W O . Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 22 , 1990
40 couples enjoy 9-hole
Forty couples enjoyed playing
nine hole, team chapman on Aug,
and Earl and Peggy Fishbum; a tie
for sixth-Jay and Lori Straley.
Low net: first-Roger Schoonover
and Anita Boyer; second-Riley and
Bebe Munkers; third-Gene and
Luvilla Sonstegard; fourth-Elmer
and Muriel Palmer; fifth-Mike and
Lome Smith; a tie for sixth-Doug
Gunderson and Lucille Massey and
George and Maggie Lzzett , seventh-
Don and Martha Peterson and
eighth-Bob and Suzanne Jepsen.
10 .
Hosts were Earl and Carol Nor
ris, Darrel and Bev Wilson and Les
and Jan Paustian.
Low gross: first-John and Pat Ed-
mundson; second-Floyd and Lorena
Jones; third-Frank and Neoma
Bailey; a tie for fourth-Darrel and
Bev Wilson and Roy and Juanita
Martin; a tie for Fifth-Earl and Carol
Norris. Duane and Robanai Disque
Grant named HHS head
football coach
Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. with
the meeting to follow at 7 p.m.
The regular monthly meeting has
been changed to Tuesdays.
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New football coach Greg Grant
G reg G rant, a 29-year-old
physical education and health
teacher, comes to Heppner this fall
to guide the fortunes of the Heppner
Mustangs football team for the 1990
season. Grant comes to Morrow
COunty from a five-year stint at
Alsea, a class B-8 man school
twenty-miles west of Corvallis.
Greg grew up in Elgin and
graduated from Elgin high school, a
member of the Wapiti league of
District 8. Total involvement in
athletics marked his high school
career. He lettered in five varsity
sports including football, cross coun
try, basketball, baseball and track.
Greg qualified for the state track
meet in three of his four years and
was an all league selection as a pit
cher his senior year.
Grant attended Southern Oregon
State College for two years and com
peted in baseball his freshman year
and ran with the track team his se
cond year. His education was com-
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lege in LaGrande. While finishing
his educational requirements, he
coached the JV football and baseball
teams at Elgin High School. Greg
finished his college career student
teaching at Joseph high school and
coaching JV football.
Ironically, Grant’s first teaching
assignment was as a mid-year
replacement for the legendary Milt
Durand at Umatilla, a rival Colum
bia Basin Conference school.
Greg started his tenure at Alsea
High School in the fall of 1985,
coaching varsity football and basket
ball and teaching PE and health. He
was also the athletic director.
Grant’s career record in football is
39-12, which includes three league
championships and two second place
finishes. Alsea played for the state
championship last year, losing to
Sherman County. Grant was a coach
for the class B-8 man allstar game
in its inaugural season and coached
in this year's shrine game. Greg was
also the guiding force behind the B-8
man coaches poll started two years
ago.
“ I live to compete,” said Grant
when asked about his philosophy. “ I
enjoy teaching and coaching is
teaching.” Grant added that people
who think that you must win to be
successful are misguided, but winn
ing will happen if you have some
ability and you work hard. For the
players football will be fun and they
will learn “ the value of w'orking
together toward a common goal.”
G rant considers him self a
disciplinarian and he said, “ I let the
kids know what I expect.”
Grant, a single guy, said he
selected the Heppner job because he
was ready to get back to Eastern
Oregon, loves to hunt, fish and golf
and recognizes Heppner as a “ com
munity supportive of its kids with a
reputation for a successful football
program.”
Grant intends to be offensive coor
dinator and will emphasize work
with the offensive and defensive
backs. Grant will stress the team ap
proach to coaching with overlapping
responsibilities.
Les Payne will act as the defensive
coordinator this year and will be
responsible for the offensive and
defensive lines. Payne is entering his
14th year as a football coach at
Heppner, having coached with five
different head coaches, Payne took
the head job for one year after John
Sporseen’s time in Heppner. Les
also was a head football coach for
seven years at Tonasket High School
in Washington.
Also assisting this year will be
Dave Presley. Presley, who
volunteered last year with the pro
gram. was a head coach in lone for
three seasons. Dave was also a
graduate assistant at Willamette
University for one year and coach
ed at Salem area high schools for
three seasons.
Both Payne and Presley will coach
the junior varsity team.
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The question of what may have hap
pened to all the big smallmouth bass of
Brownlee Reservoir has been a topic of
concern among many bass fishermen in
a two-state region this year-a question
that has prompted a great deal of
speculation.
In the past, Brownlee’s accomplish
ed bass anglers have come to know the
period from roughly late March through
mid-April each spring brings big, pre
spawn smallmouth to fairly shallow
water. But this year, very few big bass
were netted, and anglers puzzled over the showing of skinny, eight-to
10-inch fish.
Rumors immediately saturated the bass-fishing circles of eastern
Oregon and western Idaho, including: “ The bass have overpopulated
and stunted,” and “ something has happened to the food supply and they
are all starving to death.”
But A1 Van Vooren, state fisheries biologist for the Idaho Department
of Fish and Game, believes the problem lies not with the bass or their
food supply, but with the anglers themselves.
“ The fishery in Brownlee is so popular and so many people go there
and catch so many small bass that pretty soon everybody’s got their own
theory of what the situation is,” Van Vooren said.
“ There’s really no problem (with the bass); the situation is that we’ve
got so much pressure on Brownlee Reservoir that as soon as a bass
reaches (the minimum size limit of) 12 inches--or even 11 % inches-he
goes home with somebody.”
The biologist explained that each 10-inch bass there, his department
estimates, is caught an average of 2-l/ i times per year, which serves to
magnify the perceived number of small, sublegal bass. Citing a 1989
study conducted jointly by IDFG and the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife, Van Vooren said that in an estimated 220,000 angler trips
last year, approximately 55,000 12-inch or larger bass were taken from
Brownlee waters-much increased from data collected before the size
limit was imposed. At times, literally hundreds of the non-legal. 10-inch
bass can be caught per angler per day.
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“ We’ve gotten comments from people who say, ‘you guys are so far
off base; there’s so many small bass in Brownlee Reservoir that you guys
are crazy for not allowing us to keep 10 of those apiece.’ Well, if you
put that into perspective, you have 220,000 trips to fish that reservoir-
and jeez, everybody keeping 10? If everybody kept just one it would
be overharvested!”
“ So that’s what’s happening with our big fish,” Van Vooren continued.
“ As long as they’re protected-less than 12 (inches)-they get thrown
back and get caught again, like I say, a couple of times a year. As soon
as they get to 12, there’s enough people out there that he’s not going
to be 12 inches very long before somebody catches him and takes him
home. Less than 10 years ago, we estimated there was only about 70,000
(annual) hours of fishing out there; now we’re estimating about 850.000
hours.”
Van Vooren said his department plans to work with ODFW biologists
this fall to review possible options that could increase the size of availabe
bass at Brownlee, such as a “ slot limit” which would protect fish after
they reach a certain size, yet allowing small fish and trophy fish to be
kept.
“ People have suggested a 12-inch to 16-inch (protected) slot because
they believe there’s so many fish under 12 (inches)," Van Vooren said.
“ But what the public has to understand is, just the slot limit alone won’t
help. If we allowed people to keep just two bass per trip under 12 inches-
-again, because of the sheer numbers of people—none of the fish would
make it to the protected size.”
Van Vooren indicated that whatever options to enhance Brownlee's
bass fishery were discussed by Oregon and Washington’s fishery depart
ments this fall, the public of both states would be invited to help forge
the final proposal.
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Morrow County Creative Arts and
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