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Show Thursday, October 21, 2004 PYRAMID T H E 9 Sanpete County area fishing update SANPETE COUNT- Y- Sanpete County and surrounding area fishing update as of Oct. 13, is as follows: Benches and Boulger Fly fishermen have been using small dry flies in the morning or evening. Bait General fishermen should try a Attention hunters! Pack with salmon egg, your fishing tackle for the suspended under a floating general season deer hunt. bubble. Cleveland Spend afternoons catching fish for dinner. October fishFishing has been slow. Try ing is traditionally very trolling Panther Martin or good. Trout feed hungrily in Blue Fox Vibrax spinners on preparation for winter. They monofilament. Some bank are much more active, acces- fishermen have had luck sible and concentrated than with Wildfire Power during summer months. Nuggets or with a night- er night-crawl- inches must be immediately crawler and marshmallow. Duck Fork released. Tiger trout are catchable-size- a and offer good sportfishing. Aquatics Biologist Justin Hart reminds anglers that the reservoir is closed to the possession of cutthroat trout. Only tiger trout may be harvested. Only artificial flies or lures may be used. Miller Flat The reservoir is very low. Fishing is best off the dam. Anglers continue to do well with rainbow PowerBait or red salmon eggs. Fly fisherg men should try black leech patterns. slow-strippin- Other areas Fishing has been good at tributary inlets of Potters Ponds, with rainbow or chartreuse PowerBait. On Huntington North Reservoir, try trolling with pop gear and a nightcrawler. The water level at Gooseberry is extremely low. Fishing has been fair from shore. Nightcrawler and salmon egg combos have worked best. Electric Lake The water level is extreme- ly low. Fishing has been fair. d trout are beSome nice-size- ing caught with a egg combination or rainbow Power-BaiFish off points for best results. Fly fishing has been fair from pontoons and tubes, trolling olive or black leech patterns. night-crawlersalm- t. One of Utah's oldest Fairview Lakes lake level is very low. fish hatcheries still Scofield The lake level is The The best fishing has been in the east lake from tubes or craft. Bank fishermen have done well in the southwest portion of the smaller lake with rainbow PowerBait or red marshmallows. Fly fishing has been from a tube or pontoon. good leeches or olive or chartreuse crystal buggers fast stripped on sinking line are the best bet. very low. Conservation Officer Stacey Jones cautions anglers to stick with small water craft or tubes or pontoon boats. Orange sparkle PowerBait or a nightcrawlermarshmal-locombination have been effective along the east shoreline. Trollers have done well with pop gear and a nightcrawler. Bait fishing from a boat has been good north of the island in 5 Ferron feet of water with orange Fishing continues to be sparkle PowerBait or raingood for rainbow, cutthroat bow Power Nuggets and a and brook trout. A variety of salmon egg. flies, lures and baits have been used successfully. The trout limit is four, but anglers may take a bonus limit of four brookies. non-motoriz- one of its best Editor's Note: This is the eighth in a series of articles about Utah's state fish hatcheries. Lo- a- One of Utah's oldest fish hatcheries still has one of the state's best water supplies and continues to provide fish for anglers across Utah. Operated by the Division of Wildlife Resources, the Loa State Fish Hatchery is located in beautiful Wayne County, three miles north -- of Loa. History Land for the hatchery was purchased in 1931 and the hatchery was constructed in 1935 and 1936. Through the years, more land and water rights were purchased The hatchery was completely renovated in 1961 and through an agreement with the Fremont Irrigation Company, the available water supply was increased nearly Write a good Huntington Creek In the fly fishing-onl- v zone, try small dry flies, such 16 as the 16 yellow humpies or 16 royal wulff. Below the forks, anglers have had success with drifted nightcrawlers edand runs through deeper dies. Brown trout, up to 14 inches, have been taken. 70percent. The hatchery has not had any major construction since 1961 and is one of the oldest fish culture facilities in Utah. For more information about the hatchery, call (435) 836-230- Water supply per-minu- te one-ha- lf per-mont- h. The Loa State Fish Hatchery produces several species of fish, but more than 90 percent of its production consists of rainbow trout. The hatchery also supplies brown trout fingerling, tiger trout, a brook trout, brown trout hybrid, and is the major producer of the popular splake, a brook trout, lake trout hybrid. The hatcheries' production average is 685,000 fish and 135,000 pounds. In 2003, it produced its e high of 162,000 pounds. Fish from the hatchery are stocked statewide. Waldorf NAPS- Huntington Reservoir (on the mountain) The lake level is low and . Fish production college essay para-Adam- s, 0. The hatchery has one of the most dependable water supplies in Utah. The total flow is nearly 6,000 gallons and never varies, even during this current drought. The water comes out of the ground on site, so no pumping is required. Geologists have hypothesized that this constant now suggests a "distant source and substantial storage." Adding to the question of its source is the fact that the water temperature varies among individual springs, "suggesting some complexity in the source or flow path'r No matter where it comes from, it's ideal for raising fish. The cooler springs, 54 degreees F, are used in the hatchery building, ideal for the care of eggs and fry. The main, warmer spring, 59 degrees F. is used for production when the fish are older. At this temperature, the fish inches grow as much as one and w , fishing pressure has dropped off. North and east shorelines have been productive with a straight nightcrawler behind a full bubble. Tiger trout go up to 16 inches. The reservoir is closed to the possession of cutthroat trout, and trout " with cutthroat markings. , , Joes Valley The boat ramp is out of the water. Very little fishing pressure. November is a good month to resume fishing at Joes Valley. The trout one over 22 limit is two-on- ly inches. All trout from 2 -Toby College application Coloumbia Spotted Frog Conservation actions j; for Spotted Frog take., i; forward giant leap SANPETE COUNTY - A total of 163 acres of critical C lumbia spotted frog habitat near Fairview has been protect ed from development and other activities through the sign1-ing of a conservation easement with landowner Orson 1 ritzen. Lauritzen entered into a conservation easement with thio Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) to ensure that tin property will remain suitable habitat for the Columbia spot ted frog into the future. The property in the agreement consists of pasture used fo P grazing and wet meadows, ponds and wetlands. The east s! ment allows agricultural activities to continue with minimi' - 1 restrictions. DWR is interested in working with other landownet s ii the area to acquire similar easements to create interconnect ed migration corridors among frog populations throughout; the valley. Funds received by landowners can be used ej their discretion. s "This is a win-wi- n situation," said Krissy Wilson, DWltJ wildlife biologist. "Not only are we providing protection fo r spotted frog, but Lauritzen is still able to continue his rant Up 5 ing and farming operations." The value of the easement was appraised at $360,500 an c was purchased with State Landowner Incentive prograrC and Endangered Species Mitigation funds. Conservatio5 easements not only provide financial incentives to landowi ers, they also guarantee natural areas and habitat in perpelt'jj ity to many other species of wildlife that utilize their propoj ? C ty. The Columbia spotted frog is considered a sensitive species and has experienced dramatic distribution decline throughout its range in Utah. It has been extirpated fi crCI many historic habitats. Habitat for spotted frogs in the stat currently consists of a few isolated wetlands along th Wasatch Front and in the San Pitch River drainage an West Desert. Sanpete County holds the southernmost population of spo ted frog in the United States. DWR biologists have identilie J and continue to monitor several small, isolated pockets c C spotted frog populations throughout the Sanpete Valley. Landowners within Sanpete County who are interested i working with DWR to protect spotted frogs may contact th v essays are the most time consuming part of the application process. They provide the admissions reader the opportunity to get to know a student as something much more than a GPA and test score. Use this opportunity to be your most unique self, whomever that self may be. Brainstorm your topic idea with your parents, coun- DWRs Central Region office at (801) selors or friends. Write about something that you're truly interested in and it will interest the reader as well. Have another set of eyes review your essay for content ana grammar. Check and recheck for typos and careless errors. To learn n more and to see some visit college essays, Destination-at 491-567- 8. ! r well-writte- Mark may be U 15-2- 13-ye- ar height impaired... but he's "NOT" when it comes to all-tim- Whirling diseasesanitation important aspect of raising fish is sanitation. All the hatcheries throughout Utah have very strict prevention protocols. This is especially true at the Loa hatchery, due to its proximity to the fish parasite Myxobolus eerebralis, better known as whirling disOne sanita-tiondisea- se ease. If this parasite or any other restricted pathogen, including bacterial and viral diseases infects a hatchery, all of its fish must be disposed of to prevent the spread of the infection. Whirling disease was first discovered in Utah in 1991 mile downstream in a private fish hatchery from the Loa hatchery. For 13 years now, the hatchery has remained whirling disease free. Equipment used from the hatchery is never brought back into it. Fish barriers have been constructed at the tail end of the hatchery to prevent upstream migration of infected fish. Flood control structures have also been constructed to help prevent contamination of the hatchery from an irrigation canal carrying water from a whirling disease positive reservoir upstream from the hatchery. one-quart- Even with these precautions, fish from the hatchery are stocked in select waters that would not cause a severe impact if the stocked fish happened to be infected. This includes a growing number of waters already infisheries, which fected with the parasite and "dead-end- " are waters at the end of drainages. Efforts to control less severe pathogens are a daily objective at fish culture facilities. Cleanliness of raceways, regular disinfection of equipment, reduction of stress of any kind to the fish and treatment of fish with antibiotics if they do get sick, are just some of the strategies used to prevent the loss of fish. Production Even with the potential disease problems, the Loa Utahs statewide hatchery continues to play a big role in fish culture system. Over the last four years, the hatchery has produced an average of 19.2 percent of the total pounds of fish stocked in Utah. - VOTE FOR RENT Mt. 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