SPORTS
East Oregonian
B2
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Visions of rushing streams and wild trout
DENNIS
DAUBLE
THE NATURAL WORLD
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tream trout snuck up on me this year. It
hasn’t always been so. There was a time
when a frantic feeling of anticipation
accompanied opening day of trout ﬁ shing,
when I’d wake up in the dark before the alarm
went oﬀ with butterﬂ ies in my stomach.
My high school buddies and I hit a river
trail before the morning sun lit up canyon
walls, with a goal to be ﬁ rst on the water.
When rivers ran high and roily, we’d hop
barbwire fences and drop a worm in feeder
creeks that ran through pastures surrounded
by “No Trespassing” signs — back when
catching the biggest and most trout was the
closest most of us got to sex.
Nowadays I’m more apt to start the season
on the Umatilla River near our family cabin.
The river runs bank-full, still charged with
high-elevation snowmelt. Evidence of the
February 2020 “100-year ﬂ ood” is every-
where: brush pinned shoulder high in the
crooks of streamside alder, meanders straight-
ened, deep pools gouged out, log jams that
stem the ﬂ ow, and long, wide stretches of
exposed cobble.
It’s 6 a.m. opening day of trout season,
2021. No longer able to ignore light creep-
ing under the window shade, I roll out of bed
and start a pot of coﬀ ee. The cabin’s porch
thermometer reads 38 F and rain drips lightly
from the metal roof. Three hours later, after a
hearty breakfast of sausage, scrambled eggs,
and day-old doughnut, I shove a fat log in the
woodstove and head upriver. Air temperature
has warmed to 42. The tops of ﬁ r trees toss in
an upriver breeze.
The ﬁ rst stop is a braided section formed
where rushing ﬂ ow meets an immovable
basalt formation and splits in two. To get to the
Dennis Dauble/Contributed Photo
Dabbing a ﬂ y or using a bow-and-arrow cast to put a ﬂ y into small pools can lead to catching
rainbow trout from feeder creeks when rivers run high and roily in the spring.
best hole requires fording knee-deep water so
cold my teeth chatter. The next challenge is
tying a clinch knot against muted light when I
put together a two-ﬂ y tandem: Renegade lead
ﬂ y (its white hackle allows me to track my
oﬀ ering) and Prince Nymph dropper.
Light rain sprinkles the water’s surface. A
waterproof jacket would have been a better
choice than a hooded sweatshirt. My favorite
stream bird, the American dipper, chatters
past. Cottonwood and willow shoots poke out
from crevices of bare cobble as if to promise
a riparian corridor will once again provide
cooling shade for trout during the heat of
summer.
The next hour is spent working current
margins, pocket pools, and shallow runs.
There is no ﬂ ash of trout on my best casts.
I reﬂ ect back to Boy Scout days when I held
“Atlas” salmon eggs in my mouth to speed
up the process of re-baiting. (And a Band-
Aid container stuﬀ ed with red wigglers in my
canvas creel as backup.) Unfortunately, I’m
stuck with a pair of wet hackle ﬂ ies that trout
show no interest in.
A half-mile hike warms my bones and
leads me to a 50-yard-long, low-gradient
pool that grandson Liam favors because it’s
always good for a brace of keepers. My latent
casting skills improve. Trout usually look up
for something to eat, but not today with dark
clouds overhead and a smattering of rain.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 5
TUESDAY, JUNE 8
Prep boys basketball
Richland at Hermiston, 5 p.m.
Enterprise at Echo, 11:30 a.m.
Griswold at Cove, 6 p.m.
Prep girls basketball
Hermiston at Richland, 1 p.m.
Enterprise at Echo, 10 a.m.
Prep wrestling
Richland, Hanford, Pasco, Chi-
awana, Kennewick, Kamiakin,
Southridge, Walla Walla at
Hermiston, 9 a.m.
Prep boys basketball
Pendleton at Crook County,
7 p.m.
Ione/Arlington at Sherman,
7:30 p.m.
Mitchell/Spray at Echo,
7:30 p.m.
Umatilla at Nixyaawii,
7:30 p.m.
Stanﬁ eld at Riverside, 7:30 p.m.
McLoughlin at Irrigon,
7:30 p.m.
Prep girls basketball
Crook County at Pendleton,
6:30 p.m.
McLoughlin at Irrigon, 6 p.m.
Stanﬁ eld at Riverside, 6 p.m.
Umatilla at Nixyaawii, 6 p.m.
Ione/Arlington at Sherman,
6 p.m.
MONDAY, JUNE 7
Prep boys basketball
Heppner at Weston-McEwen,
7:30 p.m.
Prep girls basketball
Heppner at Weston-McEwen,
6 p.m.
Grandpa Harry was a smart man. “Let me
know when the river comes down,” he always
said, as an excuse to not bring his ﬂ y rod out
until an insect hatch was on the water.
Much has changed since I ﬁ rst wet a ﬂ y
from streams that ﬂ ow from the western
ﬂ anks of the Blue Mountains. What was
once a 10-trout harvest limit is down to two,
where take is allowed. Opening day shifted
forward from late April to late May and the
minimum catch size of rainbow trout was
increased from 6 to 8 inches. Both measures
help increase the survival of steelhead smolts
tardy in their seaward migration. Although
these conservation practices have been in
eﬀ ect for more than 20 years, trout and steel-
head populations remain low.
Two hours later I ﬁ nd myself 50 yards
up a nearby tributary creek, on my hands
and knees to maneuver past a majestic ﬁ r
uprooted by the force of raging ﬂ ow. Rain-
bow trout often seek temporary refuge in
headwater or “feeder” creeks when mainstem
discharge is high. I hooked a dozen small
trout dabbing a ﬂ y in a quarter-mile stretch of
the creek’s stairstep pools one spring. Wash-
tub-size boulders now stand on end. Shore-
line vegetation is laid bare, leaving a path of
loose cobble 20 yards wide. Lacking recent
rainfall, the creek runs low in a newly carved
channel. There’s not enough water to hold a
trout longer than 4 inches.
I come up empty but vow to return on a
summer afternoon when the river has settled
down and wild trout eagerly rise to the ﬂ y.
The pleasure of opening day is not so much
measured by the number of trout put in the
creel as it’s a welcome reminder the best days
are yet to come.
———
Dennis Dauble is a retired ﬁ shery scien-
tist, outdoor writer, presenter and educator
who lives in Richland, Washington. For more
stories about outdoor adventure, including
ﬁ sh and ﬁ shing in area waters, seeDennis-
DaubleBooks.com.
Joseph at Echo, 6 p.m.
Prep wrestling
Heppner, Irrigon at Riverside,
5 p.m.
Prep bowling
Walla Walla at Hermiston,
3:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9
Prep boys basketball
Nixyaawii at Baker, 7:30 p.m.
Umatilla JV at Griswold, 6 p.m.
Prep girls basketball
Nixyaawii at Baker, 6 p.m.
Prep wrestling
Hanford at Hermiston, 5 p.m.
Pendleton, McLoughlin at La
Grande, TBD
THURSDAY, JUNE 10
Prep boys basketball
Kennewick at Hermiston,
7 p.m.
Riverside at Heppner, 7:30 p.m.
Grant Union at Weston-McE-
wen, 7:30 p.m.
Irrigon at Stanﬁ eld, 7:30 p.m.
Prep girls basketball
Hermiston at Kennewick,
7 p.m.
Riverside at Heppner, 6 p.m.
Irrigon at Stanﬁ eld, 6 p.m.
Powder Valley at Nixyaawii,
6 p.m.
Prep wrestling
Heppner at Riverside, 5 p.m.
Prep bowling
Hermiston at Richland,
3:30 p.m.
Prep swimming
Hermiston at MCC Champion-
ships, Richland, TBD
IMC meet at Pendleton, noon
having received ﬁ nal doses
and will be able to relax
protocols within the next
two weeks once they are
fully vaccinated.
Rela xed protocols
include dropping the
requirements for facemasks
in dugouts and bullpens and
loosening restrictions on
mobility during road trips.
MLB said 85.2% of Tier
1 individuals such as play-
ers, managers, coaches,
trainers and support person-
N E W YO R K —
Two-thirds of Major
League Baseball’s 30 teams
have been able to relax
coronavirus protocols after
four additional clubs quali-
ﬁ ed and raised the total to
20 franchises reaching 85%
vaccinations for players and
other on-ﬁ eld personnel.
The commissioner’s
oﬃ ce and the players’ asso-
ciation said Friday, June 4,
that two additional teams
reached the 85% level of
nel had been partially or
fully vaccinated, up just
0.7% from the previous
week, and 82.9% had been
fully vaccinated, up 1.7%
from the previous week.
There were two positive
tests among 9,291 tests in
the past week, a 0.02% posi-
tive rate.
So far this season, there
have been 64 positive tests
among 185,551 tests, a
0.03% positive rate.
— The Associated Press
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A public meeting of the Boardman Urban Renewal Agency will be held on June 8, 2021 at 7:00 pm via live broadcast from
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY - RESOURCES
Adopted Budget
This Year 2020-21
29,000
2,700,000
0
1,800
130,150
Approved Budget
Next Year 2021-22
127,900
2,000,000
0
1,300
142,825
159,645
2,860,950
FINANCIAL SUMMARY - REQUIREMENTS BY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION
2,272,025
TOTAL OF ALL FUNDS
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Beginning Fund Balance/Net Working Capital
Revenue from Bonds and Other Debt
Interfund Transfers
All Other Resources Except Division of Tax & Special Levy
Revenue from Division of Tax
Total Resources
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Actual Amount
2019-20
25,856
0
0
1,825
131,964
Materials and Services
Capital Outlay
Debt Service
Interfund Transfers
Contingencies
130,000
0
0
0
29,645
319,600
1,987,350
264,000
0
290,000
Total Requirements
159,645
2,860,950
FINANCIAL SUMMARY-REQUIREMENTS AND FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT EMPLOYEES (FTE)
BY ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT OR PROGRAM
Name of Organizational Unit or Program
FTE for that unit or program
General Operations
0.0 FTE
Capital Outlay
0.0 FTE
Debt Service
0.0 FTE
Total Requirements
Total FTE
609,600
541,525
0
1,987,350
1,730,500
0
264,000
0
159,645
2,860,950
0
2,272,025
STATEMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS
None
June 5, 2021
2,272,025
159,645
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN ACTIVITIES and SOURCES OF FINANCING
None
CLASSIFIED SECTION
259,550
1,730,500
0
0
281,975