The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 17, 1993 - Page BS Wrestlers triumphant, SPORTS TERRACE STANDARD NEWS MALCOLM BAXTER 638-7283 Page B7 "The Stilly THE RIVER is named Stil- laguamish for the native tribe who - fished it long before Columbus and ., bis sea-weary crew struggled ashore in search of the nearest spice market. To steelheaders, it’s The Stilly and “it’s legendary, ; In Yales of Fresh-Water Fishing, Zane Grey told of superb angling for speciacular fish in the gin-clear waters of Deer Creek, the largest tributary of the Stilly and: destination of all her summer steelhead before hatcheries. It was on the Stilly, at the Deer. .,Creck .Riffle, beside .the fittle seitle- ment of Oso, thata young English im- migrant named Roderick Haig-Brown, took advantage of some time off work ata nearby logging camp to -hoak his first suinmer stecihead. Later Haig-Brown-would set down the memorics of that eventful trip in books that earned him a reputation as one of the premier angling writers on this continent It was on the Stilly in the dirty thirties that the notion of gear restric- tion was first advanced on the West _ Coast. when visionaries in the ‘ Snohomish County Sportfishenman’s Association proposed the north fork of the Stilly be set aside for fly . . fishermen only. At first this idea was deemed an as- sault on American democracy, but thanks .lo the. tireless efforts of the Washington Flying Club, the concept WAS: adopted a and has stayed in ‘Place _ for 50 years. Over the years many pioncers of winter and summer steelhead fly fish- ng developed their sport on the Stilly. host,...°0 pfmerlians eps neling vs jg) iL tumminarieals own Canadian anglers liké Gerry Wintle and Bob Taylor’ to experiment and ‘|. polish their craft on the Silly, Singe then,. Deer Creck, has been cordoned. off by property owners who, “resident aiglers ‘claim, treat the creek | as their private game preserve despite - its‘ closure ‘to all fishing in hopes of preserving -the few remaining off - spring of the fish Zane Grey enthused over so may years ago, Bad logging has. put the ground inl motion in the’upper part of the’ Creek; muddy ground that bas choked most ~ of runs downstream in silt. The hatchery at: Whiteliorse pro- _ vides what, little fishing there is naw and the fabled .Fortson Hole has a . paved parking lot beside it. Sull, I.bad. to fish the Stilly just once. 1 pulled in at the Cicero Bridge and looked" ‘down on.a- wide, rock- filled runs: typical of the water you see where the'bend of a river mins up a Shot rack dike. There was a man casting a fly at the head end. I. watched: him’ work downstream, casting effortlessly and . economically, Half way along the beat he fastened on to a fish. Even though . it was a long way off, I could see the flash of its silvery sidcs as it took to * the air again and again, It. was. a good hour until the . fisherman left the water and returned _ to his car where | was waiting for him, "> "Do any good?” I asked. "A nice little summer run,” he replied, “It did everything you'd expect a wild fish to do..] thought there would be another." He paused to look at the My: a dak ~ body that looked like wool, a turn of barred rock at the front and one turn _ ofsilver tinsel around the body. "Maybe it’s too bright, too, much sil- ‘| ver tinsel,” he reflected. I thought of my fly. box ‘plugged with Muorescent. _ plumage and scarlet wool and realized “ [may have something to learn, Like most Anicrican anglers he was friendly and forthcoming. When I told |: him.I-was from Canada, he asked me . if I knew Gerry Wintle. I said I did. “Does: he still fish ‘That drab little fly. he calls Wintle’s. Western Wizard?" heasked, © = When I allowed that Gerry did, be laughed. *I invented that Qy," he said. "It’s called a Spade,” Years later 1 ran in to: Gerry and: recounted that encounter. A° distant mist clouded Gerry's eyés as he sorted through memories of great fishing on a once great river, © | "© don't know who invented that + pattern," he sdid after a while.” AIT know. is:-It was. born under the in- fluence." pe Onder the Influence £ the stil, [ ; “2 gosumed. CG EIES 2 Spar-kling lead Terrace’s Jujitsu contingent proved their prowess at the Northern B.C. Winter Games as they fought their way to nine of the 23 gongs picked up by Jo- cal athletes in Quesnel. Mounting the uppermost podium were Denise Brown and Steve Creed who defeated all-comers in the intermediate women’s orange-green belt and men’s lightweight orange-green belt divisions respectively. The Junior Kumite line-up’s 16 and 17 year olds boosted the tally with Mike Danis and Mike Graham taking silver and bronze for white-yellow belts while Robert Peacock added a bronze in orange-green belt competition. The 13-15 year olds provided a couple more silver, Harjab Grewal finishing runner-up in the blue-brown belt final and Dustin Haigh duplicating in the orange-green belt showdown. And in the men’s category Gian Gib- son (white-yellow heavyweight) and David Falardeau (blue-brown heavyweight) struck silver to take the Ju- jitsu contribution to two gold, five silver and two bronze. Terrace Peaks gymnasts were also on form as they collected six medals. Golden girls al the event were Chelsey Schulmeister and Corisa Berlin, Leah Graham and Eva Mateus brought home silver and the tally was rounded out by Fiona Earl’s and Kelly Julseth’s bronzes, Another five medals came from the pool (see story at right) and bronze medals were picked up by the local vol- leyball squad, the boy’s curling team and Skeena grade 8 girls’ basketball team. Terrace successes plus a strong show- ing by Kilimat’s cross-country -skicrs powered. the Kitimat-Stikine zone’s medal (otal to 57, That’s more than quadruple its 1992 haul at Fort Neison but also reflects the larger representation at this year’s Games. - Father-daughter duos marked the cross-country ski successes, Walter and Adele Thorne. racing to two golds apiece. In matching the double gold feat, ". Lauren Beck also outdid her Dad, Deilef Beck, who had to settle for two bronze, “Anita Hauki was the fourth Kitimatian to cross the line first in both her events while Eric Baer fell just short, taking a gold and a silver, Kitimat's Laurie Buteau and Cathy Dickson dominated senior girls bad- ‘minton, Buteau having taken the gold in singles with Dickson third, the pair teamed ‘up to take top spat in the dou- bles. ; Dickson then went on to make it one of ’ gach, partnering Matt Sierecki to the sil- ver in mixed, Skeena robbed, Page B6 SILVER SANDWICH. One of the successiul Terrace Peaks gymnast a team which went to the Northern B.C. Winter Games in Quesnel, Eva Mateus picked up a silver as the Peaks swept the Provincial B Argo division. Corisa Berlin won the gold while Kelly Julseth completed the medal haul in the event. Mandur pure magic Joe Mandur has got to be part dolphin. That’s what Northern B.C. Winter Games senior division swimmers must have been thinking by the time the Quesnel event had come to an end. Mandur, at 58 the oldest man com- peting, proved almost invincible in the pool as he racked up six wins in seven events and settled for third in the other. ‘That tally easily j ‘gave him the overall * gold in the 20 years and up division. Even more remarkable, the Ter- racite’s winning times in the 50m Free, 100m Free and 200m I.M. were faster than those recorded over the _weekend by swimmers a third of his age. In the same division, John Dando’s third and two fourths added to the zone team's point tally while 70-year- old Marian Duffus made swimmers on the Ladies side take notice with two thirds and three fourths. , Terrace’s Special Glympians also turned it on for the hig event. Bryan Smith won his. 25m Free and picked up a second and third on his way to the silver medal overall on the Men’s side. And Arlene Lindley also sped to gold in the 25m Free and added two sec- onds for an overall bronze. For the Dluebacks club swimmers, the haul was one gold, one bronze and four more ‘AA’ qualifying times. Their medals came in the Boys 11-12 Slalom to the max! Four Terrace racers are well placed for a shot at the BMV Masters nationals after qualifying races held at Shames Feb. 6-7. Neil Fleischmann, Carolyn Spetice, Herb Burbee and Ian Hamilton all racked up maximum points in the two-day giant slalom event. After scoring a comfortable win over Houston’s Rick Edwards Saturday, Bur- bee. found himself more than two sec- onds back of his rival after Sunday’s first descent. oo However, Burbee unleashed a. sharp 1:05.30 second run to edge Edwards out of top spot in the men’s 40-44 years divi- sion by just under a second, Hamilton followed the same path in the * men’s 35-39 years category. _ Having scored a comfortable three sec- ond victory on Saturday, he found him- self up against a new face Sunday in Harvey Soicher of Vancouver. Down by 0.6 seconds to Soicher after ‘the first mn, Hamilton sliced nearly seven seconds off his time on the second lo squeeze ihe Vancovverite out by 23/100lhs of a second on combined time. - “Fleischmann and Spence were un- opposed In their divisidns. -All four picked up 50 points which they can carry over to the BMV Masters slalom and giant slalom races to be held ‘at Hudson Bay Mountain in Smithers this weekend. | Top combined point scorers in the ~ northern zone go on to the nationals at Whistler in April. - Fastest Terracite. on the mountain in. combined times both days. was Scott Siemens, : Siemens clocked a combined time of 2:20.94 for third spol in Saturday’s men’s 25-29 years division, then im- proved to 2:11.80 on Sunday and second place. Siemens finished the weekend with 35 points,” Fastest single run by a local was the blistering 1:02.58 turned in by Dave Miklavic on his second Sunday run. . That was good enough to take that day’s men’s 19-24 years category but, because he did not compete Saturday, Miklovic had to be satisfied with a 25 polnt weekend tally. Also settling for 25 points was Max Macdonald who handily took Sunday’s men’s 30-34 years class, but had been eliminated from the previous day’s point chase when he failed to complete the first run. Other strong performances included Shawa Stevenson’s second and fourth in men’s 19-24 years for 32. points. and - Hans Kosak’s two thirds in men’s 40-44 years for 30. Raced on soft, wel snow over the Short Cut-Back Eddy. course, the Shames BMV races saw consistently faster times Sunday. Improved times of as much as. 10 sec- onds ‘were not uncommon as skiers took full advantage of the fasler conditions. Open to all levels of skiers over the age “of 19, the Smithers leg of the BMV. Bay. . Masters. will use. Hudson Mountain’s Turkey Shoot run.. years division where Kevin Andolfatto took the gold and Chris Kerman bronze. Andolfatto won his 200m 1.M., 50m Free, 100m Fly and 400m Free events and added two seconds while Kerman finished with a win in 100m Back, 100m I-M. and a second and third. Kernan also clocked ‘AA’ times in the 50m Free and 100m Breast to add to the events he will swim at this weekend?s Junior Provincial Championships. Elder brother Jamie Kerman, 13, also hit ‘AA’ qualifying times in two events and in doing so earned a trip to— the championships. Swimmers need to qualify in four events before they can compete and the Quesnel performance did just that for Jamie who took 0.6 seconds off his persona! best for the 100m Fly. Yan MacCormac, Dylan Mac- Cormac, Kim Johnson and George Joseph also put in strong per- formances as the Kitimat-Stikine zone team swam to a second place finish overall despite having fewer swimmers than winners Quesnel. “The kids swam exceptionally well considering the last meet was only two weeks earlier,”’ Blueback coach Mike Carlyle emphasized, Although they were ao little slow off the mark Friday morning after the 10- hour bus ride to Quesnel, he said they hit their stroke by the afternoon and kept improving through the weekend. performances james assault Terrace medals GOLD GYMNASTICS: Chelsey Schulmeister (Divisional B Midgets) Corisa Berlin (Provincial B Argos) MARTIAL ARTS Steve Creed (Men’s orange-green belt, ightoeigh) Denise Brown (iutermediate women’s orange-green) SWIMMING Kevin Andolfatto » (Boys 11-12 years, overall), “Joe Mandur : . (Men’s 20 years and up, overall) | — SILVER ” GYMNASTICS: ‘Leah Graham (Provincial B Open) Eva Mateus (Provincial B Argos) MARTIAL ARTS | Gian Gibson (Men's white-ycllow belt; hexvywelght) David Falardeau (Men’s blue-brown belt, heavyweight) Dustin Haigh (Ir. orange-green belt, 13-15 yrs) Harjab Greual . (Jr. Kumite blue-brown belt, 13-15 yrs) Mike Danis (Jr. Kumite white-yellow belt, 16-17 yrs) SWIMMING Bryan Smith (Boys Special Olympics, overall) rd BRONZE . Skeena Grade 8 Girls BOYS CURLING Chris Oldham, Kevin Oates, Tyler Robinson and Jesse Morgan GYMNASTICS hoes Fiona Earl (Divisional B Tyros) Kelly Julseth (Provincial B Argos) MARTIAL ARTS Mike Graham Gr. Kumite white-yellow belt, 16- 17 yrs) Robert Peacock (Ir. Kumite orange-green belt, 16-17 yrs) SWIMMING Chris Kerman (Boys 11-12 years, overall) Arlene Lindley (Girls Special Olympics, overall) VOLLEYBALL Terrace team FOREST SERVICE? Above, Norm Parry prepares to give his opponents the bird, so to speak. He also gave them a lot to deal with as he advanced to two finals In the local club's recent invitational toumament. With one of _ “27. those having gone the -full three games, small wonder he described the For. more information, hone Sa , event as atest of endurance, For details on the results, tum to page B7. : Smithers at 847-205 8.