The last time Finlay and I went; out: after sea. trout the cr k' was Clearer than the air. cy Fin: suited up 1. watched galmon in the pool. below - the bridg. ‘Two chinook lay at the A ithe pool. A few feet stream a. trio of calico-. 9g salmon were suspend- the slower current. Above the pull ‘of. the tailout a school ink. § Tuwew a fly at the places ed seen, the’ ‘salmon, It. - fins it was my first hatchery cut-" ‘out, that lone clone would be ‘the: onl fish ona day ‘when “embankment. ~ salmon. were turing up. ; toe te , there were more bears than ‘- trout. 1 spotted .the first... bruin sauntering nonchalantly across asand bar. Ina smajiier channel: a number of dog - salmon were’ spawning beside a grass-lined Perfect bear habitat, I thought and moments. later.a large black bear emerged fromthe alder. an: uncomfor-, table fifty feet ‘away. © fT whistled. He lifted his ead abruptly, looked in the direc-: ‘tion of the sound, spotted me and. was gone in.a motion so ° fluid it contradicted his bulk. :. Where the two channels join- ed we encountered yet ‘another ~~ beat poised. above some spring ‘salmon. He spotted us right _ away and was gone. “When | got home and sat down with a! newspaper I was ment for the breed. As it turned . ‘still thinking about. those _magnificient bears willing, like Fin and I, to suffer the, swelter- ~The’ Skeena Angler byR Rob Brown | ing heat ‘of f midday for a fish. I turned the: page to find an arti-. cle on the sale of bear’ parts. In the. piece, Gary Grigg of the Canadian : Wildlife Service, . ‘stated that lax laws and inade- quate enforcement’ were putting considerable’ pressure on the. black bear population of our. province. Grigg. estimated that 4,000.black bears were poached each . year and this slaughter, when added to the legal kill of the same ‘size, is seriously depleting the black bear popula- populatio Walker expredses ¢ conicertfo ‘tlo n. “And why? Sa that misguided i Orientals.who believe bear galls. ;: Pas can provide relief from hemor- rhoids.can buy them. Apparen ly a bear gall that. wholesales-f $350. here can fetch '$18, 000: in Korea - ——_ that’s 20, times: the he‘sale of «all bear. parts, and vigour... oe : “many. reba conservation of- ‘But what 18 realy @ distres — is that i in Super Natural: B.C. it’. [JEFF NAGEL 626-7263 TERRACE STANDARD TERRACE —_ Sinjur ‘Masonry shad. to play shorthanded to beat league champion North Coast Road, Maintenance in the men’s soccer league final last week, *-Sinjur had to play with just 10 players after a fighting in- fraction resulted in one player being red-carded early in the first half. But the incident didn’t destroy morale — if anything the team got tighter. Later in the half Sinjur’s l .. action. oo, ‘Singur “fitiished the egular . NORTH COAST Road Maintenance forward leads the attack apainst the tough Sinjur defence in men's league final playoff game. Spiker gets sidelined | | ‘TERRACE — Terrace’s Kurt ‘Muller sacrificed his ankle as he - battled to, boost a B.C. provin- cial team'to fourth place at the _ Western: Canadian. midget . ‘Volleyball » ‘championships «in: “Grand. Prairie, ‘Alberta. a! Ve The: 16-year-old Terrace. place when an opposing player ‘dived: ‘at the net. and landed on. him: I had to lay on the floor for Soakiball” On» -Caledonia’s : eam ‘this year. ‘was*outftanding: ith youth: ‘tore ligaments in - “his; “ankle inthe final | game for third. it 45 eet ea Multer zane . Muller year at Thornhiil ir. Secondary , and now enters Grade 11 at Cal. Muller was the only’ ‘Zone 7 -player selected for the 24-player. _ -provincial training camp in Pen-. : ticton. They practised there for .a week anda half before being . ‘divided into. two teams for the ‘Grand Prairie tourney. a At five-fodt-eight and a half, ’ Muller was the shortest player “at-the camp;. That meant-he was - ‘placed: on..the ble. team —- injur strikes ort-handed — Nelson Bothelo broke in on the net to catapult his-team into'a 1-0 lead they would not relin- quish, . Strong defence and outstan- ding play by goalie Harry Red- mond also kept the team in the game. -. In the. second halt, “the, team scored an insurance goal, when 2-0, sealing the championship. It: was. the.:team’s — third straight, victory, aid atyg them. np f an iwndefeated record i aie me rr er season with 16 points — just a point. ahead of third-place Skeena Hotel and: just back of first-place North Coast, which had t?. from the league race, clinching the title with a 4-2: triumph in the last game of the regular season. In the round robin of the playoffs, Sinjur won. both games, while North Coast Road Maintenance won one of two to earn a berth in the final. Most Valuable Player. and Most Inspirationa! Player this Strachan. He's off to Kamloops now to play soccer there. Q Most Improved Player was North Coast's Manuel Raposo, season was the Skeena Hotel’s Joe Duben, goals. more sponsors;: Players had to because only three sponsors could be found. . “made up of the: shdrter® players 2 2 —. rather ‘than’ the: ‘taller elite gold team. ; ~ Muller and the rest of the. blue ‘team -.sur the ‘B Louis Teixeira scored to make it | North: Coast banished. Sinjur - season was Sinjur’s. Gary’ while top scorer in the regular, who - scored AS, League officials hope ‘for more volunteers next year to help run the Jeague and for be turned away. this season’ Coniribinted a . The Terrace Hiking Club. has released its latest calendar;of: hikes: for the. fall seaso JF mine buildings are still there.” Bring food for Shit Most hikes take place on Sundays, Wit thusiasts meeting at the library i in ‘the mo to carpool. All hikes are. weather permitting. Bring rain gear, lunch, water, warm clothing and | roper . who-can't hike'as they 2 can do short climb or’ walt at vehicles. Vicki leader, 635-2935. = “Sep al. 2- — Mount. E Elizabeth at Kitimat.” teader 38-2935), 10 ai no ping’ Shannon: heaton 35-4486. A “Ubraty’ tt 9 auth, “moderate: hike toa. very: be “beautiful ‘Take, ther: two days. The walk in from Sunny: Point is-aix- ‘miles at an easy. grade, Depending on: creek . -crossings,.we may have to walk a mile‘or.two a : sbefore Sunny. Point as well, “but the, road is: Meet at library’ at 10 a.m, Vicki leader, Dilvets. wel mt back on.gravel apeone 12 miles to ’ te | He water °° Sept. 15 — Red Rose, Mine nest Skeena «mile: Crossing. Meet at library at:8:a, m.’ This is-an \ L-mile:-4WD- road in, And if weather is wet, I eet gener