Slot Limits All Year

[paparex]

Slot limits are for the entire year. They are not lifted for ice fishing. Among those waters with slot limits is Lost Creek.

This is the slot limit at Lost Creek for 2013. It is four (4) trout but only three (3) can be 15 inches or under. Then no fish between 15 inches and 22 inches can be kept. This is the slot limit. From the 2013 Fishing Proclamation;

Lost Creek Reservoir, Morgan County
• Limit 4 trout (a combined total).
• No more than 3 trout may be under 15 inches.
• No more than 1 trout may be over 22 inches.
• All trout between 15 and 22 inches must be immediately released.
• CLOSED to fishing 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily.

1) It allows for fish to grow to a size to eat the chubs that are out
of control at Lost Creek; 2) Fish in this slot are most likely to spawn. I am not sure how the spawn goes in Lost Creek. There is very little stream habitat into the reservoir, but perhaps up at the upper end that is private land there is more stream flow and nursery for cutthroat and rainbows. 3) The Tiger trout do not spawn, but grow quickly and should also be great chub eaters.

This style of fishery management seems to have worked at Strawberry and we probably need to let it play out at Lost Creek.
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[cuthroat_guy]

You must have seen a few anglers taking some fish home in the slot.
Go figure,
Why don't you make Nother post with the bear lake trout rules too, since everyone takes non clipped fin cutts
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