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Show No Spring Moves Back Fish Stocking Program were too cold. Other stocking adjustments are scheduled for the southern portion of the state. According to Davis, the only stocking in northern Utah streams will be in the impoundments of the ogan and Blacksmith Fork rivers. The fisheries management j coordinator says stocking of streams and rivers statewide will be set back about five weeks. i Utah rivers and streams, normally stocked in May with catchable-sized rainbow trout, won't be getting their opening day quotas of fish this year. A spokesman for the Division of Wildlife Resources says high spring runoff has made fish planting plant-ing operations impossible. Glenn Davis, the Division's fisheries management coordinator, coor-dinator, says local reservoirs will get the extra trout instead. "Wanship and Echo reservoirs reser-voirs will be supplemented with catchable trout which normally go into the Provo, American Fork and other northern Utah streams," Davis said. He added that Deer Creek, Hyrum and Lost Creek reservoirs may also get additional trout, depending depend-ing on new gill-net gill-net samples scheduled this week. Early spring gill-net surveys weren't reliable because be-cause water temperatures |