BEAR LAKE CUTTHROAT NUMBERS TO BE CUT!

[Fishrmn]

That seems kinda odd...planting in the lake they originated in...do we do better than Mother Nature??

Yes. Sometimes Mother Nature needs a little help. For Bear Lake and her cutts, it has been an issue of enough water at the right time. Most of the tributaries have been used for irrigation. The adults would swim upstream and spawn, but the eggs or fry wouldn't have enough water left in the streams to hatch, survive and return to the lake. Which is why there are some extreme regulations on the tributaries. No harvest at all and artificials only in these two, and closed for three months of the year.

Bear Lake tributaries, Rich County (a) Big Spring Creek from Lamborn Diversion (approximately 500 yards below SR-30) downstream to Bear Lake and that area extending from the mouth out into the lake 1,000 feet, or as buoyed.
• CLOSED April 15 through 6 a.m. on the second Saturday of July.
• CATCH AND RELEASE ONLY, AND ARTIFICIAL FLIES AND LURES ONLY (Jan. 1 through April 14 and from 6 a.m. on the second Saturday of July through Dec. 31).
(b) Swan Creek from the headwater spring downstream to Bear Lake and that area extending from the mouth out into the lake 1,000 feet, or as buoyed.
• CLOSED April 15 through 6 a.m. on the second Saturday of July.
• CATCH AND RELEASE ONLY, AND ARTIFICIAL FLIES AND LURES ONLY (Jan. 1 through April 14 and from 6 a.m. on the second Saturday of July through Dec. 31).

And they clip a fin on every cutt that they plant and you can only keep cutts at Bear Lake that have a fin clipped.
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