Vernal Express | 1956-08-02 | Page 9 | High Uinta Lakes Get Air Plantings of Big Fish Loads Section

high uinta lakes get air plantings of big fish loads stocking by plane of high oft off the road lakes is going forward rapidly at this date the department of fish and game said today small native trout are now being flown in to the high uinta lakes almost dally daily as they are processed from the egeto the planting stage at several of the states twelve hatcheries forty two lakes have already heen stocked with natives with seme sume twenty lakes having been stocked earlier in the season with brook fingerling current plans call tor for stocking two and one half million of the small native trout into high country waters by plane this summer the is proving highly successful it is a solo flying job with the rear seating space of the two place plane being entirely taken up with the specially devised four compartment fish planting tank to date an average morning finds the pilot making two or more planting flights into various of the high basins the first load goes in as daylight breaks with the average round trip being 45 minutes low flying over the lakes becomes hazardous as the sun rises and the air cu currents begin to work each load of the small fish numbers about two plane trips will larry carry in and stock the equivalent of the number ordinarily requiring the use of a string of 20 pack animals