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Show Wildlife board sevs fishing regulations A regulation allowing only the use of lures and flies on all streams and rivers in the state after two trout exceeding 13 inches have been taken was approved by the Wildlife Board for the 1982 fishing year. "This is an attempt to reduce the mortality from hooking fish which must be released," explains Rod Stone, assistant assis-tant chief of fisheries for Utah Wildlife Resources, a division of the Department Depart-ment of Natural Resources and Energy. As in 1981t the daily bag and possession posses-sion limit of eight for trout and salmon on streams and rivers must not include more than two fish exceeding 13 inches in total length. The 1982 general fishing season will be May 29 to November 30. In setting the 1982 fishing proclamation at their meeting November 12 in Ogden, the Board approved a six trout limit for the first three days of the general fishing season, May 29-31. The normal limit of eight will be in effect at all other times. In 1981, the six fish limit was in effect only during the first two days of the general season. On Flaming Gorge, a size limit will go into effect January 1. Only one trout or salmon over 20 inches in length may be included in the daily bag and possession limit of eight. The Wildlife Board approved a statewide bag limit of 20 blucgill, 24 bullhead catfish and 50crappie (except on Lake Powell where there is no bag or possession limit for crappie). Previously, Previous-ly, there were no bag or possession limits on these species, except for a limit fo 20 on blucgill in Pelican Lake. "This bag limit is to prevent possible over exploitation of this fishery," comments com-ments Stone. The Flaming Gorge bag limit for juveniles has been reduced to four game fish, only one of which may be a lake trout. The limit for channel catfish on Flaming Gorge has been set at 10. |