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Show WILDLIFE REPORT UTAH STATE DIVISION OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES Mt. Pleasant; Wednesday, June 25, Price; Thursday June 26, Vernal; andFriday, June 27, Salt Lake City. All meetings will begin at 8 p.m. STATE FISHERY PROJECTS STALLED "Hatcheries have been bursting at the seams," says Division of Wildlife Resources Re-sources fisheries biologist Glenn Davis, who reports that fingerlings and some catchables are finally being stocked in lower and intermediate inter-mediate elevation waters. Fisheries stocking and egg taking operations are still af least a month behind, due to stormy spring. "We just haven't had any place to put the fish this year", said Davis. Division personnel began taking cutthroat eggs at Strawberry Resevoir June 11. That project is usually completed by June 15. "We've taken about 5,000 fish in the trap so far, and the run appears to have peaked peak-ed out. Normally, we have 10,000," said Charlie Thompson, Central Regional fisheries manager. Top priority for planting the cutthroats is in the high Uinta Lakes. Generally about one million are put back in Strawberry Reservoir by Dennis Aim With fishing season well under way in Beaver County, many fishermen are finding that fishing conditions are quite varied. Miner sville Reservoir has produced a few good catches of two and three pound rainbow rain-bow trout and seems to still be giving up a fewof its trout in the early morning hours or late evening. Cheese and worms are taking top honors for the best bait. Flatfish or surface flies are working good if you like to troll or . just float. The reservoir is quite low at the present time and some algae growth has started. Miner sville stream below the dam has been stocked in the lower sections and should produce good catches of nine or ten inch rainbow trout. Fishing success in the Beaver Mountain lakes has been quite varied due to heavy pressure by nonresidents nonresi-dents and varied stocking dates. By fishing Kents Lake, Little Reservoir, or Puffer Lake, a fisherman can generally gen-erally get a limit of trout without too much trouble. Most of the fish caught on the Beaver Mountains has been rainbow trout except for a few large brown trout caught in Little Reservoir and some brook trout from LaBaron Lake and Anderson Reservoir. pected to be stocked in Lake Powell when they reach the two -inch size. As those figures fig-ures indicate, striped bass are delicate and have a very low survival rate. Females, are capable of spawning a million eggs at a time to compensate for the high mortality. The fish, in their early state, are in a larval form, and have no mouth parts or functional digestive system. They depend upon a limited yolk supply, so must find food as soon as their digestive system becomes functional. The feeding experiments center around this factor. As the fish get larger, they become increasingly cannibalistic, can-nibalistic, necessitating their being removed from the ponds and released in the reservoir where they will find an ample food supply in the form of threadfin shad. So, hopefully, those anglers pulling in the 10-and 11 -inch stripers now can set their sights toward next year, too. PUBLIC MEETINGS SLATED The board of Big Game Control has set the dates for its annual public meetings to hear recommendations for Utah's 1975 big game hunts. Dates and locations are as follows; Friday, June 20, Ogden; Monday, June 23', Panguitch; Tuesday, June 24, The Beaver River is presently pres-ently quite high, but should i provide good fishing in the upcoming weeks. 1 STRIPER 1 FRY ARRIVE Utahns were suprised 1 last October when ten-inch 1 bass started showing up in i the creel at Lake Powell. After all, they'd been planted ' only in July when they were ' just two inches long. 1 That phenomenal growth J lead to the stripers beine in- i eluded in 1975 fishing proc- ' lamation for the first time. J More striped bass should i be put in the big southern 1 Utah water this summer with the arrival of two million fry ! at Division of Wildlife Re- 1 sources rearing ponds. Fisheries Research Sup- ! ervisor Don Archer traveled 1 to Sacramento, California. for the first million fry. He ( assisted that state's Fish and ' Game fisheries crews in spawning striped bass as part of the exchange agree- ment. The fry were shipped via i airplane to Page, Arizona when they were four days old, ! then taken to the rearing ( ponds near Glen Canyon City. The other one million stripl j ers came from North Caro- Una at the aee of two davs. Archer noted that 20,000 to ' 60,000 fingerlings are ex- |