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Show I High , Clear Water Looms For Utah Anglers On June 15 Opening I Utah's lakes and streams are j ready to receive the largest opening open-ing day crowd in state's history with prospects for full creels ' ranging from good to fair, of-I of-I ficials of the Utah Fish and Game Department announced today. Conservative estimates place at 60,000 the number of anglers who will journey afield to test their luck the morning of Saturday, Satur-day, June 15th. From all portions por-tions of the state, resort owners report that cabins and boats have been reserved for weeks in advance ad-vance of this, the first peace-time opening in four years. Ross Leonard, State Fish and Game Director, cautioned Sportsmen Sport-smen that the Fish and Game Commission has reduced the creel limit from 20 fish or eight pounds to 15 fish or eight pounds. 'This is strictly a conservation measure made necessary by increased fishing," he asserted. "During the war, instead of get-ing get-ing some relief from intensive fishing as we had a right to expect, ex-pect, the number of fishermen increased because of a hike in the state's population, resulting from the many war plants built in the area." High but clearing water looms for opening day. This is particularly partic-ularly true in the northern sectors sec-tors in the state where there is still considerable snow on the high ranges. Warm weather of the past week raised streams somewhat but generally they should be in fair condition. The picture is not so bright in the southern and eastern areas where lack of precipitation has resulted in poor run-offs and generally gen-erally poor stream flows. Some smaller streams already are reported re-ported as near the d.ried-up stage. The state's larger bodies of water have received, the inital round legal-size plantings, which before the season runs its course, will far exceed any previous plant in the history of the department. de-partment. To date the following loads have gone out from the various hatcheries: Midway, 53; Glen-wood, Glen-wood, approximately 80; Salt Lake County, 30; Kamas, 35; Loa, 35; Beaver, 25; Fountain Green, 18; Logan, 35; White Rocks, 40; and Panguitch, 45 loads. "We have trout in all streams accessible by automobile," Marion Mar-ion Madsen Superintendent of Fisheries, announced. "Prospects shape up as 'pretty fair' for opening op-ening day with the planting program pro-gram fast rounding out. By no means have we planted all the trout available in our hatcheries, however, These will be planted throughout the season in order to keep abreast of . demands to the best of our ability. We are confident that enough trout have been planted by now to give every opening day fisherman a chance to. take home good catches," he asserted. Madsen cautioned all anglers to obtain a copy of the 1946 fishing Proclamation. These are available at sporting goods dealers deal-ers or at the State Fish and Game offices. Heaviest planted body of wat-tcr wat-tcr within the state, Madsen reported, re-ported, is Fish Lake, which is expected to be figuratively "jam-ed "jam-ed to the gunwhales" on opening day. Reservations for boats and cabins were filled up months ago. The always popular Logan, Og-den Og-den and Blacksmith Fork rivers in the northern section will be high, but clearing, Madsen forecasted, fore-casted, unless a sudden rise in temperature brings down additional addit-ional run-off waters. "The Provo, below Deer Creek Reservoir, is running high but is comparatively clear", he renounced. re-nounced. Disappointing for many first-day fishermen was his report re-port that the strech between the reservoir and the Weber River overshot is running high and roily due to flood control dredging dred-ging operations being conducted in that area. He predicted the stretch above the overshot to Soapstone would produce good results. The strech above Soap-stone Soap-stone does not open until July 1 "The Weber, above Echo Car yon, is high but fairly clear," Modscn said. "Below Echo Canyon Can-yon prospects are not so good due to sediment run-off from the canyon sides." "Two good prospects in the southern sector," Madsen an-nounced,"were an-nounced,"were the Koosharem and Otter Creek Reservoir which have been well stocked a number num-ber of years and annually produce pro-duce good opening season fishing." fish-ing." "Another heavily planted body of water," Madsen reported, "is the Panguitch Lake which, like Fish Lake, is expected to draw one of the largest first-day crowds." Madsen further reported that all streams and lakes within day's reach of the heavily-populated Salt Lake City-Provo-Ogden area had been heavily planted. All are expected to be heavily fished. True to a department tradition, Ross Leonard's staff offered no suggestions on what to use on opening day. They did, however, drop one hint that artificial lure users stow some bait away for I possible use. |
