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SPORTS
GUIDES: Angler finds path to guide service with tournament fishing success
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Continued from 1B
Now that Gabriel’s teach-
ing will move from the
classroom to strictly the
river, he’s looking forward
to growing the business,
which has hosted clients
from as far as Montana.
What attracts even expe-
rienced anglers is the abun-
dance of walleye and the
opportunity to even catch
salmon, steelhead and stur-
geon, but even with the
increasing number of guides
— experience and knowl-
edge show on the river.
“The fish just aren’t from
bank to bank,” Gabriel said.
“They are in real specific
spots and sometimes it’s
just a matter of 10 or 15,
20 feet — moving one way
or the other makes all the
difference.”
Gabriel is very familiar
with the Columbia River.
Even before making Eastern
Oregon his home, him and
his father would make the
nearly 200 mile round trip
to the 1,243 mile long river.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Fishing guide Kimo Gabriel wipes down his boat after returning from a fishing trip
Wednesday in Boardman.
Gabriel’s earliest memo-
ries where fishing for cat-
fish on the weekend, but his
dad remembers another time
when Gabriel was just three
years old.
REPORTER: Football
state championship
highlights the past year
Continued from 1B
row counties.
The memories, friends
and experiences I have made
and had in Hermiston will
stay with me forever.
It was here where I was
reminded day in and day out
why I chose this crazy career.
I smiled as teams, athletes
and coaches hoisted trophies
and celebrated champion-
ships and I was heartbroken
when local teams came up
just short of the postseason.
Throughout both coun-
ties, I was continually
impressed with the talent
and grit every single student
possessed and, as some-
one who didn’t play sports
in high school, I was also
constantly amazed by how
much athleticism was on
display.
Each game on differ-
ent fields and inside differ-
ent gyms, I was welcomed
by kind coaches and tal-
ented athletes. I hope I did
your stories justice, and I
hope that whoever comes
next will find the same joy
I did in a city “where life is
sweet.”
———
Alexis Mansanarez has
been a sports reporter for the
East Oregonian and Herm-
iston Herald since August
2017 and is leaving for a
new job at the end of this
week. She can be reached
on Facebook (Alexis Man-
sanarez), Twitter (@alman-
sanarez) and Instagram (@
almansss).
“It seems like every time
I talk with my dad, he brings
it up,” he said. “My dad is
96 and he likes to reminisce
about fishing. He keeps
reminding me that when I
was about three years old,
we were fishing below the
Wickiup Reservoir over
in Central Oregon and he
says that he put some kind
of bait on the line for me, I
threw it out — and he was
fishing his own line — and
said I started yelling to him,
‘Daddy, daddy, daddy,’ as a
six-pound brown trout was
dragging me into the river.”
Now Gabriel commands
the water, bringing in haul
after haul with his clients.
Each person is limited to 10
fish apiece, which is a limit
that is often exceeded caus-
ing anglers to release their
catch.
On Wednesday, the three-
man crew reached their limit
fairly early and decided to
take the water to fulfill their
allotted time.
“It’s an eight-hour day
unless people get to the
point where they are like,
‘Man, this is too hot,’ which
happens a lot, or they catch
what I consider their limit
and sometimes they are
happy with that and want to
come in,” Gabriel said.
The early wake up call,
around 6 or 7 a.m., is fol-
lowed by a usually unpre-
dictable day on the water.
Gabriel always starts at the
Boardman Marina and will
continue down the river
“until somethings happens,”
as he says.
“Sometimes it doesn’t
happen until I get down
to Crow Butte,” he added.
“Today they were biting
really well real close, we
didn’t have to go anywhere
really.”
Location, current, water
temperature and food are
key in Gabriel keeping cli-
ents happy, and at $200 a
pop, they are mostly paying
for the experience.
“It’s getting real compet-
itive and if you don’t know
what you’re doing, it’s going
to show. It’s quite a learn-
ing curve,” he said. “If you
know what to look for in a
current, you can find the fish,
I think. Once you do it for so
long it starts to become sec-
ond nature but then again, I
know what I’m looking for.”
If interested in Gabri-
els Guide service, he can
be reached on his cell (541)
571-4343.
ROUNDUP: Legion baseball back to winning ways
Continued from 1B
among the top two or three
in the nation, for sure.”
Thomas Mabbott shot a
perfect 100 as Hermiston’s
high gun, one of five kids
nationally that shot 100
for the round. After Mab-
bott, Kaden Smith shot 98,
Case Hiatt 96, Blake Betz
95 and Tyson Stocker 95.
Smith said that even on
a national stage with 800
other competitors around
them, the Hermiston boys
didn’t really feel any nerves
or pressure on Friday.
“There’s been a couple
of non-high school events
in the last few weeks we
encouraged the kids to go
to for the feel of big com-
petition,”
Smith
said.
“These five took advantage
of that and with 800 other
kids, they handled it well.
They’re focused.”
Competition continues
on Saturday with individual
qualifying rounds on Satur-
day where 1,440 competi-
tors will shoot to make the
cut to the top 400 that will
compete for the individual
championship on Sunday.
Along with the five Herm-
iston kids that competed in
Friday’s team competition,
Trevor Wilson will compete
in individual tournament..
“Our goal is to qualify
all six kids in the finals,”
Smith said, “and they can
all do it.”
Hodgen
Distributing snaps
losing skid in
Centralia
The Hodgen Distribut-
ing Legion baseball team
snapped its seven-game los-
ing skid on Friday, when it
defeated Baden Elite Red
the lead. Quinn Doherty
was later hit by a pitch with
the bases loaded and Rudy
Esparza hit a RBI single to
cap the six-run frame.
In the fourth inning,
Cooper Roberts hit a RBI
double to left field that
scored Logan Weinke and
then both Roberts and Cur-
tis Simons would later score
on errors to end the scoring.
Esparza led the team
with three hits in three
at-bats.
Hodgen
Distributing
dropped its two previous
games at the tournament,
losing 3-0 to Boys of Sum-
mer (Redmond, Washing-
ton) on Wednesday and
8-0 to City Showcase 18U
(Seattle) on Thursday.
The
tournament
is
attended by scouts from
at least 44 colleges from
the Division I, Division II,
Division III, NAIA, and
Junior College ranks.
(Bellevue, Washington) 9-1
at the College Showcase
Tournament in Centralia,
Washington.
Hodgen
Distributing
(19-15) got a strong pitch-
ing performance from Ryan
Stahl, as the soon-to-be
Pendleton senior struck out
five in a five-inning com-
plete game while allowing
only three walks, two hits
and one run.
Stahl had strong run
support that produced six
runs in the second inning
and three runs in the fourth
inning to back him up. In
the second, Hodgen scored
all of its runs with two outs.
With two runners on, Mat-
thew Demianew got things
going with a RBI single and
Ty Beers followed with a
RBI double for a 2-0 lead.
Then after Kyle Field
was hit with a pitch, Chris
Large hit a two-run sin-
gle to center to add on to
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