Page 84 — Terrace Standard, Wednestay, October. 17, 1990

Different defir

It was still dry. The rivers
were low and green and appeal-
ing. The first frosts had turned

the leaves on: the ‘hardwoods.
from subile shades of green to-
brilliant yellows, oranges and —

reds.
Only a few cloud banks hed

worked their way up the moun- ©

tain sides, and where they had,
they exposed. sharp peaks set
against a blue sky, ihe year’s
first dusting of snow: softening
their severity, The summer haze
that had hung so-long in the
valleys had left with the onset of
colder: temperature, Small
details — the leafy patterns on
the. slide slopes, the chiseled
features af rock outcrops: —
"were discernable again.

Some three hundred yards
down the road, a fox poked its
heads out of the roadside alder,
glancéd around fuctively then
trotted boldly across the road-
way. followed closely by a
smaller colleague. Their coats

were already thick, their tails
bushy and held high. Only when
they’d gained the other side did
they notice the truck whereupon
they paused momentarily and
disappeared into the thicket ina
tawny blur.

I pulled over where | always
pull over and glanced at the

~ treetops for wind. A flock of

geese — five together and one
Straggier ~- flew overhead
honking musically. It’s odd that
the call which makes the heart
beat faster. and sounds so
joyous each spring can be so
tinged with melancholy when it

-Signals the approach of winter

stillness. [ watched the. birds
disappear over a distant hill
then pulled on my boots, By the
time I'd made the far side of the
creek and started down the trail
the last of their cails were dif-
fuse and distant.

T was so intent on the fresh
bear tracks along the trail, and
the movements of the spawning

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The Skeena
Angier
by Rob Brown

pinks, 1 didn't notice the eagle
until almost upon it. He leapt
into the air, more startled than
I, leaving part of a dog salmon
carcass behind,

[ watched him disappear too,
then waded. out into the side
channel that must be crossed to
reach the main river. 1 was
pleased to look down and see
my toes; the river would be
clean and that meant smail flies
on long leaders and the pleasure
of working the double-tapered,
floating line.

Fall is the season of hurried

‘element

movement and variety — varie-
ty found not only in the colour-
ful landscapes but abo in
changeable weather and in the
creatures prowling the river-
bank and in the fish they hunt,
‘. Each cast carries with it the
of surprise — a
muscular little cutthroat may
take a fly swimming nearby, or
a spent pink might, or a coho or
a newly arrived’ winter
Steelhead, For that reason I'd
brought the 13-and-a-half foot
Orvis — a sweet, soft-actioned
rod, light enough io still make

sixty feet.

fighting a trout enjoyable, yet
strong enough to move a strong
steelhead to the beach with
some authority. *-

I taped the ferrules, sent some
of fine ‘straight
downstream, swept it upstream
and sent it out across the river,
then watched it unfurl over the

_ water in a’ pleasing loop. The

rod felt good, the casting scon
became as automatic, but in-
finitely more enjoyable, as driv-
ing long distances. A pair. of
seals worked the riffle below
me, surfacing from time to time
to stare apprehensively before
disappearing to continue the
hunt below.

By tunch I'd released only
one nice cutthroat. 1 sat down

to a cheese sandwich and a

warm coffee and watched a jet
black bear work his way slowlyh
down the bank of a channel
behind me and out onto a log
jam.

Lunch over, I continued to

id
SA one ye om oa oaed

bake seo ee ss

work downstream finding. five
nice cutthroat in'4 small’ ‘bay.
I'd have ‘been * satisfied “With -
that, but it. was one of those
good days when everything
comes easily. I brought: a coho
to the beach a ‘short‘time later -
nad not long after that released
a specimen steelhead: after: an
exciting fight.“ we

With the shadows lengthen-
ing across the water, I made my
way back to the truck wishing I
could savour one more day on
the Skeena instead of making a

_business trip to. Vancouver,

In the airport 1 met a col-
league who had recently moved
to the Nass. “Do you fish
there?" Tasked,

He held up fis ybung son. ‘I
wouldn't feel good Killing
something. as big as him,” he
said.

“You can always release
them,’’ | suggested.

He looked at me skeptically,
“'Then what’s the point?’’

SPORTS NE

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TERRACE STANDARD

-SPORT SCOPE

- gottball elowes.

Mexico co compete in a Cun-

return from che Mexicana 7-

the open rowmament. ~

‘LeBrun xivs

“Wi make the trip. be said,

OE kcal spores,

JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

Ball team
to the Baja

PASS THE SALSA, pass
the sombrermag — and hey,
while you're at it, pass the

The Skeena Hotel
Athletics are in the late states
of planning their wur 1

sty: imernational sho-pitch
softball rourrament,

'- The A‘s Rave from Ter-
race for San Jos: Def Cabo,
Mexike. on Sow 2th, aod

Sitver Cup mixed slo-pitch

tourney an the PPtho: :
About Swamy from

antuss the shots are to phaw at

Team spokesman Paul
the tip
deftuired’ awe. adding axne
players have deenind ro take
am entra week and make it a
winter vacation in warm Ba.

.Sintern Terrace players

adding it wouldn’: have been
Pomilte without the support

Curling is
on track

Curing Ethan act gins
bast week at che Terrace Cunt.
img Asotariog, as mus
eugue action got enderway.

koeeman Soot Easton ind 2
team of votumteers led the
share in getti¢g the ike ic
Place in cme.

“hab memsnper Bruce Cur-

Boxers bag tournament wins

TERRACE — Two jocal boxers added another
tournament victory to their records last week and
continue their march up the ranks of the B.C.
Amateur Boxing Association.

Joey Losier fought his opponent to a second-

' ound win, and Darren Bell picked up a walkover
‘; Win when his weight division went uncontested at

the provincial Diamond Belt amateur boxing

 toumnament in Vancouver.

Losier — who has become accustomed to win-

ging by knockout, often in the first round — fac-

ed a tougher-than-usual fight in the 119-Ib weight
division against Bert Smith of the Campbell
River Eagles boxing club.

“Fhe.fight was-fairiy-cven in the first round?’

TERRACE — hrs wacky, it’s with
— it’s completly ott-the- wail!

Yex walivhall & back fer the
water sno and W's beneer chan
THRE,

Local league ompanizer Nase
Hi stvs eitht four-plaver teams
ae oumpenog this, vear in 2 three
daa-d-wesk schedule,
| Wally — bancally wotfeyball
Panyet ioga ended racquerbul
cert — bes victualiy ao miles, and
most plays ical! gre lend.

“These’s moc 2 hoe of naies.”" Hw

Off the

_wall

“IS & vere fest game aod it’s .
2 1 of fun. And sow play foe an
hour 32 you get a really god

woes"

The fear rales in the game — anh
§ ss regulinons thar outiew spiking to
the fhooc, shots studies co the back
wal amd bourees off nwo or mae

wats — ae designed keep power

hitters im-check
>The. more than 20 lecal

walivbalics biaw the ball around
-. the: cotert Sanday, Monday and
Thursday evenings. Holl sad the
Eavodwerment this wear is an improve-
mest over Est year’s su teams.

~ Hell sod the exiting leaeme 5
Gdesigaed for competitive
walleyéeliers and wruvd someone co
SSart & Temenos! Rea if enoarh
phtyers 2re meerested im crore ner-
CWOISKICHe Joie,

renders Says toe Ge ut bas
wong fac cine more Moe
Gay mighe mived num, amd 2
few opegings resin in
“Wetnesiny aught cones
Teague, ete mew Saturday
mie mined uguc. ami foc
jemoe surkes.
Upooming. cveres ince
the Now lt Casi: Boosroel,
Boosprel Now. tek £2.

Lings compete
in Montreal

_RNETIMAT’S KARATE
sisters lot heck ac it. com

BROInE GES week i Monsreul
a6 She guntomal Rarant chem

More gym
money is
needed

TERRACE — The Fecur
Peats Uamumetics Ciet fas
mow cuisat S8hoo of che
mote it mass tt nid 2 cheb
geomasiion i Thoceiulf, . but.

ORDRESICES SAN Themes sen a home
owes thew Boa 2 wey cigs gam:
efewe Bein dhefeann!d 1412 tee de Tnost

Wa OO
Chub spokesman Maria
Maretes said fast week, the cheh"s

with the afm: off raising a farther

SHUN) che chat meeds no get

Th: buiiding: iz ta be coo
strummed as am achiom 9 ther ex~

fe re just gettiong nderway

* Seling, Decks now.” Mateus

rugeers i in final

HONGQEERU — The wercher was bor
am? the oougecign sc¥. bet afer 2
week of opty ton ic Homolsbe.
Heest, tt Tecra: Necmen. raat
Ronen was pomed on Sucurdew to omter

consolation division Snais ar dhe Hawaii |

Hasiegsins ~wockl imiccional rughy
Reta
Tins Nocthomen: firs: sa acthon Oc. &

Herwadt Haclequises Siler 8 on

. Witt fous apparencie heme the aac’
nantes, the Ferace snunf dropped
hair seeemd gat by ce xeme pou

aged im 2 1-9 iss quia Swoie
“Rugby Football Cit of Nelson City.
New Zealand.

—— tie Noethemer weer cipped 226 by
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thomen were riod in she Pie fooosole-
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[212 sicher ower Ghee Rgler Bos. Ter-

race's Leon Schuibe amd Dacron Pile
“img (peinrs were Souris af Dour

Wikom.
“The Binal amuments of the game were

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oa Harlequins id 2 poset game

‘Aad ie che baritiest- Sought coonest - SEE
of the poolpline — wich dstemmieed |
pessoming for tne charging mand |

Yerrace posts. But the Eiewainan gadis

‘sami fomity om tie Nectimen, 25

Adler B's lncher bocoed cine ball wade of

She poss in a missed aaempe o> Grist

. Said coach Jeff Dilley. ‘Joey got a much better
"fight than he usually does."’

Dilley said he cautioned Losier between

-.]. rounds to prepare for a steady fight rather than
* kooking for the TKO. The Terrace fighter took
the advice and kept control through the early se-

cond before exploding and hammering his oppo-
nent for a standing eight-count midway through
the round.

A shaken Smith held on, but ieferees Stopped
the contest with about 20 seconds left in the se-

Dilley said the impressive victory is yet another
in Loser’s record that should make provincial
boumng officials rake notice. “This boy had eight
more fights than Joey did, and he was a little
teore than a year okder,”* he added.

A third northwest boxer — Steve Yeager of
Prince Rupert — normally competes in the adult
iSétb weight classification, but didn’t make
weight. As 2 result, 2 half-starved and weakened
Yeager tured out to be easy prey in the 165-1b
devishon, where his bout was called when he suf-
fered a chird-round nosebleed.

Akhough Bell and Losier are both 14 years
old, Diey evanaged to get them into the §5- and
l&-year-okd Junior °C’ division this fall. Jeff
Defiew arid be did thar to avoid a repeat perfor-
mance Of iex spring — when Bell and Losier
deteaced Juniog ~C* boxers to win the provincial
championships, but were then denied the right to
flag at the manoasls. because they were still
thesstfied Janitor -B*.

“Last year the boys they beat went t to the: n2-
wom,” Dilley said. “P don't like making
predictines, bun I have no doubt in my mind that
if they continue Eke this, they'll be going this

. ¥eac. Fm cupectiag big things from these boys.

They really seere dedicated this year."

Potts 2 che Peovinciat boxing assochition
level apparentiy prevented Yeager from going on
tO aacioeal coorpetition bast yar, Dilley said, ad-
ding he’s commited to making. sure the same
thoy dancun”t kapees to Bell and Losier, >

“Hine powers thar be in the B.C. Amateur Bow-
ing Awmociecon are saarting 10 pay attention,
SEC bo coopgaine these two boys,” he said. is}
Wan or Geng to every provincial tournament
with these hows this year. And Pi do everything
in ony ppIwer tp omakke sure they get a chance to go #0}
op tthe mammals Wf tikes "re eligibte. ‘* —_

Wins an Wamovever, they also got a chance to
ase SXULipIMeNT aid the services of trainers at a
bop gee-irvel boxing training ceotre. an

" Neutout on the card for Terrace’s gloved duo
is the Beanze Girves provincial having toume-
ment on Wamcruser Now, & followed by Prince
Rapect’sS ans Salmon, Belt tourney Now. 4,
wiser Gromer Canadien heavyweight champ Ken .

| [Ladiuatee Es te appews.

Farcioor wins there end at future competitions .
anak set uyp the pair for another shot al the ©

EE ental Ue, and, if successtel

theme,, 2 sip a» tthe mathe.

these ays Rep Wheir interest, and we get |

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