Evening Hole gets a face-lift
Trout fishing
Deeper pools, swifter water and a new Lost Creek

Lost Creek is Oklahoma’s newest trout stream. State wildlife officials excavated an old overflow channel, and dubbed the new stream, Lost Creek, which connects Cold Hole on the Lower Mountain Fork River with the area know as Evening Hole. BY ED GODFREY, THE OKLAHOMAN

•In November, the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission passed emergency rules to establish special trout fishing regulations at Evening Hole and Lost Creek

• Anglers may use only artificial lures with barbless hooks and may keep only one rainbow trout and one brown trout 20 inches or longer per day

• The state Wildlife Department proposes to make the emergency rules permanent next year. The new fishing regulations are to be discussed at next month's public hearings across the state on proposed 2007 hunting and fishing rules.

• The same fishing restriction is being proposed for a half-mile of the Lower Illinois River Public Fishing and Hunting Area near Gore and the final quarter-mile on the northern end of the Blue River Public Hunting and Fishing Area for the first four months of the winter trout season.

By Ed Godfrey