_ Wranglers
golden
oldies

As All Seasons celebrated last
week’s recreational division
playoff victory, Skeena Hotel

was left wondering what went-

wrong.

Although fifth in the regular
league, Skeena caught fire in the
playoff round robin, dropping

the division champ Precision

Builders twice on the way to a

- perfect 4-0 record.

’.” Meanwhile, in Pool B, All
Seasons had snuck into the final
on goal difference after that

“group's: teams finished in a

_ three- “way point tie. :

“In the Tinal, however, ‘All

woe Seasons’ extinguished their op-

~~ ponent’s title hopes as they

“erupted for six unanswered

; goals to bury Skeena 8-2,
“Mario Desjardins and Alex

~ Gordon led the assault with hat-
tricks while Lyle Marleau pick-
ed up three assists. Ian Alger

- and Bruce Cameron combined
for both Skeena goals, scoring
one each.

In the Oldtimers final, goals
were hard to come by and im-
possible if wearing a Northern
Motor Inn Okies sweater.

-Riverside Auto Wrangler net-
minder Rocky Boisvert threw
up an impenetrable wall across
the goal mouth to lead his team
to victory.

However, the win wasn’t as
easy as the 3-0 scoreline made it
look. The Wranglers were cling-

_ ing to-a single goal lead until
late in the game when an in-
surance goal with two minutes
to go iced the contest, An

. empty-netter accounted for the

’ final marker.

‘The final was the rubber
match for the two teams who
had split their two round-robin
games. ,

Skeena goalie Woody Miller just
ifails to stop. Mario - -Desjardins

(10) net one of his three goals:

on the night. On the doorstep
for any rebound is Lyle Marleau
(17) while Skeena players Rolfe
McCooey (7) and Larry Nord-
strom can only watch. The
power play goal was All
Season's fifth of the game and
tempers frayed as they went on
to rout Skeena 8-2 rout. At right,
referees Frank Van Ness and
Brent Anders intervene in a con-
frontation that saw Rick Clark,
extreme right, ejected fram the
game.

For results of concluding
round robin games and final
standings, see Scoreboard on
page C2,

A DESPERATE DIVE: (above) by :

All Seasons all powerful

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 7, 1991 ~ Page Ct

Young and
ruthless |

Terrace Blueback’s top swim-
mers again turned in impressive
performances during a recent
meet in Petersburg, Alaska, but
coach Bill Nash says the show-
ing of the club’s novices was the
highlight of the weekend.

Julie Vanderlee recorded per-
sonal best times in nine of the 10
events she entered while Patrick
Levesque set new standrads for
himself in eight.

Nash was also impressed by
the showing of a pair of eight-
year-olds, Amanda Hunter and
Michael Jensen. While neither
picked up a win, he pointed ont
each recorded top five finishes
in half a dozen events.

Spearheading the Blueback
attack at the seven-team meet
were Aimee Peacock, Corey
Holland and ‘Tina Holland,
each powering to six victories.

David Vanderlee, Tori
MacKenzie, Denise Vanderlee
and Vince Gair notched a cou-
ple of first place finishes apiece
while Jason Kumpolt, Jennifer
Vanderlee, Audrey Erb, Stacey
Clark and B.J. Erb maintained
the team's momentum with
strong swims.

The meet was won by the host
Petersburg Vikings (901 pts.)
while fellow Alaskans the
Baranof Barracudas (730) just
edged out the Bluebacks (700)
for the runner-up spot.

However, Nash pointed out
the Terrace team did not arrive
in time to compete on the Fri-
day evening. '‘Had we swam on
Friday night, I’ m certain we
would have won,”

But missing those early races

didn’t stop the girls triumphing «

Alley experts:

on their side by § a comfortable
430-373 margin over the Vik-
ings.

Describing the meet’ BS a
“team building experience’,
Nash said it gave the younger
swimmers a-chance: to rub
shoulders with their more ac-
complished teammiates and
watch how they handled their
pre-race preparation.

Given the results achieved in
Petersburg, he now: expected
‘some really amazing swims
out of these kids'’ when ‘the
Bluebacks host this weekend’s
Sprint into Spring meet.

A regional meet, the Sprint
will draw swimmers from
Masset, Smithers, Prince

“Had we swam on Fri-
day nighi, I’m certain we
would have won.”
Nash.

Rupert, Kitimat with a total of
150 competitors expected to
take part.

Strokes:

Stacey Clark and B, J. Erb’s’
strong performances at
Petersburg came hard on. the
heels of high-point trophy wins
in n Masset the previous.
weekend where they finished
third in the 10-under age group.

The 12 ft. seas encountered
by the Bluebacks on their ferry

tide to Alaska failed to throw

Shannon Kumpolt, ‘‘the most.
amazing chaperone Ive ever
. had,” according to Nash. ‘She:
made the trip for us”.

head for open |

Terrace bowlers head for
Mackenzie this weekend look-
ing to mine some medals at the
Northwest Open.

Men’s team for the April 3-5
event will be Larry Lopushin-
sky, Greg Saunders, Leif
Thomsen, Randy Durand, Glen
Brink and John Rass.
Lopushinsky, Saunders and
Thomsen will also bowl in the
men’s singles.

On the ladies’ side, Sherry
Lopushinsky, Diane Francis,
Cecile Boehm, Dianne Camp-
bell, Darlene Frank and Lori
Roberts make up the team with
Lopushinsky, Francis and
Boehm also vying for the singles
litle.

The mixed team will be Don
Collison, John Rasmussen,

‘Dennis Ward, Dave Wiebe,

Monica Peacock, Marlene
Thornton and Debbie Mid-

‘dleton,

In the ladies singles, Boehm
will be seeking to repeat her
gold medal performance last

year when Houston hosted the’
open. Terrace are also defen--
ding champs in the ladies team
and aggregate categories.

More than 160 bowlers will be
taking part in the event with,
competitors from Kitimat,:
Smithers, Houston, Prince
George and Mackenzie going up
against the Terrace aces.

Next year it will be the Ter-.
race Lanes turn to host-the Nor-
thwest Open.

Extra pins

The 400 mark has been
broken three times in league.
play at the local. lanes this.
season. Larry Lopushinsky has
bowled a 411 and a 401 while
John Wiebanga also has a 401
to his credit. oo

Bowlers. are reminded
registration. is mow under way
for the Spring leagues. It pro-
bably won't take long to fill the
sheets, so early sign up is recom-
mended,

Ever since an alderman
with strong sympathies for
the commercial fishing in-
dustry made his nonsensical
motion urging Prince Rupert
council to have Skeena sport-
sfishermen who practise
catch-and-release in-
vestigated by the SPCA, we
have heard. similar sen-
timents from native. gillnet-
ters and seen a number of let-
ters to the Terrace papers be-
moaning ‘the devastating ef-
fects of -hook .and release
upon steelhead populations. *

When commercial
fishermen, native or. other-
wise, and their supporters
start criticizing. sport
fishermen for

workers in a slaughter house
chastising - rodeo contestants
for roping calves.
Cateh-and-release is a
practice sportsmen have em-

the plight

Catch

harming ~
steelhead stocks it’s akin to..

braced out of ‘sensitivity to:
‘of ‘Skeena,
steelhead and “Sport” fish:

-and-release critics wide of

everywhere. Despite what
some apologists for the com-
mercial fishing industry
would have us believe, the
resultant mortality is almost
nil.

During the implementa-
tion phase of the hatchery
program there, Environment
ministry personnel on. Van-
couver. Island fished - for
steelhead broodstock using
bait and a barbless hook.

- The mortality rate” was
about three per cent. and, of
the fish caught and then
transported to hatcheries, 99
per cent survived.

A tagging program .con-—
ducted by the: Steelhead
‘Society to. determine”: the ~
habits of Copper. - River
steelhead provided ' further
teslimony to the durability of
steelhead. -

After capturing close to 50
steelhead one cold November
day arid implanting lx. inch :
long fadio: transmitters. :in

“number of

half a dozen of them, ‘we pron

The Skeena
Angler

by Rob Brown

wled the beaches of the Cop-
per on an almost daily basis
for six months.”

We saw no dead steelhead
on the bank, recaptured a
“fish. and
monitored our radio- packing

steelhead - until the last one
-_ spawied ‘and left the river in
e vearly June.

Dame Juliana Berners, the

“fly-fishing nun, grabbed her
“quill and penned these words .

in-1496: ‘Be. nol. too. greedy

in catching: your. said game;

as.;.taking- tao: much could
easily.“ be the occasion:;.of
destroying. your. own -sport

and other men’ 8 s.also." a

This sentiment is echoed
many times in the annals of
fly fishing literature. In 1939,
Lee Wulff extended the idea
when he wrote: ‘“‘Game fish
are 100 valuable to be.caught
only once: The fish ~ you
release is your gift to another
angler and, remember, it
may have- been someone's

-~ similar gift to-you."?-

Catch-and-release is an ex-
ample of enlightened self in-
terest practised by sportsmen
doing their part to ensure

fish continue to’ be a -

renewable. resource.
Sure,

. there. are the
a mongrels who. drag fi fi sh over’.

rocks or drop kick them into
the river upon discovering
they have caught a fish under
restriction. But those men
are not anglers and they are
not voluntarily practising
catch and-release,

- Practitioners of-the release
*em alive ethic use barbless
hooks enabling them to
release small fish with a gen-
tle wiggle of the rod tip or,
failing that, a twist of the
hook.

Veteran releasers use gear
that limits the playing of a
fish to the shortest time
possible and are careful to
revive a fish suffering fatigue
by gently moving it back and
forth in the current...

‘Those who. excoriate
anglers for playing with their
food. simply do not. unders-
tand that angling is not food
fishing {though anglers do,
on occasion, kill and cat a
fish), Sbut--a. participatory
sport with artistic and scien-
tific ramifications. wo :

mark

And, for the faint of heart —
whose delicate. sensibilities
are sorely offended by the
cruelty involved in bringing a
fish to hand on the end of-a |
barbless hook; let . them
ponder the word cruel and
appreciate there are degrees.

Tearing up fish habitat: is...
cruel.

If we are to eat fish we
must catch them, still,
asphyxiating them in a gill:
net or crushing them at the
bottom of a seine bag before
spilling them out on the deck
of a boat is cruel.

Gaffing a fish at the bot-
tom of a falls is cruel:

‘Fishing stocks to the verge
of, and sometimes over the
edge of extinction is real
cruelty,

And who do you find in-
volyed in and very often at
the vanguatd of campaigns
to limit or. bring. an end to
that kind of eruelty7)° |

That's right, anglers. ,

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