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Show stocked earlier in the season with 150,000 brook fingerling. Current' plans call for stocking two and one-half million of the small native trout into high country coun-try waters by plane this summer. The operation is proving highly successful.- It is a solo flying job, with the rear seating space of the two place plane being ' entirely taken up with the specially devised, de-vised, four compartment fish planting plant-ing tank. To date, . an average morning finds the pilot making two or more planting flights into various of the high basins. The first load goes in as daylight breaks with the average aver-age round trip time being 45 minutes. min-utes. Low flying over the lakes becomes be-comes hazardous as the sun rises and the air currents begin to work. Fish Planting !n High Areas How Made by Airplane Stocking by plane of Utah's high, off-the-road lakes is going forward rapidly at this date, the department of fish and game said today. Small native trout are now being be-ing flown in to the High Uintah lakes almost daily as they are processed pro-cessed from the egg to the planting plant-ing stage at several of the state's welve hatcheries. Forty-two lakes have already been stocked with natives, with some twenty lakes having been |