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Show Waterfowl Hunt Opens October 12 Friday, October 12, at noon, will find the State's scattergunners opening op-ening the extensive straight 60-day watefowl season. With the longer season allowed this year for our flyways, plus reports of good hat- cnes on local and northern marshes, mar-shes, the season ahead hold promise pro-mise of the best bag returns in many years. Utah holds a unique place in the Union regarding this shoot. Department spokesmen say that every duck hunter in the State can be seated in a blind on a public shooting ground at the same time. The State also has more man-made public shooting grounds than any other state in the Union. Credit for the above accomplishments is due an alert Fish and Game Department with the help of local sportsmen and sportsmen's groups. The depart -ment is presently continuing this policy. The State's man-made waterfowl refuges include the public shooting shoot-ing grounds west of Corinne; Og-den Og-den Bay Refuge west of Ogden; Farmington Bay Refuge west of Farmington; Clear Lake Refuge be tween Fillmore and Delta; Locomotive Loco-motive Springs at the northeast end of the Great Salt Lake; Stewart Stew-art Lake Refuge on the Green Riv-pr Riv-pr pnst nf VernRl. These marshes. along with the great Federal migratory mig-ratory bird refuge on the Bear River Riv-er west of Brigham, add up to the largest group of man-made marshes mar-shes in the country. Present outlook is for Clear, sunny sun-ny weather for the opening day. In spite of this, those going into the marshes should have good shooting during the early hours for the ample crop of local duck. Department spokesmen remind waterfowl hunters to know their waterfowl proclamation. Bag limit on ducks is six daily and in possession. pos-session. Same on geese except that only two may be Canada geese or a subspecie. Daily change in shooting shoot-ing time must be observed. A plugged plug-ged gun of not more than ten gauge and possession of a migratory migra-tory waterfowl stamp are other musts on this hunt. |