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Show Thursday, May 8, 2008 Page 9 J AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN PORT&:3BlBC V Pert lie cycle of t lie bass spawn any of you Ware stui doing do-ing well on Jordanelle amid the J wind and weather. I hope last week's column helped you target some feisty and fairly large trout. One reader caught and released 61 fish using the dropshot technique I described. de-scribed. Stick with it it's a great way to catch fish. Let's look at what bass will be doing over the next month or two. Jordanelle and Deer Creek, the two most prolific bass waters nearby will be transitioning from winter to spring. As the water warms Don Allphin On Fishing to around 50 degrees both large and smallmouth bass will begin to come up from their deep winter haunts looking for food as well as a good place to spawn. Although the spawn usually occurs around the new and full moons in May and June, when the fish decide it's time to become be-come active they start to chase baits. The next month will provide the best opportunity all year to throw a jerkbait to these fish. This is called a "pre-spawn" "pre-spawn" bite. Pointer minnows and Rapalas that suspend are the best lures to use under prespawn conditions. Spinner-baits Spinner-baits in white and chartreuse will work as well but the jerk-bait jerk-bait is king for the next few weeks. Thea the fish discover and explore ex-plore their spawning areas. They will generally choose a flat that has two elements: a hard bottom (gravel or small rocks), and a gradual slope heading toward deeper water. At Deer Creek, the Island area, Wallsburg Bay, and Rainbow Bays have almost perfect spawning habitat When bass decide it's time to spawn, the female will go up and look for a suitable location loca-tion but it is generally the male that makes the nest. A nest looks like someone has build a round fire pit between in from two and 15 feet of water. Although bass beds don't use large fire ring rocks, their nests are almost round, have some gravel or chunk rock in the area, and in the case of largemouth bass, they try to find a small piece of wood or grass to offer protection in the center. The best way to test for beds is to throw a spinnerbait in likely areas, and expect either a gigantic gigan-tic strike from fish protecting their nests, or expect a "touch," just enough to let you know a fish is there but not enough to hook it. Once a bed is located, a green pumpkin tube thrown on the bed will usually catch the fish Bass hate it when someone messes with their nests. Next week we'll explore the actual spawn and what happens hap-pens after they finish. I Don Allphin can be reached at remaxdoagmail.com. Cavemen Continued from Page 8 out to left fielder Pulsipher. American Fork coach Jarod Ingersoll said, "We had pretty good pitching. Our hitting was good, too." I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. Softball t May 1 - American Fork 9, Timpanogos 8: At American Fork, the Cavemen out-slugged out-slugged the T'Wolves to earn their second win in region play. I May 6 - American Fork 4, Lone Peak 2: At American Fork, Annie Christiansen scattered scat-tered five hits and fanned nine to pick up the win on the mound as the Cavemen got the Region 4 victory over the Knights. American Fork will finish its regular-season schedule sched-ule with a road game at Timpanogos today. Caveman coach Duke So-rensen So-rensen said, "This is the best game Annie's ever pitched. Before the game she was scared to death, but Annie "We had pretty good pitching. Our hitting was good, too." Jared Ingersoll AM. FORK BASEBALL COACH; ON THE CAVEMEN'S 11-0 VICTORY VIC-TORY OVER LEHI came into the game anxious to send Lone Peak home. Like us, they needed this game to stay in contention for a state tournament berth. Annie threw really well." So did Lone Peak pitcher Whitney Stevens. After Christiansen Chris-tiansen had fanned three straight batters in the top of the first, Stevens posted two strikeouts in the bottom of the innings. Stevens' pitching didn't stop Haley Holmstead from singling in Sandra Nessler, however. A Mallory Davis single the next inning permitted American Ameri-can Fork to load the bases on one out. Shelbi Peterson singled Davis in. On the next play, Stevens snatched a Christiansen fly ball, then threw to third base to complete a double play. Center fielder Jeni Keller picked off a Nessler fly ball. Stevens held American Fork's lead to 2-0 until the bottom bot-tom of the fourth. On one out that inning, a Nessler base hit drove in two runs. Earlier in that fourth, Bailie Hicken singled off Christiansen, Christian-sen, but the Cavemen prevented prevent-ed Lone Peak from capitalizing capitaliz-ing on that single. During the fifth and sixth innings, Stevens kept American Ameri-can Fork from picking up any more runs, even though Christiansen Chris-tiansen and Kayla Sorensen each hit a single for American Fork in the sixth. In the top of the fifth, Nicole Ni-cole Bean doubled into left, and Stevens singled her in on two outs. Right fielder Emily Dean snatched a fly ball to keep the Knights from scoring scor-ing a second run that inning. In the seventh, Raven King hit a solo home run off Christiansen. Chris-tiansen. Stevens and Janessa Ludlow attempted to get a rally ral-ly going through their hitting singles. However, American Fork didn't let the Knights score a third run. Duke Sorensen said he was proud of the unity existing among this year's American Fork team members. He added, "We'll match up well with Fremont in the state tournament, but first, we've got to get past Timpanogos Thursday." I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. Boys soccer I May 1 - Timpanogos 3, American Fork 0: At Orem, Timpanogos goalie Josh Ostler scored one of the T'Wolves three second-half goals in a shutout of American Fork. I May 6 - Lone Peak 1, American Fork 0: The Knights managed to slip by the Cavemen Cave-men but the contest was kept close by the Knights' inability to finish off numerous quality scoring chances. A combination of poor shooting, offsides calls and outstanding goalkeeping by American Fork's Chris Pineda were all factors in the lack of goals. Pineda displayed great poise in the box, repelling shots from the Knights all game, including many in one-on-one situations. Three times Cole Morley, Lone Peak's leading lead-ing goalscorer, was sent back by Pineda, and other Knight shooters met the same fate. "You've got to give credit to the keeper for making those saves," Lone Peak coach Dave Woolley said. "We did have at least five one-on-ones the keeper turned back." Make no mistake, however: how-ever: Lone Peak dominated, especially in time of possession. posses-sion. Knight goalkeeper Brian Hale and his defense pitched a shutout while the midfielders midfield-ers continually made sure the Knights kept the ball on the other end. Meanwhile, the American Fork midfielders were run ragged. The forwards for the Cavemen couldn't get close enough to take a crack at the goal largely because their midfielder teammates offered little support. Lone Peak scored its only goal 15 minutes in when Nate Fonbuena chased down a ball Pineda hesitated to go after at the top of the goalbox, kicking kick-ing it past Pineda and putting the ball in the open net for his second goal of the season. I Jordan Christiansen filed this report. Rocky Mtn. Wrestling shows at state tourney Beky Beaton NORTH COUNTY Members of the American Fork-based Rocky fcfcxintain Wrestling Chib showed well in the USAUtah Freestyle State Tournament on April 18 and 19. The team produced three division state champions, two of whom also earned most outstanding out-standing wrestler citations, and the club placed third overall. Following is a list of the Rocky Mountain winners by division. Fly (born 2002 or later) I Zeke Kelley - state champ. 45 lbs. I Oakley Ridge - 2nd place 40 lbs. Bantam (born 2000 or 2001) I Cole Zorn - state champion 45 lbs., Bantam Most Outstanding Outstand-ing Wrestler I Nicholas Lund - 2nd place 55 lbs Midget (bom 1998 or 1999) I Cameron Hunsaker - state champ. 55 lbs., Midgit Most Outstanding Out-standing Wrestler I Caden Zorn - 3rd place 55 lbs. I Anthony Ridge - 7th place 55 lbs. I Tucker FJdredge - 6th place 75 lbs. D Thomas Heaps - 2nd place 80 lbs. Novice (born 1996 or 1997) I Jonathan Kasanicky - 4th place 70 lbs. Schoolboy (born 1994 or 1995) I Lance Frederickson - 6th place 128 lbs. Cadet (born 1992 or 1993) I DJ Argyle - 7th place 125 lbs. Junior (born 1990 or 1991) I Rory Murano - 3rd place 135 lbs. 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