Show SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS A IN THE FIELD WHITEROCKS TO STOCK GORGE The Whiterocks State Fish Hatchery is scheduled to plant Utah's portion of Rainbow trout that are to be stocked as the initial plant into the now forming Flaming Gorge The stocking is to be a cooperative planting of and Utah's portions Utah's portion to be Rainbow In order to take care of that many eggs I S I V MAX NORTH rooks Hatchery and fingerlings the planting must be explains Max of Whiterocks As the hatchery is set up now we can handle eggs in the hatchery building and they we have the fry systems to put that many outside to start to and as they grow some are planted as fingerlings in lakes and some are held over the winter for the next year's legal In order to plant with a calculated loss of 20 from the egg up to the time of eggs should be By using our hatchery building tor hatching only and receiving the in two different shipments at With additional egg ha trays we can hatch these out After the hatch from the they are in what we call the food sack fry white in this stage not exposed to they will lay dormant in their own hatching trays until the food sack is used When of the fish raise to the surface and start to they are ready to be put on but where to put these fish to feed and give them ideal conditions is the biggest problem The only tiling that can be done to gain additional space start fry ia to use pond space that was originally reserved for legal sized To take this pond space from the means a reduction in number of to compensate for the additional fingerlings that are to be planted in Flaming Gorge Winter holdovers on to be planted In the spring of have seen reduced at the Whiterocks but this does not necessarily mean there will be less planted next year in the same area as last because the from some of the other state owned hatcheries will be transferred to stock to full catalog The legal holdovers being held at Whiterocks now will primarily be for the general opening We are starting to receive the eggs now for the Flaming Gorge They will all be received during Dec and and are to be planted from May to at 2 inches long S-F- 1063 FISHING ORDERS ARE NOW IN EFFECT Department of Fish and Game spokesmen today reminded sportsmen that with the advent of the new the new 1963 fishing orders approved last month by the Fish and Game Commission go into Anglers planning mid-winter trips should read and study the new regulations thoroughly before going afield The effective date of the change over to the new regulations marks an end to year-round activity on 9 waters in 4 Utah but liberalized bag limits of most game fish species in the Also with the beginning of the new year will come the States fourth special season for tiie dip netting of the Bonneville Cisco on Bear This season begins on 1 and continues through with top fishing activity normally beginning around The cisco seldom measures over 6 or 7 inches in length and is not often caught on hook and They are normally a deep water fish but come to surface each year during late and on their spawning Regulations for the taking of these fish remain the same as In the Anglers may use any type of dip net for taking the but Department spokesmen cautioned that the mouth of the net may not measure more than eighteen inches in Daily bag limit for Bonneville Cisco will once again be 50 One other water will open to anglers with the entrance of new The Weber River downstream from Echo Dam will be open to the taking of whitefish from 1 through Bag limit on this water will be 10 |