é . 7 Ba ~ The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 31, 2006 i ) 'SKEENA ANGLER ~ ROB BROWN © _ Son of fly BC rt ‘Lingren’ s second book on the flies of _ Patterns of ‘British Columbia, (Frank & _ able addition: to the flyfisher’s library... . To be precise, this is Art’s third book on BC pat- _Haig-Brown, also contains flies that were designed ‘for the- water of this province by its most famous resident fly fisherman, but his last work and its pre- " -decessor catalogue creations from all-over the prov- ince and include Haig-Brown’s patterns. Where Fly Patterns of British Columbia had “practical: advice woven into the text and is much _ easier to-use in large part because of the way in «which its author has chosen to structure it. ‘The book is divided into eight sections, each ~ corresponding to one of the regional designations for management units set out by the Ministry of the . Environment. "es us to a number of angling fly-dressing indigenes “with a thumbnail biography for each. After the bio ‘. there is a picture of each fly followed by a recipe. Each angler then shares a handful of his (or in a few cases, her) favourite bugs and includes some tips on how to tie and fish thern. This last feature is a dandy. Each fly pattern listed in Contemporary Fly Patterns of British Co- . perimentation, ‘and you can bet your bait bucket that evolved. “Island (Region and Chapter One) in search of salm- on, I’d turn to the relevant section of the book and be pleased to find no fewer than six sharp looking salt water patterns from the bench of Shawn Ben- nett. I'd almost certainly wrap up a few Catface Streamers, read Shawn’s notes, and be most pleased _to discover what line to fish the fly with and where it works. best. And, if I was really pushy, I might give Shawn a call, since his place of work i is given ’ in the biographical note. . Other than the fact that you can catch fish near ’ hedges and-ledges with sedges, I don’t know much trout (or to any lake in the Interior of the province, - ter of Art’s new book, where there are enough lake | patterns to fill a fly box and enough information on ’ how to fish them to ensure some fine fishing. By way of example, Herman Fischer offers up an enticing looking damsel nymph made of some- how to fish it: _ morning from about 8 to 10 a.m., when there is the most. damsel activity, in about 3 to 5 feet of wa- sometimes longer pulls, pausing often to allow the fly to sink.” Boy, you can’t get much more specific — or gen- erous — than that! This entry is typical of those i in the Region 3 “chapter of the book where local anglers give the scuds, sedges, bloodworms, boatmen, dragons, stoneflies, and leeches. _The province’s well known fly fishing clubs and tion in the book. « Thus, there is representation from the Cowichan Flyfishers.and the Island Waters Fly Fishing Club from Vancouver Island, similarly, a flock of King- fishers and a stand of Totems appear under the Lower Mainland region. -superbly dressed patterns (though I would have like to have seen more and had an entry from Bob, . drawing from his vast experience as a river angler), some of Bill Jollymore’s patterns, Peter McVeigh’s, Harry Lemire’s and those of Lingren himself lend some historical continuity to the text. My beef with the book is its low production val- ues. The patterns are too small and many are set against backgrounds that make them appear indis- tinct. The cover design is dull and unappealing. and therefore doomed to fall apart in short order. To remedy this I will take it to the local quick copy shop where they will take it apart, plasticize the cover, and insert coil binding for five bucks. Problems of design aside, Art Lindgren has put together another invaluable book for the flyfishers’ library. \ British Columbia, Contemporary Fly’. Amato Publications) will make a valu- at terns. His first opus; The Fly Patterns of Roderick’ - more of a historical flavour, its sequel has more — . Within each regional section, Lingren introduc- . _lumbia is the:sum total.of.a lot of thought and ex- | it is well adapted to the fish habitat for which it has : If, say, I was off for the beaches of Vancouver | about fishing still water, but. if I was off to the. Thompson-Nicola a.k.a. Region 3 for lake bound | “for that matter) I’d be well served by the third chap- _IT’S 7:00 p.m. ona Wednesday night and players _ _are casually strolling onto the: field with cleats in hand. The meeting time was 30 minutes ago, but ‘No one seems to mind. This is Ultimate. Everyone is just there to have a good time. Ultimate is a non-contact team sport played with a Frisbee, referred to as a disc. Teams pass thing called liquid lace and gives. this advice on - “omy. rule of thumb is to. fish this fly in the — ter and close to the bulrushes, using a floating or intermediate sinking line and with short'5 inch or. reader how-to’s on dressing and fishing shrimp, ‘a few of their prominent memivérs are given a sec- The inclusion of some Bob Taylor’s crafty and - My copy is trade paper, glued instead of sewn, By MARGARET SPEIRS 7 . five years at the zone track and field meet over the May long weekend. | “We had a very good weekend, ” said Dighton Haynes, president of the Terrace Track and Field Association. » ° Nineteen athletes from Skeena Junior Secondary, Thom- hill Junior Secondary, Caledonia Senior Secondary, Centen- nial Christian, Mountainview Academy and Parkside schools . competed at the meet in Smithers. _ Haynes. had hoped that the Grade 8s would win the ban- ner. “T didn’t think we. had the numbers because you usually” ' need a little bit bigger team than what we had,” he said. : “Look at the results and see how many events ‘the kids were going in. They’re out there competing and really doing. well. “The junior girls were awesome and the seniors I was re- ‘ally pleased with.” Led by Jenny Johnson, the outstanding Grade 8 girl, and Jacqueline Lenuik’s 57.4 second record in the 300-metre hur- dles, the team scored 118 points compared to second place “ Mount Elizabeth Secondary School who scored 62 points. Thormhill Junior placed fifth and Centennial was eighth. — The Skeena Junior girls dominated their events, but came second with 93 points to Smithers’ 205 points. MESS was third with 29 points. ‘Smithers won the senior event with 203 points over Cale- _ donia’s 81 points and Mount Elizabeth's 47 points. Brandon Baverstock, 14, who throws a 1-kilogram discus _ easily across the Skeena Junior field, showed that his favou- . “Tite. event, javelin, is also his best with his 30.1-metre throw — that’s 98.6 feet — for first place at the zone meet. : He placed third in discus with 25.52 metres and third i in ‘ shot put with a 6.74-metre toss. . . Baverstock is pumped to win medals at the Summer Games. | later this summer.’ “Not’all the medals, maybe one,” ‘he said, adding he hopes to win in javelin. Eric Anderson, who also goes to Skeena, won the Grade 8 - boys discus event with a 28.53-metre throw and came second in javelin with a throw over 24 metres, and second in shot put with 7.95 metres at zones. = He hopes to place third or better i in all three events at the : Summer Games. Haynes credits part of the | team’s s success 5 to ‘the number of coaches involved, including Gord Buxton from Centennial, Richard Clair, Dave O’Brien and Doug Steele from Skeena,. Ben Mattheis from Parkside and Dave Cater. “It seems with the more people we have, it just gives the kids a little more personal atttention when trying to do indi- vidual events,” he said. Five students will be going to provincials i in Burnaby this weekend: Jessica Ames, Bert Fawdrey, Danis Bachek, Bran- dy Yagelniski and Brendan Genaille. At the end of July, nine athletes will travel to the BC sum- ° mer Games in Kamloops: Jessica.Ames, Ainsleigh Mensah, Brandon Baverstock, Eric Anderson, Janna Olynick, Alex MacDougall, Katherine Scarborough, Della Orrey and Lyn- sey Haynes. a & SKEENA JUNIOR Grade 8 athletes won their first banner in - , y BRANDON BAVERSTOCK practises his discus throw at the Skeena Junior Sec- ondary field May 27. He placed third in discus at zones in Smithers and will com- pete in. the BC Summer Games later this summer. : MARGARET SPEIRS PHOTO Ultimate Frisbee drop-in wants you r We have a winner LOCAL artist and outdoor enthusiast Angie Healey is the person behind the winning design for this year’s Terrace Standard Adventure Challenge. The design reflects the five different sports athletes compete in — swimming, running, downhill mountain bik- ing, rock climbing and cross country mountain biking. Healey receives free entry into all five events this year in addition to an Adventure Challenge hoodie and T-shirt. The outdoor adventure sport series is set for July 1,2 and 3. SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO “the disc from one end of a long rectangular field, like a soccer field, to the other and score when one _ of their players catches it in the opposing team’s ° “endzone. — Every Monday and Wednesday night Ultimate players in Terrace gather in the field west of the R.E.M Theatre to play a friendly: game. “It could loosely be described.as a league but: it's drop-in,” said Gary Maltin, ¥ who helps orga: nize these nights. . Maltin “fell in love” with the game seven years ago because of its emphasis on fun and fair play. “It's all about the spirit of the game,” he said. “You can be competitive and that’s cool, but you ‘also have to put the game first. This is all about -having fun.” Ultimate has no referees. so players call fouls _ on themselves, an unusual system in team sports. Official Ultimate rules state, “Teams are ex- pected to win because of ability and/or luck, not. by being tricky cheaters.” . “You make your own call,” Maitin said. “It is one of the coolest games around.” But the number of participants at drop-in Ulti- mate are down this year. ‘While more than 30 players showed up in pre- , vious years, this year only a dozen or so are com- ing out. Maltin isn’t too worried. He chocks it up’ to busy lives, no advertising and a lot of hard-core | players leaving town. And besides, it’s only the beginning of the sea- . son, he added.. “In places like Prince George, they don’ teven have an organized Ultimate league so actually Terrace does really good as far as numbers — bet- ter than a lot of places with way bigger popula- tions. — “Even though we want more people, we can’t really complain.that much,”’ Maultin said. Newbie Richard Clair, who has only played _ Ultimate four times, keeps coming out to play be- cause “it’s fun and good exercise.” he said, but he wishes more people were involved. “We get about a dozen people. Ideally there would be more. A game is supposed to be seven on seven so 20 would be ideal.” he said.. Terrace’s drop-in Ultimate league goes until the end of September. Players meet in the field at the west end of Straume Ave at 6:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays. “We play rain or shine because we are strong, hearty northern folk,” Maultin said. “But if it’s absolutely pissing rain, we'll probably just call it.”