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6B Sports i Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Thursday, April 16, 1931 Writing a fishing column can be a tricky business Msh State 9 for much big-mouth action Little is happening at East Lake Vermillion, though limited numbers of bluegills and perch, and an occasional walleye, are being caught by peristent anglers. It's slow up north, and on the Missouri River, and though a few trophy bass have been taken recently in Lyman County stock dams, prairie bass won't get hot for a couple more weeks. Kevin Woster is the Argus Leader outdoor writer. His fishing column appears each 11 Lakes of South Dakota Association.

So far this year Broer has caught northerns of 20r 18, 17 and 14 pounds from Oahe, with many others slightly smaller. I fixed that. In seven hours of hard fishing on some of Broer's best fishing waters, we each managed to catch one five-pounder. Game, Fish and Parks Department employees Ed Nielsen and Chuck Post followed our procession of hard luck, and Nielsen managed go hook another five-pounder. Post, who landed a 22 pound pike two days before I came to town, got skunked.

Sorry fellas, just had to spread my luck around. There isn't much biting in state lakes and streams this week. Lake Madison still is the best bet for walleye. Some good fishing was reported Sunday at the Walker's Point area, and one- to two-pound walleye con-V tinue to chase doll flys and jigs tipped with minnows. A few largemouth bass also are biting at Madison, but action is spotty.

Bass spawning is still a couple weeks away, and water temperatures are too low Monday morning, he was on the lake fishing like crazy. By We-desday morning he was back at work with a single-word statement on my fishing column. Bunk. Perry put it a little more delicately than that, something to the effect of "I didn't catch a thing," and "they might have been biting, but not for me." Perry did nail a nice 7-pound northern on his crappie rig (I said nothing about northerns at Traverse), and heard several you-should-have been-here-yes-. terday stories about the crappie fishing of the day before, or last week maybe they were the same stories I heard.

This fish predicting is tough business, and sometimes being privy to inside information is little help. Perry can testify to that. If you've ever been disgusted with the information in one of my fishing reports, consider the case of Perry Swenson. Perry is a news clerk at the Argus Leader and a first-class, white-knuckled fishing fiend. Whether it's crappie fishing in the northeast, walleyes on the Missouri or chubs in muddy litlte creeks around Sioux Falls, Perry is completely, blissfully in love with pulling wet, slippery critters out of the water.

Understandably, he's more than a little interested each Thursday when my fishing column comes out, and we often exchange here's and how's and what's in the past week's fishing action. Perry was delighted when I told him last week that the crappies were beginning to bite at Lake Traverse up north. By 1 1 1 -i- -in -ii i. Northern fishing on Oahe Reservoir came to a screeching halt last week, and I guess I have to take the blame. After watching 20-pounders show up in state proud angler lists for two weeks, I weaseled a pike fishing trip out of Wes Broer, a Pierre angler and executive secretary of the Great Get into shape with Spring League Amundson Continued from page IB West Shrine Game and Hula Bowl.

He's the only Cyclone quarterback ever picked to an All-America team, but he never again played that position when he left school. When Houston's Oilers made him their No.l pick in the 1973 National Football League draft, they him only as a running back. He was with the Oiler squad two seasons, scoring five touchdowns in 1976. Then he went to the Philadelphia Eagles in the middle of the 1975 campaign. He was cut by the Eagles in 1976 the Monday after starting the first exhibition game and had trials with the St.

Louis Cardinals as a tight end in 1977 (when he was the last player cut) and 1978. Knee surgery finally sent him to the sidelines and he moved to Houston two years ago. He has an engineering degree from Iowa State. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

George Amundson have lived in Kansas City since 1969. Former Yankton College runner Ben Valder was last year's Hall of Fame inductee. The meet's honorary referee last year Bob Ehr-hart of Drake will be announced next week. Bowling! Women's, Men's, and Mixed Bowling available. Sign up now! Full line of bags, balls shoes.

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"If you want to hit a guy go for the ribs. He will back into it." He said he once hit Tommy Agee on the first pitch of an exhibition game an accident although he was accused of "welcoming Agee to the National League." He also recalls felling catcher Dave Rader. "In 1967 we were 6-0 ahead of the Reds and they hit Lou Brock with a pitched ball," Gibson said. "When Tony Parez came up, I scraped him with a brush-back. He headed for the mound.

"The benches emptied and everybody was throwing those harmless punches a brawl. "No, I never apologize." Will Grimsley is a special correspondent with The Associated Press. "BOWL FOR HEALTH" 500 S. 1st 338-3471 Buffalo, Minnesota begin playoff series '1 Ill' BUFFALO, N.Y. AP) When the Buffalo Sabres and the Minnesota North Stars meet here tonight for the start of theif quarterfinal National Hockey League playoff series, Buffalo will try to do something it couldn't accomplish all season beat the North Stars.

During four regular season games between the teams, Buffalo managed to tie the North Stars three times but lost a 3-1 decision at Minnesota. "Big things were expected of Minnesota after beating Montreal in last year's playoffs," Buffalo coach Roger Neilson said. "They've started believing in themselves again and they've got to be considered a contender for the (Stanley) cup." Minnesota coach Glen Sonmor said the best-of-seven series against Buffalo "will be a fast moving series featuring two teams that can skate and move the puck. It could also be a goaltending series both clubs have two fine goalies. We have Gilles Meloche who will start Thursday and Don Beaupre, and the Sabres have Don Edwards and Bob Sauve.

It won't be easy for either of us to win." Neilson said, "We've done most of our preparation for Minnesota. Minnesota had a so-so last half (of the But they made some changes and put it together right at the end." He was talking about Sonmors' decision to put three young skaters in the lineup in place of checkers. "They added some youth and guys who can skate," Neilson said in referring to Kevin Maxwell, Neal Broten and Brad Palmer. Meantime, the big question mark for the Sabres is whether their top scorer, Danny Gare, will be able to start the series. He suffered a badly bruised right shoulder and torn muscles in the Vancouver series.

"The doctor said it's like somebody took a sledgehammer to it," Gare said. "The bone is bruised. The doctor measured it, and the shoulder is an inch thicker than the other one because of the swelling. "Right now, there's no way I could draw the stick back and shoot, I'll just have to wait and see what happens by Thursday." The series begins here with games today and Friday and shifts to Minnesota ice for games 3 and 4 on Sunday and Monday. If more games are necessary, the contests will switch back and forth between Minnesota and Buffalo with two games being played here and one at Minnesota.

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