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Show Sun Advocate Price, Utah Tuesday October 22, 2002 7A Mid October fishing report for southeastern Utah The best fishing of the year is undeiway. DWR southeast era region aquatics manager Louis Berg says that "Just about eveiywhere, the best fishing of the year is in progress as hungry fish feed in preparation for winter. Hunters should bring a fishing rod along to fish the lake or stream nearest their hunting spot. This is a good way to kill tune during the middle of the day, and will help ensure they bring some meat home. Beginning Nov. 1, Joes. Valley Reservoir will be closed to all fishing. At 6 a.m. on Nov. 1, Joes Valley Reservoir will be closed to fishing until Dec. 14. Once the reservoir reopens to fishing, the trout limit will be two, of which only one can be over 22 inches. All trout IS to 22 inches must be immediately released. This amendment to the 2002 fishing proclamation was made to pro tect the large adult splake, which come into shallow water during the new closed period. We need pro- bridge approximately one mile below the Scofield Reservoir dam downstream to the confluence with the White River, only artificial flies and lures may be used. MUIsite Reservoir. Some . splake stocked approximately two years ago survived and are now presenting anglers with an . opportunity to .catch them. Most of the splake appear to be 13 to l6 inches in length. Petes Hole. Fishing continues to be good with baits, olive wooly buggers and Jake's The daily bag and possession limit is four trout. Potters Ponds. Good fishing has been reported for both ponds. Price Riven Flows are low. Recommended fly patterns include the Hare's Ear or Double Dock Fork Reservoir. There are presently no fish in Duck Fork Reservoir. Electric Lake. Anglers may take a limit of eight fish using any legal bait Worms and . Spin-a-Lur- PowerBait have worked very well Perron Reservoir; Anglers are encouraged to harvest brook trout, which were illegally planted. The brookies nave multiplied rapidly, stunting their own growth and depriving the other trout species of forage and space. Gigliott! Pond. The DWR es. Ugly. Scofield Reservoir. Louis ;is and cutthroat trout Best success appears to be with nightcrawfers, or with a brown tube jig, tipped with cut bait hopes to restock the pond within a week or two. Louis Berg, aquatics manager, expects to get 300 rainbow trout as well as some bluegill and tection for those laige splake as well ks those between IS and 22 inches to help control the Utah chub, population. The growth and survivability of trout at Joes Valley Reservoir has decreased as chub numbers have increased. Where have bag limits been liberalized? An eight fish limit is cur. rently in effect at Electric Lake. Thckle restrictions, requiring anglers to use artificial flies or lures only, have been suspended. are low. From the railroad been doubled for all game fish until Nov. 1. The daily bag and possession limits for all game fish have also been doubled at Lloyds Lake until Nov. 1, due to low water conditions and expected loss of fish. Bcnchs Pond. Good fishing continues. Gere land Reservoir. The daily bag limit is eight fish until Nov. 1. The water level has been dropping rapidly. Lake FowelL Report updated 16 by Vfsyoc uustaveson, DWR Lake ftwdl project leader. The lake elevation is 3,623 M.S.L. and the water tempera- Oct Huntington Reservoir (near the top of Huntington ture is 67 to 70 degrees Canyon). Fishing with artificial flies, lures and baits has been Fveinheit good. One angler reported catching several 18 inch tiger trout as well as one 22 incher. Release of tiger trout is encouraged so that fish can grow larger. Please harvest any brawn trout you catch. The res- Fishing conditions remain quite constant under warm and sunny skies with cool nights. It is a great time to be at Lake with cutthroat markings. Joes Valley Reservoir. Be- on Nov. 1, fishing regu-wi- ll change at Joes Valley Reservoir. The reservoir will be closed to fishing from 6 on Nov. 1 until Dec. 14. When the reservoir reopens to fishing, the trout limit will be two. No more than one trout may be over 22 inches. All trout 13 to 22 inches must be bass. From Bullfrog to Hite, including the San Juan expect to see a quick, but productive striper boil about once per day. Be most attentive at dawn and PowelL Fishing in the upper half of the lake Is best with stripers ervoir is closed to the possescontributing to the catch along sion of cutthroat trout and trout with the dependable small-mou- These th changes will remain in effect until the end of the year. The daily bag and possession limits have been doubled at Cleveland and Miller Flat B! reservoirs, Ken's Lake, Lloyd's Lake, Monticello dusk. , immediately released. This regulation change will protect the large spawning splake, which are very vulnerable in Most of the boiling action will be near shore or in the back of a short cove near deep water. Shad are still commonly found in almost every canyon. Stripers visit them on a regular schedule and are easily caught when they are attacking shad either on the surface or at Monticello Reservoir now that the dam, outlet and spillway are under construction. Repair work will be completed this month. The lake will not be restocked until ber. In addition, splake from 13 to 22 inches are needed to help reduce the chubs, which were illegally introduced as live the graph for shad or striper schools which will generally be grouped in one isolated section of any canyon where bottom depth is about 60 2003. LaSal Mountains. Kens Lake is very low. The daily bag limit has been doubled for all game fish until Nov. 1. Fishing u expected to be good at most LaSal mountain lakes. Lower Fish Creek. Flows Drop spoons or troll directly over or through fish schools. Anchovies are not very productive when shad are present while reaction baits like jigging shad spoons or a lure will tempt fat stripers to Lake, and Recapture Reservoir. These regulations are in effect until Nov. 1. Abqjo Mountains. Foy Reservoir continues to provide good fishing with baits and lures. Lures in the morning and evening are recommended. There is very little fishing . at November and early Decem- opportunity bait Fishing has been good at Blanding number three. There has been very little angler pressure at Recapture Reservoir, where the daily bag and possession limits have feet fast-troll- ed eat one more fish. Look specifically for boils and stripers in ftachyte, Bariev, Red Canyon, Bullfrog Bay by the houseboat field, the Rincon and San Juan upstream from Cha Canyon. Lower lake stripers are still eluding us. They boil one day in Dungeon Canyon and the next in West Canyon or Gunsight It may be best to avoid the location of a recent boil because stripers are likely to be at another point on their large feeding circuit. The only striper advice is to fish for smallmouth in the lower lake and keep one eye on the graph just in case a school swims under the boat Keep a spoon tied on just in case the graph lights up with lines so charthe wavy g acteristic of feeding stripers. Bass fishing was better this week in the lower lake. Bass have shown a renewed interest in chartreuse colored grubs and tubes. The second best color was white and variations of white including daiquiri. Fishing location is probably much more important than color. During a weekly trip, it took a while to find bass. We fished great looking rocky points in the main channel across from Friendship deep-feedi- ng Spell Starts The foture looks bright for Carbon and Emery county's upland bird habitats. A new Pheasants Forever chapter has been formed in Carbon and Emery County. The program is a non-- , profit conservation organization which was formed in 1982 in pheasants. Naresponse to the continuing decline of more to than has 90,000 memtionwide, the organization grown bers. The new CarbonEmery Pheasants Forever chapter will be different from other conservation organizations in that local chapters retain all of the money raised at annual banquefe, exclusive of membership fees, and use those funds for local habitat restoration projects. Restoration of upland habitat is needed because the pheasant is threatened by an almost continued assault on the environment Nesting cover is destroyed prematurely, winter cover is bulldozed, too few crops are left standing to provide birds with a good food source to help them survive the winter months. The CaibonEmety chapter will raise funds to restore pheasant habitats through fundraising activities. The first of which will be a banquet held at the Holiday Inn Nov. 9. The cover charge for the event will then be used to begin the restoration projects. For more information about the new CarbonEmery Pheasants Forever chapter, contact Jon Gordon at ring-neck- zig-za- . Cove. Grubs thrown to the shallow end of points were ignored. But working the grub deeper to the next terrace at IS to 23 feet produced an occasional bass. Pulling back further from the point and allowing the grub to work between 30 and 45 feet was better. But the most productive method was to work the grub on the bottom of a 45 to 60 foot trench between two good looking points. Have a feature story idea or news photo suggestion? Success improved if a breeze was blowing to keep the grub bouncing slowly and steadily along the bottom. The graph was mostly void of fish at this location but each time a fish trace was seen at 45 to 60 feet the grub could be dropped directly below the boat to get a strike from a hungry smallmouth. An occasional striper was caught while grubbing and spooning the deep water between rocky points. and Thrget big drop-off- s deep terraces on the edge of the main channel and main canyon. For most productive fish- ing this week think deep and ignore the shallow water. Cell the Siin Advqcr.:j office toddy -. Vv" t.1 - 'V.. i A i V 7 PtaXoat Elk Ivories Mounted Frandsen Silversmithing Get your Elk Ivories Custom Mounted Sterling Silver or 14 kt. 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