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Show I 1 i0og cJcays' atf Flaming Gorge ran produce excellent flashing RvHartlWlxom U said for some time that I' is fie of the few lake where so-called heat wave ?n produce bt fishing of w litahn John Tallon proved !llr Ss month by hauling out of fffne Marina area a 3! lb. ition Tallon's boatmates in j ' Marks of 22, 20 and 15 lbs. mvfaSoritegen flatfish in "SSSwter down the middle .Pnrk Bav. just south of the Marina? Tallon said. It is jS l 3i-pounder is fourth '"L. laker ever taken from the 3f wtth Frank Mitchell's state j? pounder, just north of Srne, as best. T,llon used steeJ line on the bottom, sonar device to locate fish, were some big ones down there, particularly schooled up, but J ' We did best in the early "irning. bi while the Gorge is exploding now S! ft Urge lake trout, Lucerne Marina leer Jerry Taylor has some icerns "We have tried for some time anticipate how long this fantastic Bhv fishing can continue," he said. Jelavor making sure we don't kill the L of the golden eggs. Oneway is toeing limits to perhaps just one fish d 20 inches, leaving more spawners. feel an angler is happy with one ullakera day. He can now take two. pi is fine for 1981, but we have to look Cd." other thing Taylor is concerned pit will be spotlighted at a special ping in the Daggett County Cour-jose, Cour-jose, Manila, 7:30 p.m., July 29, to jciss possibility of letting more than (rina guides "commercialize" the tug of big fish. (l now employ two guides, Bruce rier and Brent Benassi, and the je two marinas have three between pi," Taylor emphasized. "But, with none guiding everywhere, two jtgs can happen and they are both 1: one is low quality service, so the client doesn't get what he pays for. The other is that he will, and the lake resource has to suffer from so many people concentrating on catching these big fish." Taylor says a person can testify in the hearing by contacting an officer of the Ashley National Forest Service office in Dutch John. Headquarters in Vernal will decide on the issue, a strictly local one. If allowed, it would break a long precedent that does not allow any commercial guides on the lake, except those through the lake's three marinas. Forest service officials explained earlier that, "it is the marina operators who take the financial risk, and should be rewarded for their investment-plus controlling how many guides are on the lake." "It is a resource I'm thinking about," Taylor stressed. "We make our living here, but many other recreational users who use the lake share a concern with us that future anglers be able to hook a 20 or 30-lb., or ever larger Mack, just as we do now." Incidentally, the marinas, including Buckboard in Wyoming and Cedar Springs near the dam, can supply fishing service and latest catch information, in-formation, as well as fishing, grocery, and boating supplies. But, there is one thing you don't even need to ask, can you catch big lake trout in the Gorge in the "dog days" of summer when other Mack waters are dead? The answer is an unqualified yes. Hopefully, it will continue to be wisely managed so that will always be the case. And whatever your opinion, for or against more guides-guiding, you can have your say at the July 29 hearing. If you're not there, send a statement, you won't have much to justifiably complain about when the final decision is made later. t i ' ' ' i ' ( t i , ....... ... 1 ... - ' MORNING TROLLING at Flaming Gorge, as shown here, is producing big Mackinaw now. The question is now being asked, "How long can the Gorge keep producing giant fish?" |