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Show Utah Lake Utah Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the State and is rated Class II. It presently supports a population of channel catfish that is rated among the best in the Intermountain States. Other warmwater game fish of increasingly significant importance are walleye and white bass. Spawning areas have not been clearly delineated but catfish and other game species are known to utilize the rocky shore area along the east shore of Goshen Bay and Provo Bay for this purpose.• Li~>' i^ The Bureau of Reclamation is currently funding a 2- year study of the potential of artificial substrates as a spawning habitat for catfish. The study began in 1972 and is being carried out by the State Division of Wildlife Resources. The information obtained would be used in the preparation of the detailed environmental statement for Utah Lake. The lake also supports a winter commerical fishing industry consisting of non- game species-- mainly carp and suckers. Recent annual harvests have averaged about 250,000 pounds, which represents most of the statewide commerical production of fish. -^ Strawberry Reservoir This 8,400- acre reservoir presently constitutes a Class I trout fishery according to the State Division of Wildlife Resources. Trout populations, cutthroat and rainbow are maintained primarily by an annual stocking program. However, there is a spawning of cutthroat trout and to a lesser extent, rainbow trout in reservoir inlets. The Utah State Division of Wildlife Resources operates an annual spawn taking camp to tap this egg resource. Each year about 15 million eggs are obtained for hatchery purposes. The amount of natural reproduction occurring is unquantified. ^ Rock Creek Rock Creek is rated as Class II and III. The Class II waters are located on National Forest land from and including the site of Upper Stillwater Reservoir downstream to the boundary of Indian land. It contains rainbow, cutthroat, brown and brook trout as well as some whitefish. In 1972 about 10,000 " catchable" size rainbow trout were planted. 134 |