WILDLIFE
By Phil White
Emerald Sport* Writer
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This article will be the first of a series of three in which we ,
will trv to explain some of the basic methods of catching trout.
This week we will delve into bait fishing for trout, and then ;
follow with spin fishing methods, ending up with fly fishing
tactics.
We have covered tackle in a past article, but just to re
view, remember that spinning tackle is probably the best
all-’round bait fishing gear. A fly rod is very good on small
brooks and creeks where long casts are unnecessary.
First let’s deal with some of the ways to fish bait, since al
most all baits can be fished in the same manner. The most J
common approach is to cast your bait slightly up and across!
stream. Allow the bait to drift with the current as it bumps
along the bottom. When it reaches the end of the arch, retrieve:
it slowly scraping the bottom.
Bait Good Upstream Too
Bait is also fished upstream. Make your cast into the head
of a riffle and strip in line quickly to keep the slack out. This!
method is very good because it allows the bait to drift in a
free and natural manner.
There are many baits which can be effectively used for
trout but by far the favorite is the angleworm. The worm
or night-crawler can produce good results all season long,
but it is most effective during the early part of the season
when the waters are usually high and discolored.
The most important thing to remember when fishing worms, j
and all bait for that matter, is to make the presentation as
natural as possible. This means that the worm should not be
balled up on the hook, but should be hooked on one place—
near the middle—with both ends tree to wiggle around.
The hook should be fairly small—sixes, eights and tens
are the most used sizes. Our favorite is a regular size ten
wet fly hook. (Hooks are numbered backward—a number
20 is a very small hook.)
Worms are also trolled behind large spinners or “Ford!
Fenders.” This method is apparently effective in many lakes,
but we are not too familiar with its use. for we do not like to
drag a lure as large as the anchor behnd our boat.
Salmon Eggs Used
Usually single salmon eggs are used for trout. The egg is
impaled on a small sized, special salmon egg hook. These
hooks are short shanked so that the entire hook can be hidden
in the egg.
A light leader is used with eggs, usually one or two pound
test. The egg is then drifted with the current much in the
same manner as any other bait. Eggs fished by an experi
enced egg fisherman are a deadly bait for raibows, especial
ly
Probably the best bait possible for large trout is minnows.
Live minnows are illegal in Oregon, but that's okay, since
dead mnnows work better anyway. Hook them through the
no^e, or with double hook rig, through both the nose and back.
Then drift them as you do a worm or egg. but animate the min
now with a series of short jerks. Remember to give slack line
when a trout strikes. Wait a few seconds and then strike hard.
Another bait which is less common, but no less deadly, is
natural nymphs. A nymph is the subaquatic stage of the
aquatic insects that later hatch into our many mayflies,
stoneflies and other favorite trout foods.
You can find these nymphs clinging to the undersides of
rocks in the stream you fish. Hook one on a light wire number
14 hook, and you have one of the most effective of all of the
natural trout baits.
Trout Like 'Hoppers
Other baits which can also be successfully used to entice
trout are crawfish and grasshoppers. When grasshoppers be
come abundant along the meandering meadow streams dur
ing the summer months, they are one of the favorite trout
foods.
In closing we would like to repeat that bait fishing, ex
cept for grasshoppers, is at its prime during high discolored
water periods. It requires little investment to get started,
so is desirable for a man with a limited budget.
A couple dozen hooks, some split shot, leaders and a good
knowledge of the stream you are going to fish, puts you in
business for opening day.
Oregon Divofers
Open ND Action
In Saturday Go
Hampered by the weather but
playing well for early in the sea
son, Coach Sid Milligan's strong
Oregon golf team opens its sea
son Saturday with a Northern
Division meet against Washing
ton on the Eugene country club.
Qualifying has nearly been
completed by the defending con
ference champion Ducks, who
will have four lettermen back to
lead the 36-hole match with the
Huskies. Neil Dwyer, Justin
Smith, Bob Takano and Howard
Zenger are all returning from
the 1954 Oregon divot squad
that won the ND tournament as
well as the dual-match champion
ship. its sixth straight.
Dwyer, Sophomore Barry
Ott and Takano have paced the
team in qualifying so far with
the last three positions for the
match still in doubt. Fighting
it out for these places are
Bobby Xorquist, Zenger, Smith,
Don Bick and Mike Starling.
Qualifying at the country
club, Dwyer recorded a 291 total
for his 72-hole qualifying test.
The Duck captain had scores of
69. 72, 78 and 72 on the tough
par-72 layout. Ott had a 292 to
tal to finish close behind while
Takano racked up 295.
Meanwhile Coach Johnny Mc
Kay’s freshman golf team has
finished its qualifying and is get
ting ready for its meet of the
season. April 22, when it tangles
with Eugene high school and the
Oregon State Rooks at the coun
try club.
Bob Frail of Salem led the
Frosh team with a 290 total
on rounds of 79, 73, 68 and 70
at Oakway..Don Anawalt, Eu
gene who fired the lowest 13
of the rounds—a 68—is second
with 295.
George Stadelman of The Dal
les is third man after he shot a
298 while Keith Gubrud of Eu
gene finished fourth with 300.
Dick Berg of San Gabriel, Calif.,
is fifth for the Frosh with 303
while Bruce Titus of Portland
finished sixth with 315.
Eugene Emeralds
Topple Spartans
In Exhibition
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)-Pitch
ers Bill Page and Berlyn Hodges
struck out 13 Spartans Tuesday
as the Eugene Emeralds of the
Northwest league beat San Jose
State. 9-5, in an exhibition game.
Page, former Stanford hurler,
allowed but two hits in his five
innings. One was Spartan third
baseman Dick Brady’s 385-foot
homer.
Eugene .010 103 220—9 12 2
San Jose .000 101 021—5 10 3
Page, Hodges 6 and Dapper,
Barry 7; Boehrer, Dick 7 and
Clifford.
IM Schedule
Wednesday
Softball
3:50 Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs.
Pi Kappa Alpha, north field.
Sigma Alpha Mu vs. Phi
Kappa Sigma, south field.
Kappa Sigma vs. Campbell
club, upper field.
,4:55 Cherney hall vs. French
hall, north field.
Straub Frosh vs. Hunter
hall, south field,
Gamma hall vs. Barrister
Inn, upper field.
Tennis
4:00 Dorm Counselors vs. Kappa
Sigma, courts 4, 5, 6.
Golf
Kappa Sigma vs. Sigma
Chi,' Oakway.
Hitters Sparkle
As Majors Begin
By THE ASSOCIATED CHESS
The weather put a whammy on
three of Tuesday’s major league
baseball openers, but the other
five games came off as sched
uled with 190,951 fans sitting in
on what turned out to be a hit
ter’s day.
Cleveland's Indians got away
fast in defense of their American
league title by battering the Chi
cago White Sox 5-1. Kansas City
opened its history as an Amer
ican league town with a -6-2
triumph over the Detroit Tigers,
and the Boston Red Sox sent
Baltimore to its second defeat of
the season 7-1.
In the National league, the
Chicago Culm socked the St.
Louis Cardinals 14-4 and the
Milwaukee Braves got the idea
front rookie Chuck Tanner’s
plnrh-hit home run to defeat
the Cincinnati Kedlegs 4-2.
Rain postponed the game be
tween the world champion New
York Giants and the Phillies at
Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh at
Brooklyn in the National. Wash
ington at New York was the
only American league game
washed out.
Bob Lemon, who made a habit
of beating the White Sox on
opening day, set down Chicago
on five hits, four of them singles,
Standings
By Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L. Pet. GB
Chicago .2 0 1.000
Milwaukee . 1 0 1.000 >2
New York 0 0 000
Brooklyn . 0 0
Philadelphia . 0 0
Pittsburgh 0 0
St. Louis .0 1
Cincinnati ...... 0 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington ..... 1 0 1.000
Boston .1 0 1.000
Cleveland 1 0 1.000
Kansas City . 1 0 1.000
New York .0 0
Chicago 0
Detroit .0
Baltimore .0
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1 .000
2 .000 1 »<j
UO Net men Ask Sun
For Weekend Tries
With Medical Men
Rainy weather, which resulted
in the cancelling of last Satur
day’s match with Reed college,
continued to plague practice ef
forts of Coach Hilbert Lee's var
sity and freshman tennis teams.
The Frosh squad did manage
; to squeeze in a 6-1 win over
Springfield high on Friday be
fore the weekend dehige set in.
But the Ducklings were washed
| out of a Saturday match as well.
Next regularly scheduled
match for the Ducks is Saturday
in Eugene against the Oregon
Medical school. The Medics were
beaten by Leo's netmen in an
earlier test in Portland and fea
ture Ron Lowell, ex-Duck captain
and Pete Carter, former Oregon
State star.
On April 19 Seattle university
invades Eugene for a match,
featuring Northwest woman star
Janet Hopps.
I. .- --
before a Cleveland crowd of
50.230.
Home run* by /\l Smith and
Ralph Klnar and a base* load
ed single in the first by Vie
Wert* did the Job for the Indi
ans against Chicago starter
Virgil Trucks and Mike For
nleles.
Kiner, the clouter picked up
from the Cubs to put more swat
in Cleveland's swing, fanned with
the Hacks Jammed in the first and
watched a third atrike go by in
the third. But he was greeted
with rousing cheers after hitting
the Hearts in the left field corner
in the fifth.
The Athletics, playing with
former President Harry Truman,
Connie Mack and 32,843 fans in
the stands and a threat of rain
in the sky, scored three runs in
the sixth off starter Ned Car
ver to break up a 2-2 tie.
Alex Kellner started for the
A’s and was credited with the
victory as Ewell Blackwell,
late of the Yankees, protected
the slxth-Innlng lead through
the last three frames, giving up
just two hits.
Warren Spahn won his tjiird
opening day decision since the
Braves moved into Milwaukee,
although he was behind 2-1 go
ing into the eventful last half
of the eighth.
Tanner baited for the veteran
lefty and smacked Gerry Sta
ley's first pitch over the right
field wall. Bill Bruton followed
with a single and Hank Aaron
swatted Staiey's next pitch into
center for a triple that scored the
lead run. Bobby Thomson
brought Aaron home with a ac
rifice fly to cap a great day for
•he 43,640 fans.
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