Utah Fishing & Outdoors Report

Fish Lake now has safe ice and offers good fishing for splake, rainbows, small lake trout and small perch. It will be one of our better fishing spots during the next few weeks.

Perch are now a popular target, as they are relatively easy to catch through the ice. We've heard reports of good action for nice sized perch at Yuba, Deer Creek and Rockport. Here are tips for icing perch and other panfish.

At Jordanelle, the Rock Cliffs area has safe ice and fair fishing for rainbows and perch. The main lake now has a cap of ice and it will probably become safe during the next week. Fishing success should pick up as more ice is accessible to fishermen.

Strawberry has safe ice over the entire lake and offers consistently good fishing. Flaming Gorge has ice on the north end and is a good choice. Most of our trout and perch waters will offer good ice fishing during the coming weeks.

Wildlife Board Meeting
Rules for Utah's 2008 black bear hunts and plans to guide the management of otters and prairie dogs are among the items the Utah Wildlife Board is expected to approve at its Jan. 8 meeting in Salt Lake City. The meeting begins at 9 am in the DNR Auditorium in Salt Lake City. The public is encouraged to attend. See the agenda.

Interesting Posts By Anglers
- Yuba is good for perch
- Deer Creek perch, rainbows biting
- Rockport fair to good for perch
- Rockport has big perch
- Hyrum is fair to good for perch
- Otter Creek is good but spotty
- Strawberry produces monster cutt
- Strawberry - tips for ice fishing
- Fish Lake yields splake, rainbows, small macks
- Panguitch Lake action was slow
- Joes Valley fair for splake and cutts
- Devils Creek ID good for trout

Articles
DWR
- Don't Toss your tree - Help local wildlife
- Learn 2007 big game drawing odds
- Teach kids how to fish

Deseret News
- Ice fishing tourney
- Hunters need to be aware of changes in big-game permits
- Utah's signature ski runs
- Week 1 signature run — Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort
- Resorts add new lifts, runs
- Ray Grass: Burton's boarding publicity stunt risky
- New GPS units not just for directions
- Photo: World-class Sundance
- 2 Iron County parks scheduled to go dry
- Ogden hailed as a top place 'you've gotta go'

SL Tribune
- Utah Avalanche Center: Be careful on the slopes
- Tight Lines: Utah fights to limit whirling disease
- Big day for bighorns: Mountain sheep get helicopter ride to new domains
- 'Dogtown': National Geographic Channel series profiles Utah's Best Friends Animal Society
- Eight things to do in 2008
- 'Utah Curiosities' joins the lineup of 'Where is it?' prizes
- Avian cholera killing water fowl at Great Salt Lake
- Naturalist volunteers sought
- Hike of the week: Navajo Knobs and Rim Overlook Trails - Capitol Reef National Park
- Bird sighting
- Where is it?
- Recreation roundup
- Outdoor notes: Free program will teach you essentials of avalanche safety
- The outsider: Avian idols, Big Game Guidebook
- High adventure in Ogden
- Hook shot
- Utah State Parks pass available

KUTV
- Young Utahns Get Pheasant Hunting Opportunity
- Hunting Ducks Off Shore... And On The Water
- 50,000 Acres Opened Up To Utah Hunters
- Field Guide: Ringneck Pheasant

KSL
- Backcountry travelers urged to know the conditions
- Utah joins effort to boost fishing license sales

Daily Herald
- DWR eyes land for June suckers
- Don't ditch that Douglas Fir
- An invitation to go fishing with me in 2008

Firsttracksonline.com
- Utah Winter Games Set to Launch Friends & Family Ski and Snowboard Race Series

Regional
- Western streams loaded with non-native fish, amphibians
- Time to intensify efforts to halt environmental invaders
- Skiing is not just for Downhillers
- Southwest Colorado wrestles with New Mexico over water issues
- Moose on the move in Oregon
- Wolf population grows; may be taken off endangered list
- Wolf plan is death knell
- Salmon-steelhead researchers study the many angles of barged vs. in-river
- Western streams loaded with non-native fish, amphibians
- Ketchum, Idaho: a five-star dilemma
- Presidential candidates spill all the intimate details
- Study looks at central Idaho road kill problem
- Wyoming drafts wolf hunting regulations
- A Divide as Wolves Rebound in a Changing West
- Mouse doesn’t deserve spot on protection list
- Message from G&F: 'don't feed the deer'
- Walt Gasson appointed new director of Wyoming Wildlife Federation
- Feeding fish on beer waste
- Citizen scientists help wildlife