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2019 Utah Fishing Guidebook Utah Fishing • Utah Fishing CONTACT US CONTENTS HOW TO USE THIS GUIDEBOOK 2019 1. Review the general rules, starting on page 8. These rules explain the licenses you Turn in a poacher 3 How to use this guidebook need, the fishing methods you may use, and when you can transport and possess fish. Phone: 1-800-662-3337 4 Know the laws 2. Check general season dates, daily limits and possession limits, starting on page 19. Email: [email protected] 5 Keep your license on your Online: wildlife.utah.gov/utip phone or tablet 3. Look up a specific water in the section that starts on page 25. (If the water you’re look- ing for is not listed there, it is subject to the general rules.) Division offices 7 License and permit fees 2019 8 General rules: Licenses and Offices are open 8 a.m.–5 p.m., permits Monday • Utah Fishing through Friday. 8 Free Fishing Day WHAT’S NEW? 8 License exemptions for youth Salt Lake City Free Fishing Day: Free Fishing Day will be quagga mussels on and in boats that have 1594 W North Temple groups and organizations held on June 8, 2019. This annual event is a only been in Lake Powell for a day or two. For Box 146301 9 Discounted licenses for great opportunity to share fishing fun with a details on what’s changed at Lake Powell and Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6301 disabled veterans friend or family member. For more informa- how you can help protect your boat, please see 801-538-4700 10 Help conserve native tion, see page 8. page 35 or click “Heading to Lake Powell?” cutthroat trout at stdofthesea.utah.gov. Central Region Using corn as bait: Corn is now a legal bait 1115 N Main Street 10 Fishing contests 11 General rules: Fishing methods at all Utah waterbodies where bait is allowed. Reciprocal permit no longer required: Springville, UT 84663 This change does not allow anglers to violate 11 How to measure a fish Arizona residents who fish the Utah side of 801-491-5678 Utah’s chumming or littering laws. For more 13 Using corn as bait Lake Powell no longer need to purchase recip- information, see page 13. rocal fishing permits. For more information, Northeastern Region 15 Watercraft restrictions see page 9. 318 N Vernal Avenue 18 Daily limits Possession limit changes at Strawberry Vernal, UT 84078 19 General rules: Possession and and Flaming Gorge reservoirs: Starting 435-781-9453 Change for young setline anglers: transportation in 2019, you may have up to two daily limits Anglers under the age of 12 no longer need 21 Stream access in Utah in your possession when fishing for multiple to purchase a fishing license in order to use Northern Region consecutive days at Strawberry Reservoir or 515 E 5300 S 22 Help protect Utah fisheries a setline. For more information on using a Flaming Gorge Reservoir. For more information Ogden, UT 84405 23 Utah’s Walk-in Access program setline, see page 13. 801-476-2740 about when you may possess two daily limits, 24 Fish consumption advisories see page 19. Fishing records online only: The list of 24 Utah’s boating laws and rules Southeastern Region Utah fishing records is extensive and changes 319 N Carbonville Road, Ste A 25 Rules for specific waters New community fisheries: Three new multiple times each year. To ensure accuracy, Price, UT 84501 26 Utah State Parks Annual Pass community fisheries are now open to anglers. that list is now available online only. You can 435-613-3700 28 Community fishing waters These fisheries include Old Fort Pond (Uintah see the current list of state fishing records—or 42 Angler feedback drives changes County), Fairmont Park Pond (Salt Lake download the forms you need to submit a new Southern Region 43 How to handle a tiger muskie County) and Jordan River Reservoir (Utah record—at wildlife.utah.gov/record-fish.html. County). You can learn more about the dozens 1470 N Airport Road 46 Help prevent illegal fish stocking of community fisheries in Utah by visiting Keep more lake trout at Flaming Gorge wildlife.utah.gov Cedar City, UT 84721 48 Identifying Utah’s native and 435-865-6100 wildlife.utah.gov/cf. Reservoir: You may now keep up to 12 lake nonnative fish trout per day at Flaming Gorge Reservoir, but Washington County Field Office 70 Definitions A greater quagga mussel threat: Quagga only one of those fish may be larger than 28 451 N SR-318 mussels are spreading in Lake Powell, and inches. For detailed information on Flaming Hurricane, UT 84737 inspection technicians are regularly finding Gorge limits, see page 30. 435-879-8694 wildlife.utah.gov 2 3 Utah Fishing • Utah Fishing Using dead fathead minnows as bait: Important reminders prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, KNOW THE LAWS You may now possess or use dead fathead color, national origin, age, disability or sex. If This guidebook summarizes Utah’s 2019 minnows—of all colors—as bait in any Utah License purchase options: Fishing you believe that you have been discriminated fishing laws and rules. Although it is a waterbodies where bait is permitted. For more and combination licenses are available at against in any program, activity or facility, or convenient quick-reference document for information about legal baits, see page 12. wildlife.utah.gov and from license agents and if you desire further information, please visit Utah fishing regulations, it is not an all- Division offices. You can also call 1-800-221- www.doi.gov/pmb/eeo/public-civil-rights.cfm. encompassing resource. Reduced catfish limit at Cutler Reser- 0659 to purchase your license by phone. The For an in-depth look at Utah’s fishing voir and tributaries: The daily limit for line is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a Private lands: The Division cannot guarantee 2019 laws and rules, visit wildlife.utah.gov/rules. channel catfish has been reduced to four fish at week. (There’s an additional $2 transaction fee access to any private land. Under certain Utah Fishing • Utah Fishing You can use the references in this guide- Cutler Reservoir and its tributaries. For detailed for each item you buy over the phone.) circumstances, you must obtain written book—such as Utah Administrative Rule information on Cutler Reservoir regulations, permission from the landowner or the R657-13-6 and Utah Code § 23-20-3—to see page 29. Fish throughout the year: Utah has a landowner’s authorized representative before search the Division’s website for the detailed year-round fishing season for most waterbod- accessing private lands. For more information, Keep more northern pike at Recapture statute or rule that underpins the guidebook ies. It runs from Jan. 1–Dec. 31, 2019. see Trespassing on page 15. Reservoir: You may now keep up to 20 north- summary. ern pike per day at Recapture Reservoir, but Utah Cutthroat Slam: The Utah Cutthroat Division funding: The Division is mostly If you have questions about a particular only one of those fish may be larger than 36 Slam has raised more than $26,000 for native funded by the sale of fishing and hunting rule, call or visit the nearest Division office. inches. For detailed information on Recapture trout conservation in Utah. For information licenses and through federal aid made possible Who makes the rules? Reservoir limits, see page 37. about the slam, see the information box on by an excise tax on the sale of fishing rods and page 10 or visit www.utahcutthroatslam.org. other fishing-related equipment. The Utah Wildlife Board passes the rules Regulation changes at southern Utah and laws summarized in this guidebook. waterbodies: The Utah Wildlife Board Share your feedback: The Division obtains There are seven board members, and approved regulation changes at a handful of substantial feedback on proposed fishing Keep your license on each serves a six-year term. Appointed by southern Utah waterbodies, including East Fork changes via surveys and online questionnaires. your phone or tablet the governor, board members are not Divi- Boulder Creek, Navajo Lake, East Fork Sevier Division biologists plan to use a similar format We’ve made it easier for you to keep sion employees. River, UM Creek and Paragonah (Red Creek) to obtain feedback before proposing new regu- track of your fishing license and know The Division’s director serves as the Reservoir. To see the regulations for these lations for the 2021 Utah Fishing Guidebook. when it’s about to expire. board’s executive secretary but does not waterbodies, visit the Rules for Specific Waters To review all of your feedback options, please With our convenient mobile app, have a vote on wildlife policies. section that begins on page 25. see page 42. you can now download your license to a Before board members make changes to smartphone or tablet. wildlife rules, they listen to recommenda- Corrections: If errors are found in the If a conservation officer asks to see printed guidebook, the Division will tions from Division biologists. They also your license, you can easily produce the correct them in the online version. Visit receive input from the public and various digital copy, which is just as valid as a wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks to view all of the interest groups via the regional advisory paper license. Division’s guidebooks and proclamations. council (RAC) process. If you use the app, you will also be If you have feedback or suggestions for Protection from discrimination: The able to see when your license expires.
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