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Show 1949 Fishing Season Opening Set For Saturday, June 11,5am The Utah Fish and Game Department, De-partment, after studying the matter mat-ter of opening the fishing season early this year, picked June 11th as the first day. The dates were set at June ltlh to October 3 with hours from 5 a. m. to 9 p. m. at the quarterly meeting of the commission in the game department ofices in Salt Lake City Saturday. Bag limits for all trout remained remain-ed the same -at seven pounds and or one fish or 15 -fish, whichever is caught first. The date for bass fishing, and this regulation includes perch, crappy and sunfish, was set for May 14 to October 3. Limits and hours are the same as' trout, except ex-cept that bass must be at least 10 inches long to be legal. The upper waters of the Uintah range will be opened July 1, as usual, according to action taken by the commission. The commission reported that it was likely that a solution could be reached on the heated Strawberry Reservoir controversy Earl Smoot, prominent Provo sportsman, appeared ap-peared before the commission Saturday, Sat-urday, and explained that he had been sent to the strawberry Water Users Association by the Utah Wildlife Federation to see if a suitable agreement could be worked work-ed out in behalf of the sportsmen, and that the users told him they would be agreeable to letting the sportsmen fish the lake if the state maintained "an ordinary county road" 'and returned to the lake all of the fish that were produced pro-duced from the Strawberry egg-take egg-take each spring. The commission, folowing Mr. Smoot's report, directed R. L. Tur-pin, Tur-pin, game director, to prepare a contract under these provisions and present it to the water users. |