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attention to bass and other valuable fishes. In 

 Utah Lake, for instance, one finds as good 

 small-mouthed black bass fishing as can be had 

 in the United States, and most of the trout 

 streams are well stocked and in excellent con- 

 dition. 



Utah waters are particularly well adapted to 

 the rapid development of trout. As an exam- 

 ple, observation shows that not infrequently 

 Eastern brook trout, planted as fry, attain a 

 length of eight inches within a period of eight 

 months. The tributaries of the Rio Virgin, the 

 Panguitch River, and other tributaries of the 

 Sevier, as well as the Upper Sevier itself, are 

 excellent trout streams. This may be said in 

 fact of all the mountain streams of Utah, and 

 it may be said also that they are improving, 

 under the direction of the fish culturists who 

 are annually planting these millions of fry and 

 increasing the number of fry planted with each 

 season. 



In planting their fry in the season of 1910, 

 the Utah fish culturists made a marked depart- 

 ure from the almost universal custom of plant- 

 ing fry in swift-running water, and instead 

 planted it in shallow waters at the head of 

 streams where the current was slight and where 

 water cress and other growth was abundant and 



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