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Show Garfield County Offers Some Of World's Finest Some of the nation's best fishing may be found in Garfield County from the high mountain lakes and streams to the valley's rivers and awesome Lake Powell, formed on the Colorado when Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1966. Fishing licenses may be purchased pur-chased in most hardware stores, some general stores and at some resorts. re-sorts. Utah residents can purchase a license for $18. Licenses for nonresidents non-residents of Utah cost $5 for a one-day one-day license, S15 for a five-day license li-cense and $40 for an annual license. In 1987, most Utah waters opened to year-round fishing. Within Garfield County in 1989 only the streams running into Pan-guitch Pan-guitch Lake are closed January 1 to July 1. Funds derived by the state for the sale of trout stamps during 1984 were used for vitally needed renovation at three fish hatcheries, maintaining conservation pools at reservoirs, obtaining public access to one creek and three rivers, and to chemically treat declining fisheries to remove undesirable fish species. General fishing information and condition and locations of lakes and streams are listed for the convenience conve-nience of the visitor. Maps and information in-formation are available from Forest Service offices located in Panguitch and Escalante, and from the Bureau of Land Management Office located in Escalante. An excellent booklet, "Lakes of the Aquarius Plateau (Boulder Mountain)" prepared by the Utah State Division of Wildlife Resources also provides specific information about all slopes of the Boulder Mountain area. ANTIMONY CREEK, one of several creeks or streams in the county yielding good fishing for wild rainbows during most of the summer. Anumony Lake should be good for 34 to 1-lb. rainbow trout. Access to the lake is limited to four-wheel drive or walk-in-only. Primitive camping at creek. 1 - ' ASAY CREEK, near Hatch is stocked with catchable rainbow. Much of the creek is on private land. BARKER RESERVOIR, a i 12-acre 12-acre lake with an elevation of 9564 feet is stocked with trout. Approximately Approx-imately 13 miles from Utah Highway High-way 12, the lake has good camping facilities with good access. Six or seven other good fishing lakes are immediately accessible within two miles. DEER CREEK LAKE, a 22-acre lake at 10,000 feet provides fair to good fishing for brook and cutthroat trout ranging from 12 to 32 lb. A spring is located in the rocks above the lake for drinking. The lake is centrally located and four lakes can be reached by foot Chriss, West Deer, Green and Lower Deer. Access Ac-cess to Deer Creek Lake is by foot only along a 2-mile trail marked by a USFS sign along the road about three miles beyond the turnoff to Garkane Power Plant. GARKANE POWER RESERVOIR, RESER-VOIR, visible from the main road, is stocked with rainbow and provides fair to good fishing. A second reservoir at King's Pasture lies at the end of the road blocked by a locked gate. Camping is allowed outside the gate and on Forest Service land and water should be carried in. A third reservoir lies to the west about 1.5 miles, reached by foot LOWER BOWNS RESERVOIR, RESER-VOIR, with an elevation of only 7400 feet, is a 909 acre lake with a maximum depth of 58 feet. It is fishable either from shore or in boats. Visible from the Boulder Mountain road, it is accessible from the Pleasant Creek campground, although al-though with construction in the area, access should be checked out. It is stocked with rainbows. ri5tTT .A'.SI 1 jtv 7 MAMMOTH CREEK has the uppe -headwater area and the lower SFnear U.S. 89 stockec J catchable rainbows. The middle section is not stocked but contains a good population of wild brown trout. Camping is very limited along Mammoth Creek due to pri- vate lands, gu.tcl.UfcN SE (r "AN (Coti:, refe: r) Super Fishing (Continued From Page 2B OAK CREEK RESERVOIR is stocked with cutthroat. A new dam has been constructed and the reservoir reser-voir is larger than its previous 45 acres. Oak Creek campground is located about two miles from the reservoir on Oak Creek. The Forest Service maintained campsite is about two miles off the Boulder Mountain Road. PANGUITCH CREEK is stocked with catchable rainbows and brown trout populations exist in the lower areas of the stream. Camping is limited primarily to Whitebridge Campground located on the creek and maintained by the Forest Service. PANGUITCH LAKE is good for rainbow trout averaging 1 1 inches and 34 lb. There are also larger fish including cutthroat and brown trout. Shore fishing from the 10-mile shoreline may sometimes be good but fishing is generally better from boats. Two public boat ramps are available. Five resorts offer cabins, boats, license, gas and groceries. A new general store offers additional items and horseback riding is available avail-able in the area. A large Forest Service campground is near the lake. PINE LAKE is stocked with catchable rainbow with a few cutthroats cut-throats available. The beautiful little lit-tle lake has a well maintained Forest For-est Service campground. POSEY LAKE should provide good to excellent fishing throughout through-out the season. The 8-acre lake at 8676 feet is reached by driving 13 miles from the town of Escalante and the road is suitable for two-wheel two-wheel drive vehicles in good weather. There is a well-developed campground maintained by the Forest Service, a boat ramp and dock. It is stocked with catchable rainbows and brook trout from one to three pounds can be expected. SEVIER RIVER, EAST FORK, is a small stream about Tropic Reservoir with many side tributaries tribu-taries which support wild cutthroat and brook trout fishing. SEVIER RIVER, EAST FORK BLACK CANYON is open all year round and offers brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout fishing. SEVIER RIVER, SOUTH FORK, is stocked with catchable rainbows after spring runoff. The stream is on private land and camping camp-ing is limited. Best fishing is near Hatch and south along U.S. 89. TROPIC RESERVOIR generally gener-ally has fair fishing although rainbow rain-bow and cutthroat trout are small. Fishing is usually better later in the summer. It has a beautifully maintained Forest Service campground camp-ground (Kings Creek) and is located approximately seven miles north of Utah Highway 12 with the tumoff located about three miles west of Bryce Canyon junction. WIDE HOLLOW RESERVOIR is a small reservoir with both fishing fish-ing and water skiing, located at Escalante Es-calante Petrified Forest It has been stocked and generally provides good fishing. |