Show Sheep Creek Lake Fish I Fair Department of Fish and Game of officials I cia Is said this week that there is at least a fair I survival of native trout 1 ners at Sheep Creek Lakel Lake The lake bake Is situated in the I northeast foothills of the Uinta Mountains where it was wasi I constructed by the depart ment several years ago i ii i IT WAS STOCKED with small native trout has been closed t to angling with the purpose being to establish a awater water from which to take na-i na tive trout eggs for hatching and stocking over the state The project was started when native trout eggs from any I other source became difficult to obtain Concern arose that the fish be lost this winter when the ice stayed snore more than a month longer than usual and especially when the small feeder canal carrying water into the lake was blocked by ice for more than a month before depart ment workmen could get the water flowing into the lake again AS THE LAKE recently cleared of ice a shore line count showed showed several hund red fish had been lost through suffocation Later checks in a fair survival of the two pound and heavier ners and these fish are now moving into the trap on the stream Several hundred are already In the holding pens and egg taking operations are expected to get underway in inthe inthe the near future About 1790 eggs have been taken since Thursday of last week Plans now call for bringing another source of water into the lake to further assure sur vival of this important spawn ing stock during future long extremely cold winters like the one just past officials said |