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Utah's Game Fish: Lake Trout
The lake trout, or mackinaw trout, comes in a wide range of colors, from gray to brown to dark green. The distinguishing feature is the light yellowish or white spots that cover the body, from head to tail, and dorsal and tail fins. The other fins are unmarked and lined with white. The tail is sharply forked. Characteristics The lake trout grows and matures more slowly than other fish. After one year they are about six inches in length and when mature range between 19 and 23 inches, usually at the age of four to five. Typically, lake trout run between 5 and 30 pounds. The world record is 72 pounds. The Utah record is 51 pounds, 8 ounces, and was caught in 1988 in Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Smaller lake trout make excellent meals. Larger fish tend to take on an oily taste.
Sewage plant mishap kills trout in Dog River
A chemical release by a municipal sewage plant is being blamed for killing a significant number of fish last week on one of Vermont's premier wild trout streams.
Fish were killed on more than a half-mile stretch of the Dog River below the Northfield sewage treatment plant. An angler alerted state fisheries biologist of dead fish Monday afternoon.
According to Northfield Village Manager Charles Morse, an infusion of chlorine was accidentally leaked into the Dog River from the sewage treatment plant as work was being done to upgrade the facility's chlorinating system.
"We knew we released chlorine, but we didn't detect a problem until later on," Morse said. "We're upset that we killed fish, obviously; we try to be as environmentally conscious as we can be."
Morse said the spill affected a stretch of river about 0.6 of a mile long, from below the sewage plant to the mouth of Cox Brook, a major tributary of the Dog.
On Pine, trout still plentiful on hot days
WELLSTON -- The middle of a hot summer is not especially the best time for trout fishing. Still, four of us were virtually rubbing our hands together and snickering over our prospects as we launched the boat on the Pine River here in the early morning. It was completely overcast and even intermittently raining. The weather gods were smiling upon us. Or so we thought. But at 9 a.m, after two hours of fishless angling, we had to reassess our mindset. I was tossing big Rapalas -- No. 11s or No. 13s -- out of the front of the drift boat with Bob Fisher, who is soon to become the former co-owner of Baldwin Bait and Tackle. His soon-to-be former partner, Steve Fraley, was switching off rowing and throwing streamers from the back of the rig with his soon-to-be new partner John Karakashian.
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