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Show Areas for hunting will 7 same as last season TV L e f boundaries in Salt LL ,,?erl and Utah counties are S'.kWl from a year ago. 6 unchang The state this yt.ar wii, , a heavy campaign again, Tl ing of hen pheasant Mr N ard said. "We will k,', vvardeis, appeal to sporUmiS80! do everything posKPtaH the brood.stock for years t sa' 3 drs cod Quail season will bo tlie J as pheasant, except in ton county, when it i, I.i' to Dec 31 in certain areM quail limit is ten birds hi 0 in possession. All counties H open tor quail ' A than ever before. Only one minor change was made in the federal waterfowl regulations when the state ma and game commission put its stamp of approval on them recently. re-cently. In the new restrictions bag and possession limits, number of days for shooting and hurs for shooting shoot-ing were not trimmed by the state commission. The only change was prohibiting prohibit-ing the use of anything larger than No. 2 shot for waterfowl. Federal regulations do not stipulate stipu-late the size of shot. Utah pheasant and quail hunters hunt-ers should find a slight improvement improve-ment in the upland bird population popula-tion in fields and sagelands when the three-day 1947 hunt opens November 1. This was the prediction made today by Ross Leonard, director, Fish and Game department, following fol-lowing a recap of upland bird conditions throughout all counties. coun-ties. The daily bag limit of three male birds, with a possession limit of six males, should give hunters an opportunity to satisfy their upland bird appetites. To bring sportsmen up to date on the fishinS law, Director Ross Leonard today clarified the fishing fish-ing picture for Beehive stave sportsmen. Already closed to fwhing are Deer Creek reservoir, Fish Uie, Blind Lake in Wayne Count) Logan river above Mendon bndgi Blacksmith Fork in Cache coun-ty coun-ty Fish Creek and tributaries to Sc'ofield reservoir and Provo riv-er riv-er below the Murdoch power plant. Strawberry' reservoir, by special spec-ial proclamation, will remain open until October 15. bcofield reservoir repains open until October Oc-tober 17. The general fishing season sea-son will end October 17 as prescribed pre-scribed by proclamation Lost your deer tag" Deer tags will be replaced by the Utah Fish and Game department depart-ment upon application, support-6d support-6d by affidavit from the license dealer who issued the original permit, and accompanied by a 50 cent service charge. This procedure applies to allj licenses issued for Utah hunting: and fishing. Hunters are warned not to tinker with the deer tags to the extent that they lock the ends, necessitating new tags Seventy-three antelope have been reported killed to date in the recent 100-head hunt in Daggett Dag-gett county. Four hunters have failed to record re-cord their success -with the state Ten hunters holding permits did not hunt, giving the state this year an 81 per cent kill. It was reported that this year's j hunting was on top of the mountain moun-tain areas, and not in the bottom like it was a year ago. The upland up-land hunting proved to be more difficult, accounting for the smaller small-er take this season. According to surveys made by the state officials offic-ials conducting the hunts, more antelope were seen this season FISH AND GAME NEWS The Utah Fish and Game department de-partment has been flooded with inquiries on whether this stream or that lake is still open for fishing. |