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More originals

S PROMISED last week, here are
some more Skeena originals flies,
Lakelse Locomotive (Dan Gled-
hill). Hook: Up eyed salmon, size
4, Tail: Fibres from a gray owl, Body: pale yel-
low wool yarn, Rib: Gold tinsel. Hackle: same
as tail. Wing: Raccoon fur,

I lost contact with Dan in the Jate seventies.
Originally he moved north to ride shotgun on a
group home, a job guaranteed to make mush of
the human nervous system. In Dan's case taking
care of those wayward adolescents sorely taxed
his marriage.

After his marital relations blew apart, Dan
was left with a stuffed owl, a raccoon pelt, his
fishing rod, a multipatched pair of Miner chest
waders, and his welding tools, Using what he
had on hand, he crafted what became his
favourite steelhead pattern then took to the
Stream to salve his wounds.

Dynamite Stick (Anonymous), Hook: Eagle
Claw 1197 B or equivalent. Thread: Red, Tail
Magenta cock hackle, Body: Magenta wool.

- Rib: Gold oval tinsel. Hackle: Magenta. Wing:
Red Fox squirrel! tail or brown buck tail,

I was given this pattern by an enthusiastic
angler when I first began fishing Skeena steel-
head, The young man proudly stated that his un-
cle, whose name I promptly forgot, invented the
fy. Hiked the name,

Shirley's Fancy (Roy Chapplow). Hook: Up

eyed salmon style...A four is. fine, Thread: .

Black, regular strength. Tail: Kingfisher blue
cock hackle. Body: Silver sparkle chenille,
Hackle: The same stuff as the tail. Wing: Dark
blue over green calf tail with a topping peacock
sword.

Shirley Culp, smitten with the attractive
materials that make up this dressing, asked Roy
Chapplow, one of the few fly dressers in Ter-
race two decades ago, to make a fly from them,
Shirley’s Fancy was the result,

At that time the Culps ran a small tackle shop
on Highway 16, two minutes away from the
Copper River. Shirley’s husband, Jim, decided
the fly, despite its Yule tide aura, deserved a tri-
al. For the field test Jim chose his favourite
river, the Clore. On a day, late in November, a
number of feisty litle Clore fish chase Shirley’s
fancy fy in preference to Pete Broomhall’s
darker patterns.

Pynk Dynk (Doug Webb), Hook: Size four 2x
long. Thread: Red. Tail: Hot pink hackle. Body:
Hot pink wool yarn, Hackle: Hot pink. Wing:
Bleached polar bear or white calf iail,

Doug Webb’s colour blindness has Jed to
some lurid patterns over the years. a typical
snippet of streamside conversation between us
might sound like this: Doug: ‘What do think of
this orange pattern I just tied up?’ Me: “Uh,
Doug, it's green,”

Riffle Cricket (Rob Brown). Hook: Light wire
ring eyed. Thread: Kevlar. Tail: Black bear,
Body: Closed cell foam inside dubbed hare fur
dyed black. Hackle: Grizzly or black, palmered.

Old sea dog, Pete Soverel, showed up here
with strange flies attached to hat and vest, I
bummed one from him and discovered they
were simply unadomed bits of foam he'd lashed
to a hook with some kind of navy knot, Even
though Pete assured me these lures took fish, I
had to dress them up into something resembling
a fly. To this end, I gave his gift a fur coat and
Spun a feather around it. Naturally, I had to
build some of my own foam bugs. Tying the
foam on the hook proved difficult. After many
less than happy experiments [ came across a
spool of thin, gray wool yarn spun around a
Kevlar core. If you secure the foam at three
places with this hairy thread, leaving two dis-
tinct humps in the process, the body won't turn
and much of the floatation is preserved, Leaving
 # cowl of foam at the front of the fly is critical
to the skating motion, As Pete promised, the fly
floats like a battle ship; it’s the flagship in my
. armada of floating flies for summer stcelhead,

Ferry Island Fancy (Ed Chapplow), Hook:
Eagle Claw size six, Tail: Blue ‘Krystal Flash’,
Body: Silver Mylar. Wing: See tail. Head: Pink
Chenille.

Ed Chapplow’s recipe for sockeye, Since he
invented it, the local tackle shops have dif-
ficulty keeping Ed’s fly in stock,

Float Chaser (Mike Whelpicy). Hook: Sal-
mon light wire, ia a 6 or 4. Thread: Black. Tail:
A generous bundle of deer hair, Body: Hot
orange Wool or glow yarn, Hackle: Hot orange.
Mike Whelpiey created this hot version of
Harry Lemire’s Greased Liner and named it for
those aggressive and perplexing winter steel-
Ahead that will ignore a gob of eggs and attempt
to swallow a balsa wood float, With it he caught
Some late winter fish, no small achievement,

THE TERRACE schools track
and field team is still a relative
new kid on the block, but its
members are wasting no time
making their presence be felt,

Shaun Cross is the leading
example, his trip to the High
School provincials resulting in
a silver in the triple jump,
bronze in the long jump and
qualifying ta compete at the
Candians Junior
championships,

“A great result,’’ . coach
Dave O’Brien enthused, “‘It
shows local athletes can be
competitive provincially.’”

He noted the performance
followed a season of steady
improvement for Cross, one in
which the Caledonia student
increased his personal best
distances despite nagging in-
jury problems,

Three more Terrace athletes
will get a chance to show their
stuff before a wider audience
next month — at the July 27-

Just like the good old

STUNG BY reports they were
a fading dynasty, the Terrace
Northmen bounced back with
a vengeance in North Coast
Rugby Union action on the
May 27-28 weekend.

Having warmed up with a
51-0 obliteration of Prince
Rupert Saturday evening, the
Northmen were ready to dish
out more of the same Sunday
afternoon. | .

And they had to if they were
to save the season. Opponents
Smithers Camels were 4-0
going into the game and an-
other victory over Terrace
would have sown up the
league championship.

Perhaps it was over-
confidence stemming from the
drubbing they had handed the
Terrace team last time they
met, but Northman David Hull
admitted ‘‘The Camels didn’t
seem to have the intensity this
time.”’

Terrace had it in spades.

Smithers managed to mount
some early pressure but the
Northmen held them off the
scoreboard.

And when Dean Jobnston, a
newcomer from ‘Vancouver,
went over for Terrace’s open-
ing try, the floodgates opened,

A second try by Johnston,
one from Ben Soucie and a
drop goal by Willie McCleary
had the Northmen up by an
unanswered 17 at the half.

It didn’t get any better for
the Camels in the second.
Using strong lateral movement
of the ball and quick reversals

of flow, the Northmen’s of- -

fence was
cylinders.
The forwards were equally
overwhelming, winning most
Scruins and overpowering their
opponents in the loose,

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firing on all

30 B.C. Summer Games in
Penticton.

Between them, the trio of
Heather Kelly, Cody Kepke
and Vincent Gair secured
berths in no fewer than 11
events at a special qualifying
meet held in Smithers.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 7, 1995 - C1

zone’s 4 x 400m relay team.

O’Brien predicts great things
for Kelly in the years to come.
“She is talented, dedicated,
eager to learn and pleasant to
coach,”’ he said, adding her
confidence builds further with
each success,

And O'Brien's quite serious when he suggesis
Kelly has the potential to one day wear
Canada’s colours in international competitions.

In fact, Kelly proved over-
qualified. O’Brien explained
Games rules restrict competi-
tors to three individual events
and one relay. Kelly went over
the top so had to pare down
her events to meet the limits,

She’ll be tackling the 80m
hurdles, 400m and triple jump
as well as joining two
Smithers and one Prince
Rupert girl on the northwest

If she continues to tain well,
he anticipated those successes
would keep coming as she
moves up the competitive lad-
der, And he’s quite serious
when he suggests she has the
potential to one day wear Can-
ada’s colours in international
competitions.

Gair and Kepke will go
head-to-head in the 800m at
the Games, having finished

WITH CAMELS closing in, Willie McCleary pre
the Northmen unleash another attack on the be

MALCOLM. BAXTE

SECTION C

Cross shows the way

one-two at the qualifier meet
and will make up half the 4 x
400m relay squad.

Gair also emerged as the
zone’s best in the 1500m and
3000m while Kepke outleapt
the competition in the long
jump.

A Thornhill Jr. student, Gair
came to the team late in the
Season so had little training
under his belt before the meet,
O’Brien anticipated —_ Gair
would show further improve-
ment in Penticton.

He’s also hoping Gair’s suc-
cess will persuade more
Thornhill Irs. to join the team
next season.

Kepke, a Skeena Junior, did
not train with the team at all.
this season, — something
O'Brien says he now regrets
because he feels it would have
allowed him to do even better,

In which case, he’s another
strong prospect for next sea-
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the sidelines as

And it was scrum power that
delivered the first try of the
second half, With the ball put
in on the Camels’ five metre
line, the Northmen pack drove
over leaving scrum half
George DaCosta with what he
described as ‘‘the easiest try
I’ve ever had’’.

Soon after winger Johnny
McGowan hit the after burners

WHILE THERE was a lot of
personal satisfaction from her

: victory at the May 28 Bench

Press competition held here,
Kathy Corbett hopes the result
will also send a message.

That being diabetic needn’t
stop you doing things, “Most
people didn’t realize I was still
in training because of the
diabetes,’” she said.

The result, she added,
showed “‘you can go on with
life and even be a winner,’’

With a points system that
divided the weight pressed by
the competitor’s body weight,
Corbett’s lift of 145lbs, earned
her a score of 1.1.

for another major, Graham
Bayles fought his way through
for a third and McCleary’s
boot took care of the rest of
the scoring with two penalties
and two converts,

When the whistle finally put
the Camels out of their misery,
the scoreline read 42-0.

In the Rupert rout, Kevin
Oates, DaCosta, Bayles and

That was enough to edge out
Barb Spasiak for the women’s
title by one tenth, Vikkd
McKay taking third with 0.87
points,

Noting the event was her
first power lifting competition,
Corbett enjoyed the experi-
ence, “It felt good to win,’’
she said, particularly since she
had to battle a nagging injury
to do so,

She also complimented the
performance of her opponents,
pointing out they had only
been training for a short time

" prior to the event. .

On the men’s side, Rob Long

pressed the most weight at.

Ernie Dusdal each picked up a
try as the Northmen shared the
scoring honours.

The second stanza’ saw
rookie Kevin Letawski
celebrate his first ever try,
other majors coming from
Steve Climie — new to Ter-
race but not rugby —
McCleary and Russ Sangster,

425lbs., 80lbs. better than —
Emie Milhomens. However,

the much lighter Milhomens —

comfortably won the event on -
points, 2.2 to 1.9 with Mike

Kwan of Smithers a close

third, _
Corbett said the only. dis-
appointment of the event had -
been the Jow tumout ~— three
women and five men — and

hoped for a bigger turnout

next time. .
Organizer Joe Cordeiro con-
firmed he intended to make

this an. annual . competition,

Anyone interested in learning.

more about the sport can con-

tact Cordeiro at 635-9690. =

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