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Experiments may benefit
smallmouth bass anglers
N o-S tars set
fa c u lty gam e
The faculty of Sandv High
School w ill host the KGW No-
Stars in a benefit basketball
game Monday at 8 p jn . The
game w ill be played in the
Sandy High gym
The No-Stars are a
collection of employees and
friends of KGW, an AM radio
station in Portland. Their
touring team plays faculties
from schools around the
northwest.
Proceeds for the event w ill
go to the Sandy High choir.
by PETE HELEY
Post Outdoor Columnist
A number of experiments conducted
recently in Alabama have yielded some
interesting results — results that may
benefit smallmouth bass and fishermen
throughout the country.
The experiments indicate that the
smallmouth bass is a much hardier fish
than was previously believed. The
smallmouths were kept in water as warm
as 102 degrees, considerably warmer than
the 86 degrees thought to be their tolerance
level. In fact, smallmouths were also
found to be able to withstand In
stantaneous changes of 15 degrees in water
temperature.
Paola’s 29
paces jayvees
Mitch Paola fired in a
season-high 29 points Friday
leading the Sandy High boys
junior varsity basketball
team to a 68-54 drubbing of
Estacada.
Paola sank 12 of 15 shots
from the field, many on fast
break layins ingnited by a
swarming Sandy defense.
The Sandy sophomore also
had three steals.
“ Mitch must really love to
play Estacada,’’ Sandy JV
coach Len Eaton said. “ The
last time we played them he
penetrated and made 12 of 17
free throws. This time he got
the layins. Mitch doesn’t
have great speed, but he has
excellent timing and good
court sense.”
The Pioneers cut their
fouls to 19 and their tu r
Freshman Mike Rohweder regains control of Molalla’s
top Haqq 9-4 and
novers to 14, both areas of
David Haqq in Thursday’s dual m eet Rohweder held on to
visiting Indians.
concern to Eaton.
Sandy led by just four at
the end of the first quarter,
then outscored Estacada 18-
10 in the second period to
ease away.
Led by Paola’s 80 percent
shooting. Sandy hit 26 of 49
from the field, a .530 clip. The
win raised the Pioneers’
season record to 10-7 and
Sandy survived a scare from
Mathews scored an escape in the last
their league slate to 6-5.
Molalla Thursday and went on to
30 seconds to tie the match at 7-7 and
claim a 32-23 dual meet wrestling win
earn the draw.
at the Pioneer gym.
Molalla’s Ross Aylett pinned Dave
It was the final match of the season
Kenison in the 115-pound match to
for Sandy. The Pioneers w ill now go
give the Indians their 8-5 lead in the
Sandy E arly Birds
on to the district meet Feb. 22-23 at
team scoring. Then the Pioneers went
Feb. 18.1980
Oregon City. (Seepg. 1)
on their usual binge in the middle
W L
weights to move away from Molalla.
Sandy overcame an 8-5 deficit,
But it wasn't easy.
Sandy Shoe Repair
15 9 winning five of the next six matches to
Sandy Lmbr ft Hdwe 15 9 build up a fairly comfortable lead.
Ray Nelson had a real struggle at
Deane’s Auto Repair 15 9 The Pioneers needed every bit of it
123, taking an early lead and hanging
Alpine Hut
14 10 because Molalla scored two pins in the
on to take a 10-9 decision over Duke
Toni’s
13 11 final three matches.
Hebdon. Dean Fischer, substituting
Zigzag Inn
11 13
for an injured Mike Russell, turned in
Mike Rohweder started things off
Eagle Foimdry
7 17 for Sandy with a 9-4 decision over
a good performance at 130 and
S.J. Pounder
6 18 David Haqq at 98pounds. The Pioneer
decisioned Tony Brewer of Molalla 13-
High Game: Helen Walker
9 to put Sandy up 11-8.
freshmen led 7-0 at one point before
214
Haqq caught him with a reversal and
Sophomore standout Chris Jones
High Series: Helen Walker
a near fall. Rohweder then scored a
had no problem for Sandy at 136,
515
reversal himself to regain control.
taking a 10-2 win over Todd Fox. The
Team Game: Alpine Hut 738
Another battle went on at 106 where
win toosted Jones' record to 7-0 for
Team Series: Sandy Shoe
Sandy’s B ill Mathews and Armando
league, 18-1 overall. Unfortunately for
Repair 2,038
Mendez of Molalla mixed it up.
the Pioneers, Jones has suffered from
As bass anglers would expect, rocks and
gravel were found to be very important to
sm allm outh bass and essential to
spawning success. The smallmouth were
found to exhibit their best growth rates in
warm er water during the winter months
and in cooler water during the summer
months.
Although the latter finding could be
derived from common sense, it does in
dicate that all other factors being equal,
w aters having m in o r tem perature
variations would have faster growing
smallmouths. Closer to home, a lake along
the Oregon coast would more likely have
faster growing bass than would a lake of
equal conditions in Eastern Oregon.
Rivers and reservoirs below other
bodies of water have often produced the
Photo by Mark Floyd
helped Sandy to a 32-23 win over the
In dual m eet finale
Sandy grapplers top Molalla
bowling
a bout of bursitis after the match and
has been bedridden since the
weekend. Sandy coach Ron Calhoun
was not sure if Jones, certain to be the
number one seed, w ill be able to
wrestle at district.
Dan M artin suffered an 8-5 setback
for the Pioneers at the hands of Jay
Connelley at 141. But Sandy won the
next three matches.
Frank Kim decisioned Chris Nash 5-
2 at 148; Mike M artin topped Sean
Kelly 8-2 at 157 and Sandy’s 168-
pounder. Tim Freeman, pinned John
Lyttle at 2:45 to put the Pioneers up
27-11.
Molalla's Bob Roth pinned Scott
Skipper at 178 and the Indians’ ex
cellent heavyweight, Kevin Paquette,
did the same to TimSytsma.
But in between, Sandy got a big win
at 191 from Randy Carmony who
hammered Nick Roth 14-0, a superior
decision worth five big points.
Bighorn sheep situation improving
Twenty Rocky Mountain
bighorn sheep have been
relocated into the upper
Hells Canyon rece ntly,
bringing to 34 the number
released there the last three
winters
District wildlife biologist
Vic Coggins said the trans
plants are p a rt of an
ongoing
program
to
reestablish this subspecies of
bighorn into the Oregon
habitat it form erly occupied
The new herd, located in the
vicinity of Battle Creek and
Hells Canyon Creek, w ill be
left on its own to hopefully
survive
and
begin
repopulating the Snake River
rims.
Coggins feels there is an
excellent distribution of sex
and age classes in the groi<)
and he has no plans to
transplant any more animals
into this particular area.
All of the sheep trans
planted into Hells Canyon
have been ear tagged and
fixed with colored streamers
so they can be identified
from a distance. Four have
also been fitted with radio
transm itter collars so their
movements
can
be
monitored.
The Rocky Mountain
bighorn was originally native
to northeastern Oregon,
including the Waliowas and
part of the Blue Mountains
They were reported as far
south as the Strawberry
Mountains in Grant County,
and were also found in the
high breaks of the Snake
River canyon.
The story of the decline of
the Rocky Mountain bighorn
sheep in Oregon parallels the
decline of other wilderness
species th a t could not
lompete with the coming of
civilization During the 1800's
large bands of domestic
sheep grazed most of the
habitat used by the bighorns.
Competition for food and a
skin
disease,
scabies,
brought in by domestic sheep
caused a rapid decline in
numbers during the last half
of the last century .
Hunters who pursued the
declining population without
reg ula tion for meat or
trophies also hastened their
extinction in Oregon The
last Rocky Mountain bighorn
disappeared
from
the
Lostine River Canyon be
tween 1941 and 1945
OREGON
Fish ft Wildlife
The firs t attem pts to
reestablish
the
Rocky
M ountain subspecies in
northeastern Oregon oc
curred in April of 1971 when
20 sheep were picked up from
Jasper National Park in
Alberta. These were released
in Short Creek Canyon a half
mile below Hells Canyon
Dam on the Snake River.
Reproduction was seen for
several years but this
population had disappeared
by 1973.
Also during 1971, 20 more
sheep were received from
Jasper National Park and in
November
they
were
released in the Silver Creek
Burn on the north side of the
Lostine River
Excellent
reproduction was seen in this
group and even after trap
ping and transplanting the
Ujstine population remains
at more than 70.
With the observation of 24
rams with horns three-
quarter curl or larger, the
first limited hunting season
was scheduled in the fall of
1978
E ig ht tags were
authorized and seven hunters
were successful in bagging
the trophy of a lifetime. In
1979 six more tags were
authorized and all six hun
ters were successful
Although these sheep
summer along Hurricane
Divide, they migrate each
winter to a small winter
range near the site of
release. They show no ten
dency to spread to new
ranges on their own, so it is
critical that they be closely
monitored and managed
within the capacity of this
small winter range.
In January of 1977, the first
sheep were trapped from the
Ixistine group near the top of
the Silver Creek Bum and 17
were transplanted seven
miles to the northeast into
the Bear Creek drainage.
The move turned out to be
temporary as most of the
a du lt sheep eventually
returned to the trapping site.
In December of 1977 eight
young sheep were selected
from a group of trapped
sheep in Silver Creek Bum in
hopes they would show less
tendency to migrate back,
and they were released in
Bear Creek, This group
remained in Bear Creek until
early May but has since
returned as the first group
did.
Last
year,
15
Mountain
bighorn sheep
were received in an ex
change with the state of
Idaho and were released in
the lower Imnaha Three
lambs were seen with that
group this year providing the
first encouraging signs that
this group is adjusting to its
new home.
All the sheep transplant
operations in northeast
Oregon have been carried
out in cooperation with the
Wallowa Whitman National
F o re s t. E n v iro n m e n ta l
analysis of other potential
release sites in the Wallowa
Mountain area and Wenaha
River area is currently
underway and it is hopeful
that the trap and transplant
program w ill be expanded
into more areas.
very finest smallmouth angling. A prime
example might be the Tennessee River
below Wilson Dam and above Pickwick
I.ake in Alabama. It is generally con
sidered the finest smallmouth fishery in
the world and the stable temperatures of
water released from the bottom of Wilson
Dam is probably more important than
previously believed.
Although Oregon probably w ill never
produce 19-pound smallmouths like the
Wilson Dam area has, it does contain a
number of reservoirs and rivers suitable
for smallmouth bass that have fa irly
stable w ater tem peratures due to
receiving water from the bottom of a deep
reservoir upstream.
Some of the smallmouths in the study
that are kept in warm water in the winter
and cooler water during the summer are
found to spawn at one year of age.
Smallmouths usually spawn at three
years.
Such a finding could prove extremely
important as a fish management tool.
Faster-growing smallmouths could be
released from hatcheries more quickly,
saving thousands of dollars in fish
management expenses. Early spawning
smallmouths would do the same and
enable a hatchery to begin a breeding
program more quickly and economically.
U ltim a te ly , taxpayers and anglers
everywhere would benefit.
Maybe the smallmouth would even find
a home in a few suitable bodies of water in
western Oregon.
Roth leads Sandy to state
Two individuals and two
relay teams from Sandy
High School have qualified
for the state Class AAA swim
meet at Mt. Hood Com
m unity College this weekend.
The Sandy sophomore also
has a 57.0 100-freestyle to her
credit which ranks her 10th.
Sandy coach Mark Smith
said that she w ill probably
need a time of 56.0 or better
to make the finals.
Sophomores Gayle Roth
and Jean Crane w ill swim
individually for the Pioneers
as well as compete on the 409-
yard freestyle relay team
The two w ill be joined by
Bonita Connelley and Teresa
Lamer on the relay.
The relay team has the
12th fastest time in the state,
clocking a 4:02.35 in the
finals of the Wilco League
D istrict championships to
place first. The Pioneers
have a faster time to their
credit, however, a 3:59.
Crane, with a second place
district finish, w ill compete
in the 500-freestyle at state.
Her time of 5:49.3 in the
finals has her in 13th position
in the state. Crane, with a
5:44.0 to her credit, hopes to
challenge the school record
in the • 500. That record
belongs to Katie Neuenfeldt
who clocked a 5:38.0.
The Sandy boys w ill be
represented by their 400-
Roth is entered in the 50
and 100-freestyle events. She
won both at district. Roth's
time of 25.37 in the district
finals has her ranked sixth in
the 50 although she swam a
25.1 in the prelims which
would put her third. The
current state rankings in
clude only times recorded in
the district finals. Ranked
ahead of Roth are Medford’s
Susie Ross (24.8) and North
Eugene’s Karen Orr (24.96).
freestyie relay team. The
squad of Glenn Izer, Rick
Topliff, Matt Falgout and
M ark M ayfie ld finished
second in district with a
3:31.1 time, 13th best in the
state
Smith said the Pioneer
team would need to clip four
seconds off that to make the
consolation finals.
Preliminaries for swim
ming w ill begin at 5 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 22. Diving
prelims are Friday from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. Finals and
consolation
fin a ls
fo r
swimming and diving w ill
begin Saturday at 2 p.m.
Admission w ill be charged.
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