Fishing Forum

Board members approved the changes at their Oct. 2 meeting in Salt Lake City. The changes go into effect Jan. 1, 2009.

Scofield Reservoir
Putting Bear Lake cutthroats in the reservoir will give it two "chub eaters"—the Bear Lake cutthroat trout, and tiger trout that are in the reservoir now.
To keep plenty of large predatory Bear Lake cutthroats and tiger trout in the reservoir, the trout limit at the reservoir will be lowered to four trout. Starting Jan. 1, your four trout limit can include two cutthroat or tiger trout under 15 inches in length and one cutthroat or tiger trout over 22 inches long. All cutthroat and tiger trout between 15 and 22 inches long must be released immediately.
There will be no special regulations for rainbow trout. Your four-trout limit at Scofield can include rainbow trout of any size and length.

Panguitch Lake
Starting Jan. 1, a rule that's similar to the one at Scofield and Strawberry will also be in place at Panguitch Lake.
starting Jan. 1, that four-trout limit can include rainbow trout of any size.

Tiger muskie at Newton Reservoir
Newton Reservoir has joined Pineview Reservoir as the two waters in Utah where you can't keep tiger muskies.


To read the whole article:

http://wildlife.utah.gov/news/08-10/illegal_stock.php
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Thanks for the information. The article also included this little gem:

""It took some searching, but we found muskies in South Dakota that don't have any diseases," says Drew Cushing, warm water sport fisheries coordinator for the DWR.

"We'll bring the muskies to Utah in mid-October and start raising them at a new hatchery in Salt Lake City. Then we'll bring Northern pike from Recapture Reservoir to the hatchery and breed the pike with the muskies.

"We could be stocking tiger muskies again in two to three years," Cushing says. "Until then, the closures at Pineview and Newton will keep plenty of big tiger muskies in those waters for anglers to catch and release.""
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Now that is some really good news!
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[cool][#0000ff]If I am not mistaken, that is old news and wrong news. They found disease in those fish at the last minute and had to abandon plans to obtain them.[/#0000ff]
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Virus keeps tiger musky program on hold
[url "mailto:brettp@sltrib.com?subject=Salt Lake Tribune: Virus keeps tiger musky program on hold"]By Brett Prettyman
The Salt Lake Tribune
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Article Launched: 11/06/2008 10:02:00 AM MST

Plans to bolster Utah's population of one of the state's most popular sport fish have encountered another setback. Division of Wildlife Resources fisheries officials recently learned that one of the last certified disease-free populations of musky tested positive for a virus.
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I wasn't sure whether or not which is the latest and greatest. Also, please double check your link.
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NO disease free musky have been found...it sounds like the source listed above proved to actually have VHS.

Things aren't looking good right now for the TM lovers...
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From the article, it says that there is a batch from Iowa and New Jersey that have not tested positive and they're looking forward to getting those next spring if they hold out. I'm keeping my fingers crossed there. Either way it will be several years until the tiger musky stocking returns.
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