| Show r m H"1 v" hp Utah Living OUTDOORS D THURSDAY September 9 200 wwjitrfexa XT! DON'T YOU Review H PALTROW IS SWEET V JUST LOVEn? Entertainment & Outdoor Notebook D8 OutTV D7 pfT 'La'lur THE NATURE V'i ON NEW BABY APPLE D4 Inside Harriette Cole D6 Comics D5 6 Tight Lines D2 Where Is It? D2 Recreation Roundup D2 OF SUNDANCE Environment D4 j D2 Robert Kirby "'7"' A hospital is a lousy place to get shut-ey- e his surgery last week needed Following Someone had to stay with him to attend his various needs but mostly to make sure that he didn't overdo his morphine pump Our families split the time into shifts Each person spent hours watching Scott twitctiand moan As expected the daytime and evening shifts were grabbed up quickly But when it came to who would sit at the bedside through the night everyone looked at me I was the only one with any real experience working the —graveyard shift OK I demanded it It was either sit in a hospital room until dawn or stay home with grandkids that wake up every hour for reasons that never make any sense to me I packed my bags Really how hard could it be to keep track of someone with a new rebar spine and more stitches than aRelief Society quilt? It's not like he might climb out the window and go for pizza More importantly I had spotted a small folding cot in the room during a previous visit and rightly deduced that it was for the use of weary family X" W" i r'rMMf y I 6-- 8 Stkve GRiFnNTVSafi Kevin Lund sets rrn 1 b Good flavor is what keeps anglers on the hunt for the elusive walleye By mem-ber&i'i- s' I figured that when things settled down I could grab some shut-ey- e maybe even more thanJ usually got at home After all what could possibly be more restful than sharing a hospital room at night with someone in a coma? Just about anything that's what Turns out I stood a better chance of get-ting a few winks at a NASCAR race a gunnery range or a Barf Donkey con cert In addition to his morphine pump Scott is hooked to a dozen machines that monitor everything including mood swings If any of the monitors dip below their preset levels an alarm the hospital apparently bought used from an attack submarine goes off v Vv ffcSteye facts Not native to Utah l limit one over 20 inches at Starvation Reservoir and Lake Powell Everywhere else the limit is six fish with one over 20 inches Fbces to fish far waye 1 1 " r DIVE! DIVE! I f tr I i 1 Yuba Reservoir 1 T—J t i ti L 3 Nurse: "Sorry it just does that some- ' ' f if 'it ( - t f ' COPY i - T Starvation Reservoir it'' ' Deer Creek Reservoir 'i 'jh" " " fh ' ' i ' j Lake Powell 4r—L to catch walleye cooking walleye vA5 ! ' atch lift Cook best-tastin- r ' J p-- jjd n: n - 1 - — v - — ZIr''! ' Top goose and duck callers will flock to Utah for cash prizes a stiff mX in a rctsrsh: Quacks and honks are sweet music at Midvale competition By Brett Prettyman On Tlte Sail Lah Tribune d waterWipe off those fowl calls lick your lips and blow: What comes out could be worth dust-covere- $10000 The country's best goose and duck callers are coming to Utah for the Sportsman's Warehouse Waterfowl Weekend Rather than standing in the reeds and trying to get a flock to turn callers will be perched on a stage in front of judges releasing a chorus of clucks quacks and honks for a chance to win the $10000 champion- goose-callin- g ship and a $2500 prize "The judges are looking for a clean blow with no scratches bobbles or sticks" said Bill Saunders who will be among the competitors and is arguably the best goose caller in the duck-callin- g West Saunders who guides goose hunters and designs and sells calls in Wash likes to mentally remove himself from the stage during competition by visualizing a scene in the field "I see a flock of geese at a distance and I try to get them to come towards me I picture them just starting to CO!!!! iG FRIDAY IN THE MIX L that walleye are the 10-fS- sh are just dropping" rkirbysltribcom The debate will rage on but the fact is fish in Utah Some would argue that perch are better and it is a valid argument but it takes a lot of effort to catch — let alone prepare — enough perch to satisfy a healthy appetite lotep: how Of course perch supporters say the effort Yesterday: required to catch one walleye makes things even "They are not a real glamorous fish They don't fight very much It is kind of like fishing for halibut where you are just trying to get them off of the bottom" said Kevin Lund an avid walleye angler from West Jordan "I don't know why I like to fish for walleye They are just a different fish" lew species are more susceptible than w Jeye to changes in weather water levels and water temperature: One day lie fishing action is nonstop and the next day it's nonexistent Walleye anglers may know best the meaning of "skunked" And their pent hant for biting light makes them ven more difficult to catch Lund uses the most sensitive rods meaning) for their big bulging eyes Walleye eyes glow in the night when light is shined down on them in the shallow water & orj-maii- Two words: Challenge and "Glass-eye"(na- CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Me: "Is he dying?" Nurse: "Of course not His O2 levels Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby welcomes mail at 143 S Main St Salt Lake City UTB4111 fight hard never jump when hooked are hard to catch and limited in Utah So why do anglers chase walleye with such 15 lbs 9 OZ (the state record) was caught in 1991 in the Provo River The world record 22 pounds 11 ounces was caught in Arkansas in 1982 aligned" When the machines were not going off and waking us people were coming In and doing it for them Nurses would tiptoe into the room and sort through the wires connected to Scott until he regained consciousness A registered nurse himself Scott found this behavior perplexing It didn't help that he was stoned But I was lamentably sober and didn't understand it either I'm also no lawyer but isn't there something legally homicidal about being awakened from a sound sleep to find out if you're resting comfortably? Lest you believe I exaggerate get this: Scott — the only one in the room who could knock himself out with a morphine pump whenevel he felt like it — begged me to bring him some earplugs The person who invented the foam earplug deserves a Nobel Prize He or she has probably prevented more murders and kept more people off drugs than Christianity I can't wait until Scott gets out of the hospital so we can both start to recover TARVATION RESERVOIR — They don't Walleye 1951 &! Brett Prettyman The Sail Lake Tribune were introduced to Utah waters in BONG! BONG! BONG! Me: "Holy Is there a fire?" Nurse: "No His catheter is mis- times" lah TrUmnf the hook on a walleye in Starvation Reservoir The fish bites light making it difficult to catch Lund uses the most sensitive rods so he can feel the fish bite Ken-newic- k Slc TOP CALLERS D3 Ca9 of the wild? s The Sportsman's Warehouse in Midvale W 7200 South is hosting a series of free waterfowl-callin- g seminars and national contests this 165 k weekend See D3 -- —J L " ' Earnle Calef of Cedar Eapids Iowa three-tim- e world champion duck caller will compete this weekend RAKING THROUGH THE FALL FILM LINEUP |
