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The crew at the boat ramp had several strikes, including two rainbows because they brought them to their holes before losing them. The rainbows were in 10 and 25 feet of water. The Indian Bay crew only had a couple of nudges as they worked out from the bays into deeper waters and circled the small island. It wasn't until they centered themselves between the two southern points and the island that they caught fish. The three anglers caught six perch in five minutes before the fishing shut itself off. The school they located was in roughly 45 feet of water. The final crew found the waters near the inlet to be quite muddy so they returned east and tried a hollow southeast of the bridge. Not finding fish there, they decided to work the bay next to the Bridge where another angler reported catching a few perch a week earlier. They started inside the bay and worked their way out the mouth just northeast of the bridge where they caught a yellow perch and hooked into a big walleye in about 12 feet of water. While the catch rates were disappointing, the anglers learned a couple of things. First, the perch are not in the same places they occupied during summer. The experienced anglers theorize the perch have probably formed large schools. The schools are likely spread out and probably rest in 45 feet or more of water and then move into shallower areas to feed. Second, while the perch didn't cooperate, the rainbow trout did. Most of the crews felt they had at least one rainbow strike. This was exciting to the fisheries managers as only a few rainbows were experimentally stocked during the fall of 2006. Biologists quit stocking rainbows into Starvation years ago due to increasing predation from walleye, bass and brown trout and from competition from other fish. The experiment was to stock larger fingerlings in the fall to see if they could survive to reach catchable sizes. These experimental fish didn't turn up in the spring and summer nettings, nor did biologists hear of anglers catching them during the summer. So a more extensive evaluation was proposed for the future to compare a larger number of advanced fingerlings stocked in the fall to catchable 10-inch sized spring plants. The two rainbows the anglers brought in and could see under the ice were big, healthy fish. Park rangers said they had also observed a few additional rainbows caught during the last few months. This has given biologists added incentive to continue experimenting with the goal of bringing about a return of the rainbow trout fishing at Starvation.
The biologists who helped organized the Starvation Perch Search, would like to thank the searchers and to challenge anglers with a quest find the perch! If you succeed, please call or drop in to the Northeastern Region or any other UDWR office or the Starvation State Park headquarters and tell your story. The yellow perch fishery in Starvation is simply too nice to let it sit idle under the ice. PUBLIC COMMENT SOUGHT ON DRAFT AREA MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR FLIGHT PARK STATE RECREATION AREA The Utah Division of State Parks and Recreation has developed a draft area management plan (AMP) for Flight Park State Recreation Area. The draft AMP identifies issues relating to public use, resource management and future development at the park and will make recommendations to guide park managers for the next ten years. A planning team consisting of park users, local citizens, neighboring agency representatives and park managers developed the draft plan through a series of team and public meetings. Beginning Monday, February 11, the plan will be available for review online at www.stateparks.utah.gov/about/plans , or in hardcopy at the Utah State Parks Office at 1594 West North Temple, Suite 116 in Salt Lake City; Utah Lake State Park Office at 4400 West Center Street in Provo; or the Utah State Parks Northwest Region Office located at 1084 North Redwood Road in Salt Lake City.
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