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Show Page B2 Thursday, May 26, 1983 Park t in V ws t Try something new and different- . ! u cusTomze 3174 Highland Drive 486-8735 Al CusLotn furnishings Fishing forecast for opener Bt Cuke SpiBcopal (Elfurclj 525 Park Avenue Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m. Come and loin Us Ijepijeru of tlje ittountains foittrenm (Church Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. at St. Luke Episcopal Church, 525 Park Avenue All, ire wecome. David Krueger, Pastor 649-2233 Bt. marrj'0 Catholic (Erjitrcrf - 121 Park Avenue Park City Mass 5:30 p.m. Saturday 9:00 a.m. Sunday ( onesson by appt. FATHER PAT CARLEY 649-9676 Park (Eitg Olommunittf flUjurrii 402 Park Avenue Christian Education All Ages, 9 (H) a m. Sunday Services 10.15 a m. Park City's Oldest Protestant Church, since 1881 Aitiliated United Methodist Linda Barnes. Pastor b-49-Hlil iapttat Swart HUniBtriea Suite 2008 Mt. Air Mall Sunday worship 9:30 a.m. Minister Benny Clark Office 649-8084 Home 254-2885 (EJjriBtian Science Sunday Church and Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Wednesday Evening Services 7:30-8:30 p.m. 833 Quaking Aspen Court Everyone warmly welcome 649-7812649-3213 Cljurtlj of ieaua (Eljrist of attar-Safj atnta Snyderville Ward on Frontage Road Priesthood Meeting - 1 :00 p.m. Sunday School - 2:00 p.m. Sacrament Service - 2:50 p.m. 649-6027 See you on Sunday THE MORMONS (Mfuptl $zllavuslip Sunday Worship - 9:30 a.m. Meeting at Prospector Square Convention Center Bible Studies and Prayer Meeting Weekly (through the bible tape lending library) Non-denominational, Christ Centered Church PASTOR LENNY PERATA 649-8301 Have you been wondering how the high runoff will affect af-fect Saturday's opening of the fishing season? Here, courtesy of the Division of Wildlife Resources, are some educated estimates for a few of the area's favorite fishing holes. Fast Canyon Reservoir Preseason trout samples were consistent with previous years. Fish are in good shape and average over one-half pound. Kokanee are present and provide good fishing later in the season. Fishing should be fair to good. Heavy crowds expected expect-ed both boat and shore. Access Ac-cess is good. State Park and boat ramp. Water level is high and fishing should be good for the majority of the season. Provo River Provo River from Hailstone upstream is running run-ning high and turbid. Access will be limited along the Mirror Lake highway because of snow. Catchable sections will not be stocked until heavy runoff is over. Because of high water fishing will be poor and pressure light. Rockport Reservoir Gill-net results were average compared to other years. Trout averaged over three-quarters of a pound. This water will receive approximately ap-proximately 45,000 supplemental sup-plemental rainbow catch-ables, catch-ables, which are normally stocked into streams. These fish may not enter the creel in good numbers until later in the season. Good access, State Park and boat ramp. Smith and Morehouse Reservoir The road to this water is still snowed in and it will not be stocked prior to opening. It will be stocked as soon as access is available. Fishing is usually fair and improves when the reservoir is drawn down for irrigation. Weber River (Morgan) Because of high water, no stocking will take place on this water until after heavy runoff. Pressure is expected to be light for the, opening. Fishing willjmprove later after runoff decreases. Daniels Creek This stream ' is popular with central Utah anglers. Access is good but the outlook for the opening is questionable. If the runoff has dropped, it will be stocked for the opening. Use is moderate to heavy throughout the season. Fishermen can expect to catch rainbow and cutthroat cut-throat trout. In the lower canyon there is an excellent population of brown trout and very light pressure. Deer Creek Reservoir This reservoir is of statewide interest as well as local interest. Access is excellent ex-cellent and the outlook for the opening is good for boat anglers. This reservoir is very poor for shore"fisher-men shore"fisher-men on the opening. Deer Creek is a good shore fishery for trout in the fall. It also provides excellent fishing for yellow perch during much of the year and is popular with experienced bass anglers, i Little Deer Creek This stream is of broad local interest and access is good from Cascade Springs. The outlook for the opening is good and fishermen should expect to catch rainbow and brown trout. Use is heavy throughout the season and the seasonal outlook is good. Mountain Dell Creek This stream is a very small stream and is of local interest. Access is good and it should be stocked for the opening. Use is moderate; it is only stocked once per year for the opening. Soldier Creek Reservoir Conditions at Soldier Creek Reservoir are impossible im-possible to predict because the weather has been wet and cold. Even if the ice goes off, roads and camping areas will be muddy. This reservoir is of statewide interest. in-terest. Access is good though boat launching is difficult for large boats. We expect the opening to be good this year and fishermen can expect to calch rainbow, cutthroat and brook trout. South Fork Lower Provo This stream is of local interest. in-terest. Access is generally good, and we plan to stock rainbow catchables for Jhe opening. Use is moderate and the seasonal outlook is good. Even the smallest ads are read! Come to the Stein Eriksen Lodge for the Memorial Day Weekend and enjoy our LP HIE Saturday Sunday Monday All this for only $6.95 Norwegian atmosphere, breathtaking mountain scenery and Gold Medal food at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley. Kids 5-I4 only $3.95, kids under 5, free. Make your reservation now! Call for a reservation at our delightful brunch 10am, 12 noon or 2pm in the Birkebeiner Restaurant. Restau-rant. Or reserve a table for the full service breakfast break-fast in the Glitretind Gourmet Room. ill A real Norwegian Brunch Fresh fruits, imported cheeses, assorted cold salads, including in-cluding herring, shrimp, Waldorf, artichoke and mushroom. mush-room. Deviled eggs, cheese blintzes, smoked salmon. hot muffins, cinnamon rolls and a wide variety of tantalizing desserts. Special entrees from the kitchen such as omelettes, ome-lettes, eggs benedict two selections of fresh fish and roast leg of lamb available at an additional charge. STEIN ERIKSEN LODGE Located in the heart of Deer Valley. Reservations are suggested (801) 649-3700 Strawberry Reservoir This reservoir is of statewide interest. Access will probably be open though it should be expected that conditions will be very wet this year. Snow melt is at least two weeks behind nor-' mal. The outlook for the opening should be good for boat and shore fishermen. Boat fishermen generally have better success as the season progresses until October Oc-tober and November when shore fishing picks up. Fishermen can expect to catch rainbow, cutthroat and brook trout. Use is generally heavy and may be heavier this year with access to Scofield limited due to the closure of Spanish Fork Canyon. Currant Creek opens July 1. Fishing is expected ex-pected to be good for cutthroat, cut-throat, brown and rainbow trout. Campground facilities are available near Currant Creek Dam and the access road is all-weather. Much of the land adjacent to the stream is open to public fishing but it is private. Care should be taken to protect these privileges. Flaming Gorge Reservoir is an important, popular fishing water. Although it is open to year-round fishing it draws a large crowd for the opener. Recently the rainbow rain-bow trout fishing has been picking up at Flaming Gorge and, of course, trophy-sized fish are available for fishermen with a lot of patience. Remember, the limit on lake trout is two (2), and only one (1) trout of any species which is over 20" in length can be kept. Fishing from boats is most popular at Flaming Gorge but rainbows rain-bows are also being taken from shore. Flaming Gorge is highly accessible and complete facilities are available. North Fork Duchesne River is one of Utah's popular fishing streams. Pressure after opening weekend is generally heavy throughout the season and fair to good fishing is maintained by frequent plants of rainbow trout. Road access is generally good but the stream will not be stocked for the opener because of high water and adverse weather conditions. A few small ponds near Defa's Ranch are available for public use and are normally stocked for the opener with rainbow trout. Starvation Reservoir was once Utah's hottest fishing water but has since been relegated to one of the State's poorest fisheries because of a rough fish takeover. Smallmouth bass, largemouth bass and walleye have been introduced, in-troduced, but it is expected to take a few more years before they become impor tant. In the meantime anglers are faced with slow fishing. Starvation is readily accessible any time of the year and is equipped with an ultra-modern campground, boat ramp and fish cleaning facility. Strawberry River between Soldier Creek and the confluence of Red Creek is a flies-only quality fishing stream endearingly regarded by anglers across the State as the "Wild Strawberry." The fishing season on the Strawberry River is delayed until July 1, 1983, and closes early (September 15, 1983). This year July 1 is a Friday, so expect a large crowd. Fishing should be good for both brown and cutthroat trout and should continue to be good throughout the remainder of the summer. Lands adjacent to the Strawberry River are private and much of it is posted, so seek permission before planning your trip. Uinta Mountain Lakes Access into these lakes may not become available until approximately July 15. Check with local sources to determine when access is available. Excellent fishing and hiking opportunities are available on both the south and north slopes of the Uinta Mountains. Don't neglect the streams. In many drainages, stream fishing is good and the size of trout is acceptable. (D&igftiiiiif snIboDiinil; by Dave Mueller O0W Old opening lines If a person had to bet on one thing this week, and count on winning, it would be that rain or shine, hell or high water, come Saturday Satur-day morning at least 600,000 people in this state will be looking for some place to go fishing. It's not like election day when the weather can affect the turnout. A full-blown blizzard could hit and all 600,000 anglers would still find a place to fish, if not Strawberry Reservoir Reser-voir then Sugar House Park or even the bathtub. The General Fishing Opener is something special. You'll find a few serious anglers who pass up opening day for two basic reasons: crowds and high water. But hey, that's a little lit-tle too serious. Like avoiding the Christmas tree on Christmas morning because it's too crowded under there. , There's some sort of magic to be had on that day. Some kind of reason that keeps all those fish chasers dressing a hook year after year on a day that'll most certainly be filled with crowds and high water and very little fishing success. A lot of you probably know Jan Peterson, proprietor of Jan's Sport shop. He grew up in Salt Lake City and his dad made a father-son outing on the fishing opener an annual affair. I got to talking to Jan about opening day and he thought back to when he was a youngster, excited more than anything about the start of the fishing season. One early morning on Chalk Creek something happened that'll remain with Jan for a long, long time. Something that maybe gets quite a few of us pulling on the boots year after year. As Peterson tells it: "I was fishing with a worm when a huge brown, probably one that had moved up out of Echo, took the bait. I tried getting it in but I just couldn't land it. Finally the fish just pulled me in. Somehow I got my rod and myself out of the river but the fish got off. Then Dad saw the fish down below and retrieved it. It must have been 8-10 pounds, but to a 10-year-old it might have been 15 or 20!" Yes, it is a fact that after six months of not seeing spinners, worms, minnows and flies floating past, "Old Joe" can be fooled on Opening Day. And for the fly-tyer who has been at the vise all winter, Opening Day presents an opportunity oppor-tunity to try out some special new fly pattern, pat-tern, a creation never before seen by trout. We're talking about the minnow imitation, the one tied from a hank of Shep's tail or something equally as experimental. They all get a shot on Opening Day. Ed Grose, born a Parkite but now living in Charleston, tells of many fly-fishing expeditions ex-peditions on the opener. But I had to ask him, given high water conditions statewide, where would a fly-fisher go so early in the season to catch trout on fur and feather? "Well, Kimball Creek above Marcellin's on the Spring Branch was sometimes good. Up there the water was sometimes fairly clear by early June. But if you were a fly fisherman fisher-man and wanted to get out on the opener you went to one place : Stinkin' Springs. "It was never a bait stream. It was a series of cress-lined pools with water just as clear in June or August or October. Fly fishing was always good no matter what the runoff was doing in the rest of the state. "I always preferred to fish the section of the springs that started where the road came down to the creek, and from there down to just above the big bend below a fallen pine tree." Readers, I hate to choke you up, but if you want to look for this legendary section of trout water you better take some real rain gear. Like a wet suit and an aqualung. You see, the Central Utah Project put Soldier Creek Dam right about where the old fallen pine used to be, and Ed's favorite stretch of stream is now under a whole lot of water. I suppose you could stand on the dam and sling a heavily-weighted marshmallow down where Ed used to fish. "It still galls the hell out of me," adds Grose. There are some around Park City who do not know that Lloyd Stevens, fabled restaurateur, spent a good hunk of his growing-up-days east of Park City in the town of Oakley along the Weber River. And like many of these who grew up in that neck of the woods, Lloyd made the most of the first day of the trout season. In fact, Lloyd, always the consummate businessman, made a little more out of it than his pals. "I guess we were about 12 or 13 then," Stevens recalls. aA whole bunch of us were camped out at Holiday Park on the river. We always got going at four in the morning so we'd be out fishing just as soon as we could see. This year I was the only one of us who seemed to catch any fish. That made everyone else pretty mad. They really got mad when I traded my fish to some sheepherders for firecrackers. Then I didn't have to buy any on the Fourth of July." Ah, Lloyd, always thinking ahead. For sheer tradition, though, I've got to give the Deer Creek Social Club the edge in Opening Day activities. This group has made more fun out of Opening Day than a fisherman fisher-man has a right to ask. I talked to Bullet Bill Schaffer about the annual event, since I have not actually partaken. I'd heard stories, though. This has been going on for ten years. "Yeah, we always start things out the night before with a card game," he said. "There's nothing like a card game to keep you going all night so you can get out on the lake early enough in the morning. None of us are early risers by habit, you know. Just having Gary Burdick in the game will keep you on your toes. You've got to watch him. "Then we all ante up into the jackpot for the (fishing) contest," Schaffer continued. "We had some trouble with the scales in the early years so we went to strictly the longest fish to determine the winner. "The only rule we have is that you have to fish from a boat. Ron Schultz has been disqualified many times because he sneaks over to the Provo River and catches a big brown from there." I asked Bullet what was the largest fish in ten years caught during the contest. "I guess that would be Brian Carter's three-pound albino. Carter got lucky. He thought Carter's nightcrawler was another stick. The fish was full of sticks." ' But it has been the side events that keep the opening interesting for this group, too. "One year Kenny Binatena's canoe sank. It didn't seem to bother him very much. He -just kept paddling away, trolling all the while. That was a pretty tricky way to get the bait down a little deeper, "I guess Mary Lehmer was probably the only other one of us to get wet. She wanted to get out on the far side of the lake to look for grasshoppers or something and the boat just moved out from under her and in she went: boots, hat, down jacket and all," Bullet remembered. "She hung in there, though. Didn't even go back to fish fry early." You have a fish fry? "Oh year, we have a fish fry in the afternoon after-noon if we catch anything or not ! " Well, there you go. A few ways and means and ideas of getting out on Opening Day. And listen. If you hate crowds and muddy water on the Opener, just call Gary A vise. He goes up to Girl Scout Lake every year about this time. - |