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“Finlay just eturned from:
“, Scotland ‘with an armload of
British: angling: magazines ‘and:
all manner of intriguing fishing

paraphernalia. He took his
flyrod, naturally, for the rivers

of Scotland — the Spey, the Tay’

and ihe Dee; to name but three

— ‘are “famous ‘worldwide’ for ©
; their. Atlantic salmon fisheries. °

FAs it turned ‘out, Fin could

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have « Spared < himself: the -.in-.,

convenience of “carting ‘a rod’

tube to Great Britain and back.’
Avticket for. a day’ on the river”
thes 1 wallet’ Of ‘flies’ anda Spool of
ie monofilamen oe
2 Etold:him. ‘how. nice it was to
& ause the'lightest of my steelhead:
| rods again,-and how nice it: was.
“to be able to follow the path of
the floating line over Promising,

cient. a reyeyards. “rollowing

branches of the Ferguson Fami-
ly: Tree, .a night at a London
‘musical and.a glimpse of Her
Majesty (a. perfunctory but kind

wave through the back win-

‘d wn of the Royal Limo, says

TERRACE — The King of the
Mountain footrace. was more of

a coronation than a contest last —
week for’ acconiplished | moun-

tain monarch Richard: “Har.
rison..

* The Smithers r runner. _— - who ;

holds the :course..record of 35
inutes and 29 seconds - — won
he ‘annual. race up. and over. the
Terrace: Mountain; .nature trail
for the seventh time July 28.
He. :didn’t: crack. his) own
lecord but his time of 37:30
was good ‘eiiough for’ a two-
minute: -victory.. “over. longtime
mountain’ race rival Colin Parr.
The. Terrace: runner‘crossed the
finish. lin second with a time of

“It was a a litle bit slippery, "
Harrison said: of the rain-
softened course,: pointing to his
mud-caked shin...

“! run - hills all the time.
around Smithers;"
like them -—' Iseem to be well
adapted to them.”?

Parr, a lwo-lime.tace winner, :
said he lost sight of Harrison on:

the first steep. -pitch: up the’
‘mountain “from’the: end of ;,

Halliwell, and from: there Har-
rison nevér'looked back.
ie felt horrible,” Parr ‘said.
“1 was:

eae aces ‘slopes aren't

ly natura “hazards on: the trail, :

“FERRACE — Terrace’s
junior. men's fastball. team.
‘came up. ‘against tough: com-'|
“petition and got knocked out
early at the provincial cham:
‘plonships. in Port "Alberni
two weeks ago.

dn ‘thelr: first: game,, they.
faced “Army/Navy va. the.
‘team that. won: the. junior:
men's provincials for the

added a third wotch. Inn their

(bats this year. °°:
‘Ariny/Navy beat ‘Terrace

1-0, and the. northwesterners

an @-2 record,

The word at the ‘tourney
was that the Army/Navy.[.
players had been so confi-
dent of their third provincial
title, : ihey had pdld. in ade
vance for their plane tickets
to the. nailonals in’ New:
‘foundland. iuesss

“he added. 1 ;
_ Ed Ansems —.who has also seen
.. one in practice —'says he usual- ”

Livery. slippery course .
’ f

‘Aupit 7, 1991

Fin), the. trip was. a good’ time
for Fitilay and son Bruce.

_ After’ regaling me with con-
tinental ‘tales, Fin= wanted to

know how the fishing had been
vin his ‘absence. ..

‘I told him of going out to the

river the day before. Of how the.

water was as warm and clean as
we've ever seen it in six Julys. I
described the newest contours in
well-known. runs, and spent

‘some. time rhapsodizing about.
in shirtsleeves with

angling
nothing weighing | me down by 4

riffles.”

“First-] had a ‘couple of dolly

varden come to my fly,” 1 said.
“Good,” Fin nodded.

“Yeah,” 1 agreed. ‘Then 1

described ‘how F felt a tug a-

“The Skeena
Angier.
by Rob Brown .

short time after“ beaching the -
char. I made another cast but
mended the line downstream to

speed up the passage of the fly.
Fin nodded attentively. ‘My
flyline and half of: my backing
was outside the reel: and a huge
fish was leaping on ihe far side
of the river before I: could get
things under control.!? F
I finished recounting, my. day
— one highlighted: by three
wonderfully strong..July.
steelhead: gamefish as: ‘fine’ as
any freshwaler angler i is likely: to
encounter. ‘
lt was ironic, Here- was ‘Fin;
newly returned from a country

PORT:

‘where. it would cost three thou” 4 ty
sand. dollars for a ‘day :on.the
best water with a slim chance of. ©
‘a salmon. while, | was- bringing »
silver -fish to -the-‘surface with.
. floating, flies in fine weather and 1
envigourating surroundings — a:

privilege for. which we both pay
alittle un
year bee
: “There , are’: ‘men - who. know
‘what. a bargain: we residents of
B.C, are getting for our. angling.
These ‘non-resident aliens”,

the fishing synopsis queintly

refers .to them, : are -willing. to

 steelheading ‘like: ‘the kind 1 ex:

fisheries ¢ continue.to‘ manage ta
the strongest stocks. One arm of

thirty, dollars : a.

‘to harvest them: with little mean-

. species:

steelhiead in ‘this province. Many ~ ‘Have

of them have: seen their own ‘¢

wild fisherjes: ‘disappear. tovur-
ban’ blight, dams, polliition anid

wy

Periepeed few days. ago -is:now

Pa atavtungtely this: fishery. is.
en. because these. magnifi

who’. manage’. ‘the’ ‘comimersial

Creek, another‘directs’ the fleet

ingful regard for'the: effect: this ! I
hason-°the ‘less. s _flumerous “men - who guide: for. ‘them: lose
; ness their ‘shirts, and we — who

the know the joys. and: rewards of

~This- year, despite
knowledge that ‘steelhead “are

‘angling summer steelhead —

pay a lot/of money for the op- likely to be returning in very la low. ; will have only memories.

JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

TERRACE STANDARD

| ton,
fourth::and: fifth in the men’s

a5: 53,
oe finishers. Robin Grant (47:58),
ay Andre. Qualizza (48:36), Frank
ss Ridler OS: 08), Max MacDonald

Richard Harrison

year’s footrace, but i's not
unheard of.

Parr says - he’s encountered
bears three times before while
running the course in practice
sessions. And Terrace. runner

ly runs the course: with a bell,
~ Ansems topped the over-40

. masters division and was fourth

overall with his time of 41:31,
just back ‘of third-place open

” racer Charles Nelson, of Prince

Ruperts: _
- Brian. Boyd and Gord Bux-
both. of ‘Terrace, were

division with times of 44:34 and
‘respectively, . Terrace

Gold

TERRACE — Richard Krieg)
and Kitimat’s Alex Kotai played

_ hard, aggressive tennis to cap-

ture the gold medal in men’s

‘doubles at the 3.C, Summer
. Games in Coquitlam, -

past two years running and-§ |

‘the southeasterniers 6-1 in the

“Etwas one of two gold medals -
Terrace athletes brought. back,

‘along with Lwo silvers and four .

bronzes.
-:Kriegl: and Kotai. split their.
fi irst match of the three-round
robin and then won their next -
two to be ranked second in their -
pool. 7
They then’ played Victoria

»» the first-place team ‘in the other
‘wert on to lose thelr:second eh
game and be eliminated with:|

pool, — and ‘went. three. “sets
before defeating them 6-4,-4-6,
6-4 to advance to the final, They

“again went three sets in the’
gold-medal maich against the: -

(Golenays,: splitting the firs
0:6-3,:3-6 before hammering

“third set.
- “We played very hard { in that.
ene "aid the 23-year-old:
We 5 gota five-love len
ink that’s: what . mail

king”

crowned again

(55:13) and Martin Vanlierde
(58:56) also came in under the
one-hour mark.

Rose-Marie Cheer, of Prince
Rupert, turned in an impressive
time of 47:18 in. the over-35
masters women's division —
ahead of Anna Bernard's
$0-minute open | women' s)
division-winning. time... 7

Rose Schibli was the first Ter-
race masters woman, finishing
at 1:05:10.

Behind Ansems in the masters
men division were Terrace's
Geoff Phillips, clocking in at
47:05, and Neil Fleischmann ai
50:03. Fred Philpot (52:08),
Kurt Schlegel (1:08:51) | and
Roger Leclerc (1:08: 04) | _also
finished the race.) °°

A squad of Terrace junior
boys (age 16-19) were hard’ on
the heels of Harrison and the
rest of the leaders. ~

Dave Edmonds (42:37), Dave»
: Shepherd (42:51), and Chad Ed-

monds (43:27) were about five
minutes: off the pace, and just
“seconds behind Prince’ Rupert’ s

_ Joe Nelson — the junior boys
winner: me

- Justin Cheer, al 48:45, was
the, fastest in: juvenile- -boys

(under 16) division ‘edging out .

his brother Brent by nearly two |

_ minutes. Terrace juvenile: boys

Quinton Rafuse (54: 39), . ‘Clint

. Sheppard (1:00:07),;""Evan
Jeff. Bol-

Warner (1 209:29), «
‘ingbroke (1:17:04) and: ‘Danny
Ansems (1:17:07): also: com-
pleted the race. :

struck i in

set ‘aaah Dut the. uthernets

didn’ 1 play with the same gusto ao

ame ae really tao
them,” Kriegl . said. :

boys. players
ed

‘brought oe a: brofize: medal

Prrckshot at clay sgeons tr on hi
way, bo. a gold. meda ‘in.

“rE ain ot the sare

seventh time.

oe capture:

“think they were used tothe level °
tof aggressiveness that-we played :
“with, They were very. quiet." ‘
<. #Kitimat junior. .
= David. [Kotai and

‘Hidber and John Yasinchuk -
brought back team silvers in the:

“Tace’s Ed MacKenzie. earied 2 a.
‘bronze medal in ‘senior ‘men’s’

“McKeown placed fourth,

COLIN PARR flies up Terrace Mountain hot o on the heels of Smithers Richard Harrison. Parr, a Terrace ;
runner, finished two minutes back of Harrison, who won the King of the Mountain footrace for the:

“freestyle, Gil ‘Payne “ranked ‘seventh.

and then followed that up
sixth j in freestyle men’s bowhun-

with 2.99,. for a 199 out of 200
otal in 16- on Singles,
lor. ‘sh

seventh. ;
The’ “girls” Fastball. ied :

~ eouple okey: playdts due’ to ile!

‘Iness ‘and ed finishing:

: sinih, wa

. MT Hie: competition: wai reallly

\ Stiff, suid ‘coach Vic: Butéaui

He

team com mn etitio

_ dropped - their’: third: game: —
which srepled a until: thi

‘Shane iting sworth: atte. ae
with third in diving, in the ae.
Vi ene

men's team: event:
On the archery range, | s Teanr' sports” san
field’ hockey :teain ins ‘if

mn the boys’ basketball :tdam
one he zone pe s!

barebow, while: +

ficlating the softball i events, ge 4.

| ji
lissing a@ medal. in. Junior. boy

“aoth the ‘girls. oand?
boys’ volleyball teams: finishied

m ‘lost a! /

PEA TR: nee 2

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the. medalround: rica hey

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