Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 11, 1991 — Page C1 Vernon Games gang gather gongs Bell, Doane Medal parade GOLD Clint Bell Boxing — Junior C Class 125 lbs. Robert Doane Boxing — Junior C Class 119 Ibs. Deb Casey Karate, Kata — Girls ‘15-16 yTSi, blie/brown/ black belt, Jaime Janzen Karate, Kumite — Girls 13-14 yrs., orange/green belt. Jassie Osei-Tutu Karate, Kumite — Boys 13-14 yrs., orange/green belt. Joe Mandur Swimming — Masters, male, 50-59 yrs. BRONZE Marian Duffus Swimming — Masters, female, 60 yrs. and up. Cory Holland Swimming — Boys 100m freestyle. Aimee Peacock Swimming — Girls 100m breast stroke, Girls 200m breast stroke. kkekekk Terrace sent a total of g2| representatives to this year’s B.C. Winter Games in Ver- non — 47 athletes, 27 substitutes, twa coaches, one manager, a chaperone and four officials. The athletes took part in 11 sports — swimming, bad- minton,. karate, figure skating, gymnastics, luge “ft sledding, skiing, wheelchair basketball; curling and power. lifting. Three local Karate club members have golden memories of the *92 B.C, Winter Games and local swimmers also picked up their share of special souvenirs in Vernon. Gold medals in Karate went to Deb Casey in Kata, girls 15-16 yrs., blue/brown/black belt division; Jassie Osei-Tutu in Kumite, boys 13-14 yrs., Orange/preen division; and Jaime Janzen in Kumite, girls 13-14 yrs., orange/green belt. Janzen also picked up a fourth in Kata for her age-belt class while Rosy Sanghera just missed a Kata medal in girls, 15-16 yrs., orange/green belt. _ . Meanwhile, over in the pool, Terrace swimmers collected five ‘medals including a gold, Leading the Terrace Bluebacks club assault in the youth division was Aimee Peacock who came away with a bronze in both the girls 100m "and --20 breast stroke. A ‘bronze a went to Cory ‘Holland in the boys 100 “freestyle. Jocelyn Coxford narrowly PROMISES KEPT. Robert Doane (left) and Clint Bell proved as good as their word in the Vernon 8.C, Winter Games, each bringing home a promised gold medal. The duo head for the Silver Gloves com- peiition in Vancouver later this month knowing their Vernon victims will be looking for. them. Karate, swimming add to medal haul Joe Mandur 7 Aimee Peacock missed adding to her medal col- lection with fourth place finishes in the girls 100m but- terfly and the &x50m integrated freestyle relay. Cory Holland was teamed with her for the lat- ter. Youth event swimmers also recorded top six finishes in five other races. On the Masters side, Joe Mandur earned the only pool gold in the men’s 50-59 years event while Marian Duffus brought home a bronze from the women’s 60 years and up category. Although a medal eluded him, John Dando put in a strong performance for fourth in the 8x50m_ integrated freestyle relay, He and Mandur also took: fifth in the 4x50m men’s freestyle relay. It was also a case of so near and yet so far for the wheelchair baskelball team as Silas Clayton, Tony Humphrey, David Peveresoff, Olivier Poissonneau, John Reid and Terry Reinert had to settle for fourth spot. In badminton, the junior mixed team of Laurie Buteau, Mike McAllister and Byron Mikaloff took fifth while the open mixed team of Tony Broman, Chuck and Diane Cey, Nancy Condon, Surinder Dhaliwal and: Lisa Mailloux recorded an eighth place finish. On the ice, figure skaters Jen- nifer Kuehne and Nicole Page finished sixth and seventh respectively in the artistic/silver. strike For local boxers Clint Bell and Robert Doane, the Vernon Winter Games were a case of mission accomplished. ‘Both the boys said they were going to bring back the gold,”’ coach David Bell recalled. “And they did.” However, as far as Clint Bell, 14, was concerned his first fight was every bit as important as the battle for the gold because it pitted him against Paul Shaw, one of Vancouver's best in the i25lbs. class. The pair had met twice before with each handing the other their only loss to date. That made the Vernon meeting the rubber match and Clint seized the opportunity to show, once and for all, who was best by scoring a unanimous 5-0 deci- sion over the Lower Mainlander. That put Clint into the gold medal fight against Justin Ged- bois. During the bought, Clint stayed clear of the year older and stronger Zone 3 fighter, throwing jabs and connecting with solid shots to the body, The judges scored it 4-1 for Clint. Fighting in the 119 ibs. class, Doane disposed of his first op- ponent, Prince Rupert’s Clyde Tolder, inside the distance when the referee stepped in to stop the fight at 1:34 of the third round. That led him to the battle for the gold where he found himself pitted against Tom White, _Lugers impress — sledding rivals . Just wait *til next year! That was the reaction follow- ing the performance of local lugers in the B.C, Winter Games — and it was coming from their opponents. Not surprising considering the Terrace-Kitimat contigent went into the Games with all of three practices behind them yet brought home a silver, a bronze and just missed out on three more bronzes. “They said with more prac- tice for next year when the Games go to Kitimat, we'll be right up there,’’ recalled club spokesman Todd Taylor. Angela. Rioux took the bronze in the senior women’s singles event while fellow Kitimatian Marg Marsh was picked up by the Comox team which slid to silver, In the near miss department, fourth place finishes were recorded by Kyle Stevenson (junior men’s singles), Amy Kabernik and Roy Shelford (junior mixed doubles) and team event members Rioux, Kabernik, Sheiford, Stevenson, Taylor, Stephanie: Kuhar, Adolfe Rioux and Pat Mouland. gold described by David Bell as ‘‘one of the toughest little boxers I’ve ever seen.’ Tough as he might have been, however, the Zone | fighter couldn’t master Doane who kept his distance, used a lot of side-to-side motion and racked up the points with a stream of heavy jabs. The judges had little hesita- tion in awarding Doane a unanimous decision and the gold medal. It was the first Winter Games for both boxers and, said David Bell, their Jast.. The Games, he explained, are open only to those with LO fights or less, Clint notched his tenth in the gold medal battle and, with seven bouts under his belt already, Doane will be over the limit by the time the Kitimat Games roll around in *93. Not that the Terrace club won't be a force to contend with next year, David Bell added. “We've a lot of up-and-coming boxers who will be in Kitimat,’’ he warned. keke The local boxers going to the Silver Gloves competition in Vancouver 10 days from now will get an opportunity to share in Clint’s victory, That, says David Bell, is because Shaw’s father/coach promised to buy pizza for the entire Terrace team if his son lost the Vernon bout. Bon appetite, guys. “We all did really ‘well, “we were really happy,’’ Taylor said on the group’s return home. Pointing out not one of the club member’s had luged before it was formed on January of this year, he said the three prac- tices heid since on Shames Mountain had been the only ex- perience for most. While he and two other members had managed a trip to race on Blue River's track a couple of weeks before the Games, Taylor said Vernon was the first time seven of the con- tingent had ever seen an official luge course, let alone slid on one. With winter fast approaching its close, he said the club will likely stage a fun event at Shames as a finale to their in- augral season. Then, it will be time to start thinking of next year and, in particular, investigate the possibility of constructing a luge track here in the northwest. Although the enthusiasm was there to build a facility, Taylor conceded, ‘‘Whether that hap- pens over the next year, is another question because it is a lot of work.” . angle,” wrote Isaak Walton in The Compleat Angler, “cast to have the wind on your back, and the sun, if it shines, to be before you, and to fish down the stream; and to carry the point or top of your rod downward, by which means the shadow of yourself, and the rad too will be least offensive to the fish.’? This was good advice in 1653 and it is good advice to- day. By the time Walton was scratching these words with a quill pen, fishing a fly. for trout had been practised for centuries and had grown into a complicated, refined pur- suit since the time.an ancient trouter first dibbled a bit of fur and feather over the head of his quarry in a Macedo- nian pond, . In fact, the accomplished “And before you begin to - trout fisher of Shakespeare’s time had to master more skills than today’s flyfisher. A fishing outing for Walton and his good friend Shomas Barker would pro- bably begin the night before when surh materials as pig’s wool, cat*s beard, the under- fur from a greyhound and the soft hackle of. grouse, starling or snipe would be deftly lashed ‘to. hook in much the same way Finlay andi danow, ~ But where Fin and I dress our lethal . patterns upon beautiful hooks of Japanese manufacture shaped > from strong, resilient. wire “and honed in an acid-bath,-Thom and.. Isaak fashioned - their irons . by’ carefully forging, bending ‘and tempering em- ~ broiderer’s needles: Fin and [ hop in the car and seek refuge from the city on the Lakelse River, Walton |. The Skeena Angler by Rob Brown and Barker fled the hurly burly of Landon on foot, for the tranquility of the River Lea in Wareham. Fin and I are streamside i in ' 20 minutes. It would: take Walton and his pariner half a -- day to get to,the river, during which limpthey would have a lively “discourse ~on philosophy and. the politics of the day. |.” * Walton's fly rod was made of ash, built in eight sections, each —two.-feet.; long and . meticulously. tapered over its length by master rod builder John Margrave. Thor's pole was oF fir, skillfully crafted at the tackle shop of Margrave’s competitor Charles Brandon. Fin and { fish feather-light poles of space-age graphite made by Sage and Fisher and pul together by rod builders Whelpley ‘and Hanson respectively, -Flylines are a critical part of every. fiyfisherman’s __ tackle, Finlay andl fish lines: made of poly-vinyl chloride, _Durable and easily obtained, -. our modern lines are tapered and balanced to our rods, “At the end. of each is a The equipment may change, but the lure’s the same length of clear monofilament or leader. Fin’s is level, mine a faclory-made taper with a bit of three pound test tippet, Our lines come from Steve Nickoll’s shop, nicely wrap- ped and encased in neat card- board boxes, Procuring a fly line in Walton's time wasn’t nearly as easy. First a horse had to be. found: not just any old nag, but an animal with clear hair free of scabs and galis, Having found the right amount of horse hair, Walton and Barker would build a tapered Line 12-15 feet long. Each section of the line would have fewer strands than the one preceding it and, like my monofilament tippet, each would be knot- ted together with a simple ; ‘and strong configuration called a water knot. “He who cannot kill a trout of twenty inches with _used by old Isaak himself, two hairs,”’ said Walton’s mentor Charles Cotton, “deserves not the name of angler.” Two premium grade horse hairs will break at two-and-a- half pounds of pressure. Considering there were no reels in Walton’s time, lan- ding a beefy brown trout when the fish could not tire itself running against the drag of a good reel was an amazing accomplishment, Walking stealthily downstream, their horse hair lines waving in the breeze, flies dancing temptingly on and above the water, Walton and Barker were formidable fishermen indeed. With our space-age gear and some of the fly patterns Finlay and 1, four centuries later and standing on the Walton's shoulders, are for- midable on occasion too. .