05-21-2006, 03:29 AM
[center][font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"]From Prettyman's Tight Lines column [/font][/center] [center][font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][/font] [/center] [center][font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][/font] [/center] [center][font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"]Salt Lake Tribune, The (UT)[/font]
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[font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][size 2]Date: July 28, 2005[/size][/font]
[font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][size 2]Section: Thursday[/size][/font]
[font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][size 2]Edition: Final[/size][/font]
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[size 4][/size]Tiger at Fish Lake
Dale Hepworth, aquatic director for the Division of Wildlife Resources' southern region, confirmed reports of a tiger muskie being landed at Fish Lake last weekend.
He said it was not the first tiger to show up on an angler's line at one of Utah's premier trout fisheries.
"There have been a few others caught in the last year or two," he said. "Evidently some of the tiger muskie that are stocked in Johnson Reservoir manage to swim upstream and get past the headgate on the small dam that backs up water in Fish Lake."
Tiger muskie are a hybrid between a muskellunge and a northern pike. They are aggressive predators, but sterile, so reproduction is not possible.
Any tigers making the trip to Fish Lake will find a plethora of stunted perch to munch, but Hepworth says there are no plans to create a muskie fishery at the popular destination.
"A few of these fish will not be a problem. A lot of them would cause a big impact on the trout fishery, and to actually stock them would likely mean that the trout fishery would be discontinued, so that is not something we want," he said. "This is another reason why sterile fish are being used more and more in fishery management."
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[font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][size 2]Date: July 28, 2005[/size][/font]
[font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][size 2]Section: Thursday[/size][/font]
[font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][size 2]Edition: Final[/size][/font]
[font "Arial,geneva,helvetica"][size 2]Page: D3[/size][/font]
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[size 4][/size]Tiger at Fish Lake
Dale Hepworth, aquatic director for the Division of Wildlife Resources' southern region, confirmed reports of a tiger muskie being landed at Fish Lake last weekend.
He said it was not the first tiger to show up on an angler's line at one of Utah's premier trout fisheries.
"There have been a few others caught in the last year or two," he said. "Evidently some of the tiger muskie that are stocked in Johnson Reservoir manage to swim upstream and get past the headgate on the small dam that backs up water in Fish Lake."
Tiger muskie are a hybrid between a muskellunge and a northern pike. They are aggressive predators, but sterile, so reproduction is not possible.
Any tigers making the trip to Fish Lake will find a plethora of stunted perch to munch, but Hepworth says there are no plans to create a muskie fishery at the popular destination.
"A few of these fish will not be a problem. A lot of them would cause a big impact on the trout fishery, and to actually stock them would likely mean that the trout fishery would be discontinued, so that is not something we want," he said. "This is another reason why sterile fish are being used more and more in fishery management."
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