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Show Good news for Strawberry reservoir res-ervoir anglers was announcement by Madsen that 967,000 cutthroat eggs were received July 18 from Yellowstone park. The eggs were taken to Midway hatchery with the bulk of the trout destined to be planted in the Strawberry. The shipment was a part of an unexpected four million eggs to be received from the park in return re-turn for the services of a Utah hatchery man, James R. Mur-dock Mur-dock of Midway, who has been helping federal fish men with egg taking in Yellowstone. i I UTAH FISHING HOLDING DESPITE DEMANDS Despite the heaviest demands in Utah's fishing history, trout catches are holding up well throughout the state with ex ception of two critical drouth areas where streams are dropping dropp-ing rapidly below normal flow, M. J. Madsen, superintendent of fisheries for the Utah fish and game department, announced today to-day The two critical areas are the southwest and northwest sections of the state, Madsen said. Precipitation Pre-cipitation in these areas is far below normal To offset these sections, however, how-ever, are numerous reports that j Fish Lake is "holding up very j well". Angling in the high Uinta lakes is listed as "very good" by returned sportsmen and game ! wardens Madsen announced that horse-back horse-back planting of the western' high Uinta area got underway I July 15 with pack trains operat-ing operat-ing full time out of the Mirror lake section. Pack train planting in the eastern section has been i underway since June 15. Meanwhile, the planting program pro-gram is progressing rapidly, Madsen Mad-sen said. Two big trucks are operating op-erating out of Midway, one out of Glenwood, and two out of Springville. In addition, nine smaller trucks are operating out of various hatcheries. One statewide plant of major proportions is scheduled prior to Labor day, Madsen said. |