SALT LAKE CITY — If you’d like to catch a fish in Utah’s beautiful outdoors but you don’t have a fishing license, Free Fishing Day is the perfect opportunity to give it a try. Free Fishing Day will be held on Saturday, June 11, and allows anyone to fish at […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A pair of Utah men have been convicted of felony charges stemming from attempts to cheat in a bass fishing tournament. KTVX-TV reports 45-year-old Robert Dennett and 35-year-old Kamron Wootton pleaded guilty to felony bribery or threat to influence a contest and misdemeanor unlawful release […]
NINE MILE RESERVOIR — The daily limit for all trout species at Nine Mile Reservoir was removed Aug. 10, allowing anglers to catch and keep as many of the fish as they want during maintenance work at the reservoir. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Director Mike Fowlks issued the emergency […]
SALT LAKE CITY — The daily limit increased to eight trout on a portion of Mammoth Creek on Monday, which will allow anglers to catch and keep more fish before the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources treats the river with rotenone to remove its remaining fish. DWR Director Mike Fowlks […]
SOUTH OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Officials are searching for a source of possible contamination after dozens of fish and a few ducks were found dead in a Utah creek. KUTV-TV reports children fishing in Burch Creek in South Ogden discovered the dead fish and called 911 Wednesday afternoon. The South Ogden Fire […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah couple is on track to open the state’s first tilapia farm after they got an exemption from a law that prohibits commercial farming of the species because it can pose a threat to native fish. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Cliff and Teri Sackett are […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona and Utah are now in sync on what’s needed to fish on Lake Powell, the Colorado River lake that straddles the border between the two states. The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources announced Friday that residents of Arizona and […]
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A prized fishery below Glen Canyon Dam is getting more rainbow trout. The Arizona Game and Fish Department says it will stock trout this week below the Lees Ferry boat ramp where anglers can walk in to the Colorado River. That hasn’t been done since 1998. […]
