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TJIE COUK1EU-JOUKISAL TIMES, LOUISVILLE, KY. "SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1971 Rub 2l report on the outdoors '4' Near-record bass changes doctor's mind about lake By EARL RUBY, Courier-Journal Times Outdoors Editor The. average angler could learn a lot from them. Herrington Problem Several fishermen have complained about the trash and junk lining the banks of Lake Herrington. There is no doubt about it, the lake looks terrible in spots.

But the problem is the water level 20 feet below summer stage. It would be good if some agency could clean up the stuff while the water is low. Coho Salmon Docks on and near Lake Michigan report that coho salmon fishing is as good now as it was at the peak of the season last year. More than 250 fish were caught in one day off the Michigan City, boat ramp. Pier fishing at Michigan City also has been good.

trip. When the day was done I slipped them off and was able to walk into Penis-ton's home without leaving my shoes on the porch, as Stewart had to do. Bass Club Championship More than 200 anglers are expected in the Kentucky Bass Club Championships on Barkley and Kentucky lakes May 15-16. Contestants must be members of a local bass club and will pay an entry fee of $10, The winner will get 30 per cent of the entry fees. These "pros" usually carry the latest in fishing equipment, including a depth finder, an electric thermometer to obtain the lake's temperatures at various depths, and a topographical map of the bottom.

season gets any older let me caution you on the dangers of fishing during a rainstorm. A bolt of lightning killed two fishermen in a metal boat on Dale Hollow not long ago. Metal boats and metal rods, reels and tackle boxes seem to attract lightning. Fish don't bite well during these storms anyway so you might as well get back to your car where you're safe. Louis T.

Peniston of New Castle invited Dr. Herman Mahaffey and Jim Stewart and me to fish some farm ponds in his area Wednesday. We had fair luck between rains but couldn't do much fishing because of a sky full of fireworks. We spent most of the afternoon in our car swapping stories of better days. Later we enjoyed big steaks cooked by the former state representative.

We also tried a section of Drennan Springs known as the Collins Hole about nine miles from New Castle. Lightning again drove us off the water several times. Incidentally, I bought a cheap pair of black plastic galoshes to wear over my shoes while walking the muddy banks of the ponds. They served me well on this Reichmuth and Jones return to Fairgrounds Dr. Sam Smith of Louisville was fishing Lake Cumberland the other day with Dr.

Ralph Denham, also of Louisville. There was a lot of drift and trash in the water as usual for this time of year. After a try at the main lake they headed up to the mouth of Caney Creek, which is a fair way up stream from the Lake Cumberland State Park Dock. The sun was just coming up when Dr. Smith made his first cast.

"This is the dirtiest lake I've ever fished," he said. "It's terrible. I don't think I'll ever come back!" He pulled some debris from his black bushwacker-type lure and made a second cast. The lure lit in some willows. He flipped out and the lure quietly plopped into the' water.

Sam gave it a little flip to impart some action and it wouldn't come loose. "I guess I've got another one of those snags," he said. Just then the "snag" moved. Sam quickly set his hook and began his biggest fight of the spring season. He finally got his fish to the boat and Dr.

Denham slipped a net under it. It was the biggest bass either had ever been personally acquainted with and both were anxious to get back to the dock to have it weighed. But they were in Caney Creek and the day was still young. So they put the big. fellow on ice and kept fishing until 11 a.m.

When they got back at the dock, Fred Gordon said, "If that isn't a record large-mouth bass he's mighty close to it." Fred got out the scales and watched the dial turn to a fraction more than 12 pounds. The state record largemouth is a 13-pound, 8-ounce beauty caught in Greenbo Lake by Delbert Grizzle in 1966. "If you hadn't kept in the boat all morning he would have weighed more," Gordon said. "I'm happy with what's left of him," said Dr. Smith.

"And I'm happy about that lake, too. I'll be back just as soon as I can." Croppie active Cumberland Leads The spring croppie run has begun in earnest and Lake Cumberland seems to be the early hot spot. Catches averaging between 30 and 50 are being taken out of Cumberland daily. Action is slower at Barkley and Kentucky but an occasional big slab more than makes up for the smaller number caught. White Bass Clearing water has slowed the catches of white bass in the South Fork of the Cumberland River and in Dix River above Lake Herrington, but considerable action has been reported in the North Fork of the Cumberland around the area where Noes' camp used to be.

Fishing Creek near Somerset also is producing some big strings. Watch lightning Can Be Dangerous Before the fishing Bishop, Paul McNear, Roy Pate, Andy Vertrees, Estel Strong and Jim Taylor, who won the Figure-8 championship three straight seasons starting in 1966. He and Andy Hampton share the most championships. There will be 11 events today in addition to qualifying. Eight are in the Figure-8 class, which will have a 25-lap feature and a 20-lap consolation race.

The VW's will have a 15-lap feature, and two heat races. Qualifications start at 1 o'clock and racing at 2:30 p.m. Rich Reichmuth and Eldon Jones will put their 1970 stock-car championships on the line when competition begins in the Figure-8 and Volkswagen divisions at Fairgrounds Motor Speedway this afternoon. Reichmuth, outduelling Ray Crain in a down-to-the-wire finish, is the Figure-8 titlist. Eldon Jones, having repelled his brother, Cisco, in an even closer finish, is the defending VW champion.

Reichmuth narrowly escaped becoming the only Figure-8 driving champion without winning a feature. His only Figure-8 feature victory in 1970 was achieved in the last race on the last program of the season. It came at the right time, too, giving him his only Figure-8 championship. Reichmuth finished 141 points in front of Crain. Eldon Jones became the VW's driving king by fighting off his nearest rival, his brother, Cisco, by 125 points.

Virtually all of the Falls Cities' top Figure-8 drivers will turn out in an effort to wrest the crown from Reichmuth. Among them are Billy Vincent, Smokey lillilif falMCQ Fishing Mapsl NEW and UNIQUE i MARKED BY THE PROS BILLY WESTMORELAND I CHARLIE BUMPAS STAN SLOAN MAPS OF Cumberland, Eufaulal Kentucky, Barkley Kazic invited to umpire quarter-final chess game mm uaie noiiow. i ju ea. Buckeye Shads $1.43 Flin Tail DiiHiIw Prize bass DR. SAM SMITH of Louisville displays a 12-pound largemouth bass bagged at Lake Curaber-land.

The record in Kentucky for largemouth bass is 13-pound-8. WHAT COULD be a happier occasion for any fisherman than landing a sailfish? And Jeff Johnson, 16, of Anchorage caught this "58-pound beauty in a recent expedition off Miami Beach. 0'4" Worms 25. $3.99 5 BASS POTION 1 2 tmW Mastic Worm Preservative A Scent mm One Week Only Introductory offer 49c a Jar mm" BELGRADE (AP) Bozidar Kazic, Yugoslav international chess umpire, has been invited to be chief umpire in the world championship quarter-finals match between Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Soviet Union's Mark Tai-manov. Kazic was chief umpire in the Match of the Century a year ago here, which pitted the 10 top Soviet Union players and 10 best players of other countries of the world.

Fischer and Taimanov will meet in Vancouver, Canada, May 13 to June 7. lutisvitlt't tf hll service tackle i foe OS pecker outscream starlings It Bird-watching requires eagle imm FENTRESS TACKLE SHOP 3119 So. 4th 366-3927 Opposif Churchill Downs Open Every Night 'til 9 except Sun. eye By JOE TOM ERWIN, Courier-Journal Times Special Writer VOLUME BUYING MAKES THE DIFFERENCE VOLUME BUYING MAKES THE DIFFERENCE I MyRRAY, Ky. The next two weeks should be the best time of the year for birders.

Not only are summer resident birds, most of which are back from their winter quarters, building nests and in the0ti fort a A pair of red-bellied woodpeckers are nesting in an oak snag by my cottage which has also caught the eye of a pair of starlings. They've spent most of the week screaming threats -at each other. Thus far, the red-bellies have prevailed. For the last three years, a lone osprey has spent the summer near Pine Bluff, across the lake from my cottage. This spring, there are a pair and I'm hoping they'll attempt to nest in the area.

The birds are quite tame and several times, I've run my boat almost under a tree where one was perching looking for a fish dinner. When it would finally flush it would fly only a short distance to an. other favored perch to take up fishing station. talking at the back of my cove and I heard a loon call several times from out in the lake. Whip-poor-whills were singing with the abandon they seem to achieve only during the beginning of nesting season.

calls early The first birds I saw were loons, a flock of about a dozen, flying north, high overhead. A short time later a pair of mallards flew into the cove and a pair of wood ducks flew out. Two buffleheads, the last of their species I have seen, appeared near my dock and began diving for food, and several coots swam into the cove from the islands in the middle of the lake where they had roosted. Three ducks I couldn't identify but looked as if they might have been scaup, aC 3 their best singing voices, but the transient birds are moving through Kentucky to their nesting areas farther north. Last weekend, the bulk of the summer resident birds arrived.

I heard the first wood thrush of spring a week ago, then saw my first orchard oriole, prothono-tary warbler, red-eyed vireo, and yellow-breasted chat. I also heard yellow throats, prairie warblers and crested flycatchers for the first time. Last Sunday, 1 counted 34 species of birds' from the porch of my cottage on Kentucky Lake, which must be one of the rhoice places in the country for lazy bird, watching. Last spring, I counted 22 species of warblers from the porch as well as rose-breasted grosbeaks, scarlet tanagers, black-billed cuckoos, gray-cheeked and olive-backed thrushes, veerys, and many of the water, wading, and birds that migrate through West Kentucky. An.

early riser, I was on the porch at dawn Sunday with binoculars and a pot of coffee. Two great-horned owls were 2 3 mi LOOKS like NEW! WEARS like NEW! GUARANTEED like NEW! flew into the cove and mistaking ripples made by wallowing carp in the weeds for ripples of swimming ducks, sat down without even circling. Discovering their mistake, they left hurriedly. The first bobwhite called shortly after 5 o'clock and he was answered immediately by several others around the cove. I heard a pileated woodpecker drumming in the woods back of the cottage and later in the morning saw red-bellied, hairy, and downy woodpeckers and flickers-Birds quite tame 1 Shortly before 7 o'clock, a large flock of chattering goldfinches flew in and began feeding on insects in the tops of trees between the cottage and the lake.

Several myrtle warblers and a few palm warblers accompanied them. All three species have been in the area all week. Monday, I saw my first summer tan-ager an eastern kingbird; Tuesday, the first little green heron, Kentucky warbler, and chimney swift; and Wednesday the first black and white warbler. Common summer residents I have yet to see this spring include catbird, wood peewee, night hawk, hummingbird, dick i 1, indigo bunting, yellow-billed cuckoo, and chuck-wills-widow. The only exclusive winter resident still around my cottage is the white-throated sparrow.

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