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Show Sportsmen's Corner Based on estimates from deputy depu-ty wardens on 39 of Utah's far-flung far-flung hunting districts, 5 1.4 hunters out of every 100 who went afield during the deer hunting season bagged their game, according to game management man-agement officials of the state fish and game department. The estimated percentage of hunter success ranged from a high of 95 pet. in the Daggett County area to a low of 20 pet. in some southern Utah districts. Estimates included deer of all sexes Although based on returns as yet far from complete, the initial ini-tial compilation of the warden's reports provide some interesting figures. They show mainly that the state's deer hunting has held to the high level of previous pre-vious years in the face of unprecedented un-precedented hunting demand and that a considerable proportion pro-portion of hunters did not abide by the sportsmen's code of "being "be-ing sure of what you shoot before be-fore you shoot it." In answer to the question: 'Estimated number of illegal kils in your area?" 32 wardens reported a total of 1009 deer illegally felled, this number including in-cluding a proportionately high number of illegal deer reported as having been left on the range. Ross Leonard, Utah fish and game director, pointed out that complete returns on the deer shoot will not be available until the first of next year following yearly reports filed by license vendors. Jan. 10 is the last date under state law on which vendors vend-ors have to file their reports. Meanwhile, to make the 19-16 picture more complete, Leonard renewed his appeal for all sportsmen sports-men to mail in their deer cards attached to big game licenses whether or not they made a kill. Permit holders participating in the post-season deer hunt in Brown's Park in Daggett County Coun-ty enjoyed "very good success" during the first days of the shoot, the Utah fish and game department announced today M. J Madsen, superintendent of fisheries, returning from a survey of the area, said a majority ma-jority of the holders of permits for 200 deer of either sex brought out "mostly bucks which were extra large." Roads leading into the hunting area through Wyoming and Colorado Col-orado were in bad shape, Mad-sen Mad-sen said. However, this was offset off-set by excellent weather, the cool, clear mornings allowing hunters to go anywhere in the hunting district. More than a million brown trout eggs had been taken at the Morgan hatchery through Nov. 27, the Utah fish and game department reported today, with another two million expected before the fall spawning period ends. M. J. Madsen, superintendent of state fisheries, gave this breakdown on the egg take by dates: Nov. 19, 412.0S0 eggs taken and delivered to Kamas hatchery. hatch-ery. Nov. 23, 84,702 eggs taken and delivered to Kamas Nov. 20, 53G.452 eggs taken and delivered to Midway hatchery Nov. 27, 29,916 eggs taken and delivered to Midway Total take for the four dates was 1,063,210 eggs. Madsen said this figure represents about one-third one-third of the total epected take. Spawning will hit its peak at the Morgan plant during the next three weeks, then taper off to the end of operations about Jan. 15. |