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o O o Friday. Oct. 9. 195 MAK. TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Woods, Water, Wildlife By Hank DeVoss o(L&Si7 2 mm o o ;l A 1 i Opening day of the deer season saw the usual happen ings which accompany our annual hunt for ihe elusive deer, especially the one with antlers. Some hunters had im- i ' mediate luck, some took a day or two, and there are some of us who are still loe-k- ing. A few people got shot or looking like a deer, others sht themselves, there were those who just got shot, and a few dropped dead from the 0 $xcitemnt and the exertion fthich comes but once a year. O P sometimes th&k that there iiust be a few of those last 3r ho prefer goin out that ay, doing the thing which gjives them great enjoyment Cnd satisfaction, and right Cully hoping they can con tinue doing it until the day they die. LOTS OF DEER If you? haven't mad your score yet. don't think it's because there erfn't enough dj$er around. Those bucks e ae hard to find. Wildlife Review reports on a Michi gan experiment in whioh 9 deer were fenced into a O uare mile area of hard wood forest, conifer swamp gnd epen pine barrens. On a O clear day after a light snow 00 had made the ground ideal o for tracking, six hunters en tered the area. It took them four days (15V& man days of hunting) to even see a buck. fi TAKES TIME c Although most of the ani mals had never been fired at, o nd hunters over a three year eJferiod were allowed to stalk, O tral, stand or organize drives, ifc required an average of 14 hours to shoot a deer in an gny-sex season and 51 hours o take the wily buclt So don't give up already, those deer 6 &e out there arid the rain this eek ought to give us a better chance than we had last week zone certain streams for power and other streams for recreation and fisheries. The Rogue and its tribu . taries is a natural choice for the latter classification for very obvious reasons and . unless we see to it soon we may lose some of our major fishing streams in their en tirety. We must organize! THE ANGLER'S LOG The first fall run of steel head up the Rogue is pretty well scattered and fishing has slowed considerably in parts of the river. The water has been released from behind Savage Rapids dam and un less we get enough wind to louse up the river with leaves it should be in good fishing shape this coming week end. The predictions are that there are going to be plenty of fish and more of them will be bigger. Over five pounds I hope. THE OPTIMISTS CORNER There are some stories a person would just as soon not hear. I didn't go too far looking for deer, just up on the Dead Indian ridges, but' my neighbor walked Jive minutes away from his house and downed a nice forked - horn. This is the story which greeted me when I returned from my all-day hunt. And I was empty handed. My hunting prowess is now under some what of a cloud but I'm sure my luck 'will improve this coming week end. GOOD LUCK! e end. oGOOD HUNTING This is the time of the year that brings ihe best thing in life to the sports- e men who live in the Rogue river valley. The duck sea son opened Wednesday and pheasant season begins on o Saturday morning. Deer season is in full swing and. Dad, now is the time to plan an outing with your son. If good sportsmanship is to be learned, he has a better chance of learning it well if jaou teach it to him. And the good sports . in our society . aren't the ones who have the time for trouble-making. You'd do well to catch him early because at the rat vi live he'll be too soSn gone. This is probably the best alternative if he's not interested in fishing. VHAT "ILLINOIS There should be reports coming in any time now tell- 8 ing of fabulous catches of silvers from the Illinois river, In case you've forgotten, I re ported on the big plant of silvers made two years ago by the gam commission in expectation of having the by pass around the falls com pleted by this year. Now those silvers should be entering the river to complete their spawning cycle and unless ''there is a lot of rain soon they will be held up until enough water over the falls allows them to pass. A WILD. WILD RIVER Cole Rivers, our local fish biologist, and two conserva tion aides recently made a trip down the Illinois in three rubber boats. They were in the water all the time and wore insulated underwear under levis. They found the river to have quite a steep fall with many virtually impassable barriers to their boats. Cole's description of some of the trials they went through help to give some understanding of why those Illinois fish are such hard fighters. If they can make it up the first 30 miles they can handle just about any thing put in front of them. ANOTHER DAM The trip was made for the purpose of building a more complete fisheries inventory . fffid to make a spawning area survey. The reason for the spawning area survey was with regard to the proposed Bald Mountain dam on the Illinois and that part of the rroer which would be flooded y the lake formefl behind the dam. Cole said that the lower ; river tributaries indicate quite 3 lot of use by silvers and eteelhead. So much so that tne loss of these areas by flooding will do so much damage to the fishery that the ' economic loss vcould not be justified by the power poten tial of the dam. We're going to have to keep an eye on the plans for this dam and fight it if it ever comes to the build ing stage. DAM PLANS The Pacific Northwest is going to hve to face the fact that the rivers cannot Be dammed her and ther at the whim and will of any power company that has raeney enough to build them. The lime has com to SPORTS SPORTS PARADE OSCAR FRALEY Sport Writer United Press Chicago (UPD There were a lot of Dodger heroes. , Most of them were of the old crowd, the gang who knew the cheers and jeers back in the long-gone days at Brooklyn before they went West and started dressing like the Hollywood stars with whom, they romp. Like Duke Snider, the handsome guy with the ugly knee, wh6se homer started the victory march in Thursday's 9 to 3 World Series finale against the White Sox. Like Carl Furillo, the hard coal customer from the Pennsylvania mountains who got them there in the first place via the playoffs and did it again to win a series game as they hit the big jackpot. Like Gil Hodges, the quiet man whose big blow took another of the four games they needed. And like Charlie Neal, whose two blows out of the park were the payoff shots in the other one. Old Flatbush Gang They're all part of the old gang from Flatbush and so, in a way, as the Dodgers came all the way from seventh place 1958 finish to the cham pionship of the baseball world and cleaned it up with a wild, weird and wacky inning which produced six runs, it was fitting after only two years in the Golden West that they play solos in the win ning band. Yet it was one of the new ones, a kid who wouldn't know Ebbets Field if he saw it, who walked out of critical Comiskey Park as the number one, dyed-in-the-flannel, gilt edged, uncontested hero of the 1959 World Series. That would be 24-year-old Larry. Sherry, a native of Pueblo, Colo., who makes that fast ball really hum when he unwinds his six feet, two inches and puts his 192 pounds behind it. Sherry The Difference What he did was the differ ence. Young Larry pitched in four games for the Dodgers in this annual go-round. 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