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Show Duck Hunting Good, Oat Fishing Better, But Birds En Need Of Food A report on Utah's duck hunting, hunt-ing, a word about improved cat-fishing cat-fishing on the Green River, and an appeal to housewives to feed table . scraps to wintering birds issued from the offices of the i Utah Fish and Game Department this week. I With only a few short days remaining re-maining in which Utah wild-fowlers wild-fowlers can take to the marshes, the Game Department painted a rosy picture of Utah's waterfowl water-fowl hunt during 1947. But the Department conditioned its report re-port with an if or two.- According to the Department release, the ducks are here and those hunters who are finding time to spend in the marshes are getting their four-bird quota. This statement came from Director Di-rector Ross Leonard, who based it on the results of a state-wide survey of waterfowl shooting conditions. "The field men report fair kills all over the state. The birds, canvasbacks, mallards, pintails, and all of the big ducks, are thick, and with a four bird lirn-it, lirn-it, the kill has been almost exclusively ex-clusively in the big duck bracket," brack-et," Mr. Leonard said, n What the snows and the possible pos-sible freeze-up of the marshes will do to hunting in these last days, remains to. be seen, Mr. Leonard added. Goose hunting has beeru-good for those hunters who have forgotten for-gotten the ducks and placed themselves in the flight lanes for the big birds, the Director added. As for catfishing, which remains re-mains open the year around in 'Utah, M. J. Madsen, Director of Fisheries for the Fish and Game Department, advises that on the Green River the sport has taken a turn for the better. "The best reports," Madsen said, are coming com-ing from fishermen in the Green River and Moab areas. Fox anglers who follow cat-fishing cat-fishing the year around, Mr. Madsen issued a reminder that a proper state fishing license is an essential. Concluding Its series of statements state-ments the Utah Fish and Game Department through Director Ross Leonard, appealed to housewives house-wives to feed table scraps and bread crumbs to winter bound birds. "Both game and song birds have! been affected by the heavy snowfall," Mr. Leonard pointed out, "and with the sudden change in the weather, many birds may suffer from lack of feed," Quail, particularly, are hurt by heavy snows, the State Director Direc-tor said. Often this popular game bird seeks shelter in snowcov-ered snowcov-ered bushes.the snow falls in. and the quail are left to smother. "Sportsmen and others can help by cleaning away the snow in strategic places and by throwing throw-ing out an occasional handful of grain," Mr. Leonard suggested. |
