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CALGARY HERALD Friday, October 11, 1996 D7 OUTDOORS SPORTS HEADING OUT The great Bow River trout round-up really is a nn r. l------rt -i lflMffiiinlii'ii)ifi(lmliiOifllifti1iirtir-iiiiiliiiMiftii i a ed VOLUNTEERS: Graham Anderson (left) and Louis Couronne release big rainbow trout into Bow River upstream of Carseland Weir this week. WW Bruce Masterman, Calgary Herald stream of the weir. Twelve volunteers, working under TU biologist Kerry Brewin, tread carefully on algae-slickened rocks in the shallow canal while netting fish and placing them in large water-filled tubs. The fish ranged from finger-long mountain whitefish to rainbow trout of several pounds.

They included more than 2,800 whitefish and 20 trout. Although that may not sound like a lot of trout, it must be put in perspective: The volunteers worked only a 300-metre stretch of a 30-kilometre canal, and didn't catch every fish. Thousands more trout and whitefish were left to perish. "If this is indicative of what the rest of the canal is like, we're talking the loss of very significant numbers of to vote on where to place the broom. Laliberte had a "routine" hit for the win in the 10th, but whiffed.

She needed a last-gasp draw to the eight-foot ring against three in the extra end for an 8-7 win. Asked about her team's performance, Kullman said with a straight face: "I thought we were excellent." She wasn't quite as impressed with the play of the stones. "It was hard to catch on to what the rocks were doing," she said. "It's going to take time for the bottoms to wear in. "Hopefully, we'll get used to it.

There was a lot of flipping and flopping in that game." Laliberte played down the conditions, but said there was foreign debris on the ice causing the stones to act silly. "But I'm not sure what is was, because we couldn't see it," she frowned. "But it's not that bad," she added, meaning that not one stone came to rest on Memorial Drive. Ice maker Bill Avramenko refused to apologize on behalf of the curl-happy granite, pointing out that two malfunctioning stones from the batch were benched prior to the event. "These rocks are fine, but they're unforgiving," mused Avramenko, spokesman for the rocks.

"If you flip it a little (on the release), they'll curl like crazy." start fish," Brewin says. He notes any unnatural reduction of sportfish from the Bow River can have a significant impact on the river, a world-famous trout fishery with an annual economic benefit worth more than $12 million. The results of this week's recovery effort, Brewin says, proves the province should install screens or some other device to stop fish from being flushed into the canal. "Hopefully, we won't have to do this again," he says. Meanwhile, members of the Peigan Indian band tommorow will conduct their sixth annual rescue operation of fish in an irrigation canal off the Old-man River.

Over five days each year, about 800 mature trout and whitefish and thousands of younger fish are relocated into the Oldman from a 10-kilometre section of canal. Fish not caught eventually die. "I do it for my native religious beliefs," says Harley Bastien, president of the Peigan Friends Along the River Conservation Society. "I was brought up to believe I am just a part of the life force. We believe that to give life is to receive life." Back at the Bow, it's apparent some motives are guided more by the urge to eat cheap fish than by any sense of spirituality.

As the rescue started in early morning, a local woman bearing a long-handled net and fish salvage permit rushed in and scooped up several large trout, including a rainbow of more than three kilograms. The rainbow, she said, was destined for the oven. "It's not fair for the average people who live here and look at the fish all year not to be able to get some now," said the woman, declining to give her name. "We all have the right to be equal. We all have the right to fish." Referring to netting and killing trapped fish as fishing would be laughable if it weren't so sad.

DUNHILL CUP Road Hole halts run at record The Associated Press ST. ANDREWS, Scotland Mark O'Meara made birdie after birdie. Eight of them in a row, and 10 in 11 holes. Nothing could stop him on the Old Course at St. Andrews except the infamous Road Hole.

"That hole has gotten me quite a few times, although it's never gotten me severely," O'Meara said Thursday after shooting a 63 in golf's Dunhill Cup as the United States beat Italy to miss the Old Course record by a single stroke. "This golf course can jump up and bite you and it got up and did that at the 17th," he said after making a double bogey 6 from off the sand and gravel road that runs along the right side of the hole. Only Curtis Strange has shot a 62 on the Old Course, posting the 9-under-par number in the 1987 Dunhill Cup, but no one ever made eight birdies in a row at St. Andrews. Defending champion Scotland was upset by Sweden on the opening day after looking comfortably in control and Canada lost 2-1 to South Africa.

In Group 3, Jim Rutledge of Victoria beat Retief Goosen, 69-76, but Ernie Els beat Vancouver's Rick Gibson 65-73 and Wayne Westner topped Toronto's Rick Todd 68-77. Countless other fish doomed to perish in draining of canal CARSELAND Alberta roundups go, this one was more than a little unusual. Instead of bawling white-faced cattle and cowboys on horseback, the round-upheld BRUCE MASTERMAN Calgary Herald near here this week featured trout, mountain white-fish and wader-clad anglers with nets in hand. "Welcome to the great Bow River round-up," joked Calgarian Brian Couronne as he stood in calf-deep water in a quickly-draining irrigation canal. It was a rare light moment in a decidedly sombre mission for Couronne and other volunteers from the Bow River chapter of Trout Unlimited Canada.

They spent a day rescuing Bow River browns, rainbows and mountain whitefish otherwise doomed to die in the canal, owned and operated by the provincial environmental protection department. The fish had been washed into the canal through the headworks diversion of the Bow River Irrigation District, just upstream of the Carseland Weir. When the province as it does every year at the end of irrigation season turned off the flow of water from the Bow River into the diversion canal on Monday morning, the water level started to drop immediately. The canal drains into Lake McGregor, 30 kilometres away Every year, fish trapped in the canal are killed from lack of oxygen, being New set of rocks challenges players at Autumn Gold GYLE KON0T0PETZ Calgary Herald Judging by the numbers of curlers who were talking to their brooms Thursday the sports psychologists will be doing a brisk business this weekend at the Calgary Curling Club. The Husky Autumn Gold Classic wobbled out of the hack and, to be honest, it wasn't a pretty sight watching Canada's top women curlers pull out their hair in public.

Some came off the ice muttering bad words such as gosh-darn and looking around for the team psychologist or the bartender. Local morning-line favorite Cheryl Kullman was so exasperated during her match she looked like she might throw her rocks back to Scotland from whence they came. The popular theory behind the glass is that the Calgary club's new set of 64 stones is conspiring against the players. The Autumn Gold represents the first major test for the 64 rocks and, if the early returns are any indication, they ought to order another case of Scotch on the rocks of course. After Day 1 of the five-day, 48-rink argument over $41,000 and a berth in next year's Olympic trials, those bonny Scottish rocks are winning.

Yesterday's feature pitted two of the country's hottest foursomes skipped by Kullman, runner-up at last season's Canadian championship, and former world champion Connie Laliberte of Winnipeg. The match billed as a classic turned Sonne tap expenieini sliinigeirs st frozen in the ice and by predators such as gulls, cormorants and mergansers. They're also killed by opportunistic people, who buy $5 salvage permits from the government to net them in an efficient but decidely unsporting fashion. "A lot of fish are going to die and that's a waste," says Janet MacAllan, a fly fisher who took the day off from her computer programming job to help save fish. "We have a great resource in the Bow River, but it's not unlimited." This year, Trout Unlimited decided to stop the slaughter or at least put a dent in it.

Obtaining its own government permit, the Bow River chapter put together a work crew to capture fish in the canal and return them to the river up CURLING ce I Early draw results D4 66 It was hard to catch on to what the rocks were doing. 99 Calgary skip Cheryl Kullman Cheryl Kullman 1M Connie Laliberte into a comedy of misses. Normally, top-calibre skips such as Kullman and Laliberte rarely miss, but both botched numerous shots along with their teammates on sheet four. They wrecked on guards on free draws and whiffed on open take-out attempts in a wild affair that was prolonged by conferences at centre ice, presumably ne ftiifiSiliai iSFW.lfoM-. jflfMBfr- v.

FISHING REPORT Bow River: Good for rainbows and browns on ant patterns, Blue-Wing Olives, Elk Hair Caddis, Woolly Bugger streamers, tiny Parachute Adams, nymphs (San Juan Worm, Hare Ear, Pheasant Tail, Pnnce), small spoons, spinners. Buzz Bombs, worms and frozen minnows (where legal). Warmer weather has brought on late-season hopper action. Crowsnest River: Good to excel lent. With water low and clear, wade carefully to avoid spooking trout.

Try Blue Wing Olives, Elk Hair Cad dis, Para-chute Adams (sizes 18-20). Also small beadhead Pheasant Tail and Gold-Ribbed Hare's Ear nymphs, small spinners and spoons. Lots of whitefish. Oldman River: In upper reaches, good for rainbows, some cutthroats on weighted nymphs, spinners. Some browns near Fort Macleod on Woolly Buggers, Blue Wing Olives.

CastleWest CastleLivingstone rivers: Fair to good for cutthroats and rainbows on weighted nymphs, some dries (Stimulators, Parachute Adams, Royal Wulffs). Elk River: Good for cutthroats on Stimulators, Trudes, Royal Wulffs. Kananaskis Beaver PondsHigh Mountain Lakes: Good to excellent for brookies, rainbows, cutthroats in afternoon. Red Deer River: Fair to good for brown trout below Dickson Dam. Try Elk Hair Caddis, streamers, weighted nymphs.

Catch and release. Some goldeye in lower reaches. Lake McGregor: Good for northern pike on frozen smelts, minnows; some walleye and whitefish being caught. Willow Creek: Still good for browns on Adams, Caddis, blue wing olives, small hoppers, nymphs, streamers, spinners. Carburn Park Ponds: Fair for small perch on worms, maggots; pike on large spoons, frozen smelts and minnows.

HighwoodSheeptributaries: Good for rainbows, whitefish, bull trout on spinners, nymphs, Caddis tand Adams dry flies. Use stoneflies (imitation or real, where legal) for whitefish. Chain Lakes: Good for rainbows on corn, cheese, salmon eggs, small Bugger streamers, dark weighted nymphs, spinners, small spoons and Flatfish. CALENDAR Bull Sessions: Family-oriented inter pretive hikes to view spawning bull trout are scheduled Saturday and Sunday along Smith-Dorrien Creek in Kananaskis Country. Meet at the Peninsula Day Use area at 2 p.m.

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1131 HuntingFishing Seasons ....1132 Nature 4080 ODD SPOT Rose's car no sweet deal The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. Car dealer Tim O'Brien bought Pete Rose's Porsche, and now he's sorry. In addition to the $46,500 the former Cincinnati Reds' player received for the white 1986 vehicle, Rose agreed to make a personal appearance at an auto auction conducted by O'Brien Motors Inc. in Orlando. Rose never showed, and O'Brien obtained a $10,000 court judgment against him.

Rose never paid. The two sides then settled on Rose paying $6,600. Rose never paid, and the sum was increased to the original $10,000. O'Brien and his lawyer now are going through the courts to get Rose to present proof of his assets. "If it takes me $25,000 to get $10,000 in this particular case, then I'll spend $25,000," said O'Brien.

Rose, who lives in Boca Raton and operates a restaurant there, would not comment. O'Brien, meanwhile, was a loser in another way. The car he bought from Rose sold for only $28,000. "I took a big hit on the car," O'Brien said, "not to mention the shiner I took by hint not showing up a the auction." Bow River Troutfitters Ltd. Fall Clearance Enroll now1 ARE YOU UNEMPLOYED BETWEEN 18 AND 24 YEARS OLD? One of the fastest growing industries in Alberta and Canada at present is the Plastics Industry.

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