Thursday, October THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, 26, 1995 - Page D7 EmzM Outdoor! d fair By MIKE HEMINGWAY shooting. Our group had a 28 percent success rate, which is just about where hunter success was anticipated to be this year. Even though we didn't tag a deer, the day was not without its Special to The Daily Herald Last Saturday morning, when the sun finally arrived with its welcome warming rays, my sons and I were high in the mountains around Strawberry Reservoir searching for mule deer bucks We saw numerous deer, but unfortunately none of them were sporting headgear. Mike Hemingway - . Along with my sons, there were four other hunters in our group. From that group of seven, one brought down a two-poi- buck and nt Outdoor Columnist the other tagged a three-poin- t, so the day was not without its share of Special to The Daily Herald - BEAR RIVER Slow fishing. An occasional catfish is being picked up but the cold weather has pretty much shut this one off. LOGAN RIVER Good fishing on the upper end with nymphs. Power Bait is working in the lower impoundments. - BLACKSMITH'S FORK Excellent fishing with nymphs and with spinners. The fall leaves are beautiful and the snow is not too deep. ' WILLARD BAY Walleyes are being picked up along the west dike. Fish the edge right where it turns from the dike to the bottom of the reservoir. Use jigs in a slow, almost leech retrieve. LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON Slow fishing with a few leftover planted rainbows being caught. Use worms. . ' , AMERICAN FORK RIVER Fair fishing for small browns and a few leftover planter rainbows. Use worms. The scenery is fantastic. TIBBLE FORK RESERVOIR The reservoir is Hearst Magazine For AP Special Features A There are more than 100,000 PROVO RIVER rivers and streams in the United States and only 2 percent of them are rated American Rivers, a group that wants to save the rivers, offers an annual list of America's 10 most endangered rivers. Steve Chappie wrote in an article in the current issue of Sports Afield, and for the second year in a row the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone in Montana and Wyoming led the list. Also on the list were the Los Angeles River (California), Columbia and Snake Rivers (Washington, Oregon. Idaho), Animas (Colorado), Missouri River (Midwest, high-qualit- The upper end above Woodland has been good with both spinners and worms. The river is down and very fishable. DEER CREEK Slow fishing. Pop gear and a worm trolled from the island to the west shore and back has been picking up a few. re ot 17-in- river groups." American Rivers' former and use a sliding sinker rig with green or pink Power Bait. There is a heavy algae bloom. Thomas J. Cassidy. Protect the headwaters, which usually run through public and Forest Service land. Fight to have them designated 'Wild and Scenic' as the Ciaiks Fork now is. At least, make sure their banks cannot be logged. A bank without trees or cover silts the river, and fish cannot spawn. "No. 2: Protect the riparian areas downstream. Meanders, setbacks and marshy areas filter pollutants from subdivisions, septic tanks, golf courses, farms and fac- general counsel for American Riv ers, added: "Today, if you want to go out with your kid and catch what you Good fishing for walleyes off the points. Use a worm and a jig combination in 35 to 40 feet of water. chair- man Ray Culter cited The National Water Quality Inventory: Report to Congress, a 1992 study only recently released which states that abou 40 percent of the nation's rivers and lakes are too polluted for fishing, sw imming and boating. As for how to save rivers. Cassidy said: "It ain't rocket science. No. 1: Michael Keaton. who for the last two years has been a director and spokesman for American Rivers. "It was so beautiful. You could see all the way to the bottom, and there were trout darting about. A singular event for me." Good STRAWBERRY fishing on the far southeast side of The Meadows. Anchor STARVATION y. Great Plains), Kansas (Kansas). Mississippi (Midwest), Cheat (West Virginia), Penobscot (Maine), and Thorne (Alaska). "The first time I ever saw a clear stream. I was about 16, out with my dad and my brother, and I just couldn't believe it." said actor Pink Carter Spoons trolled down 20 feet are picking up the fish. Also, try trolling a brass Jake's with a three-fotrailer behind it trolled down 20 feet. Go extremely slow. Fish in the class are this rig. with being picked up Spin-a-Lu- costs considerably less than a bolt action rifle, has interchangeable barrels so that the shooter can graduate to a larger caiiber for bigger game, and is a pleasure to carry in the field. The single shot rifle breaks open like a shotgun and the shooter must cock the hammer before firing a round. It is a simple and safe system. Tim and I were hiking through the quaking aspen when I saw a deer coming out of the trees about 100 yards in front of us. I grabbed caught with your dad, well, a lot of those fish ain't there anymore, like the West Slope cutthroat, bull trout, Idaho or Atlantic salmon. Or if they are. there are far fewer of them. "More than a third of North America's fish species have become extinct or rare. Aquatic resources are crashing, and this has brought about a confluence, so to speak, between fishing groups and By SPORTS ANbLD down quite a ways and you have to content with some mud flats along the shore. Fishing has been excellent with a size 18 blue wing olive or a small green mayfly imitation. JORDANELLE may be the idestarter gun for a young hunter. It Handi-Rifl- e Tim's shoulder, pointed out the deer, and told him to get ready. In his excitement, he threw the gun to his shoulder, reached out with his thumb and carefully pressed the release on the barrel. The gun snapped opened, the bullet popped out and landed in Tim's arms, and the deer bounded off into the trees. 1 believe I heard muffled laughter coming from the direction of the deer. Tim quickly recovered, reloaded, and reminded himself where the barrel release was and where the hammer was on the rifle. He survived his first case of buck fever, and much to his relief, we got a good look at the deer and identified it as a doe. My sons and I spent the morning pushing through the trees and draws. All of us saw deer, beautiful country, and got some great exercise. Now we are ready for some serious hunting. We will be back at it early Saturday morning, with the rest of the hunters who did not fill their tags. There are still plenty of deer in the mountains, but we are going to have to work to find one. Few U.S. rivers, streams rate very high Most loca rivers offer good fishing By REX INFANGER memorable events. This is the first time that Tim, my youngest son, was able to carry a rifle. I outfitted him with an H&R that is single shot Handi-Rifi- e chambered to shoot a .243 bullet. When we practiced at the range, Tim commented over and over how pleased he was to have a gun that didn't kick. The al success on opener tories. "No. 3: Appropriate flow dams kill rivers. Flooding brings nutrients to your trees and finger-ling- s, triggers spawning. Dams that are likely to be here to stay must, nevertheless, provide enough water down stream." American Rivers has a strong record of working with local groups to protect such famous wild rivers as the Kings, Tuolumne, Klamath, Colorado, South Platte, Tatshenshini and Clavey, all on the "most endangered" list at some point. In stopping the building of what would have been one of the largest copper mines in North the y project near the Tatshenshini and Alsek rivers in t open-pi- America Windy-Cragg- Alaska and British Columbia. When combined with the contiguous areas of Kluane National Park and Preserve. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, and part of the Tongass National Forest in the United States, the Tatshenshini- - k watershed constitutes the largM-se- est internationally protected wilderness on Earth, some 23 minion acres. Producers looking at TV show about women and outdoors By VICKI REYNOLDS Dallas Morning News Company, a maker of hunting and fishing gear. "What's exciting about the says Martin, who hosts Ihe series, "is that suddenly women are discovering it. And it's not just hunting and fishing. It's traveling to remote and exotic places, experiencing different cultures, and living, for a short time, the more simple life." The show wili feature women in outdoor pursuits, from studying grizzly bears and competing in the Iditarod dogsled race to guiding rafting expeditions, mountain climbing, working cattle and fishing in salt water. ; Two Dallas producers have an inaide approach to getting more women interested in the outdoors. Helen Martin and Laurel Wilson are the creators of a proposed national television series called "Women in the Outdoors." Both Marhave combined their talent and enthusiasm tin's acting ability for the outdoors and Wilson's experience as a writer and director the show. They to hope to obtain enough sponsors so it can be aired in 1996. They have a commitment from the Orvis Angler's flies aren't cheap: They sell for $300 apiece By LAURI SAARI Orange County Register Bodies SANTA ANA. Calif. slathered with Revlon black nail polish. Tails bristling with tickly emu feathers. Wings cropped from green silk ficus leaves. Nymphs of beach balls and beetles of artificial fingernails. Damsel flies and katydids, water - . walkers and gnats, grasshoppers and stone flies and y itsy-bits- mos- quitoes. These are the creatures who in- habit the world of fly fisherman Bill Blackstone. Blackstone, of Orange. Calif., one of the few people is in the w orld as an .who have perfected mere tie impres'art form. Others sions of flies, feathers and fur on a hook. Blackstone, 61. makes his fly-tyi- : bugs lifelike. "He's the best in the world." ' s'ays Pete Parker, director of the ' Fly Tyer Theater at the Interna- tional Sportsmen's Exhibition. "Many tiers are bound by what 'Grandpa did, material that was 'used 30 years ago. Bill is always looking for new things. His flies " a re so real, you're almost afraid to ' ' Hold them in your hand " The bugs sell for about $300 ' each, so most anglers frame them " 'rather than fish with them. Black- stone, retired president and chief a operating officer of the all progives corporation, large ' ceeds of his sales to - 'ly groups, particularly conserva-- ' tion groups such as the Sierra Club and the Nature Conservancy that are keeping streams clean and pro- -' ' tected. " For years, Blackstone tied flies the same way everyone else ties : flies. He was 10 when his dad died. and Blackstone found a new father the Santa figure while fishing on ' Clara River. The fisherman. Charba-- . the Blackstone lie Funk, taught sic points of fly tying. Blackstone - . Cal-Ai- r. -- fishing-frien- " : - , his newfound got good at it, using be-- : skills to earn a badge toward Scout. .coming an Eagle . From his youth. Blackstone be- -' fish-- . 'oame as passionate about fly There is. . ing as he was about tying. differa learred Blackstone early, ence between the angler who sits and all day with a cork on a bobber the angler who can perform the 'intricate dance of fly fishing. Fly is fishing, like the bugs he creates, an art form. "You have a choice in this world of how you go about what you accomplish, whether it's living or working or angling." he said. "With a lure, you're casting a lure Scr,. . ry, into blindness hoping the fish will find it. With fly fishing, you're casting to a fish. Like the perfect shot in golf, all of your muscles have to be in synchronization. "There's a rhythm to a stream. There's a rhythm to the feeding of a fish. There's a rhythm to the casting of a fly. There's a rhythm to the seasons of the vear. You need to fit somewhere in that rhythm. And if you're not in that rhythm, your line won't fly on the water. Fly fishing is not blind. It's with thought, it's with care, it's with awareness, it's with rhythm, and it's with synchronization, when all of it comes together, you land the fish and then you let him For 40 years. Blackstone tied feathers and furs mainly for his own use. And although he was good at it. he never thought of makins a living out of it. "There are 999.000 good in the world." Blackstone says, and some make a living of it. But it's meager. "You've really got to be fast to make a living tying conventional flies. It was 25 cents an hour back then, and it's still 25 cents an hour." Fly tying in the conventional way never really grabbed him. "There's nothing more boring than tying two dozen of the same type of flies." he says. Blackstone was sitting in his study in Orange one afternoon doing just that: tying sofa pillows, the name for a conventional fishing fly. On his desk was a saucer, and in that saucer, a bug landed. A wasp. Blackstone got down nose to proboscis w ith the little guv "I look at this wasp, and I think, here I am tying flies that supposedly represent bugs, and I'm way off." he says. "I thought to myself. '1 can get close.' It grabbed me ... the challenge of trying to make a fly anatomically correct. It '' put a new step in my getalong Traditional fly tiers use hackles rooster feathers to lend movement to their flies. Blackstone has turned to recycled materials and ordinary notions because he grew disgusted with the price of hackles. fly-tie- (a Ky-T- J go." multi-functio- n THE TOTAL rs BODY FITNESS MACHINE MADE BY HEALTHRIDER WITH THE AEROBIC RIDER, YOU GET A COMPLETE AEROBIC WORKOUT THAT TONES, STRETCHES AND BURNS CALORIES WHILE . 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