s ome | Despite the many obstacles we throw in front of them, salmon still shoulder their way up the Skeena and ‘enter its’ tributaries in respectable numbers, At journey's end, they dig vigorously as oppor- tunistic trout line up behind them ready to inhale the single eggs freed by frantic Spawners. . The spawn varles in size and colour, “depending” on the species Of fish from which it tomes, A ball of hot orange chenille tightly wrapped ahead oF short tinsel body then fronted by two turns of white hackle, makes a very effective imitation when dressed on a size eight hook and fistied on a fast sinking line in a manner sug- ~ gesting an egg being swept along the bottom at the mercies of the current, “Form follows function,” maintained the doyen of modern sef American Architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, and this small fraudulent egg, its com- pact- body fashioned from a minimum of material in order that it might sink like a pebble, underscores the validity of that dictum. ; Most. of ‘the salmon roe re- mains in the gravel to ripen over the winter. Ultimately it pro- “vides the flyfisherman with even better opportunities to contact trout. ‘The bands of greening alder on the. hillsides and the pungent aroma’ of cottonwood are a reliable sign considerable stirr- ing has begun in the gravels of the river bottom, Alevins — delicate, -bug-eyed creatures, half egg and half fish ~ will be struggling free ofthe substrate and, if they’re unlucky, into the | maws of hungry trout, | When the immature salmon co ul salmon- | The Skeena have reached this stage, the angler is wise to knot an “Ege’n’l’’ to: his leader. Designed -by pioneer B.C. flyfisherman Tommy Brayshaw, this’ clever pattern, dressed with a tuft of wool at its throat in order to give the im- pression of the partially absorb- ed egg sac that fuels these fragile creatures. and a silver tinsel body under a sparse mallard wing to suggest the moitled appearance most small fish have, is the only aleyin pat- tern I know, but it’s hard to im- _ agine a better one. Constructed: on 4 size eight standard wire salmon hook and fished along the bottom in the seme manner as the single egg, Brayshaw’s Pattern acts like an alevin still. weighed down by its ponderous sac, unable to muster the min- nowlike agility it will display as a fry. re Ah fry, what wonderfully. easy and exciting fishing they Provide the trouter! Having matured. beyond the’ .alevin stage, the tiny -fishes assume grace, brilliance and agility, but, not ‘enough agility to out- manoeuvre the torpedo-like cut- throats lurking ‘in ambush’ behind boulders, in weeds, under logs and in depressions, There are as many kinds of . - fry as there are fish, but the most abundant are the progeny . of the pink salmon, The pink’s strategy for biological success is abundance. — as anyone who has fished the mainstem Skeena in the summer months knows. - Young pinks spend. very little time in their natal rivers prefer- Ting instead to run in shimmer- ing waves to estuaries. Unfor- tunately for them, their mirror ’ like flanks flash when the light strikes them at certain angles, and it is this flash that alerts the Predacious trout to’ their presence, a Roderick Haig-Brown, whose books are a mandatory read for any aspiring flyfisherman, - _ other : Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 31, 1990 — Page BS pawned flies studied fry over many seasons, His imitation of juvenile pinks: has a wing of dyed green and: blue polar bear topped by the iridescent fibres of peacock sword set over a silver body . with light blue hackle. at its throat. It is a superb - fiy, -especially when fished down and across the stream with gen- tle manipulations of the rod tip as Haig-Brown directed. Pink fry swim near the sur- face so a lean dressing knotted to an elegant, size six, low-water salmon hook then fished at the end of a nine-foot leader and a double tapered floating line is the proper technique, As spring approaches, I will touch upon the mysteries of important salmon juveniles for, in Skeena, the complete flyfisherman must be a proficient fryfisherman, -SPORTSCOPE- All-star Kermode TERRACE — Caledonia’s Jackie Brown earned all-star honours at the Britannia senior boys basketball tour- nament in Vancouver two JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 TERRACE STANDARD TON A Tis HIGH-PITCHED whine of the wheels and rollers meshing wavers as local bike racer Mike Christensen begins to count. “Five, four, three, two, one .. .”! We have ignition, We have liftoff, success : bats to a a veaPi The scream of the wheels leaps a few more oc- taves and the speedometer on Christenseri’s bike nudges 90 kilometres per hour. The competitive bike racer is now pedalling like a man possessed, TERRACE — Twelve-year-old Cory Holland did it again. Swimming with the B,C, team, Holland swam weekends ago. Brown hooped 24 points to “7. | boost the Kermode boys toa ee ee * bet adh atta add akan Hot, Rae S p a ; — aus \ Darren Bell said. Jeff. Dilley, the Terrace ‘edgy ‘start. “He didn’t loosen and training camps, ; —_ ; : - ama fast times to capture three gold and two silver | 72-61 win over Kitsilano and But wait! He is not alone. Coming from the medals in a dual California-B.C, meet in Van- ' fourth place overall, The opposite direction and also at full sprint is couver. ; consolation game also saw | Wheelchair recer Paul Clark, boos He crowned the medal winnings by taking the { Frank Genaille score 16. No, they’re not playing chicken — they ve just high-point aggregate in his 11- and 12-year-old The game came after a brought their road-racing indoors for the winter, : boys age group. ono ae : = lark’s garage, where they -set up their : é Ry ae Nts ( ~ § harrow 51-50 loss#to: Magee | . to cl mg gar -_ ao . Holland placed first-in the. 50-metre freestyle, 1m : a machines on’ mechanical rollers,:: < mo ae a bein? Pee eb h: } = that sent Caledonia to the “Chri ; . : 100-metre freestyle, and 200-metre freestylé, He } s : ne ristensen’s apparatus is made up of a pair , r | B-side, Paul Manhas led Ker- of rollers for the back wheel and a single one for was second in the 50- and 100-metre | [ mode scoring in that game, the front connected by pulleys. Clark's is a breaststroke, and sixth in the 100-metre “ . with 17, wheelchair version originally designed for Rick backstroke. . ~ } Magee went on to capture Hansen made of a single pair of rollers. Coach Shelley Morgan said he anchored the t the tournament champion- There’s only the resistance of the tires on the provincial team’s 4x50-metre freestyle relay, do- H ship with a 69-61 victory over rollers and the bearings,’? Christensen explains. ing a fantastic split of 26.9 seconds, Pitt Meadows. The reduced friction means he can hit the Morgan attributed the ream performance — a equivalent of unthinkable speeds for a bicycle — loss to the Californians by only 40 points com- na Bantams up to 100 kilometres per hour. pared to last years 200 — to the huge improve- 4 . But since he’s on his bike and the wheels ac- ment in B.C. swimming over the past year. f take fi rst tually turn against the rollers it's not necessarily ' bos safe like an exercise bike — he can wipe out. Lad poe Terrace’s Kenworth ban- “I haven’t crashed lately,” he says. “It’s Ath letes re ad “5 : tam reps beat Kitimat 5-3 in] usually at the beginning of the year when I’m still ' the final to capture gold at a} weaving all over the place.” TERRACE — Nearly 40 local athletes are |} hockey tournament in His more than an hour-long workout takes travelling to the Peace River area for the Nor-| | Smithers. ; him the equivalent of 45 kilometres today, minus therm B.C. Winter Games this weekend. ' The seven-team Smithers the potholes, slush and ice on the Toads. ; The games are being held in Tumbler Ridge, | | x | Bantam. Rep Tournament The resistance on Clark’s rollers is stiffer. Chetwynd and Hudson’s Hope Feb. 2-4, “ [ was held Jan. 20-21 and saw “It's like poing into the rind, he says. “‘Mike’s Terrace’s individual athletes at the games | “ [the ‘Terrace and Kitimat] is more like going wit the wind.” , . . i. L_. [teams rise to the top to duel “Our sports are 80 similar. — in tactics, in Nica olson, bine ewan country; Peter J f° [for first, Kitimat settled for] ©auipment, everything, Christensen says, “And Team athletes are: junior girls basketball — | 77 ; ilver and Houston placed} | want to make it to the national team, and he ‘ , : Silver a Pp. wants to break the world record aeain,”” Catherine Mlingsworth, Nelia Furtado, Mar- | | third. seal H : ay aIoR : a sha Postuk, Lisa Van Hulle, Natalie Michaud, { _ Chris Wilkinson led the Tes oe a Leah Wilson, Jackie Palmu, Robyn Sharples, Terrace goal-scoring in the Negalo Beausotell, Vicki Correia, Kari Wold, | | tournament, with six goals | | Erica Jennings and Terry Zilkes junior mixed , y yand three assists. Chad “curling — Ray Lang, Sandra Lopston, Sherry | | , ¢- | Wilson netted four goals and wi Fisher, and Patrick Link; junior boys soccer |} be : contribute five neve dron : a on ’ ; se — Ben Hovencamp, James Farlardeau, Jason a = erace’s Jaso. ’ Dvorak, Kim Miller, Jason Batjer, Randy |}. : Mark. De Jong, and Shane JUST ROLLING, Paul Clark (left) and Mike Christensen (above) Bains, Joe Cactung Wilfred Higsteon Suh ‘ : Bourgoin. each scored two keep in shape in shape through the winter months by wheeling and Dhillon, David Broek and Terry Creed; gym- ' i goals and several assists, cycling — on mechanical rollers. Christensen is moving to Van- nastics — Lorraine Phillips, Maria Mateus, | while Dawson Kella scored couver this spring to train and race with provincial-catibre racers. # Kirsten Holkestad, Jennifer Neves, Heather ; | one goal and four assists, . Clark is making a strong return to wheelchair racing after back trou- Albright, Charlotte Jordan, Alina Owens and | ! te In the Terrace net, goalie hast ble in 1989 forced him to cut the season short in order to have Trina Mateus. ‘ ! s- [Curtis Bretherick held the Ae Ht surgery, { } ™. fcollective opposition to a —ee — a ; : L.. [phenomenal 1.95 goals- 2 a j ~ |"alknative: | liver Gioves t = ._ . - : | |. All-native OX =. rs Wi Nn : \ ot . ' | |. tourney | - . Sees 3 [amet seve Golds for Bell, Losier fii ' [Centre will be fielding a Ter- ; 7 8 race team A eal TERRACE — It was their first boxers* coach. up until the third round — and ! Me beginning in Prince Rupert major provincial boxing tourna- A fast-paced first round saw that's where he won it,” he - a weet week ; . ment, and Terrace’s Darren Bell Losier jinish ith a Avent edge said, ‘ \ Z _ + aye and Joey Losier puton aperfor- over Plant. Then the Terrace Aft i h ‘ Z (|. The Feb. 5-10 event is ex mance that could be a sign of fighter came out smoking in the the net ro roeeiting th sulted ' pected to draw at least 26 things to come. ~ second round, catching the ' rae te caanh : eams from across B.C. and ing : Lo » oe ahead in scoring to secure the : . , [teams from & Cranbrook boxer with a com- win ith a left jab in the third : j fAlaska. Other area com- The local fighters both won bination ending in a hard left | tt Jab in the third. : % Pmunities sending teams are iheit fights to claim gold metials hook. Plant couldn't recover. . If the pair come out on top : = [Canyon City, Greenville, th their al eulver Gil es boxi at after a standing eight-count, again at the Feb, 14-15 B.C. ! _-[Alyansh and Kincolith. rhe annual Silver ‘lend oxng and the referee stopped the Winter Games, Dilley said, they <<" 1 CBC sportscasters Brian, soummament (WO Weekends ABO. ohe could be eligible for the Jr. 7 o [Dance and Jim Ciccone will Losier opened the tourna- Bell, a 125-pound novice Golden Gloves tournament this ~. fbroadcast five the in- ment with a bout against Cran- fighter, fought to .a'. split- . spring, and a shot at gaining ‘w° {termediate and senior finals brook’s Ryan Plant and quickly decision win ini his bout against provincially carded athlete ips [of the tournament ‘on.CBC retired his. opponent with a David Schuck of. Vancouver's status. Carded status would [Radio Feb, 10 at 5 p.m, TKO, “He just went right out Astoria Boxing ‘Club, Dilley ‘cover. their. travelling expenses = wor . there'and got the job-done,” said Bell got off to a nervous, to provincial tournaments Joey Losier