Show In The Open Space Construction of Browne a permanent public trout fishing water of 51 surface was begun this week in Coun- v 10 miles northwest the Utah Department of Fish and game said Completion of construction and first impounding of water is x- rV about The lake will be stocked with cutthroat presently being raised from a pure strain of this species recently secured from California through the cooperation of the department of fish and game in that sister The department said plans call for establishment of this strain of cutthroat in the lake with tine eventual building of a spawning station there from eggs will be taken to supply this species to other waters in It was noted that the of supply for native trout eggs is rapidly disappearing Plans for Browne Lake originated some three years ago at the time Allen Browne of Price was commissioner for The lake has been named in honor of who died while in office some eighteen months Another man-made fishing water to be known as Sheep Creek Lake is planned for the same as funds become available for its It will be of 60 surface acres and situated some five miles northwest of Browne The department said the total Browne Lake project is a federal Aid approved development under which 75 of the expenditure will be reimbursed to tho state under the Dingle-Johnson federal aid to fisheries Source of water for the lake is Beaver a tributary to Sheep Greek which empties into the nearby Green It is situated on Forest Service is in a rapidly developing recreational and will be readily by automobile only a short drive from the Vernal-Burnt Fork Uintah Mountain summer To date a total of native cutthroat trout eggs have been taken from spawning fish held at the Strawberry according to the department of fish and The department said about half eggs came from the Indian Creek Spillway station at the south end of the the balance from the Strawberry River-Clyde Creek station at the north Spawning operations at Indian Creek have now been tho some native trout are still in the holding ponds at the north end An additional 2 millon eggs are expected ito bo taken from these fish if the current cool temperatures and water conditions Spokesmen said the spawning run had been some two weeks later this year than is normally the that the egg take at Indian Creek where a fish lad-ler was installed two years ago was line best in that egg taking operations at north station would probably continue for another ten days to two weeks with the fish now in the Eggs taken from Strawberry cutthroats form the only primary source where they can be obtained They are at the state's and the young fish used to restock this water and many more in the and other mountain ranges whore the department is continuing to sustain this trout |