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Show Fishermen in Southern Utah Enjoy Good Success Over Opening Weekend Utah's general fishing season opened Saturday, June 3 and according ac-cording to the Southern Utah Regional Re-gional office of the Utah Fish arid Game Department, the major lakes of the area were not fished fish-ed as heavy as they were on opening op-ening day last year. Fishing reports, however, were mostly good with only a few waters indicating poor fishing and most of the waters ranging from good to excellent, according accord-ing to Saunders Clark, regional director. At the two major spots In southern Utah, Fish Lake and Panguitch Lake, fewer fishermen were reported.- At Panguitch iti was indicated that there were 130 less boats on the lake for the opening op-ening this year. Fish Lake reports re-ports indicated approximately , 100 less boats than a year ago. Panguitch, as usual, was one of the hot spots for the general sea-Ison sea-Ison opener. Other top spots on Saturday were Paragonah Reservoir, Reser-voir, (however, it had slowed down considerably by Sunday); j Little Reservoir in Beaver Coun-ty, Coun-ty, and Newcastle and Mirror-Aspen Mirror-Aspen Lake in Kane County. The only really slow spots in the southwestern portion of the state was Leeds Creek in Washington Wash-ington County and Labaron Reservoir Res-ervoir in Beaver Canyon. Slow, were Lower Enterprise, Kolob Reservoir and Anderson. Meadow, according to reports from the Regional Office. On the good to near excellent list with considerable numbers of limits taken were Fish Lake, Mammoth Creek, Pine Valley Reservoir, Yankee Meadow, Upper Up-per Enterprise, Duck Creek and Duck Creek Springs, Minersville Reservoir, Beaver Creek and Puf-fc-'s Lake. j Navajo Lake was reported good I to excellent but so few fishermen were on hand that a true indication indica-tion could not be determined. In the category of nig fish it would be indicated that AV'.veas-tle AV'.veas-tle Reservoir produced twe of the top catches on the opening week end. In the Cedar City Wildlife Fed-, oration Big Fish Contest Harry Knell took top honors with a three and one-half pound Rainbow Rain-bow trout. Other good catches were reported from Newcastle. Minersville Reservoir, which was opened early, has also produced some fine catches in the three to four pound category. Knell, as winner of the opening open-ing week contest will receive a prize donated by Cedar Bowling Lanes. The Federation contest runs from Monday noon to Monday Mon-day noon each week. |