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Show STREAMS LOW ID CLEAR FOR EARLY ' FISHING NEXT WEEK SAYS CHAMBERS Lovers of the rod anil reel who desire to take advantage of the six weeks open season on trout, beginning February 15th, may have to get to the streams on suowshoes, but after they once get to them, the speckled bounties will lie there in plenty, is the declaration dec-laration of Fred W. Chambers, state fish and game commissioner. Hundreds of inquiries have been made in the last few days by sjnirtsmcii concerning the prospects for the early opening, says the fish and game commissioner, so the outlook is for lots of fish-ennon fish-ennon to brave the snows of the canyons next Tuesday. Further evidence that the early opening will bring forth a young army of rod wieiders is the demand throughout the state for licenses to fisli nnd hunt. While the state commissioner's office could not make tiny check on the number sold, Commissioner Chambers said it was safe to say that between four and fivo thousand thou-sand licenses had been issued during January and the rewrt is that a heavy demand is still being made for them in all cities. That the streams will be normal, clear and the trout in abundance, abund-ance, is the nssuranco of Chambers to the sportsmen. He says that it will be extremely hard to get to the best fishing grounds, but once there, big catches should be made. The heavy snow will make it a perilous undertaking to get to some of the stroams, but he declares it will be no trouble to wade them once they are reached. Reports have reached the fish anil game officos that all streams tire low nnd that there is little danger of a midden thaw reaching the canyons before February 15th, or two weeks from then, in time to mnke any material change in the condition of the streams. The fish will be hungry for the sight of a fly and dexterous dex-terous fishermen ought not to have much trouble getting big catches. Scarcely tiny of the streams most likely to be sought by the sportsmen aro frozen over. Commissioner Chambers predicts that the streams in the two Cottonwootl Canyons, Mill Creek, Weber, Provo and Ogden Canyons Can-yons will be the attraction for sportsmen. These streams, he points out, will be more ensily accessible, will not be frozen ami are low and clear. He also believes that many of the streams of the low valleys will be lined with fishermen for the early opening and mnny fish are reported to bo in them. Most of the lakes made famous by trout fishing are frozen over nnd are so high up in the canyons that it will be next to impossible to get to them before late in the spring, or after the open season in June. Commissioner Chnrnbers says that the heavy snow and unusunlly cold weather throughout the state has not destroyed any wild game. All game found to be in distress has been fed by, the department. The ducks of Junb county, driven from the frozen iakos, were, fed for three or four dnys by the game department and have now1 left the wnrm springs where they had gnthered In thousands anil have scattered throughout the Btate. No deer have been reported lost from heavy snow or starvation. |