11-19-2006, 10:01 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Good thinking. The DWR urban fisheries program is growing by leaps and bounds. Daybreak, a big 100 acre lake on Kennecott land is coming online this year. So is a new one in Riverton and a small one in Draper. They are scrambling to come up with the money to keep them stocked and they will need some volunteers again this year for the kids programs.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The urban fisheries has really been a big help in selling new licenses. Of the surveys they do on all the urban lakes they find that about 30% of the folks fishing them had not bought licenses the previous year. That's good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]They also keep track of all the kids who go through the Youth Fishing Program and find that a very high percentage of them DO buy licenses and keep fishing when they reach the age of 14.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Scofield is just one of many experiments being tried by DWR to increase angler opportunities and to stimulate more angler hours and more license sales. Yes, it is a bit of a drive from Salt Lake, but there really aren't many super trout producing waters within Salt Lake or Utah Counties. Better than Fish Lake or Panguitch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The urban fisheries has really been a big help in selling new licenses. Of the surveys they do on all the urban lakes they find that about 30% of the folks fishing them had not bought licenses the previous year. That's good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]They also keep track of all the kids who go through the Youth Fishing Program and find that a very high percentage of them DO buy licenses and keep fishing when they reach the age of 14.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Scofield is just one of many experiments being tried by DWR to increase angler opportunities and to stimulate more angler hours and more license sales. Yes, it is a bit of a drive from Salt Lake, but there really aren't many super trout producing waters within Salt Lake or Utah Counties. Better than Fish Lake or Panguitch.[/#0000ff]
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