Flying fish! State re-stocks southern Utah lakes from the air
and last updated 2021-07-06 20:42:01-04
BICKNELL, Utah â To keep fish stocked in some remote Utah lakes, the state s Division of Wildlife Resources takes an interesting approach.
They drop the fish into the lakes from an airplane.
Video shared with FOX 13 by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources on Tuesday showed a series of aerial drops of fingerlings, young fish that are about one to three-inches long. DWR crews were working out of Bicknell, in south-central Utah, re-stocking lakes all over southern Utah.
The video shows crews filling a tank inside a single-engine plane with the fingerlings. When it s time to reach the high-altitude lakes? The pilot flies above the tree line and bomb s away!
SALT LAKE CITY As Utah s drought situation worsens and that impacts statewide water levels, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources on Thursday increased the fishing limits at all 57 of its community ponds and five other Utah waterbodies just as they did at 10 places earlier this year.
Effective immediately, anglers will be allowed to catch two additional trout at all 57 community ponds in the state. With the change, people can catch four fish daily as long as at least two of the fish are trout. That rule will remain in effect through the end of August.
The division also announced the following changes to fishing limits that went into effect Thursday and will remain in effect through Oct. 31: