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Show 160,000 Utah Anglers Expected To Invade Utah Streams On Saturday General Predictions Indicate Good Opening Throughout State; Sportsmen Urged To Know The Rules Upwards of 160,000 anglers will be afield for the Saturday, June 9th opening of the, general fishing season in Utah. This annual opening draws a greater number of participants than any other of the outdoor sports. They will scatter to fish in all major waters and sections of the state, including accessible areas dn the High Uintas and some others that have not been opened until a later date in other years. Chief objective of most anglers will be to creel a catch of trout. ymougn some wiijj nsn ior Dass ana other warm water species in the limited waters where they are to be found. The department of fish and game today said that in general the prospects now pointed to a good opening weekend. Planting trucks from the state's twelve hatcheries are stocking legals into the heavier fished waters from the largest supply of these fish ever produced at the hatcheries. Current predictions are fcr extremely ex-tremely low water conditions m the south half of the state. The streams in this section should be clear. The water table in northern Utah is normal in most drainages, with the present heavy runoff in some streams making the stocking stock-ing program in these waters liaz-arodus liaz-arodus at this time. All these wat-(Continuec? wat-(Continuec? on Back Page) FISHING SEASON (Continued from Page One) ers will be planted, however, as soon as they are accessible and conditions permit. How much of the High Uinta mountain country' can be reached on the June 9th opening will be dependent upon weather conditions prior to this date. Continuing cold, wet weather will mean many of the high country trails and roads will be blocked to travel. The fishing hours are 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily, with the close of the 128 day general season set for October 14, 1956. Sportsmen were reminded today to-day by the Utah Department of Fish and Game to know the rules and regulations covering the 1956 angling season before going afield opening day this year. Copies of these regulations are available from license agents over the state, or may be had by calling call-ing at, or writing to, department offices at 1596 West North Temple, Salt Lake City. Director J. Perry Egan . noted, "Each year several changes in fishing fish-ing regulations are made by our commission as conditions and facts that have been gained from studies stud-ies show these changes arc needed need-ed in the advancing management of the state's fishery resources." He urged all license buyers to know the regulations in the interest inter-est of better fishing and more fishing pleasure in the season The following were listed by the department as among the important import-ant rule changes this year: Bate Regulations j "Angling will be permitted with any bait except cheese, corn, live fish, meat andor liver products manufactured therefrom. Game I fish or part thereof cannot be 'used as bait at any time." This regulation shows the addition of cheese, corn, and live fish (or minnows) min-nows) to the baits that are illegal to use on any water at any time. "Angling will be permitted with any mechanical, lure, except no lure shall have more than three gangs of three hooks, and no line shall have attached thereto more than two baited hooks of two artificial ar-tificial flies." The change in this rule allows the use of any number num-ber of spinning blades on a moving mov-ing lure. "Angling shall mean fishing with a single line attached to a rod or pole, or trolling board held in the hands or attended and having attached thereto any legal bait or lure." The word "tended" is new in this definition and means that an angler must at all times be within ten feet of the quip-ment quip-ment being used.. All the above rule changes and other regulations coverning the angling season are should in the 1957 proclamation. |