[Pete]

For Immediate Release Thursday, August 28, 2002

No catch limits at Thief Valley Reservoir

LA GRANDE - Plans to drain Thief Valley Reservoir prompted the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to remove daily catch limits at Thief Valley Reservoir in the Southeast Oregon fishing zone.

The Lower Powder River Irrigation District recently announced that the reservoir will be drained by Sept. 1, 2003. As a result, remaining legal and trophy-sized rainbow trout stocked in the reservoir this spring will become trapped and stressed in isolated pools of warm and many will die. To allow these fish to be taken by anglers, the following temporary rule changes have been made at Thief Valley Reservoir located in the SE Zone:

Effective Aug. 25 - Sept. 30, 2003, the temporary rules are:
Thief Valley Reservoir is open to angling for all game species with the following conditions: (a) No daily catch or possession limits. (b) Harvest allowed by hand, dip net or angling.

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Information and Education Division
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
(503) 947-6002

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Contact: Anne Pressentin Young (503) 947-6020
Internet: www.dfw.state.or.us Fax: (503) 947-6009

 

[Bounty Hunter]

:shocked:

 

[Abalone]

Can we use dynamite ?
That's a neat place " If you can find it "

 

[skein]

And I'm going to be over there this weekend - but we're packing in to a high lake up in the Elkhorns so I won't be bothering those big boys in Thief Valley. It's a neat place though, if you like high desert type scenery.

Skein

 

[Mad Mikey]

Also a good place to get a truck stuck in a bad way..... :shocked: :grin: