Show I Quality Fishing vs q Quantity Fishing Wildlife Resources f In Inthe the minds of most trout fishermen there Is quite a bit of 01 difference between be t tW tween en catching a brilliantly colored wild trout and his paler counterpart freshly netted from Irom a hatchery pond 01 TH THE THI UTAH division of 01 Wildlife ReI Resources Re Re- I sources source in 1971 initiated Initialed a wild trout t management program In response to the growing demand for lor quality as well as f quantity In the states state's trout fishing op op- The term wild Hild trout in Utah's program program pro pro- gram is used to designate two management management manage manage- ment system stream s trout and stream stream bred bred trout The stream stream reared reared sy system system system sy sy- stem fingerling stockings in wat waI waters wa wa- t I that do not allow natural I While the trout are not wild f by pure definition they exhibit wild trout characteristics Stream-bred Stream mant man man- J t I aging is used on streams which support sup sup- f port breeding populations of brown cuti cutthroat cut cut- i thio throat t to tOr rainbow tout t FOR WILD trout management to besu be su successful stocking of 01 trout of 01 t size must be discontinued Studies have shown that sustaining self wild trout trou population population pop numbers drop drastically within the tho first two years after hatchery reared hatchery reared rainbow trout are added By c contrast when stocking of 01 is discontinued discontinued discon discon- tined wild tout population h to been able to almost triple In two years There Ther ar are roughly miles of 01 trout ir stream ani Utah The wild trout management manage ment program is in operation on seven wits waters s. s These TheS include portions of 01 the Provo Blacksmith Fork and Duchesne rivers river and Mammoth Creek and the full fun lengths of Whiterocks Whiterock River UM Creek and Seven Mile Creek reek DIVISION BIOLOGISTS BIOLOGISTS' consider limi limi- tatton of fishing pressure important to the successful management of wild trout I fisheries This problem is is' largely taken care of naturally since the success rate for these waters is s more dependent upon th the kill o of the angler The wild trout program has resulted in more intensive stocking in certain wa ten ter Efforts have been made to increase the stocking frequency and to do a abet better bet bet- ter job of fish Fish no DO long stocked In wild in-wild wild trout areas have been been transferred to the the Intensive e Intensive reas areas WATERS GIVEN the intensive area designation n include Uinta River in Uinta Canyon Panguitch Creek below Panguitch Panguitch Panguitch Pan- Pan Lake Logan River in Logan Canyon Can yon you Sevier River in Kingston Canyon North Fork Duchesne River above the Ranger Station and the Provo River between the Olmstead and Murdoch Mur doch diversion structures Anglers Anglers' should have haver better r than a aver av average er gJ success cess cess' for reared hatchery rain rainbow r rain rainbow i bow trout of size on these areas |