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Show SportsmeiiHclp Save Trout From Reservoir The story of how summer-long summer-long vigilance, followed hy three days of back-breaking toil hy Utah hatoherymen and .sportsmen, .sports-men, resulted in the saving of 1000 pounds of game fish out of East canyon dam was revealed today hy the state fish and game department. The chain of events leading up to the rescue of the fish started start-ed last spring when the water users' association announced that the dam would be drained during the summer in order that the gates could he inspected and necessary repairs made. Throughout the summer the water dropped to ever lower lev- tt- -a j with frequent checks being .!!;'!' hy sfi:e fisheries experts. The sjitiaMoii reached a climax ill..- iir.st vek in Si'pteiiihcr. I'.y then the wait-r had dropped so i low that only a siit-choked creek channel and a small pond immediately im-mediately upstream from the dam remained. On Sept. 8 the hatcherymen and some Ogden sportsmen, under un-der direction of Marion Madsen, superintendent of fisheries, went into action. It had been determined deter-mined previously that the work could not be carried out from the permanent canyon road which curves along rocky bluffs high above the dam's surface. The first job therefore, was to construct a road and a quarter-mile of rough trail, passable for fisheries' trucks, was built up to the downstream face of the dam where traps were con-tructed. con-tructed. The morning of Sept. 11, when the last water was seeping seep-ing out of the dam, the crew started work at 7 a.m., dipping fish until 5 p.m. Mos tof the fish coming through were suckers, hut out of the traps did come 1000 pounds of prime rainbows which were hauled downstream and, planted in the clear waters of the Weber river. Madsen today expressed his Trati tilde to the men who assisted assist-ed in the nroiect. "It was only through a lot of hard work that we were enabled enabl-ed to save these fish," he asserted. |
