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Show - 3 - of Provo city all his life, he is a self-taught expert in the art of angling and considers the lower Provo as fine a spot as any. "I can get fish in about 20 minutes from my home any time of the year," boasts Liddiard. "Plus, on the lower Provo I get to keep the big ones. If I fished up the canyon they'd make me throw back anything over 13 inches." Liddiard's face becomes animated as he talks about his favorite subject. "Course, I'm just like an alcoholic. Fishing is something I can't resist." The white-haired outdoorsman settles into his chair as he relates several wonderful fish tales about the lower Provo. "Granted, it's not the same as when my dad and I would fish it, but nothing is these days anyway. Did I tell you about the time...." He recalls several native fishes once associated uith the river; the 8^ pound cutthroat trout he caught while muskrat trapping, the minnows he'd net for bait and the 10 pound largemouth bass that got away. Today's sportsman, however, will find quite a different kettle of fish. Icthyologist David White, an authority on local fish populations, lists rainbow and brown trout as the Provo's dominant species. Pike, bass, catfish, carp and suckers, he reports, can also be found within the first two miles of the river from the lake. "There are very few places in the state of Utah where you can get as good a variety as in the IOUE r Provo," says White with a gleam in his eye. For besides studying the scaly creatures |