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Show FISH AND GAME HIGHLIGHTS Angling success continued at a high level as the 162 day general trout season in Utah entered the second month of activity following follow-ing the June 7 opening day. Conservation officers from over the state report that nearly all waters are holding up well under un-der what has been termed "the heaviest pressure on record". Reports from recently accessible acces-sible high mountain sections, mainly the Uinta mountain country, coun-try, list exceptionally good returns re-turns coming in from these off the road waters. Department of fish and game spokesmen listed the generally high water table, an optimum production of fishes from the state's twelve hatcheries and advancing management practices as the reasons for what to date has been termed by most anglers "the best creel returns in years". Director Harold S. Crane noted, not-ed, "We are very pleased with angling success to date during the present season. The experiments, experi-ments, planning and hard work of our fisheries people and the department personnel in general, is very evident this year from the current creel returns." Crane noted that the planting of catchaibles would continue in all streams and other "put and take" waters until the early days of September. He said hatcheries are holding ample fish of this size to adequately care for the stocking program during this period. The yearly planting of fish by plane is now under way and will continue over the next two months, according to the Utah Department of Fish and Game. The department said fish are now being dropped into lakes of the Boulder, Escalante, Thousand Thous-and Lake mountain areas during the early days of this annual program to be concluded with the final plants in the High Uintas during late August. More than 300 lakes are expected ex-pected to be planted by plane in this third year of the program. These are off the road waters not accessible to planting by the Hatchery tracks. Utah's fish and game commissioners commis-sioners will meet in regular summer sum-mer quarterly session July 18-19. o |