Show r Trout Sagacity Redounds To Benefit of Fishermen VERNAL July 24 All All fishermen who have tried conclusions with rainbow trout are convinced that this game fish is endowed with Just Justa a bit more sagacity than others o of his kin making streams stream and lakes their habitat This Is proved by the Hie numerous rainbow trout being taken from the waters o of the Ashley Central canal many of the fish weighing close to three pounds The canal receives Us is waters from Ashley Ashley Ash Ash- ley Icy creek some some sone distance above Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal and Its total length In ten miles Its farthest distance from the creek is four miles The canal averages twelve to fifteen feet teet in width Its Is from two tWp to six feet with some of tho the holes having a depth of more than ten feet fet The raInbows rainbows rainbows rain raIn- bows find a surfeit o of feed in the canal and make no effort to swim to tho head o of the canal and enter the creek Five years ago a of or fin fin- fingerling fingerling gerling trout was wae received from the state hatchery at Springville to be planted in Ashley creek and other I I mountain streams s. The day o of tI the entas not propitious the train carrying the twenty-one twenty cans canso o of young trout was late lat and a heavy rain Interfered with the truck delivering the shipment to Vernal In time to be taken to the mountains moun moun- the same same da day The men In charge of the shipment attached wIre screens to the mouths o of the I cans and placed place th them m In the canal for s storage oge until morning I Early the following day it was found that screens had been washed of off four o of the cans and fingerlings fingerlings finger finger- lings had escaped into the waters of ot the canal It was presumed they would either perish or make their Way to the mouth o of the canal but this dope was entirely upset Two Tso years ears later some angler lacking stamina to go into the proper fIshIng fishing fishing fish fIsh- ing territory tried fishing In the canal arid and landed a a. few tew trout From that time legal catches have been taken talen from the canal cabal regularly each season |