The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 17

OUTDOORS THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Thursday, February 12, 1987 CLASSIFIED ADS fl fed yp wftflii miew fishta gosms Everybody that has anything to do with fishing tackle is there BHIMitzel nr.1 Hill's color-C-lector now comes with a built-in ph meter and thermometer to tell you the water temperature of the area you're fishing. Many North Dakota fishermen still scoff at such a contraption but several people who have used the aparatus say it works, often as a base to begin experimentation with different colored baits. Fishing reels, the spin-cast variety now commonly feature a micro-adjustment called "fighting drag" for line tension as well as a feature that allows single, fingertip control of the bail release. While they're not new, Tru-turn brand fishing hooks seem to be catching on fast in this area. The bent shank of the hook turns into the mouth of the fish, securing a better batting average in actually hooking and landing when fish do strike.

Fish finders, innovations that likely apply the latest technology to fishing, are updated this year to be more sophisticated than ever. Double check with your retailer on any new machine; the colorful, slick advertisements are often light-years ahead of delivery of the actual item. Also new on the market, and related to color selection, are plain white crankbaits with different colored marking pencils. A solvent is also available to wipe off one color when you want to try another shade. Manufacturers of the Nite Stick say the fishing rod is fitted with light-emitting diodes at the rod tip and along the length of the rod.

They may be turned off for daytime use. And finally, for those of use who can't tie the line to a hook very well, or at all, there's the No Knots Hook. Originally developed to be used as the upper hook on a minnow rig, it is designed to avoid slippage on the line and to hold any size minnow. By JEFF OLSON Tribune Staff Writer Having trouble seeing your fishing rod at night? Want to create your own "structure" for fish to flock to? Maybe you can't tie your own line to a hook. Relax.

The latest gizmos and gadgets on the market tackle these and many more problems plaguing anglers today. For the everyday person chasing fish, the newest products are just starting to show up at neighborhood bait and tackle shops and sporting goods outlets. But all that's new in sport fishing has been months, sometimes years in development and was unveiled last summer at the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association show held in the sprawling Dallas Convention Center. Bill Mitzel, Tribune outdoors writer and publisher of Dakota Country, attended the Dallas extravaganza late last July and was impressed. "Everybody that has anything to do with fishing tackle is there," Mitzel said.

During press briefings on new equipment Mitzel noted that he was "in the same room with people like Jimmy Houston, Babe Winkelman, Al Lindner, Hank Parker, Tom Mann and a lot of other fishermen I'd read about for years and years." This season you'll find some new products, some refinements of new and old reliable items and some flat out gadgets like the Fish Tree, advertised to "create your own honey hole for all species of freshwater game fish." Dr. Loren Hill, inventor of the color-C-lector, came up with the Fish Tree. It's made of "buoyant, space age materials" (plastic?) that Hill contends "fish begin relating to within five minutes." "MBA Vf'V By JEFF OLSON of The Tribune The newest acWe, rees and depth finders may make fishing trip more profitable. BU- Wildlife lovers: Speak out now New habitat, hunting laws being considered by county and state Tailrace inconsistent tip walleyes to display a massive feeding binge so before you go running off thinking you're really going to wipe 'em out at the Tailrace you should be aware that things are very inconsistent right now. It's still a little too early to expect anything from the Missouri River.

You may have heard some reports of excellent walleye fishing from the Garrison Tailrace lately, and while there have been good days up there the pattern has been about one good day for every 10 slow days. It's still a little early for Sportsmen who value wildlife habitat will have special interest in a pending decision before Burleigh County commissioners. Christ and Gladys Rath who farm near Wing have decided to retire and are offering the land to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, much to the opposition of other farmers in the area. At a hearing Feb.

3, about 30 Opponents were farmers who mostly distrust the federal government. They included Ted Ryberg of Arena, who asked, "Is it right to allow another farmstead to be removed from this state?" There are 260 acres of cropland in the tract, 142 acres of hayland, 880 acres of native pasture and 520 acres of marsh. Agricultural use of the land will end December 31, 1988. Ryberg also complained about hunters who come to his area and leave garbage. "Which is more important, your fellow man or wildlife?" he asked.

Randy Wolff, who owns land spent on wildlife. He said the intention of big bankers is to turn North and South Dakota into one big wildlife refuge for the elite. "Let's keep Burleigh County strong and America strong," Krueger said, and went off on a Lyndon LaRouche-type tangent before Commission Chairman Russell Stuart cut him off saying his remarks were irrelevant. You may want to contact the commissioners and encourage them to authorize this purchase. It appears to be a chance for wildlife and wetlands to gain some ground in a losing battle for habitat.

Race cross country in ski run at snowy Lake Metigoshe area BILL MITZEL BEEN with Five Hunting paptifs The 5th Annual International Peace Garden Classic Cross-Coun-try Ski Run will be held Saturday at the Birchwood Inn, Lake Metigoshe. Participation patches as well as medallion awards will be given to each participant and winner in 10 different age group divisions for men and women. Registration fee is $5. For more information contact Don Bergstrom at 263-4283 or 263-4764 or Keith Jirskra at 263-4206 or 228-2468. The event is sponsored by the Lake Metigoshe Improvement As- sociation at Lake Metigoshe near" Bottineau and the Stroh's Brewing Company distributed by Gamble Robinson Minot.

SHOTTWfNTV DEER. AND STLL HAVF TO GET MIN- lit A GREAT NEW LM ment and sportsmen's groups. Kitty Steidler, lobbyist for United Sportsmen of North Dakota, says she thinks lawmakers really don't understand the impact of this bill. "One legislator claimed when he hunts with his son, the son must return to the vehicle after shooting a deer or be in violation of the law," she said after the measure passed the House. "The U.S.

Constitution gives the 'right to bear arms' to every citizen. It is not illegal to be in the field with a gun after tagging a deer." She said the bill was passed solely on the claim "everyone's doing it so let's make it legal. "Everyone is not doing she debated. "Some are. Just like some people drive while intoxicated.

Why don't we remove the restrictions on DWIs? This legislation sends a resounding message to law breakers 'Break the law and we'll try to accomodate your illegal behavior by changing the Not one sportsmen's group has come out in favor of this bill, Steidler said, and it would create numerous problems in reducing the number of available deer permits because of increased success, encourage violations and be nearly impossible to enforce. Somebody on the Hill just isn't thinking. Whatever happened to sportsmanship? I'd no more let someone shoot my deer for me than I would let them catch my fish or eat my pizza. The aesthetic value of hunting here has been pushed aside in favor of a greed for meat, which is totally contradictory to sport hunting ethics. The measure has come up and been defeated in prior sessions and sportsman's groups will launch a hard effort at getting HB 1348 killed on the Senate floor.

If you'd like to leave a message for your representative at the Capital you can call 1-800-247-1842 outside of Bismarck and 224-3373 or 224-3375 in the cities. 4 I Renwtck Dam tew perch LakeArdocft: fair for northern pike. Homme Dam: fair for perch. Okling Dam; fair for trout. Lake Ashtabula: some perch, a few northern pike and walleye.

Jamestown Reservoir: good for crappies. Beaver Lake: OK tor northern pike. Green Lake: OK for northern pike. Lakes Metigoshe Upsikm: good for perch, walleye, northern pike. Carpenter, School Section and Long Lakes: good for perch and pike.

Btsbee Dam: good tor perch. Gravel Lake: fair for trout. George Lake: fair for northern pike. Nelson Lake: good tor biuegiiis and bass. Lake Sakakawea (central area): slow for walleyes, fair tor sauger West end slow.

Powers Lake: slow to fair for northern pike. Smishek Lake: slow to fair tor perch. people, most of them Wing area farmers, provided testimony against the purchase, while a handful of concerned sportsmen said they felt the idea presents a great opportunity to provide more habitat for wildlife. Mike McEnroe, manager of Long Lake Wildlife Refuge for the FWS said he expects there to be a large degree of public hunting and trapping there. It's already an excellent wildlife area, he said.

He and Don Fitzgerald, realty supervisor for the FWS's Bismarck office, said the federal government's reimbursement program to local governments will more than make up for the property taxes that will be lost when the farm leaves private ownership, judging by the rate of the federal payments last year. The farm would bring in 86 cents per acre, while the latest property taxes brought in only 64 cents per acre. While other area farmers oppose the sale, none have come forward with an offer to buy it. Unless that happens soon, it looks like the commission will recommend at its next meeting early in March that Gov. George Sinner OK its sale to the FWS.

Party hunting bordering the Rath farm, said he has three sons who may someday want to farm. If the Rath farm is sold to the government it leaves him or his sons fewer places to expand. He also said one of the ways into the Rath place is through his farm and he's afraid of his children being run over by hunters. Jim Krueger of McKenzie stood up and said he's "on the rampage" because too much money is being Wrapper Cluft Devils Lake Perch: Megan Gibson, Edinburg, 2-7; Ron Ralston, Devils Lake, 2 6, Michael J. Ziegier, Devils Lake, Melvin Kunkel, Devils Lake, 2 a.

White Bass: Don vanHout, Big Stone City, 4V4. LakeJmle Walleye: Jody E. Marmon, Wllllston, 123; Robert Waid, Williston, 10 White Earth Bay Walleye: Harriet Prochaske. Stanley, I Scott A. Bergstrom, Williston, 10.

1. Coalmine Lake Perch: Cherraine Welti, Ana moose, 1.91; Alice Faul, Harvey, 2V4. Missouri River Ling: Greg Magrum, Williston, l7, Peter Jeffrey, Fargo, 1.41. Garrison Tailrace Rainbow Trout: Col.n Heddeiand, New Town. 5 7 Sakakawea Walleye: Mike Kroll.

Williston, 10 S. Sauger: Rick Severson, Minot, 5-2. Ling: BobOsborn, Williston, a. Lake Audubon Walleye: Emil E. Berard, Coleharbor, 9 5.

Settled-Thorn Dam Porch: Jerome Schuiz, Edgeley, 1-12. Mmneauken Flats Perch: William Schmidt, velva, 2 4. Barnes Lake Perch; Scott Miller, Jamestown, 2 4. HotftundBay Walleye: Charles Kutner, Giendive, 14. Catch and Reteate Nelson Lake Largemovflt Beta: Jimmy Center, 20 inches.

Lake Sakakawea Walleye: Rick Severson, Minot, 2 inches. Last Tuesday, the North Dakota House passed a measure that would make party hunting for deer legal in the state. It came as a shock to many North Dakota sport-men and women and they feel many legislators are confused as to what the bill really means. HB1348 is opposed by the North Dakota Game and Fish Depart Snow conditions for cross-country skiing: Mandan native reels in ratings with TV, radio fishing programs 2 8 I By JEFF OLSON Tribune Staff Writer Bismarck Riverwood 1 Mandan nnnn Nature Area I II II II I Fort Lincoln State Park S2SX Knife River II II II I By JEPP OLSON The Tribune I II II II I Stanton Dean's trade secrets for filling the stringer and live well. And tell them he did over two hours of tips and answers to some of the head-scratchingest questions in the fishing game.

Dean's road to success is as highlighted as the lines on his sun tanned face. "I was North Dakota's first rock 'n' roll disc jockey back at KQDI in Bismarck in the late '50s," Dean said in a recent interview with The Tribune. A 1948 graduate of Mandan High School, Dean attended Bismarck State Community College before entering the broadcast world that also included Bismarck TV station KXMB which now carries his weekly television show. HE AND wife Darlene (Repe-towskl), a Bismarck native, left in 1961 for big money "$475 a month" at a Cedar Rapids, Iowa radio station. Dean said it wasn't until a few years later that he came to know just how much he missed his hometown and 'he outdoor recreation available here.

"But you know how it is when you're young and you've got to get away from home." He got back to the Dakotas "for good" in 1968 when he was sent from Cedar Rapids to Pierre to manage a radio station. He also worked as press secretary for then-governor Frank Ferarr, and as operator of a fairgrounds speedway. "But all that time I was working on outdoors writing and radio," he said. THE RADIO show is now 16 years old. It is heard on about 160 stations over half the nation.

Before setting out on his own, Dean also worked with Al Lindner's In-Fishermen radio show, magazine and book publications as a producer and writer. He's written several books of his own on fishing too. The radio and television show, along with the winter seminars and sport shows, take up all of his time. "From January through mid-April it's do a seminar, get to bed late, get up early the next day and drive 300-400 miles for the next seminar and do it all again, and this is seven days a week." With a friendly banker, Dean has embarked on his own with the television series. It's his to produce and sell, a job that is getting easier each season especially with the last ARBITRON ratings.

Tony Dean, right, talks with Harry Sheldon, Washburn, after Dean 's fishing seminar. Call Tony Dean an overnight success and he'll just laugh. Now a highly regarded fishing pro with syndicated radio and television shows and years of outdoors writing under his belt, the Mandan native calls Pierre, S.D., his home. Dean, whose real name is Tony Dechandt, was in Mandan Tuesday to put on a fishing seminar. It was old-home night as Dean greeted some familiar, and some not-so-familiar faces: "I've been away so long (25 years) it's hard to put names and faces together." The seminar was an easy one for Dean who "grew up fishing with Sid Hohbein on the Heart River." Dean got the local folks pretty fired up by telling them that if he had but one piece of water to fish it'd be the Missouri River system.

Dean admitted tat would be a pretty light sentence, but added, "the Missouri is probably the best fishery in the world." THE CROWD of over 300 people appreciated the ego-stroking, but they came to hear Dean talk about northern, walleye and salmon fishing. They came to pick up some of T.R. National Park, Medora For an update on changing ski conditions at Riverwood call 222-6455. For the latest trail conditions at stats parks, Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Mandan Nature Area call the Individual parks or 224-4887. DEAN SAID the latest poll indicated that his show "Outdoors with Tony Dean" was the fifth-rated of nearly 125 outdoors television programs in the country and followed only Babe Winkelman, Bill Dance, Virgil Ward and Tom Mann.

The program is broadcast by 28 stations covering North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Wyoming and Wisconsin. Last season's weekly audience was about 300,000 viewers on a typical show, a number he calls "not bad." With the addition of viewers in Kansas City and Milwaukee markets, Dean Is hoping to climb to the 1 million weekly viewers plateau. The show Is aired in western North Dakota following CBS national sports events each Saturday at 5 p.m. Although the pace Is furious, Dean said he still gets up each day glad to go to work. With a chuckle, he said, "I get paid to fish.

It's a dirty, sweaty Job but I guess someone's got to do It.".