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Show FISH AND GAME HIGHLIGHT Several waters that have previously pre-viously been open to year round fishing will close to angling with the advent of the new year, Department Depart-ment of Fish and Game spokesmen advised today. The waters lying in four Utah counties were listed by the Department Depart-ment as Curlew Creek and Brig-ham Brig-ham City Reservoir in Box Elder County, Pine Lake in Carfield County, Goshen Creek in Utah County, and Clover Creek, North. Willow Creek, South Willow Creek, Settlement Creek and Ophir Creek in Tooele County. Despite these closures set by the five-man fish and game commission for management reason's, more than 150 waters within the Beehive State remain open to angling on a year-round, 24 hour a day basis for the 1963 angling year. Four popular Utah fishing streams will be open to the taking of Rocky Mountain whitefish or "herring" from January I through February 15, 1963, under terms of the ' new angling regulations, Department De-partment spokesmen said today. Three of the streams, the Logan, Blacksmith Fork and Duchesne Rivers Ri-vers opened for this winter sport on December I, with the closing of the 1962 general angling season. One other water, the Weber River Ri-ver proper downstream from the Echo Dam will open to this popular off-season sport on January I. Whitefish bag and possession limit for anglers fishing the Weber will be ten fish. On all other waters wa-ters the whitefish bag and possession posses-sion limits will be twenty-five fish. Under terms of the 1963 fishing proclamation, there will no longer be weight limits imposed on any fish except trout, salmon and bass. The reduced ten fish bag limit for the Weber was set by the commission com-mission because of the extremely heavy fishing pressure which this stream has received in past years. . |