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Show f Or ' , Ky 4 , -' . -.- . v 7 r r .: ' r I -i'-'tf 'V . ; -' 1 . i ". ' ; ' .1 . " .- V- SC 7- - ' - (:l:':f "V";; .V X ? V.A i . J f & ; . 1 ; ' V - y . c- . " , --rt-'' ' . " " " . jHE FAMILY of Don Gibbs, right, hit the jackpot as Gibbs and his wife, Dawnette, nabbed two point bucks early Saturday morning during the opener. Two points and spikes were the main Deer huraf is rated good in Morthesister&i Hecpon Hod caused problems for hunters, i: .be opening weekend of the hunt in Northeastern Region was good with :dy smaller bucks taken, according : regional supervisor of the Nor-;-s!ern Region of the Utah Division i Wildlife Resources, Don Smith, "ereweresome larger bucks taken, i ihey were in the minority. Smaller ils were taken and that is what we ; dpaled due to our mild winter of i-ll," said Smith. Trip success at Daniels Canyon was : -is percent from a year ago when a 7rcent opening-day success rate is reported. Biologists at Daniels :iked 2,691 hunters and 436 deer pjrday. According to Grant Jense, a ii game biologist with DWR, over i XC hunters were checked Saturday 2,200 deer. Diamond Mountain was good. It was ably one of the best hunts in four or ears. Mainly two-point and spike '3 were taken. Conditions were ''i lor hunting. Roads were very 4 and were torn up a lot, but the it gained access to the deer," said J-'Davis, information officer of the 'leastem Region. "Hunters had ' access in the Book Cliffs. It was 5 hard to get around during the ' g weekend due to muddy con- "CS." wesson Blue Mountain was down item taken, but a number of larger bucks were also nabbed. The deer were gained on Diamond Mountain. and hunter pressure was slightly off from past years. Road conditions were poor. I saw only two four -points taken," said Chad Crosby of the DWR. "Taylor Mountain was slow Saturday morning, but by Saturday afternoon and Sunday they were taking a lot of deer. There was good hunting and the pressure was off a little from last year. Mainly two-points and spikes were taken. Dry Fork was about the same as last year. Hunters gained bucks in the cedars," said Walt Donaldson, DWR biologist. "Little Mountain was slnw and poor. Very few deer were taken. Top of Highway 44 was good. A lot of deer were taken. Two-points and spikes were mainly taken. I saw only one four point taken the whole day." "Browns Park and Three-Corners were poor. What bucks that were taken were very small ones. Pressure was moderate. The roads were a mess. The biggest buck I saw was a two-point . The hunters were looking for bigger stuff, but by noon Saturday they decided to take whatever they could find," said Neil Folks, Browns Park waterfowl superintendent. The take of two-point bucks was considerable throughout the state, reflecting the fact that deer production is up the past two years due to mild winters and conservative hunting seasons in Utah. At the Spanish Fork checking station Saturday, 4,677 hunters were checked with 642 bucks and 15 does for a 13.7 percent success rate, almost three percentage points better than a year ago. That percentage rate jumped to 18 percent Sunday at 5 p.m. as thousands of hunters jammed the checking station on their way home. 508 hunters were checked at theSnowville area station in northwestern Utah with 175 bucks for a 35 percent trip success rate Saturday. |