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Article: Flaming Gorge lake trout tasty, easy to catch

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April 6, 2006
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Have a boat and like to fish? Consider going after the 1- to 5- pound lake trout at Flaming Gorge Reservoir. The fish are easy to catch, plentiful and are considered very tasty.

The reservoir, in fact, holds too many of the smaller lake trout, which is why the limit was increased this year to eight fish. Only one of those fish can be longer than 28 inches.

Lowell Marthe, acting Flaming Gorge project leader for the Division of Wildlife Resources, is encouraging anglers to take home limits of small lake trout to help the fishery.

Biologists from Utah and Wyoming believe there is an overabundance of lake trout less than 28 inches in the reservoir. In the future, that could mean trouble for the ...

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