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• Catch A Tagged Fish, Win A Million Dollars
  Utah is participating in a promotion sponsored by Cabelas. Fish have been tagged and released into waters in Utah and other states. If you preregister and then catch a tagged fish you could win up to $1,000,000 (or even double that amount). Utah's DWR provided the information below. . Utah is one of 19 states that are holding a "Wanna' Go Fishing for Millions?" contest this year. The contest is sponsored by Cabela's. If you catch a fish with a contest tag on it, you'll be eligible for some big prizes. The fish were tagged by biologists with the Division of…
• Search Continues For Wolves Near Springville, Utah
  "Scat from the wilderness near Springville that was supposed to prove once and for all whether the area is inhabited by wolves or wolf-dog hybrids is from ... coyotes." That quote comes from this new article about the search for wolves in the mountains east of Springville. But the search is not over, by any means. Wildlife experts who have caught glimpses of animals in a remote area are certain they were not coyotes. They speculate that a group of wolves, or wolf-dog hybrids, live in the area, along with coyotes and other native wildlife. If there are wolves they…
• DWR Stocks Tiger Muskie Raised In Utah Hatchery
  Utah has sometimes had a hard time finding tiger muskie fry from other states and so DWR began an ambitious program to produce our own. Now that program is paying off, with the first Utah-raised fry being stocked into Bullock and Cottonwood reservoirs.   DWR has this news report about the program. Here are excerpts.   Gusher — "They are small, but they just made history," Barry Nielsen said as biologist Garn Birchell poured the first bag of about 20 tiger muskie fry into Bullock Reservoir.   The tiny tiger muskie released into Cottonwood, Bullock and Newton reservoirs should grow…
• Deer Creek Reservoir Fishing Report
  We fished hard hoping to catch a few walleye. Nope. Did catch several fat rainbows. And surprisingly, we caught two nice browns using walleye tactics. We fished yesterday afternoon. Launched cabout 3:30 pm and fished until after it was fully dark. Big, bright, full moon so we could have kept fishing. It was pretty on the water. Launced at the main St Park ramp and worked the shoreline up to the Island, then did several loops along the Island's deep-water shorline. We started catching fish immediately. All of the rainbows seemed to be from the same year-class. They were 12-14…
• Flaming Gorge Has Great Fishing For Rainbows, Kokanee
  Brett Prettyman spent time this week fishing Flaming Gorge, north of the Utah border, and reports good action for rainbows, kokanee and small lake trout. He describes the experience in this blog. Below is an excerpt. "Our intentions were to catch kokanee and we boated several while trolling 15-20 ft with planer boards. We also managed a few bonus rainbows, one of which was about 3lbs, along with some feisty lake trout pups. We caught the fish on a variety of tackle and no one combo appeared to outperform another. Successful gear included Rocky Mountain Tackle (RMT) dodgers in hyperplaid,…
• Lake Powell Spring Fishing Remains Hot
  Spring fishign remains hot for smallmouth bass. Walleye fishing is good and getting better and striper fishing is on the verge of becoming excellent. That's a summary of the new fishing report by DWR biologist Wayne Gustaveson. You can see the full report here. Below are excerpts: Bass have mostly pulled off the nests as fry have hatched following a good spawn in mid April.  But males still guard the swimming fry for a time and are in close proximity to the nest.  Bass are seen cruising in shallow water rather than guarding each nest. But it’s not over.  Soon…
• DWR Seeks Input About Deer And Elk Management Plans
  (This is a news release provided by Utah's DWR.) 2,100 More Elk DWR seeks input about deer and elk plans   Plans that determine the total number of deer and elk in Utah are up for revision. The change Division of Wildlife Resources biologists are recommending to the deer plan would allow them to use the most up-to-date habitat information available to decide whether deer population objectives should be raised, lowered or remain the same. In the past, the plans for all five regions in Utah were revised once every five years. Anis Aoude, big game coordinator for the DWR,…