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MALCOLM BAXTER 638-7283

| SPORTS NEWS |

TERRACE STANDARD.

HY FISH HIT LURES IS

one of the great puzzles

of the angling world - one

which ‘fishermen have

been. hurting their brains
about since an anonymous
Mesopotamian fisherman discovered
he could pull fish from the Euphrates
with a crude hook festooned with a
duck feather and a chunk of fur.

Fish take bait because it’s food.
Starting from this painfully ‘obvious
premise, one doesn’t need a doctorate
in biology to deduce that fish take
lures because they bear a resemblance
to food.

But, this is only part of the story. If
the efficiency of a lure were propor-
tional to the degree to which it
resmbied a food item then those ultra-
realistic, plastic insect forgeries ought
* t0 work like a hot darn. But they
don’t.

To caich fish, it tums out, a lure
needs to act like food: a flashy plece
of bent metal wobbling through the
waler creates the impression of a
wounded bailfish; a tuft of orange
wool bouncing along the bottom of a
stream does a pretty good impression
of a salmon egg; a bunch of deer hair
spun on a hook can he made into a
convincing tmaerionette of an adull
stonefly.

Almost every effective lure for trout
canbe likened to something appearing
on (heir menus. - :

The problem is solved for trout, salt

Local favourite comes through :

TOP JUNIOR Shane DeJong taps in one last putt in the 54-hole Skeena

Valley Men's Open and In doing so comfortably takes top spat in the ‘A’
flight low gross category. A record 116 golfers took part in the three day
tournament which saw Dan Rosengren emerge overall winner.

Local golfer Dan Rosengren lived up
to his billing as the Skeena Valley Men’s
Open favourite, firing a 54-hole total of
218 to take the low gross honours.

Rosengren nailed down. a solid lead
Saturday with a two-under round of 68,
the best of the tournament.

Although he slipped to a 74 on the
final day, it was stilt enough to ensure a
comfortable eight stroke margin over
nearest. challenger, Clayton Harris of
Kitimat. ,

Harris had an equally secure grip on
first in the championship flight, finishing
six clear of fellow Kitimatian Craig
Lowrie and Terrace’s JF Malenfant, both
of whom tallied a 232.

Overall low net title went to Dave
Comfort who apparently forgot he was @
15 handicap to open with a 78.

Follow up rounds of 84 and 81 left him
seven clear of Ron Macauley whose 205
was just enough to take firs! low net in

_ the ‘A’ flight

Entering the final day tied with Dan
Eastman, Kitimat’s Macauley won the
duel in spectacular fashion by producing
an eagle on the 17th.

The low net title in the championship

- flight also went to a Kitimatlan by a

single stroke, Jari Yrkki taking ad-
vantage of Mike Kerbrat’s final round
difficulties on the 14th through 16th.
The 15th and 16th were also trouble
for Teru Yamamoto, the Prince Rupert

hope double-bogeying both to allow pat-

Championship flight

_LOW GROSS:
1- Clayton Harris...
Q- Craig, LOWIE...sssausersrrens
3- JF Malenfan eaneanees
4- Pierre Butz ont adds aeeee Den abate tae vw (233)
LOW NET:
1- Jari ¥rkki..-. seasnisaseansensareoone (209)
2- Mike Kerbral (210)
3- Paul Leffler ssssrenessereesee snesse (210)
4- Tomy LOpes wrssessriesreenesssassenteies (212)
A Flight
LOW GROSS:
1- Shane DeJong «.....ssssssssssverseeves (236)
2- Teru YIELD aii sosnvenssteer (ZAL)
3- Stan Holland ..sssesssseessseeeeresiee (244):
4- Dean Boucher .....sesssssssssecnseens (244)
LOW NET: | 7
1-Ron Macanley sever ssssaeee (205)
2- Dan Eastman.... sssieeers (208):
3- Clayton Lloyd-Jones..... sssreneone (217)

4- Lloyd Radford....csseonssenrsess “+ (212) .

B Flight ; a
LOW GROSS: ae ys
1- Harold Cox... weassseessearsesis (200)
2- Hans Feddersen.... (259)
3-Ed Kormendy... ate seers (200)
4- Glen Bvans.usecssee v- (261)
LOW NET:
1- Doug Matt gaoninonenenen (209)
2- Don Collison suaiees (212)
3» Fim Kellat.....--onssosesesssseersere (214)
4- Bob Malssoneuve... tens

mmone (214)

shooting Shane DeJong to stroll away C Flight a. 7
with ‘A’ flight low gross honours. LOWGROSS: , :
DeJong’s performance was the best by 1+ Jim LyMch -...rssssssmescssseronrsosien 9s) °
ajunior in the event. 2- Gerry Martin... enn eomeeees see (276) -
Below, details of how they finished in 3- Brian Netzel...ussesee vr a
each flight and category: 4- Brian Kennedy ase sees (281)
LOW NET: | :
OVERALL LOW GROSS 1- Wayne Braid......-.. vases ws (210)
Dan Rosengren (218) — 2- Rod Mone dth ...-ccsscsrsesssrsosseons ws (213)
OVERALL LOW NET 3~ Tonk Casey .....nascscers
Dave Comfort (198) 4- Jake DeJomg....esescrsssessersooes

water fishes and salmon in the sea, but
the issue grows thorns when it comes
to the mystery of anadromy.

The first white folk to bump into
North America were quick to note the
‘abundant: salnion ‘runs. “Angling for
‘Atlantic salmon was enormously pop-
viarin Hurope then,

A number of contemporary diaries
give details of angling expeditions in
the new, fish-rich environs; but dis-
iliusionment figures prominently i in all
of them, -

Faced with waves of Pacific salmon,
the newcomers could not get them to
bite...

With the advent of modern lines, sur
petior rods and modem reels, today’s

Diamond
leaders
gets no
respect

anglers -have found that. chinook,
coho, chum, . pinks and certain strains
of sockeye will accept an artificial
lore with enough frequency to provide
- good sport. But why? -

For . Pacific saimon ihe urge to

Teproduce - becomes: paramount once
they enter fresh water, So, If salmon.
-do not eat when on their spawning run
why do they bite lures?)

One ‘school’ of. thought has’ them
biting out of anger.”

Other fishermen argue that curiosity.

" prompis a strike from the salmon.

‘These explanations strike me as”
anthropomorphic, The complicated
emotion we call'anger is as foreign to
fishes as holding grudges,

As for curlosity, it’s “a highly.
sophisticated. attribute of © ‘creatures
with large well developed brains,

The most reasonable - explanation
theory is the: one that suggests fish
move to.an artificial lure because it
looks and acts like..something that
sustained them at one. stage of their
Ilfe cycle. .

The. steelhead hoveting just. above
the stories on the bottom of the tallout
of a long Tun ‘rises to the surface: to
take a‘ drifting dry fly because it
reminds him of.the creatures he Brew
fat uponas ajuvenile. | -

A burly: spring salmon. whacks a
spoon because. it Hashes like the her-
ting he devoured when at sea.

In both these cases the action of the
lure pushed the right bittony and trig- -
gered an instinctual feeding response. .
Operating on this assumption, the, sal-
mon angler can « construct his flies ace
cordingly. a

Since.they. have ‘become available to’
us, I’ve: tried unsuccessfully | lo calch '
Skeena sockeye. °-

These fish are. notorious non-biters.
yen commercial trollers have trouble
enticing them tostrike,

| suspect this is: because. these ‘fish
dine upon tiny crustacea. Jn @ manner
similar to the way whidles-evour. the .
liny creatures that sustain them” =

The key‘to catching sockeye ‘will be
found: in this behaviour; the: effective”
Skeena sockeye, lure ought to: ‘resemi- :
ble-oné or number. of; ‘these. small, ,
luminescent ¢ ctealittes.:

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(Below, the first in a series of articles
by LORNE CLARKE of the Smithers
Interior News examining the controvery
of steroid use by young athletes)

Pumped up.

That best describes an alarming portion

“of Canada’s youth if results from a
*~ Teeent study are any Lnodication.

The Canadian Centre for Drug-free

- Sport suggests that based on its survey, -
~_ there

‘is: a. staggering level of
performance-enhancing drug use among
Canadian teenagers.

The study suggests that. more than
83,000 Canadians between the ages of

.. 11 and 18 used anabolic steroids in the

last 22 months. ©

The CCDS research, the first of its
kind in Canada, involved 16,169 high
school and elementary achool students,
2,500 of which were in B.C. The survey
obiained baseline Information on the
knowledge, attitudes and behavior of Ca-
‘nadian students towards performance en-
hancing drugs.

One in five students in the study claim

“to personally know someone who uses

anabolic steraids.
Viclor Lechance, chief executive of-
ficer for the CCDS, sald the numbers are

-. both frightening and alarming when you

‘look at the age group represented. «
- “You have: to ask. yourself ‘What's
next? — six to 11-year-olds,’*’ Lechance

said in an’ interview from. Gloucester,

Ontarlo (near Ottawa). .
“The study ~ also revealed that an

estimated 265,000 Canadian youths use |

painkillers to better themselves in sport

‘and 94,000 use stimulants for the same .

Teasors:
Lechance suggested | if kid’s mentality ;

is that it’s okay to use pain’ killers, caf.

feine or alcohol to nhance. their per-

formance, then the next ‘step, for them is

| anabolic steroids, 4

“© “Their mindset ig already developed,”

~ he'sald. "It will be a natural evolvement tasked me to design a steroid program”
: to try something stronger,” Bee

~ While “there is no «set: ‘curiculint | in ;

yus BC Hiigh schools, Greg Peters, a blolopy-

teacher - and track and: field - coach” ‘at.

Back Eddy Pub and Terrace Paving
showed last week nothing can be taken
for granted in the Men’s Slo-pitch league
this seasons,

The cellar dwellers miade the ‘point
with their bats, Back Eddy outgunning
league leading "Rudon Enterprises 14-12
while, two nights later, the Pavers shot
down Rudon 16-11,

‘That left the two teams tied just four

_ anda half games out of first,

“Ii’s.a lot tighter this year,’ league

' statisticlan Bob Dempster agreed, point-

ing out that at this point in the '92 season
the trailers were already 10 games adrift

So far, three different teams have held
the lead at some point and, although it’s

Managed to hold on to. top spot for a

couple of weeks now, Rudon has not

been able to pull away from pursuers -

Westpoint Rentals or SKB Molson
Wreckers. ,

Dempsier said it all bodes well for the
Riverboat Days toumament, July 30-
Aug, 2.

With no team now able to take any
game for granted, it promised to be a
wide open affair and provide some closc,
entertaining games, he added.

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“open il the

to victory in the 2nd annual Aiyansh
mixed scrub journament. -
. Facing the Nass Camp Draft Dodgers &
in the final, the Pub broke-a.tight. game
fifth to win: “17-12 "and taker!
home the $700 first place prize moncy. °*
Providing the team with its power | att
the plate over the weekend were: Chris -F
Terlesky and Shane Dallyn, both with
fence clearer. -
In the third place playoff, Terrace’s.
Protech Electronics staged a last -bats,
five-run rally to squeeze out a 14-13 vic-
tory and earn $200.
Protech’s Jamie Goodwin helped the §
cause with a home run in that game.

and fading.

Youth use alarming |

“hormone
‘testosterone possesses ‘‘anabolic’” (mus-

thing to.do,”* ho said,”

_ Smithers Secondary, said he has made a

point of discussing the subject with his
Students and athletes. His class doesn’t

talk about drug abuse so much as what —

Steroids are, he said.

*] see a lot of literature from Sport BC
and from BC High School sports so I
make a point of telling the students, about
it,’’ Peters said.

“Being a track coach, I also mention
the harmful side effects of using anabolic
steroids io the team.”

- Anabolic steroids are synthetic chemi-

cals, designed to have similar effects to a
natural.steroid produced in the body, the.
’ testosterone.

cle building) and ‘androgenic’? (mas-

_ culinizing) properties.
_ Based on the research data, the CCDS

estimates that over 30,000 Canadian
males: use anabolic steroids,”’ Lechance
said.

The Back Eddy name was also carried

- Natural |

grams, Peters said he quickly passed on
some education to try and deter the two
locals from using steroids.

“I don't mind discussing steroids —

and I know the procedures (for being on
a program)... but I refuse to help anyone
take drugs.”" .

Peters said he was alarmed earller this

"year when two members of his track and
field team were offered steroids in.

Smithers.

“Tt was very subtle. Kind of like, ‘Hey,
you're doing pretty good. Imagine what
you'd be able to do if you had extra mus-.
cle?’ he said. .

From liver and kidney damage, to hair

loss and tendon damage, the side effects -

can be damaging, he added.
“Your musclés cam get so big, so fast,

that your tendons can’t handle the

stress,” he noted.
"An all-star jock in Kelowna went

from champ to chump when he tested

“People who use sterolds Say they are qulte ac-
cessible on the street or in gyms.”

While it is not illegal to possess
anabolic sterolds, Lechance said it’s il-
legal-to ‘sell, offer, import or export
them, Legislation (Bill C 85) is currently
being discussed to modernize and im-
prove existing legislation.

-. “People who use steroids say they are
- quite’ accessible on the street or- in’

gyms,”’ he noted.

stance to enhance their performance in
sporis. : .
“While he has never had an athlete or
student ‘ask directly about the effects of

using . -performance-enhancing,” ‘drugs,

Peters said two Bulkley Valley residents

for them,
“OM Rids: can’t [ help but know its ot the

AS for. tho. fequeats fo

needle to inject steroids,’” he recalled.
‘A coach there also told his tugby
team not to attend a seminar on drug-free
sport.. Likely to avoid them from Jeam-
ing ‘anything about the. drugs ihey were
taking,’’ Peters said in disgust.
Marcel “Dubroy, who coaches the

~ Smithers’ Saltos' gymnastics te d
"Lechance said the data will help the am, sal

CCDS step up it’s educational program
to. deter people from taking any sub-

steroids and gymnastics aré a bad com-
bittation. It’s something that no gymnast
would ever want in his or ber system, he
stressed,

ou Gymnasts don't want oF need mass in
muscle tissue,” Dubroy noted, ‘“It’s rel-

‘ative strength — not overall | strength ‘that

they're after,??»
‘The typical male gymnast (in interta-

tional « competition), “Dubroy «said, is

around 5-2 to 5-4 and: ‘weighs between - Is our testing system among the best tn -

60 and 70 idiograms,* «

_ ‘Therefore * théte’s- no’: ‘pay ° “off for.
; folds,”* he.

bi

ail:

said. ‘Il causes problems in competition
as well as internally. ,

‘*Your body pays the price. There’s no
such thing as a fast fix.’’

Track and field, Peters noted, has‘taken
a leading role in testing athletes | for
steroid use in this province. It’s the only
sport in B.C, other than weightlifting;
that tests athletes, he said. -

Random testing occurs at all junior (18

~ and 19-year-olds) and there is talk of im-.
-plementing it at the juvenile (16 | to 17)
level. :

Peters said he doesn’t buy the “clean”
argument of other sports who don’t test
their athletes,

“TE you don’t test, how are you going
to catch someone on drugs?’” he: asked.
“Athletics has bome the brunt of the bad
news because they’ Te testing regularly.
Just take a testing lab to a football field

and watch the athletes scatter!”

The bad hype created when Cansiian
sprinter Ben Johnson tested positive for
anabolic steroids still hasn't: died down
in Peters’ eyes.

All it takes, he noted, is for o: one athlete
to test positive, and: it all gets stirred uP

- gain, -
positive. for AIDS after using a dirty bas f

. Peters praised the organizers ‘of ‘the
Canada Summer Games who won't al:
low athletes to participate unless they’ve.

“attended seminars on drug-free spor and:

nutrition, |. : :
“They're sending a strong message to:
our athletes: Stay clean or stay away,”
If steroid usage isn’t cleaned up soon, -

.Lechance sald the integrity of sport: is in:

Jeopardy.
“The good news is that 98 per cent of,

amateur athletes are’ drug free. The bad :

news is that kids feel the need to’ use -

* anabolic steroids to enhance the look: ‘of a

thelr badies,’”
After the Ben. Johnson incident,
Lechatice said Canada has taken-a ead: ;

‘Ing: tole in the world when it,comes’ to.

testing for banned. substances. ‘Not. only’,

the wotld, but the. number and: frequency :
of teats i “also ® among the Metest, he ®