GARDEN CITY, Utah — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has restocked rainbow trout in Bear Lake for the first time in about 25 years.
Wildlife officials released about 5,000 of the fish into the lake last week near the Bear Lake State Park Marina. They hope to create fishing opportunities for people who plan to fish from the shore this summer.
It has been hard to catch fish from Bear Lake’s shore during summers because the native cutthroat trout population moves to deeper waters as it warms up, said DWR fisheries biologist Scott Tolentino.
But he said rainbow trout will stay close to shore.
“It’s a good spot for the public to come out here and fish,” Tolentino said. “We were lucky to get the fish this year.”
Wildlife officials had stopped stocking rainbow trout in the 1980s because they were concerned the fish were crossbreeding with Bear Lake Bonneville cutthroat trout, Tolentino said. The Herald Journal
