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Show Utah Fishermen Ready For 1940 Trout Opening Thousands of Utah sportsmen (and sportswomen) will be on the lakes and streams of Utah bright and early Saturday for the start of the 1940 fishing season and Milford will be found contributing its share. The majority of local fishermen will undoubtedly make their way to the Beaver river and its tributaries and- to Kents and Puffers lakes, though Fish lake will be the chosen opening spot for several while others go to Panguith lake and other favorite streams and reservoirs. Differ:) g from recent seasons, all streams and bodies of water, with the exception of the high Uintas, will open simultaneously and remain open for the regular periods, except for a few small lakes, including Kents, which will close July 15, on account of the fish in these bodies of water becoming be-coming unpalatable at about that time. The creel limit for the 1940 season sea-son has been reduced in both number num-ber and weight, the new regulations regula-tions for 1940 providing that the limit on all varieties of trout shall be not more than eight pounds or not more than 20 fish in any one day and not more than 16 pounds or two days' creek limit in possession posses-sion at any one time. Murray Bohn of Beaver, county fish and game warden, advises all fisherman that tney make sure that they have their fishing licenses li-censes with them when fishing. Those not able to so produce them when requested will be sent home as no alibis will be accepted. Warden Bohn also reports a number of heavy plantings of fish made last week in addition to others made all spring. In Beaver river went 17,000 legal size trout, with 6000 fegal size going into Indian creek, north of Beaver, and 10,000 fingerlings in Minersville Miners-ville stream, from which common fish are said to have been removed remov-ed by means of th newly developed develop-ed chemical poisoning. In Puffers lake went 6000 legal size and 11,-500 11,-500 fingerlings, into Kents lake went 50,000 fish, many of them legal size, and into Yankee reservoir, reser-voir, where fish seem to go grow fattest and fastest of any place we know, went 8500 legal siae and 4500 fingerlings. j All the fish planted were of the j raintpw variety, according to Mr. Bohn, and the plantings were made by Bill Sorenson, Glenwood ( hatchery superintendent, and 1 Claude MacFarlane of Cedar City. |