Utah Fishing News

If you plan on visiting Lake Powell during the July 4 holiday, or anytime this summer, plan your visit so you don't arrive at a major launch ramp between 10 p.m. and 5:30 a.m.
Lake Powell

If you arrive during those hours, you won't be able to launch your boat.

One of the largest sport fish in the country will soon be raised right here in Utah.

On June 16, a total of 1,000 true muskies from Nebraska were stocked into ponds at the Lee Kay Public Shooting Range in Salt Lake City.

If you're looking for a fun activity that's close to home and doesn't cost much, mark June 6 on your calendar.

Free Fishing Day

June 6 is Free Fishing Day in Utah. You won't need a fishing license to fish in the state that day.

If you have fished or boated in the lower Colorado River areas of Lake Mead, Lake Mohave, Lake Havasu or waters within the Mississippi River drainage, including the St. Lawrence Seaway or the Great Lakes (http://www.100thmeridian.org/), please help us KILL Quagga Mussels or Zebra Mussels that might be attached to your equipment.

Please share your ideas no later than June 1

Is there a fishing regulation in Utah that you'd like to see change? Or do you have an idea for a new rule?

If you have ideas for a fishing regulation changes in 2010, send them to the DWR no later than June 1.

On Saturday, Sportsman's Warehouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The filing ends speculation that the Midvale, Utah based outdoor chain was struggling for survival despite announcing the closure twenty-three stores, layoff of nearly 2,000 employees and the exchange of fifteen other stores to Canada's United Farmers of Alberta cooperative as repayment of a late-2008 cash infusion.

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alf of the preserve went up in smoke in October

In late October, people caused a fire that burned 400 acres at the Scott M. Matheson Wetlands Preserve in Moab.

Now, less than two months later, most of the area was rehabilitated. And part of it has reopened to the public.

If you can identify a rainbow trout, you shouldn't have a challenge with new fishing regulations at two of Utah's best trout-fishing waters.

The trout limit at Scofield Reservoir and Panguitch Lake will change on Jan. 1. Starting Jan. 1, the following will be in effect:

100,000-plus acres withdrawn from energy lease sale in the wake of strenuous objections by sportsmen

WASHINGTON - A decision late Friday by the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw more than 100,000 acres of controversial energy leases from its December 19 sale in Utah removes valuable fish and wildlife habitat from drilling for oil and gas and closely follows a protest filed by the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. While commending the BLM decision, the TRCP remains critical of agency plans to lease other important federal public lands in Utah for energy development.