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Show FHdoy, Morch 29, 1985 Vernal hpmt 9 ( ' . . . it '11 I : j ?3?i nffrfri 1 rrrrri I fli "r ; - l- - ri- i1 b---5- y J ; S, UTE TRACKSTER Kyle White, members compete in workouts liy Frank Ilaiuliclt Kxprrss Outd(Mirs Writer Nothing can equal a good muzzleloader John Ditkerson is pretty well known hi'reatxnits. Mis pri'M-nt assicnment is in Dutch Juhn. I'tiih with the Division of Wildlife Hesoura'S. Hi'lter than ten e;irs have come and gnne in my JrieiKisJiip ith J'lm. K.irh asMx-liition with him either eampiiis. fishing or jast visitmc in pfner.il. has resulted in wmckin'lff antemnrattlc adventure. Kveius which may sn-m routine to him have made Uum impressions on me Like the time wr w ere camjed in the IwNik n,ih I Mt e J and kept Jutm a,ike , for ui n-Khts Only when I ore to rmrf my mouth wiih duet t,i(ie to lm!!!e the Miies mvi Iwrnish hun with e.ir K i he since agrwl ta bke me ttlf -,. No wt'.h thi ta kmi;i-,d cm our r l.(!tv.h;p ymi may widrf M.md the Miointf Mory. I ! .i'r-. i ,J,.!.n .imh me to wnie up ift-.e'hing anm t;u?;!e J.widina r-rirnrr ar.4 he wmld t-ke me hear hmu-& t )-,"t !h 't' ttht he tnj my we i trll in e An ! il he fdra r I he jt- t.M f I Use pi p wi'Iotm! the IhififTll Jrar n!J and the Sir fit the rfly rail a tittiuU;r-ii. K'e in f'tl w n titrhrv 4 '1 r.-.i:;!-.ea 'f 'n!-,ir.fi fr 1 t ' IIONI3V IQaSfH 1 LiUiULlj 1,000,00000 Givrawnf 1 i i i .1.1 lI LJ l LL I MM A --- . 1 K'.vOi 21 through April 6, I?0S Wriinl SiHirl Center left and other Uintah team during practice, Tuesday. The Sevier River which wound around a portion of our ranch. Grandpa had loaned me his prize muzzle-loading shotgun of ancient vintage. vin-tage. It appeared to be about a ten-gauge ten-gauge and had beautiful balance. I was the only one he ever allowed to use it.. .(fact was that the uncles all had their own shell shuckers and wouldn't be bothered with an ole relic). I was happy when tote'n the ole charcoal burner, put me in touch with a past many long to experience. My mother asked me what I was going go-ing to do for the day and I told her I wanted to bag a bunny or duck along the river. Since I would be hunting a couple of miles from the small town of Glenwood, Utah, she requested I get some needed items for her. With a few dollars and a grocery list I started out on about a four mile walk cross country coun-try avoiding the roads. 1 wanted to get a chance at game and not be stopped by the local Sheriff to see if I had a license or was old enough to hunt. That wasted valuable time. On my return trip from the mercantile, mercan-tile, my pack sack which served as a game bag was laden with a large quantity of kitchen matches and several boxes of tacks. There were other items as well. My gun was empty emp-ty after having expended my last charges of pow der and shot at some high flying ducks. Grandpa told me the gun shot a wee bit low at times and had a tendency to miss. I had seen better days. As I was entering our pasture there w as a flight of mourning doves which appeared to be hundreds or maybe thousands heading for a large dead cottonwood tree to roost, and me w ithout powder end shot! Then I got to thinking; 1 had the necessary materials with me to try a thot. Quietly Quiet-ly I removed my pack ack and took out the malche along w ith the tacks. The match heads were carefully cut otf and placed in my cap until I had il iitmt half full. The match head were then leaded into each barrel of the old fii)e loader. The lack were placed ever the charge and pressed clon, Match head and tacks were held in pUce with Home paper wadding The talk N-fiart; The dove were roosting wi every pmntJe limb. Sme wire !iU Hollering armmd in the w aneing light trying to find a perch. The long dead tVi!iifiw?d appeared to have Or life a rfnvr etnered it leave one had Hie Matk a iM ce-l i?htrt f nt'e. My hands tfrmhl4 and wrte , . . , , .-,.-. v " ,'-.." ' . gr v . ' sT ' t r- . ' r '- - 'If "k M Utes have a large number of athletes out for track this year. sweaty.. .throat was dry. I never had tried match heads and tacks before. Anxiety was creeping in...;what about the kick, would grandpa's gun get hurt...? The moment of truth had arrived as the index and middle fingers wrapped themselves around the triggers.. .an earth-shattering BANG! Smoke, dust, and chattering doves filled the air, the dying echo richocheted from the nearby near-by hill. Then as the air cleared, I saw -J ' ' : ' ... . ir I OIL . , , ; ) - , t If' , ' . k . ' . . v " POLE VAULTCR Joe Newell works on his event as otter Uintah Ute trackMcrs look on. The Ute boys have 3 good number of seniors this year. r -r $ t r (- that I had either aimed too low or the gun was shootin' off again; the tacks missed their mark and had nailed all the bird's feet to the branches of the tree. The excited birds took wing and pulled up the old tree. I last saw it as it was flying over Glenwood. I later heard that old man Barker had closed his still the same evening the tree flew over his barn. He hasn't taken a drink of whiskey since and has become a good church going man. x ( i O' J ' a if V V J Contour maps help fishing in Uintas By Hartt Wixom, Vernal Express Outdoors Writer 1 don't know about you, but this time of year I get wrapped up in maps. Spring awakens the realization that things like fishing excursions into the Uinta Mountains are again, finally, a reality. So I trudge into the U.S. Geologic Survey office in Salt Lake City and spend a few hours in the 8th floor perusing trails, creeks, mountain passes, and fishing holes somewhere between Brush Creek on the east and Mirror Lake on the west. There's plenty plen-ty of wonderful country in between. The contour maps (sale price $2.50 each) tell you intriguing things like this shortcut from Lake x to Lake y is fine, and only VA miles. But it drops 2,500 feet in between. Soon you learn to take the long way around because it is on the same "shelf." Three miles maybe, but three hours faster than your so called shortcut. Reading a contour map can be tricky. But it is an interesting and effective ef-fective way to get around. A few years ago when my son and I climbed Kings Peak from the Henrys Fork side (I'm not sure how he talked me into that, as there was definately no lake filled with big trout at the top) we did it solely by map. Fog and rain were so thick we could scarcely see 25 yards ahead, but we did it by orienting the map for directions as we went, and hopping up boulders until late in the afternoon we reached a plaque on the ground which read "Kings Peak." Refering to the map again, we slid down a small glacier, and half-scaled a rock slide to reach camp in the scattered scat-tered timber on Henrys Fork Lake. I also utilized a map to locate the tiny creek inlet on Blanchard Lake. It was the one place on the lake where the fat cutthroats fed on inflowing rock rollers. Simulating the latter with a size 10 Siberian wood-an, ant, I hooked hook-ed and released over a dozen cutts in the 1-1 1 i lb. class. That was a memorable morning, for several other small ponds were located by pinpointing pin-pointing ridgelines and potholes to pro iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittitiiiiiitiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiitiiiii(iiiiitiiiitiitiiiiiiittitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiititiiiaittiiiiitiiiiiiitiftitt Let's go to the Cinerrtatic R rr IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM Bab W2 C2 02 Si Little kids will enjoy the beasties in Disney-Touchstone's story of scientists William Katt ("Greatest American Hero") and w ife Sean Young ("Blade Ilunncr") who discover a family of brontwaurufces (bronto&auri?) in the Ivory Coast jungle, and fight off bad guys to protect their find. Gut It's a latfcr for adults, with performances, per-formances, editing, story and action w ay below par for the company who gave us "Never Cry Wolf" and "Country." i'G: Strong profanity, casual violence, native nudity. The Last Dragon' wj a 03 S4 A rarity! A funny movie! An unheralded flick from I Wry Gordy is Ihe first Hung Fu musical comedy, parody, wi'.h black hero cUed ftruce rr roy, Thii highly sfylimt, off the-wall the-wall mrpf has a vast array of talented traces, and somehow tnanAgr to -.lain humnf Ihnsignut, wi'.h a l.iUe jva'.hoi nd romance to lit! AM it n't renft to vulgar ity, ?!fii jto,'ar.i!y, rt riinhfy pf ri rsive t4'4. Aclrr. Vanity is t .'.:le t sitiJetrt tat th mi. Hl f fe' U art es!fipTT)f !jr 'ACi. lUMr I r W.d fcnfaMjf Mr, 'Tft nfkhrn s tlf h ciH tff lathing M-:4 hMJtt:.r-g t tv an4 The Gods Must Be Crazy' ... 1 o nj m ! -wSa et tSe H f.-f tt) duce more excellent fly fishing. Any angler who hasn't tried it can't believe it, but a lake of several acres can be missed quite easily while exploring ex-ploring high country. This is especially true in undulating terrain with no high peaks to keep an eye on from the thick timber. To reach them by map you must practically take an azumith reading (point on the compass, with true north at zero) to find your destination. destina-tion. Many lakes go un-discovered (like Hidden on the North Fork of Pro-vo, Pro-vo, and Verlie in the upper Uinta) because there are no trails, and no signs leading you there. Such waters quite frequently have larger trout. Even a lake off the highway or back road gives, in my estimation, a 200 per cent chance of locating more respectable trout. Maps will also show you where greenery (conifer cover) is found for protection from rain and wind. Without the greenery (as with those dark brown lines close together indicating cliffs) you hardly have a camping site. Concerning maps of the Uintas, I also talked to a biologist with the Utah Div. Wildlife Resources about their booklet maps. I mentioned these a few weeks ago the newest editions which provide detailed scientific information, informa-tion, but don't specify which lakes have the lunkers. He told me: "We withhold that sort of thing on purpose. We don't want to funnel all the traffic into just the lakes with the whoppers. Some of the other waters need fishing pressure to thin out the stunted brook trout." But a contour map can help here. Just look for the lake tough to reach. The one over a high ridge, or series of rock slides. They haven't been fished lately, or possibly for several years. Those are the ones you want to stake out for a try. Not all have the food to produce monster trout. But your map even tells you something there. The ones with white space (not encircled with brown lines) have swampy growth. They often have the better feed, and better fish. movies! Sentiments Alton llaccnn Torky's Revenge' In which the 30-year-old high school kids WTeck Porky's floating brothel with a drawbridge. A rip off even for fans of the series. "P3" has none of the decadent charm and occasional laughs of Porkraunch 1 and 2. Mean-spirited, sloppy, spiritless junk. R: Vulgarity, nudity, sex. profanity. a. It t 7 30 Or Show NMty CHUCK NORRIS if 15 0 Show NWr TRI CIXEMAS THEATRE t Starts it 7:15 4 915 I lff Harriscsn WITNESS t Starts at 7.304 910 0 2. 3 0f t-K'r '9 SNW N gM' Last Draqon A sun frit IHo l.r a-vl linens '023 V. Hwy 40 709 519G TV. O U '.T'l t. '-c-x SafvFdsT. Wa-xh 33 at 12.0Q - t- r r : |