The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 56

.0 a 7 Dale, Center Hill Anglers Display Big Smallmouth Catches 4-E THI NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN. Sunday Morning. April 23. 1961 IHIbrbUiifiUifciiJ. Bob SbibsUc Beetle Control Spray Scores Sweeping Wildlife Slaughter MAN MAY HAVE created a Frankenstein of self-destruction in his age-old war with the iniect world.

DEATH FROM THE tkies swept some 2,800 acres clean of living wildlife during an aerial application of dieldrin near Bolivar in West Tennessee recently. Checking to see what efect the poison dust would have on wildlife, District Game Biologist Bob Smith and a crew of 4 Game and Fish Commit. ion personnel blocked off 350 acres, an eighth of the treated area. They recovered 19 dead cottontail rabbits, 22 quail, numerous songbirds and even snakes and frogs. Smith said that the percentage of dead animals actually recovered is impossible to estimate since many were un-doubtedly missed in the dense vegeta-tation and brush piles.

In a i Nashville musician, Shorty Lavender, tries this baking-sized bass for size on the barbecue grill at Center Hill's Cove Hollow Resort. It weighed 5 pounds, 14 ounces. Staff photos by Bob Steber Happy with his string of smallmouth is Homer Thomas of Upton, The scales at H. H. Napier's Grocery in Celina will read 9 returning with this fine catch to Dick Roberts' Cedar Hill Resort pounds when Johnson Gulley of Tompkinsville, lets the full on Dale Hollow.

He fished minnows off the points in Indian Creek, weight of this Dale Hollow smallmouth rest on the platform. near the dam. Dale Anglers Grab Smallmouth Leads 00yg Kentucky Yields Wildlife Killed by Aerial Spraying of Dieldrin tion, many tick birds and animals were noted by the searchers. Carcasses of the recovered species of wildlife have been sent to the research center operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Patuxent, for verification that the 10 per cent dieldrin compound used in the application was responsible for the multiple deaths.

Officials of the Tennessee Bureau of Plant Industry said that some 25J0OO acres in till parts of Tennessee have been treated with various chlorinated hydrocarbon chemicals since J956 with no detectable effects on wildlife. They blamed heavy rains which immediately followed the application, for the heavy loss. Treatment was for control of the white-fringed beetle, a South American intruder, they said. Americans need to look long Big Largemouth js taaf a brushpile and hauled out a 6-pound smallmouth bass. Jutting from its jaw was another Doll Fly, lost by some other and if 7 By BOB STEBER, TENNESSEAN Outdoor Editor CMALLMOUTH, huge ones, dominated the fishing scene last week with two anglers capturing top positions in THE NASHVILLE annual state-wide fishing contest, now nearing finish of its third month.

BOTH BUSTER BASS came from Dale Hollow's clearing waters, long world-famous for smallmouth. Bolstering the contention of fishing authorities that this will be the best bass season In years were the 9-pounder and 8-pound, 6-ounce bronzeback beauties checked in by Johnson Gulley of Tompkinsville, and Mrs. Ann Norris, Livingston. Gulley, dangling a large minnow from his spinning rig, watched the 8-pound test line move out as "something big" picked up his minnow, wriggling ,,,1 I llll II IIIIIIIIIIBIB IBIII I jlMi Mrs. Ann Norris of Livingston caught this 18 pound, 6 ounce smallmouth last Monday on Dale Hollow.

She was fishing a Doll F)ly near Willow Grove Resort. ifnluckier angler. Bet the fish, in the telling, was a re a I monster. The ones you lose always weigh the most. The story I like best about gluttony of feeding fish was relayed from Dale Hollow a number of years ago.

Fishing near the Byrdstown bridge, this fisher man thrilled to a terrific walleye strike. He played the big 10-pound for several minutes, brought it in, close to the surface. are averaging better than a pound 25 feet deep on a ledge off Skull Blutt. The giant smallmouth whipped surface water to a froth five times durinir the 10-minute battle, but 4 and many strings number well and searchlngly at the poison spray program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

THE DEPARTMENT was forced to back down from its fire ant control program by southern states biologists, particularly in Alabama, who proved that the problem was not as pressing as the agriculture experts claimed. The U.S. Fish and "Wildlife Service found 59 species of animals, birds and repitlles killed by the applications of dieldrin. Fishing is seriously effected by the poisons, too. Four months after DDT was sprayed on a large tract of forest in Montana, rains leached the poison Into the Yellowstone River.

A count on less than 300 yards of the stream listed 600 dead or dying-whitefish, brown trout and suckers. Effects of the spray were found 90 miles downstream. Application of the poison on 2.000 acres of tidal marsh in eastern Florida resulted in almost a total kills of fish. The fish kill ran between 20 and 30 tons, representing almost two million fish and 30 species. Continuation of indiscriminate spraying of such deadly toxics may in the future seriously affect the health of man himself, through a cumulative buildup of poisons retained from food he eats.

Seems that some poor fish, like humans, never learn. sort, in the West Sandy sector, reported a tremendous catch for Dury Caldwell of Paris. Fishing a Hell Bender, he checked in a pair of bass weighing 9 pounds, 4 ounces and 6 pounds, 3 ounces, bmalimouth were bitinz big on Jig-fishing was producing best at Lake Cumberland last week. Bruce Sloan of Grider Hill dock weighed in an 8-pounder for Hobie Miller of Lexington, Ky. Tony Eiche of Louisville hooked a 6-pounder.

Don Shannon of Danville, limited, with his best pair weighing 5 and 6 pounds, over 100. Striper fishing is best right now downstream from the turbulent water of the dam. They're moving up, though, in the finale pnase of their spawning run-. W. L.

Harris of Dickson add Dury Caldwell of Paris caught this pair of Kentucky Lake lunkers last week, fishing near Dan Mears' Pleasant View Resort in the West Sandy sector of Kentucky Lake. The bass weighed 9 and 654 pounds. 4 never did jump according' to Gulley and C. B. Johnson, who wielded the net for his Tompkinsville neighbor.

GULLEY caught the fish at high noon, March 15, didn't take long returning to James Wisdom's dock and the scales. The bigun measured in length. Heavy with roe, the "old sow's" girth measurement was almost as much Center Hill, too, now enjoying its oest spnng jishing season in sev ed a 6-pound, 1-ounce smallmouth bass to his striper etring. eral years. The lake is still dingy, enabling the bass to move up on the banks.

Doug (Red) Callens weighed in Oral Bertram an 18-pound catfish for Joe and Hugh Gray of Adamsville at his SHORTY LAVENDER of Nash 57m ville starred last Monday at Cove Hollow. Braving whitecaps, he caught seven smallmouth, includ dock. They had a boatload of smaller catfish. H. H.

Stiles and Joe Domenick of Memphis were among the. many scoring on 23 inches. Mrs. Norris fished a Doll Fly to hook her big smallmouth near her husband's Willow Grove Resort last Monday. She was fishing the deep rocky points.

A muskellunge qualified for a top spot in the women's contest, although Willie Speck of Willow Grove didn't give the weight. Mrs. Bronson Overby of Chicago caught stripes. ing a 5 pound, 14 ounce beauty. Harb Durham of Bowling Green, weighed in a 6'2 pound largemouth that hit a yellow Doll Fly during Monday's cold, windy weather.

Dave Ra- About 10 yards from the bank, tha walleye veered to the side in a terrific rush that almost snapped the angler's line. No, the fish wasn't trying to escape. It had spotted a large dying shad, sashayed over to pick it up, and then permitted itself to be reeled in and beached, the shad's tail, still sticking from the side of its Kentucky lake fishing is just strating, Ralph Crockett reported oold caught a o'i pound largemouth on a yellow Arbo-Gaster. a 26 inch muskellunge on a Story of the Doll Fly Nashville's Jimmy Rains, new white Doll Fly and rind combina tion. Oral Bertram, one of Ken- mouth, tuckv'i conservation officers.

ANOTHER contest leadership last week was jigging a Doll Fly CcrtooSCI Kill Hiah near Bruce Sloan's Grider Hill -00au rvl" manager of the James Robertson Hotel, caught a pair of 4'2 pound smallmouth Friday on a Doll. Homer Circle of Heddon checked in at Cove Hollow Friday, shared a string of 10 with Louisville's Harvey Jeffries dur was challenged last week by Mrs Walter Chiles of Westfield, N.J Despite cold weather and high dock on Lake Cumberland. from Trails EndL Crappie are moving up on the edge of the dropoffs and good strings are being taken now. Ralph Hooper of Wa-verly caught a pair of bass totaling 10 pounds while crappie fishing with minnows. Oscar Rankin of Clarksville weighed in a pair of 4Vpound largemouth at Bom Mallory's Southernalre Resort and Nashville's Al Jordan caught a trip in the 4-pound class while fishing with Guide Herman Cravens in the Paris Landing sector.

CRAPPIE LIMITS hclncr He worked his bait alongside She was fishing a minnow near Star Point dock on Dale to hook ing just a few hours of fishing. a 6'i pound smallmouth. winds, Catoosa is enjoying Its most successful Spring turkey hunt. With five days of hunting still remaining, area manager Carl Brown reported from Crossville 1110 party. Including Heddon's head man.

Ward Hartke. Billv Uplake at Sunset Dock, Mildred Harrison weighed in a 6'4 pound Burns of Lexington, and smallmouth for Tommy Gray of Louisville's Charlev wil iams. Dr. that 21 turkeys had been re Norris Raising Own Rainbow Livingston. He was fishing a min A.

J. Miller and John Keisle will now under protest. It was so fish all this week. taken at Morris Ferry dock, Clarence Acklen reported. Woods reservoir is still muddied from recent rains.

Bass flshinc in imornvlntr windy, Tommy couldn't cast the banks so he joined his dad, Joe Gray, picked up one of his rigs and almost immediately caught UPLAKE AT Sllgo, Eddie Evlns reported excellent fishing despite CLINTON, Tenn. Norris Lake, J. C. Garner of Decherd scored mn wmns. jacK Witt or Nashville topped a big bass string with Just one of the many heavy hauls of striped bass being taken at Pickwick now is this "more-than-a-hundred" string caught last week by Hugh Brent, left, and Jerry Bradley of Nashville on Doll Fly the big smallmouth.

the first of the TV A impound a 5-pound smallmouth. Billy Joe Mrs. Harrison also checked in a 4 pound smallmouth for Erwln ported killed through Friday ana he hadn't received the kill figures from all the stations. He called the kill excellent because of the unfavorable hunting conditions cold and high winds. The previous best season was a year ago and just 21 gobblers were killed on that hunt.

The Catoosa hunts attracted a record number of hunters this season, Brown advised. A real trophy turk, weighing 214 pounds, was checked out last week. Brown advised. limits two days last week. Tulla-homa's Ben Cleveland topped a good baSS Stlin? with a S.nonnrl ments and long noted for its fine bass and walleye fishing, may Wagner of Louisville, Ky.

He was ann Marian Ehrhart. Nashville, caught 15 bass on lizards last Saturday. Arho-Oasters produced Imagine the surprise of Nashville's Charles Parman when this 4 pound goldfish hit his bait in the old quarry lake as he fished near Franklin, last Tuesday. largemouth. fishing a black pork rind and jig, soon join the list of Tennessee's trout lakes, according to Price Wllkins, supervisor of coldwater Water temperature is 54 degrees 'o limit catches of bass for fisheries for the Game and Fish at 10 feet, she said.

Dick Roberts of Cedar Hill Re commission. Wilkins said that introduction of trout into the reservoir began sort reported fishing conditions Improving rapidly in the lower sector of the lake. Bass are being He was still seething, though i FISHING I lfH DIRECTORY 1 in 1959 with the placement of some 25.000 three to four inch Sam Cooper of Nashville weighed in this S-pound large-mouth last week at Vern Whit-sett's Cedar Creek Resort on Old Hickory Lake. The big bass hit a Hell Bender lure. taken off the rocky points and crappie are moving up into the coves, concentrating on the bushes.

Kentucky Lake also was heard fingerllng trout. To supplement this initial planting 100,000 fertile Fishing Contest Enlry Blank ranbow trout eggs were flown in from Washington state and plant from in a big way last week. Mrs Dan Mears of Pleasant View Re- about the wanton slaughter of a fat doe deer during the first hunt. i Ths animal, heavy with two fawns, was killed close to a road by some disgruntled hunter who'd failed to get his gobbler. Incidentally, Brown looks for the latest fawning season in years.

At the time of the first open hvfnt last autumn the bucks had not even started their rut. cd in White's Creek. The plant of eggs resulted in a successful hatch of approximately 95,000 T. B. White of the Hillcrest res-irant above Sligo and Charley-Jones.

Gene White of Webb's Camp dock reported striper fishing still excellent at the head of the lake. A number of walleye, ranging from 2 to 6 pounds, have been coming in. Waters have cleared, he said. Floyd Howard of Sparta caught a trio of 3 to 4 pound smallmouth on a yellow Doll Fly. He was fishing above the Blue Hole.

Old Hickory, plagued with high, muddy waters, is producing good 5ass nonetheless. V. M. White-irll and Snm Cooncr of Nashville ind Donelson's R. E.

Wilson shared bussing honors for the Pt Oedir Hill dock. Fach ciMiori in 5 nounder. Vern Whitsott of the dock renorted a frw rrpnnie rfi bing taken round the brush tops. BECT CATCH of the week on small trout. Large numbers of OH Anglers Limit on Trout these fiBh found their way into the lake.

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O. Boucher of Old HicKory. It was one of the fish tagged in Sterling Beer's 1961 fishing rodeo, the second taken 'A iff a tj ifv ioj to since start of the competition. I 4 Kellis Winters of Ssencer Creek SEND A PHOTO Cltu A JMca (CfcNk one) Clmu Ldii, Junior (under IS) Dal Klrd of rith Wcliht Ltnitn Olrlk Lsro or Bolt Wbort Count Coutbt br ASdrooo Cltt Tclcpbono Wltitomct Entry Dndllne: SO dsn after curb COM 1ST Cl.AHSLS 1 Saiallmaulb bate, artificial lurai Smalimttulh natural baiti I Larirmoutb bau artificial; Lane-montb. nalorah V-Kentucky ha.n Any bita eagiht on flrrad (flrar bum 1 White baaai Wallerai Saaaort 10 flokerell II Mue.

Iuutei IS Keck baaai IS C'rapolei 14 Hloetllli it Traot, flrrod (artl. flrlal fly anlrli 14 Trnat. natnrolt 17 Calflib I red and rooi only). Spa announce that he's finally been able open his enclosed Fisherman's Den and will put the oock restaurant on a 24-hour basis this week. Ed Gentry of Lebanon checked out a oair of bass there last week that averaged 4 4 pounds.

Stripes are still the big thing For Business down at Pickwick, although catfish arc hitting in the eddy water below the spillway. Bill Bellls of the Bote! reported striper strings Sinaia Jil'ai nnini jl1 Crnirr Dixit Hnllow I. STAR POINT CAMP i "The BIG Art CauSht i EARLY' I Boats, Mntnrt, Kritaurant, Swimming 1 Pool, Childrtn'l Plavround, Sbulila I ,1 hoard. Gilt Shop. (l Byrdatown.

Tenn UN One of the season's prettiest strings of rainbow trout, was this limit of 14 caught last Sunday by B. F. Thomas, left, and 425 8th Arc, South 4 Blocks South of Broadway Phone AL 5-3437 William J. Pugh, Monterey hunter, bagged this young wild turkey gobbler last week. He was hunting the Hebbertiburg area of ths Catoosa Wildlife management area.

M. E. Chambers, both of Old Hickory. They were fishing the waters of Warren County's Mountain Creek. 4 0.1 aa.

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