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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Fishing tips include spooling info
B&G Club girls go straight to Curves
Seven girls from the Illi-
nois Valley Branch of Rogue
Valley Boys & Girls Club
recently took a direct route to
Curves in Cave Junction.
The members, part of the
club’s SMART Girls Pro-
gram, walked the short dis-
tance from the clubhouse
location at Evergreen Ele-
mentary School.
At Curves, the girls were
given instructions on proper
lifting techniques on the
equipment and proper stretch-
ing and nutrition habits. They
also received plenty of en-
couragement from Debi
Doyle and Flo Woodruff,
Curves trainers.
As part of the overall
SMART Moves program
offered at the Boys & Girls
Club, the SMART Girls pro-
gram is a small-group health,
fitness, prevention/education
and self-esteem enhancement
program. It is designed to
meet the developmental
needs of girls ages 8 to 12
and 13 to 17.
Through dynamic ses-
sions, highly participatory
activities, field trips and men-
toring opportunities with
adult women, club girls ex-
plore their own and societal
attitudes and values. They
build skills for eating right,
staying physically fit, getting
good health care and develop-
ing positive relationships with
peers and adults. The pro-
gram is now sponsored by
Tupperware Brands Inc. fol-
lowing a major revision in
2002 funded by The David &
Lucile Packard Foundation.
Upon completion of
training, the girls were given
free one-week passes for
them and one female adult, as
well as Curves-related puz-
zles and magazines.
The Illinois Valley
Branch program is instructed
by eight-year program vet-
eran Annie Norton. She has
been conducting SMART
Moves programs during the
past three years.
“I really enjoy seeing the
girls change from the start of
the program to the end,” she
said. “They come out of their
shell, open up to their peers
and become a real close
group.”
Norton has taken groups
on field trips to see Redwood
trees, Siskiyou Field Institute
in Selma, and on overnight
camp-outs and many walking
field trips to businesses and
parks.
Watershed councils show their stuff
County commissioners
Dwight Ellis (Josephine
County), C.W. Smith
(Jackson County) and a staff
member from the office of
Rep. Dennis Richardson (R-
Central Point) participated
recently in a tour hosted by
three watershed councils.
They visited projects
demonstrating the valuable
work watershed councils per-
form. The hosts -- Seven Ba-
sins Watershed Council, Mid-
dle Rogue Watershed Council
and Illinois Valley Watershed
Council -- are locally organ-
ized and utilize a grass-roots
approach to involve people in
voluntary conservation.
Many projects watershed
councils undertake are funded
primarily through grants from
the Oregon Watershed En-
hancement Board, a state
agency that since 1999 has
awarded nearly a $14 million
to Jackson and Josephine
counties.
“Today was the first time
I had the opportunity to see
for myself the work water-
shed councils do,” said Ellis.
“It’s amazing what a few paid
staff are accomplishing with
little resources, lots of volun-
teers, partners and willing
land owners.”
The first stop was at a
site near the city of Gold Hill
where fuel reduction efforts
seek to minimize the chances
of catastrophic wildfires.
The second stop of the
tour was to visit a riparian
tree-planting project con-
ducted by the Middle Rogue
Watershed Council. Since
2003, it has helped land own-
ers appreciate the benefits of
trees along rivers and
streams.
Trees help stabilize
streambanks and improve
water quality and wildlife
habitat. By meeting with 172
individual property owners,
and by enlisting the volunteer
help of the Middle Rogue
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cil has restored nearly 7 miles
of stream by planting some
15,000 tree seedlings.
The third stop was at a
site in Illinois Valley. Council
Coordinator Kevin O'Brien
gradually gained the trust of
land owners by demonstrat-
ing his desire to find a win-
win solution -- one that is
good for the value of the
property as well as the Coho
and steelhead that inhabit the
stream.
By placing large wood
structures in the creek, a
tributary of the main stem of
Illinois River, water in the
stream will be slowed. This in
turn allows gravel to accumu-
late, increasing the habitat
value for steelhead, Coho and
Chinook salmon.
“The tour was a perfect
example of how a good idea
goes a long way,” said Smith.
“The primary benefits of
these projects have been to
rural land owners willing to
work with friends and
neighbors to solve a universal
problem -- that of water qual-
ity and quantity in the years
ahead.”
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County Board of Trustees
will be accepted until Mon-
day, Aug. 18 by the county
board of commissioners.
The board consists of
seven members, who must
live in Josephine County.
Applications are avail-
able at the commission office
in the county courthouse in
Grants Pass or by visiting
www.co.josephine.or.us.
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By BOYD DUCKETT
If you respool your reels
as much as I do, I hope you
stocked up with extra fluoro-
carbon line because it’s sum-
mer, and you’ll need it.
Summer fishing condi-
tions are different from any
other time of the year. It
brings some of the year’s
clearest water conditions.
Unlike spring, when
most places receive much of
their rainfall, the summer is
usually dry and free of pre-
cipitation. This results in less
runoff and clearer water.
Also, summer brings about
rapid growth in shoreline
vegetation, which filters the
water. Plus, summer fish are
usually more finicky about
what they eat.
By this time of year,
pretty much all of my go-to
presentations are being
thrown on the new Berkley
Trilene 100 percent fluorocar-
bon line (this stuff is awe-
some, but we’ll get to it in
later). I use fluorocarbon as a
leader when flipping a jig on
braid; I use it to pop a spoon
in deep water, and to stroke a
jig and a plastic worm.
But most importantly, I
use it for deep-cranking.
About the only thing I don’t
do with fluorocarbon is throw
topwater baits -- and that’s
only because fluorocarbon
line sinks.
Deep-cranking is one of
my favorite ways to catch fish
in the summer. This time of
year, a lot of the fish have
pulled off the bank and are
settled in deeper water near
rock piles, tree stumps, ledges
and things like that. With
deep-cranking, line visibility
really isn’t an issue as it is
when you throw a shaky head
jig or a plastic worm. But,
Trilene 100 percent fluorocar-
bon is more invisible under-
water than other lines, so it
does have that going for it.
But most importantly, the
new Trilene 100 percent
fluorocarbon line has an
incredible strength-to-
diameter ratio. For example,
10-pound Trilene 100 percent
fluorocabon has a smaller
diameter than 10-pound
mono, so when I am deep-
cranking for summer bass, I
get extended casting distances
and the bait dives more
quickly. And because the line
is hard, it is extremely abra-
sion resistant.
I like to bounce crank-
baits off any type of underwa-
ter structure and need a line
that can take repeated run-ins
with stumps and rocks.
The sensitivity of the line
allows me to detect what
kind of structure I am bang-
ing into with my crank-bait,
to detect bottom composition
whenever I come into contact
with the bottom and to detect
when I have a bass playing
with my bait. It takes a lot of
practice, but with Trilene 100
percent fluorocarbon, you can
actually feel when you have a
bass in pursuit of a crank-bait.
I use the 10-pound test for
deep-cranking most often, and
I have a lot of confidence in it.
My deep-cranking set-up
consists of an Abu Garcia
REVO STX on a 7-foot
medium-fast rod with a fast
tip. With the Trilene 100 per-
cent fluorocarbon line on
the REVO and a long, stiff
casting rod, I can cast those
big, deep-diving crankbaits a
long way, and the rod gives
me the sensitivity I need to
detect the strikes and to be
able to set the hook.
(Boyd Duckett, from
Demopolis, Alabama, is the
2007 Bassmaster Classic
champion and currently fishes
the BASS Elite Series.)
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Someone Jewish, and
someone who has low in-
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Applications are available at
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county courthouse in Grants
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