lina S oat Saas emne AB te ' tea er ee Cad wets “Page, B4 _ - Terrace. Standard, Wey, February 13, 1991 We. January. ‘It’s cold éven: “when ‘the’ wind's. not blowing; © -. Most of. the time it is,: - The fishermen sit in. the back’ of The: Northwest Sportsman, _ Mike'and Dave ‘play backgam- mon‘ under’ the: glassy: stare of - the stuffed::moose: Bill squints down the barrel of an imaginary boys yearn to be outside, Steve yearns. for: a. customer. and wonders if he:can keep up the coffee payments, . During the conversation so- meone says he saw some open water, Later the same day I have a coffee and a bran muffin with Findlay. “Fin, 1 heard there's some™: _ water open, on. the Skeena,” IT "say, ; = Ken. Hendricks - moved. to - “When are -we going?” he - asks. “1° get’ my gear and see you in an-hour,”’ I. reply. The pickupis suffering in the © Nn open wa’ cold weather, It groans, ‘shud. ‘ders, ‘then “Stalls at the gas : pump. :: : “Five: dollars worth, my tell the young pump jockey, whois not wearing a hat arid suffering: accordingly, Fin «goes..in: ‘the : , Store.for.some granola bars and. a coke. : rifle and recalls‘a direct hit, The: ~. We “loo; frost. They ‘sparkle as we drive past them. The Skeena j is pluge- ed with buckled ‘ice. Findlay points. to where the , ~ highway has been widened as we | climb ‘the’ cy’ ‘hill to-Amsbury, ~ _ Later, I point to where gravel . *- nas been'lald to provide the bed for a new: road’ bypassing the "tricky crossing at Esker Slough. “Fortunately the ‘snow plow has left enough room to pull off’ the highway. ‘Its n mn. The sky er own “from the _ Kalum bridge. ‘Even the riffles ‘ are frozen. The alders beside the. ‘yoad and the: cottonwoods lin ing the’ river “are covered in The Skeenc Angier - _byR Rob Brown ; ‘is clear and the sun burns the edge off the cold. - Everything. requires more labour in thewinter. We. suit up. I change my leader and put ° up a new fly. By the time I’ve finished my fingers are stinging. We stop atthe edge of the. bank to chart a course down the’ yet sidecast. Except for a shelf: of - - ‘ice on the far side, the’ channel j is running freely, “Look at that, Fin, it’s as wide as the Lakelse,’’ J say. “Must be fed by ‘ground: - water,” says Fin: os ; “We work our way, down and © cross the bar. Findlay sticks his “thermometer in” ‘the...water, FE , ‘begin fi fishing. After a couple of - casts, beads of: water freeze. to the:line;the rod’ Jabours under: ; the. extra. weight... ; “Thirty-six,” Fin calls out. I fish too fasi: ‘and too far out. Fin, who knows that the far side | of the tiver is always the: best - side, but is wise enough to know | that: from the other bank the . “Side we're standing on is the far” side, wades' to"his ankles ‘and - “fishes his ‘Skinny Skunk close. -in, After.a few casts he. hooks: ~: the dolly.varden I hurried past, . Ina short.time.-I’'ve waded . ae into a cornet. I ow up ; on. the ‘Ice ‘and -w ngerly*. trying to: get.a_handle’on -the ‘toward’ the snow-covered bank. : pour ‘a: ‘eup: -Of tea’ from ‘the “* shiny. new.-thérmos.. There :is a ". rock face behind. US, & place for. | mesting ravens or, a: Testing goat. : out. His. rod is. : : :_ where ' thousands of: juvenile =T hear Findlay “bent. 20) ‘hard downstream then back up before it comes unstuck. - “Steelhead?” Task, - - was. a’ ‘big fish. ce A‘slight breeze has come up. The guides of our rods start ic. ing over. “©The ‘department een * splece of road ‘right’ through . “overhanging the road. hired a. biologist:, to. ‘study - it. He has a: large fisli on. ti runs - Fin‘ reels in his line. “Had to” ' be a steelhead,’’ he: says. ae of: , highways: plans; to push a new ‘SPORTS } JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 TERRACE STANDARD | LEAD: HORSE Proven Reserve-and jockey Ken ‘Hendricks. hit the line to _Wine: the ~~ 1986 $2'5,000-purse ‘Assiniboia Downs Gold Cup. it was one of a dozen major stakes races wins for Hen- dricks, whose career as ‘a jockey spanned 20 years... FTER PILOTING more than 1,700 - horses to victory and i it ulating $5 | million i in caret Pacaings, the 4} top ‘jockey at Wi ipeg's. : “Assiniboia Downs has huhg up his racing silks. “f He's still into horse power, but now it’s as a courier driver for the local Greyhound outlet, and the day job gives him time _ to reflect on a 20-year track career. It's a real funny business,” the 41-year-old | Hendricks recalis, leafing through stacks of photo albums, newspaper clippings: and racing journals, ‘‘I've had | lots of disappointments — and - |. a lot of thrills too.” me Described as the winningest .jockey