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Lance Bandley ReportingSome of the best fishing this year might not be too far away from home. Starting this week, fish will be stocked into local ponds.
"We have actually 40,000 extra fish that we're going to be stocking this spring, starting this week," said Community Fisheries Biologist Drew Cushing. Cushing says more than 140,000 fish will go in a month earlier in local ponds from Brigham City to St. George.
One big reason for the change is apparently gas prices. The higher the gas prices, officials say, the less Utahns go on big trips to fish. They hope the transplanted fish will help people fish closer to home.
"I think as the gas prices and other prices go up, people choose to do things less expensive and closer to home," Cushing says.
The extra 40,000 fish will be placed into the following ponds:
Northern Utah - Brigham City * Pioneer Park Pond
- Ogden * Glassman's Pond
- Roy * Meadow Creek
- Clearfield * Maybey Pond
- Clinton * Clinton Pond
- Kaysville * Kaysville Pond
- Bountiful * Bountiful Pond Salt Lake Valley
- Murray * Willow Pond
- South Jordan * Kidney Pond
- South Jordan * Midas Pond Utah County
- Highland * Highland Glenn Pond
- Spanish Fork * Spanish Fork Pond
- Spanish Fork * Spanish Oaks Pond (kid's only pond)
- Salem * Salem Pond St. George
- St. George * Skyline Pond
- St. George * Tawa Pond
