casting lino Hack! Wot Flies DC C FLY BOX Lift No 59c single Action For Casting Brake Drag ’598 49c SNELLED REMOVERIX:Hst 43c HOOKS and Turn full business agenda during two-daspring quarterly meetings Commission members elected Golden G Sanderson as their new chairman Sanderson succeeds K E Bullock of Provo who has filled this post during the past two years The chairmanship alternates between thq commission members every two years Commission members representing the five fish and game districts of the state include K E Bullock Golden G Sanderson of Fairview J Allen Browne of Price W Rulon White of Ogden and Robert B Mitchell of Paro-wa- n This body sets the policy under which the Department of Fish and Game operates 20 Purchase Plane Approval was given the Department to purchase its first airplane This equipment will be used for range and game survey work as well as in planting small fish into high elevation lakes Purchase of a snowcat was also authorized for use in the winter game management program Other commission action taken during the two days of meetings include the following: Set the opening date of pheasant season for 1955 to be Friday Nov 11 Bag limit length of season and other governing regulations for this hunt will be set by commission action in September following the determination of available birds from the hatching and growing season Scheduled regulations covering the holding of field dog trials under the new law as passed by the recent state legislative session Upon written application such trials may be approved for bona fide field dog organizations and must be held under supervision of department personnel Approved extension of the commercial seining season on Utah Lake only through May 15 The spring furbearer season (muskrat) was extended through June HARNESS Bolt $ 'S12S Spring Stool Snap Hooks Gut FLY LIIJEVoT 119 t Snolls split shot "rr:0: Leader Material PLASTIC FLOATS 6c XX” r BAIT BOX limp Nylon 2- - to b forC 19c Snap 67c Swivels ‘ 10-L- Oil Finish 35 Ft Tost 25c Pocket Pak Quick Change 19 10 Action Rod to 20 19C sieoiRod”:'$298 yards Worm Box Angler Clip Top Crescent With loop in g Shape We take great pleasure in announcing the appointment of Bob Solomon as manager of For Casting or Trolling Ss i s' X- V 8 "X XX vr?v v v a w‘ -- s I ? Studied plans for landscaping and parking area at department headquarters property and approved same Granted a $4000 yearly appropriation for the training of fisheries students at the Utah State Agricultural College Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit land deApproved state-wid- e velopment project with Federal Aid cooperation of Approved establishment Riverdale posted pheasant hunting unit in Weber County Sanctioned purchase of state trucks for the four department beaver trappers As required by law the commissioners set the four quarterly meetings for the coming year 6 They are to be held July Dec and April Sept 15-1- 9-1- found angling the camping — making long hikes often during the colder winter months prefers to catch Mountain whitefish as it is called by some sportsmen An occasional trout is welcome but the whitefish affords him the most satisfaction “The Weber River offers very good angling for this species” Mr Grow reports “Success is usually knowing the correct method to use v “There is one factor which alarms me” Claud continued! “And that is the altering of the W’eber River with large shovels The deep holes and drag-line- s are and eddies being replaced by a straight swift canal Neither the herring nor I like these alClaud the-Roc- ky g terations” year 9-1- 0 0 Game Hunter Big Roy Weatherby big game hunt- er lecturer and maker of beau- tiful excellent rifles will be in Ogden May 6 and 7 Sponsored by Kammeyer’s and the Junior Chamber of Commerce he will show local sportsmen some of the finest big game and varment rifles ever made Roy is an advocate of high velocity bullets for hunting On his safaris into Africa he carried weapons which his British white hunters considered inadequate if not dangerous “Come now Weatherby” one of his guides said “surely you’re not trying to tell me that a 300 Weatherby Magnum shooting a 150 grain bullet is more powerful than my 470 with a 500 grain bullet Really old man!” But Roy proved that his pea shooters were entirely adequate for game ranging from the small garanuk to the Cape buffalo and the elephant Weatherby’s rifles are not only accurate and powerful but marvels of beauty and craftsmanship The rifle which Don and Harry Kammeyer let this writer fondle last week was everything that a hunter could desire for big game in this area The Kammeyer brothers are constructing a case in which Mr San Juan Gets New Warden Employment of Don E Olsen as a state game warden for San Juan County was announced today by Department o( Fish and Game Director J Perry Egan Mr Olsen was born at Ephraim and has been a native of the state during his entire lifetjme He is married and the father of three children Director Egan said that Olsen came to the department highly recommended for his new Weatherby’s rifles can be viewed by sportsmen It will be ‘mounted on the wall in the rear of the store Support Bulletin Last Sunday this writer urged sportsmen to subscribe to the Utah Fish and Game Dept "Bulletin” Possibly as a result of this advice he received the following note from the Hill Air Force Base Rod and Gun Club: “We believe that the Fish and Game Bulletin published by the Utah Fish and Game Department does not meet the standard set by Wyoming Colorado and Idaho For instance the Wyoming issue is never less than 40 pages and is excellent The Utah issue is only 8 pages Both cost $1 a year We wrote the Department suggesting that the bulletin- - be improved “We believe that Ricy Anderson is an example of the type of game warden that we desire and should be commended for his outstanding work We are preparing a letter making this recommendation to the Department” Why is the “Bulletin” inferio to the publications of our neighborThe type of deing-states? partmental publication — number of pages quality of paper illustrations 'and material — is dependent upon the amount of money allotted personnel and available manuscripts Let us examine how “Wyoming Wildlife” one of the best magazines in the field is put together The editor like Dick Rossiter embefore him is a ploye In addition he receives a great deal of assistance from Jim Grasse information officer and from a steno who handles the routine wrork By contrast 'Lee Kay editor of the Utah “Bulletin” spends only a portion of his time on this magazine Other possibly more important duties keep him busy lecturing and showing his iqovies to school and club groups throughout the state Without question Utah could have a departmental publication-unsurpasseby none if the funds and personnel were available Everyone will agree that the comment concerning Ricy Anderson is correct Ricy’s work is a credit to the department and the sportsmen whom he represents full-tim- e Western States Slated does not open until June 13 and By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The biggest mass participation Yellowstone River between the sport — fishing — will summon lake and canyon does not open the anglers to the outdoors in the Intermountain area beginning in A!lay Hundreds of thousands ranging from barefoot boys to business tycoons will take to the streams in some areas as early as May 1 Most states will open their season in late May The earliest fishing will be found in Wyoming where a few areas will open May 1 However most Wyoming areas will not open until May 15 The Nevada season also opens May 15 The Montana regular season will start May 22 Next will come Utah which will let the angle worm dunkers go at it at the start of the Memorial Day weekend —May 28 Idaho’s general season opens June 4 The Yellowstone National Park general fishing season opens May 30 But Yellowstone Lake Bear Lake Given New Proclamation Department of Fish and Game spokesmen note that anglers planning to fish at Bear Lake in Rich County should avail themselves of a special proclamation covering regulations for this wa- until July 1 Colorado Fishing To Be Better Than Last Year DENVER (UP)— Fishing dur1955 trout season in Colo-- ’ the ing rado which opens May 21 should “be considerably better than last year” State Game and Fish Director Thomas L Kimball predicted yesterday Kimball based his prediction on prospects of more w’ater in lakes streams and reservoirs from heavier snow in the high country and the enlarged source of “catchable size trout” from the new Rifle Falls hatchery R M Andrews state fish manager backed up Kimball’s optimistic prediction by saying that “we estimate our plant of catch-abl-e size trout this year will ex-- r ceed four million for the first time in history “This would exceed last year’s plant by about 800000 fish” he said “and with good luck may reach one million more than last year” The prospect of more water in the trout fishing areas of the state was based on a joint forecast issued April 1 by the U S ter Weather Bureau and the U S o Bear Lake straddles the state lines A special proc- Soil Conservation Service Although the snow pack in the lamation is issued for this water mountains again is below normal each year to coordinate differ1943-5and the average the reences in the angling laws of each said was above that for it port state Some differences in limits same 1954 the date in hours and other regulations are employment announced The department Olsen replaces LaVar B Lyman set up for this w’ater as compared pur- of Blanding who recently re- to the rest of Utah’s angling also the joint federal-stat- e chase of 2618 acres of land with areas signed grazing rights on 2600 additional acres of adjacentBureau of Land HERE YOU ARE! Management land and some water rights in the Billy - Creek area Month for the Special about 20 miles south of Montrose of April On STATE for a winter deer range Utah-Idah- 2 "DEADLINE" 'J S' See to ' S''i " (Rog 2-- Jar Mad Rod 19c IIIP BOOTS lightweight Heavy Duty Zf Vi&f LAUDING NET Tubular Alum Rubber Handle IN OUR LOBBY DEPARTMENT 89c : 2 ALa’ x i' BOl SOLOMON May 16th $3750 Job) 27§ Appreciate SALMON EGGS INSPECTIONS Is UNDERCOAT 4 onlyI 8 POnCELAIIIIZE MGIL (Reg $2750 Job) Ogden's Beautiful DAYS LEFT We Specialize In Auto Glass Replacement Insurance Bids Invited Bears Make It Two Over 'Pokes Colo (UP)— Thi GREELEY Colorado State Bears made it two in a row over Wyo- error-ridde-n ming University yesterday with a 9 to 7 victory sparked by a attack e wearers of The Bears the Rocky Mountain Conference baseball crown defeated the Cowpokes at Laramie Wyo Friday 10-h- it 12-tim- PARAMOUNT BOWL MAKI AN APPOINTMINT Known Far mnd Wide as Ogden's Headquarters of Spertsdem Ogden Ford Salas 1890 Washington Blvd I 359 26th St i V NOW Phone 8803 d Fishing Openings of Five 13-1- 4 i "THE BANYAN LOUNGE" Largo Assortment Geld finish Salmon egg size to lapel 1 pak FLAT FISH wUG HOOKS Thong— Attach 1 SrSJr7 89c 1 p—hvwwiwwbwwihw y off-the-ro- Career Closes In Kansas For Trap Star t Dial— Swivol aeaeeseeeea Mr Grow also makes long trips by snowshoes into the mountains A1 Evans Bill Chandler and this writer met Claud far back in a little canyon on the Huntsville-Gatewa- y divide last January We were hunting snowshoe hares Mr Grow was sampling the brisk air Utah’s five fish and game com-- ! and the scenery perhaps the missioners took action covering most spectacular of the entire their recent f Free Stripping rr 45c Wyo a Bra-zila- AUTO REEL By ROLLO ROBINSON Game Policies Trout Season Opens June 4 At Sun Valley NYLON LINE Hunting and Fishing One ot the most enthusiatic outdoorsmen in this area is Claud Grow assistant postmaster He can frequently be (AP) — in the mountains or on Weber Five Set Up Utah Fish and Pan-guitc- back-breakin- glhi n Rules for Wyoming’s 1955 big game hunting seasons were announced yesterday by the State Game and Fish Department Officers said big game hunting will be split up into 104 areas including 40 for deer 17 for antelope 20 for elk 17 for moose and 10 for mountain sheep Earliest opening date is Sept 1 It will be effective in one elk area Seasons will open Sept 2 in some deer and antelope areas The department said that bagging of two deer by each hunter will be permitted in 12 areas but special permits are required for the second animal g Several tons of Utah Lake chubs were killed in the lower Enterprise Reservoir near Cedar City during trasli fish eradication operations in 1954 This water was later restocked with rainbow trout Photo courtesy Utah Fish and Game Dept j 7 Total elimination by nets has proved impossible Dynamite is from nearby communities often dangerous and expensive and the gathered the carp suckers perch results are sometimes unsatis- and trout for eating factory Copper sulphate is quite effective but may also destroy Largest Operation aquatic plants and food organThe largest fish removal operisms no ation ever atempted was made by Rotenone however does to the Oregon Game and Fish Dept great damage to plants and small water animals utilized as on Diamond Lake in September food by fish It is easily applied 1954 At a cost of $140000 this and is fairly cheap lake was treated A The use of this chemical to 2600-acrnaThe new not is collect fish total of 32000000 roach were tives of several South Pacific and killed North and South American counThe Utah Dept of Fish and tries have used rotenone-bearinof years a plants to kill fish for centuriesPa- Game has for number used rotenone to remove trash Among the natives of the cific rotenone poison is called fish usually the Utah chub tuba In South America the In- Small waters and isolated bays dians refer to this chemical as of large lakes have been treated cube The only plant yielding The department will continue rotenone in the U S is called the eradication of undesirable the devil’s shoestring or turkey species for it is an excellent tool pea in the progressive management One of the earliest records of of our fisheries resources Since 1938 portions of Fish collecting fish by means of h vegetative poisons was reported Lake Strawberry Reservoir Lake Scofield Reservoir by John Nieuhoff in 1649 According to this author the roots-o-n and Locomotive Springs have natives crushed the been worked over with rotenone the cube plant mixed the juice Total eradication has been acwith bait and scattered it over the complished at Paragonah Lake surface of the water Enterprise Reservoir At the present time various Upper Lake Yankee MeaGooseberry species of these plants are culti- dows Twin Lakes and Burriston vated in tropical countries The Pond dried products are then shipped During 1954 complete removal to the tt s for use as a fish of undesirable species was ateradicator and for plant and ani- tempted on Marsh and China mal insecticides lakes on the Uintah drainage Dr Eigenmann in 1908 was Navajo Lake near Cedar City the first ichthyologist (fish ex- and Lower Enterprise Reservoir The total cost of the 1954 operpert) to use rotenone to collect fish Since that date this chemi- ations was $6567 But remember cal has proved very valuable in fellows one discarded bucket of fisheries management bait fish into these (waters may mean that this money and many Called Poison days of work will Rotenone is commonly called a be wasted poison Actually fish die from a constriction of the blood capillaries vessels The red blood cells which carry oxygen from the gills to the remainder of the body cannot pass and death ensues The first effects of the rotenone cause fish to dash wildly about often striking objects in the water or swimming up on the beach This behavior lasts SUN VALLEY Idaho — The from 5 to 30 seconds The fish 1955 trout season for most rivers then stiffen and the fins may streams and in the Sun Valley twitch Many then drift to the will area June 4 it was anopen bottom where they lie upon their nounced by Taylor Wil10 with 2 today to seconds sides from no movement except a fluttering liams head guide at Sun Valley Silver Creek queen of Ameriof the gill covers A number of fish then swim can dry fly waters will open July about in the normal manner oc- 1 and close Sept 30 Williams casionally gulping air at the sur- said The general trout season which face This behavior may be reincludes the Big Wood River peated several times before death Wood River Lost River Little results a process which often Trail and many other Creek takes hours will be closed streams rivers and Many anglers in this area are 31 on Oct for fishing familar with Goose Lake in Yelwho fished this Williams has lowstone Park In 1895 yellow 40 area more than for years has beperch were introduced But season an for excellent cause this species was a threat predicted Sun Valley anglers to adjacent waters and because of their “questionable value as a stunted population it was decided to remove them in 1938 About 500 pounds of rotenone was distributed from boats exploded in the depths ' and sprayed along the shore line Dying fish appeared in 20 minutes After eight hours about COFFEYVILLE Kan (AP) — 11000 perch had been killed Frank A Etchen 73 who was Ducks and bears soon appeared a member of the Etchen brothers and feasted on the rows of dead trapshooting team died Saturday fish along the shores No casual- after a heart attack ties were found among the water Etchen who had engaged in birds or the bears the real estate business here What effect does rotenone have most of his life was the brother on man? Fish killed by this of Fred Etchen of Sun Valley chemical are perfectly edible Idaho a former international During eradication operations in trapshooting champion Wyoming a fisheries crew of Frank and Fred Etchen and which this writer was a member four other brothers now dead frequently had local sportsmen made up a team that represented assist in scattering the mixture Kansas in many trapshooting These men as well as people events P Wyoming Ready To Divide Hunting Areas e mM i APRIl 24 1935 SUNDAY MORNING STANDARD-EXAMINE- E OGDEN FORD SALES 3S9 26th St Phon (03 -- A H Z Scor by innings: 7 2 OOQ 000 122—7 Wyoming 002 102 40x— 19 a Colorado Stat Batttnaa: Bremlsy and DrosU Hogg toss gad Hill ’ |