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Show I Sports Io The Open Spaces :::::::::::---------- EDITOR'S NOTE Following are a few tips and helps for the sportsmen as Utah begins to prepare for the fall hunting season. Material has been prepared by the Utah Fish and Game Department. I Utah's general trout season closes Oct. 11, 'at 9:00 p.m., with reports to date indicating an average or better angling ! year in all sections of the state. j Two weekends remain of the 128 day trout season, which opened last June 6, in this longest long-est of the yearly outdoor activities. activi-ties. Final days are expected to produce good angling, especially in the larger streams, lakes, and reservoirs not so readily fished out during the early season. sea-son. Bear Lake in Rich County, where angling is permitted all year, is the one exception of note to the above general closing clos-ing of trout waters. Several other waters are open op-en to angling throughout the whole year. They are not known as trout waters, but do offer a recreational outlet to an increasing in-creasing number of sportsmen each year who angle for catfish, cat-fish, bass, walleyes, perch and several of the trash fish species. Waters open to year around angling are as follows: Miners-ville Miners-ville Reservoir; Bear River, ' I ' from the Utah-Idaho State line I to Great Salt Lake; Logan River Riv-er below Mendon Bridge on ' State- Highway 142; Cutler Reservoir; Res-ervoir; Little Bear River from Highway 91 to Cutler Reservoir; Reser-voir; Green River; Duchesne River below confluence with Strawberry River; Colorado River; Riv-er; Sevier River below Joseph-Monroe Joseph-Monroe State Highway 118 bridge; Mona Reservoir; Jordan Jor-dan River; Surplus Canal; San Juan River; Redmond Lake; Venice Canal; Cove River; Utah Lake; Weber River, below Davis-Weber Canal Company dam in lower Weber Canyon. These waters are open to angling for any species of game or trash fish that may be caught by legal methods and in limits prescribed by the 1953 angling proclamation. - F-H A requested total of 75,000 deer proclamations covering the rules and regulations for the 1953 deer seasons have been mailed from the Utah Fish and Game Department offices. The majority have been issued to license agents. Several thousand have gone to resident sportsmen, sports-men, along with 2,000 to nonresidents non-residents who have written or called for information regarding this largest of all the Utah big game hunts. Department Director J.. Perry Egan said that, "More than ever this year it is important that each sportsman going deer hunting hunt-ing know the rules covering the area he intends to hunt." He noted that under the broad authority given Utah's Board of Big Game Control by the 1953 legislature, a great variety of types of hunting and length of seasons was scheduled by the Board this year in an attempt at-tempt to realize a more equitable equit-able harvest in the state's sixty- ' two deer hunting units. Opening date for the general season is set for Saturday, Oct. 17, with the length of season varying from six days near the state's center of population, to thirty-one days in some outlying outly-ing sections. The types of hunts vary from buck only areas to several special spe-cial hunts where a second deer may be taken, with most units open to either sex hunting dur ing the general eleven day sea- S6ne early hunt is scheduled to get underway Sept. 26. Continuing Con-tinuing through October 27. I This hunt was set up for Anti- mony, or Unit 5"0 area, and is I open to anyone holding a regu-I regu-I lar deer tag wishing to bag I their game during the early imi inr mi nnr T |