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Show Fishing Waters Reviewed for Opening Utah general angling season opens Saturday, June 3 throughout through-out the state of Utah and one out of every four Utahns are expected to trek to the steams and lakes for the event. Waters of southern Utah are expected to be hard hit on the opening week end and according to Saunders Clark, director of the Southern Utah Regional office of-fice of the Utah Fish and Game, everything is in readiness. Absorbing the multitude of sportsmen will be Panguitch Lake, Navajo Lake, Kolob Reservoir, Re-servoir, Newcastle Reservoir, Upper Up-per and lower Enterprise, Miners-ville, Miners-ville, Yankee Meadow and Para-gonah Para-gonah Reservoirs. The two major streams expec ted to be fished include Duck Creek and Mammoth Creek along with Asay Creek. According to Clark, three of the best prospects for the opening open-ing w)l be Panguitch, Navajo and New Castle. Panguitch, as usual, will probably pro-bably be the hotbed of activity. A strong plant of fingerlings in the fall of 1960 is expected to be ready for harvest. New Castle also received a plant of fingerlings in the fall and this spring has been ' sweetened sweet-ened with legal plants as well to make it one of the top prospects pros-pects of the area. At Navajo Lake, which is open the year round, more legal fish have been planted for the open- ing than in any other time in the history of the lake, Clark stated. Yankee Meadow, Paragonah Reservoir, both of the Enterprise Lakes and Duck Creek and the Mammoth have received the normal nor-mal amount of plants for the opening week end. At Kolob Reservoir, a strong plant of fingerlings was made in the fall and that water is expected expec-ted to be from fair to good. In addition to these plants, the Kid's Pond at Wood's Ranch has been planted. Enterprise reservoirs, Miners-ville, Miners-ville, Kolob, Paragonah and Navajo Na-vajo water are low this spring, the report indicates, but New Castle is looking good, with the water level within several feet of the spillway. At Yankee Meadow, Mea-dow, that body is expected to fill up by the opening. Sportsmen going afield have been encouraged by Harold Crane, director of the Utah Fish and Game, "to conduct themselves them-selves as any good citizen and sportsman should." He noted that many or the state's streams and lakes run through, or are situated upon private lands. How the trespasser trespas-ser behaves on these lands can well mean whether they will be open to such use In the future. The director added a plea to everyone ev-eryone in regard to making the outdoor seasons more enjoyable by practicing the rules of safety and by observing the laws. All licensing regulations remain re-main the same with one exception. excep-tion. A change has been noted in the temporary out-of-state permits per-mits for this year. Opening time each day of the general season is 4 a. m. and the closing time is 9 p. m. Legal limits also remain the same with a limit of 10 fish or seven pounds in one fish, which ever is caught first. |