6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 8, 2015
They don't call it 'catching': Family
Fishing Day and a blast from the past
BY JON STINNETT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
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Daytripper
S
ome of my fondest early memo-
ries take me back to a rickety
dock perched over a farm pond, to the
dragonfl ies resting on my bobber in the
early-morning haze until that magic
moment — fi rst the wobble and then
the disappearance of the cork in a burst
of ripples, the excited shouts of my par-
ents exhorting me to keep the rod tip
up and keep pressure on the fat bluegill
or crappie twanging in manic circles on
photo by Jon Stinnett
Saturday's Family Fishing Day brought generations together at Row
River Nature Park.
the end of my line.
These many years later, the unmis-
takable tug of a fi sh taking the bait
still quickens my pace, and fi shing has
served as the unchallenged highlight of
many an adventure undertaken amid
breathtaking scenery.
Instilling a love of the outdoors and
of nature's gifts is one of the best in a
very long line of life-affi rming lessons
my parents gave me, so it's only natural
that I'd take great pride in attempting to
do the same for my now 3 ½-year old
daughter.
We’ve fi shed together before, her and
I, and she’s eager to learn and be where
the action is. Still, success has thus far
eluded us, and I’ve become aware that,
for the fi shing bug to truly catch on, it
can only help for her to land a lunker
of her own (or a minnow, really; a tro-
phy is probably too much to ask at this
point).
With this in mind, we journeyed to
the pond at Row River Nature Park
Saturday morning for the Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife’s Family
Fishing Day, one of many events I’ve
witnessed as a reporter for this newspa-
per but am now able to enjoy fi rsthand
with my own family. Fish and Wildlife
stocked the pond with about 2000 hun-
gry, hatchery-raised rainbow trout, and
the odds looked good as we arrived ear-
ly to fi nd that many fi sh were already
fi nding their way onto hooks.
photo by Jon Stinnett
Annabelle Stinnett watches her bobber intently (for a few seconds.)
Guests at the pond were able to
procure all the basic fi shing necessi-
ties from ODFW, including a rod and
enough varieties of bait to help zero
in on the perfect offering to entice the
fi sh. The University of Oregon wom-
en’s soccer team was also on hand,
volunteering in various capacities such
as passing out bait, helping youngsters
with fi shing basics or cleaning fi sh al-
ready caught.
Most of which escaped my daughter,
whose fascination with the worms we
were given as bait kept her busy for the
longest uninterrupted stretch of fi shing
we’d undertake that morning. A little
too small to cast just yet, Annabelle al-
ternated between grinding stinky Power
Bait between her fi ngers like Play-Doh
and ripping hapless earthworms into
various pieces. It was at once gratify-
ing to know that she wasn’t squeamish
about such things and exasperating to
continually ask for help watching our
bobber.
Which did begin to fl utter, inci-
dentally, though nothing like those of
many of the families around us, who
must have taken home their limit early
on Saturday. Quickly it dawned on me
that, for the youngun to have any suc-
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Effi cient mason bees pollinate plants before honeybees get busy
BY KYM POKORNY
OSU Extension Service
T
he gardening season is
young, but mason bees
are out for their short but pro-
ductive foray into the blooms of
your backyard.
These solitary native bees
– most commonly the blue or-
chard mason bee (Osmia lignar-
ia) – get busy before honeybees
and set to work on early-fl ower-
ing plants like forsythia, pieris
and especially fruit trees.
“Mason bees fi ll a spot in
the season when other pollina-
tors are not out,” said Brooke
Edmunds, a horticulturist with
Oregon State University’s Ex-
tension Service. “They’re really
important for fruit trees, espe-
cially in cool, wet areas.”
As honeybees continue to
struggle for survival, mason
bees take on a bigger role in
the backyard garden, according
to Edmunds. Both serious and
casual gardeners welcome these
earnest pollinators to get better
yields of fruits, vegetables and
fl owers.
Mason bees are smaller than
honeybees, have a bluish hue
and are often mistaken for fl ies.
Rarely do you have to worry
about being stung because these
unaggressive bees live alone and
have no hive to protect.
Unlike honeybees that fl y up
to four miles to fi nd their pre-
ferred food, mason bees don’t
go much farther than 300 feet.
They move in a zigzag pattern,
which makes them especially
effi cient pollinators for small
spaces, according to Edmunds.
The single-minded bees live
to bring nectar and pollen back
to the nest for their larvae that
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hatch from eggs laid between
walls made of mud – another
material the female bees must
haul back to the nest. Leaving
patches of mud close to nest-
ing areas in trees or other wood
will help attract them, Edmunds
said.
You can also encourage ma-
son bees by creating a gar-
den that includes plants that
bloom during their excursions
in March to mid- or late May.
Consider plants such as crabap-
ples, redbud, fl owering currant,
elderberry, huckleberry, Oregon
grape and lupine. Even the of-
ten-dreaded dandelion is a great
source of food.
If you want to introduce the
bees rather than wait for them
to arrive in the garden, she rec-
ommends purchasing a nesting
house, which contains straws
fi lled with cocoons that hatch in
spring. They’re available online
or at garden centers.
Alternately, you can drill
holes into a solid piece of un-
treated wood. Make the holes
fi ve-sixteenths of an inch in
diameter, six inches deep and
three-fourths of an inch apart.
Insert paper straws with co-
coons inside the holes.
Whatever you end up using,
hang houses or containers under
eaves or other protected areas
where they’ll be protected from
wind, rain and sun.
Some people will bring the
cocoon-fi lled houses inside over
winter to keep them out of reach
of predators. They’ll also spend
time removing cocoons and
washing off mites or parasites
and reinserting them into clean
straws.
“There are two schools of
thought,” Edmunds said. “Some
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people want to get into high
maintenance and harvest, clean
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