Show working at fish lake commissions installation designed to keep game fish in lake local anglers have been having about the usual run of luck for the opening with some of them boasting of their fine catches and others complaining that les the fish even nibble I 1 wishing fishing was generally good the I 1 first day at fish lake with a few lenaw fifteen and twenty pound mackinaw catches reported better fishing has been insured at the lake this summer due to the excellent new screen recently installed by the utah fish and game commission at the north end of the lake men who have seen the screen in operation state that it is a sturdy permanent screen that will last a long aime and do a good job of keeping the chubs from coming into fish lake and the trout from being washed down the dirty devil through the johnson reservoir experiences screens has seen two destroyed in the last few years the first on gnp was destroyed after two years of operation when the 1941 spring flush washed f the screen out and the second one had the foundation wash away in 1946 last year there was no screen whatsoever to prevent the precious trout from leaving fish lake the commission has gone down stream iv a short distance from the site of the previous screens widened the channel and set the new machine on a form foundation there are actually foot screens in the same channel oceon one on the east and one on the west with a diversion channel in the center that will take care of any overflow the screen is so built that a water wheel moving in the direction afi of the stream operates the screens tha tare 36 inch cylinders of mesh wire inthe in the opposite direction |