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Show SPAWNERS REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER : Waters Clear but High For Opening of Fishing On Sunday, May 29. Cache sportsmen who have ob-objected ob-objected to the large game fish being removed from the spilling j basin west of the Hyrum Damj and being transported out of the county, are objecting to an order issued by Commissioner Newell B. Cook, the Cache American office has been informed. The state commissioner com-missioner has requested that spawners be (obtained wherever possible and delivered to the state office, we have been told from an official source. In the removal of the fish from the spilling basin west of the Hyrum Hy-rum Dam, the rainbow and German Ger-man browns were collected for propagating fish within the state, while the natives were liberated : in the Hyrum dam, we were informed. in-formed. Local game officials contend con-tend that only a very small percentage per-centage of the fish have been! removed from the stream thatj leads from the Hyrum dam. Thel fishing there will not be as good, as it was previously in that stream j because the basin and spillway j have been closed by order of the state commissioner, it is said. Waters in the county are clearing clear-ing rapidly. Logan river is high but reasonably clear. Blacksmith Fork is not as high as other streams, however. Dam fishng may give way to fly fishing as fish have begun to jump on both dams in Logan rver. Summit creek which has been closed for two years will be opened open-ed this, season according to Lawrence Law-rence Johnson, caretaker at the Logan rearing ponds. Upwards of 242,000 rainbow trout from the local ponds, from 8 to 9 inches in length, have bsen"lib-l erated in the streams of this county during the spring months. Over fifty percent of the fish planted are legal size, Mr. John son says. East canyon which has been a favored fishing stream at the opening op-ening of the season, is said to be clear and lowering rapidly. Many of the local fishermen will try their luck on the opening day on that stream. |