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WWW.KANSASCITY.COMTHURSDAY,SEPTEMBER13,2012 B3 THE KANSAS CITY STAR. VS BuckNight FireworksFriday presentedby Hy-Vee and Pepsi FuturesNight FamilyFunDaySunday CamoKCCap presentedby SportClips ArmedForcesDay presentedby 610Saturday presentedby610SportsRadio Missouri SMITHVILLE: 80 degrees, clear, 1 foot low. Outlook: Bait and Tackle reports: crappies fair (fish are scattered between deep and shallow brush); black bass good in 6 feet of water or shallower in the back of coves on spinnerbaits and jigs; white bass good mainly off windy main-lake points morning and evening; catfish good in the back of coves in 6 feet of water or shallower; walleyes poor. JACOMO: 77 degrees, clear, low. Outlook: Forty Woods Bait and Tackle reports: bluegills good on crickets; crappies fair on minnows 15 to 20 feet deep; catfish fair to poor on liver.

BLUE SPRINGS: 76 degrees, clear, 1 foot low. Outlook: Forty Woods Bait and Tackle reports: bluegills fair on red wigglers and crickets; crappies fair to poor in deep water; white bass fair. LONGVIEW: 77 degrees, 37-inch clarity, 2 feet low. Outlook: Longview Lake Marina reports: all species slow. REED AREA: 75 degrees, dingy, 1 1 2 feet low.

Outlook: Missouri Department of Conservation reports: Crappies, bass and channel catfish fair; all other species poor. MOZINGO: 75 degrees, clear, low. Outlook: Big Bait and Archery reports: crappies fair (a few limits have been taken); black bass fair. LAKE OF THE OZARKS: 73 degrees, clear, 2 feet low. Outlook: Bass Pro reports: crappies fair mainly on minnows 10 to 12 feet deep in 20 to 25 feet of water around condo docks and brush piles; bass are sporadic on worms, jigs and crankbaits in the north shore area (lake is trying to turn over).

TRUMAN: 74 to 78 degrees, clear, 1 1 2 feet low. Outlook: Rocky Top Bait and Tackle reports: crappies good trolling or vertical jigging near the weir; white bass good on 1 4 -ounce spoons or soft-plastics near the weir; hybrids good where surfacing on spoons or small crankbaits; catfish fair to good on fresh shad. Below the dam: all species slow (a few catfish are being taken on cut shad). STOCKTON: 75 to 76 degrees, clear, 5 feet low. Outlook: Lake Guide Service reports: bass fair on spinnerbaits off secondary points; crappies good on jigs 13 to 15 feet deep in the timber; walleyes fair on jigs and night crawlers around secondary points and on the flats; catfish very good on fresh shad 11 feet deep on the flats.

POMME DE TERRE: 77 degrees, fairly clear, 1 2 foot low. Outlook: Muskie Guide Service reports: crappies fair on minnows or jigs 15 feet deep in the brush; bass fair on shallow-running crankbaits or jigs 9 to 15 feet deep; catfish good on stink baits or juglines; muskies fair on bucktails in the shallows. TABLE ROCK: 80 degrees, clear, 7 feet low. Outlook: White River Outfitters reports: all species poor. NORFORK: 83 degrees, murky green, 8 feet low.

Outlook: Guide Service reports: all species poor. BULL SHOALS: 82 degrees, clear, 4 feet low. Outlook: 125 Marina reports: walleyes good on night crawlers and bottom bouncers 30 feet deep on the flats; bass good at night on topwater lures. TANEYCOMO: Generation using one to two units 24 hours a day. Outlook: Landing reports: In trophy area, trout good on zebra midges size 16 and 18; midge hatches occurring throughout the day.

Below Fall Creek, trout good on air-injected night crawlers, using 4-pound test line, or PowerBait in white and green and white and pink. Kansas WYANDOTTE: 73 degrees. Outlook: Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism reports: bluegills fair on worms; channel catfish fair to good on liver or night crawlers; largemouth bass fair to good on finesse plastics in the morning; smallmouth bass fair on crankbaits in rocky areas; wipers and white bass fair on crankbaits off main-lake points. SHAWNEE MISSION: 76 degrees, clarity, 1to 2 feet. Outlook: Johnson County Park and Rec reports: Catfish fair near the dam on liver, doughbait and green sunfish; bass fair on crankbaits, jigs and spinners near the dam and in the coves; panfish fair lakewide on minnows, jigs and spinners; all other species poor.

HERITAGE: 78 degrees, murky. Outlook: Johnson County Park and Rec reports: catfish fair on liver, night crawlers and doughbait; bass fair on plastic worms, jigs and spinners; panfish fair on minnows, jigs and spinners; trout fair on night crawlers and PowerBait. KILL CREEK: 78 degrees, normal. Outlook: Johnson County Park and Rec reports: catfish fair on liver and night crawlers in the headwaters; bass fair on jigs and spinners on the north side; panfish fair on minnows and night crawlers lakewide; all other species poor. WILSON: 75 degrees, slightly murky, 2 1 2 feet low.

Outlook: Bait Shop reports: bass good lakewide, especially in rocky areas, on live bait or lures; stripers good lakewide on spoons; crappies good on jigs or medium minnows in the brush around Marshall Cove and around the docks; catfish good on fresh shad or prepared baits lakewide; walleyes fair on jig-and-worm rigs 18 to 25 feet deep around rocky points. GLEN ELDER: 76 degrees, clear, 5 feet low. Outlook: Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism reports: white bass good where fish are surfacing using slab spoons, Kastmasters and Rat-L-Traps or under the lights at night using jigs and minnows; black bass fair to good on crawdad imitations and crankbaits, also on topwater lures early and late; walleyes fair to good (some limits lately) drifting a jig-and-night crawler rig in 5 to 10 feet of water; channel catfish good around chum piles using stink baits; crappies fair 12 to 18 feet deep in the brush piles on minnows (best around the south bluffs or Campground 3). CLINTON: 78 degrees, clear, 3 1 2 feet low. Outlook: Clinton Marina reports: crappies fair on minnows 12 to 15 deep around docks; catfish fair on stink baits where beaning.

PERRY: 78 degrees, murky, 2 feet low. Outlook: Bait Hut reports: crappies good mainly on minnows 6 to 11 feet deep in the rocks and the creek timber; white bass good on spinners and spoons around points; bass fair on spinners and crankbaits around rocky areas; catfish fair on all baits. TUTTLE CREEK: 78 degrees, fairly clear, 5 1 2 feet low. Outlook: Vic Oertle Guide Service reports: crappies fair on jigs or minnows 10 feet deep in brush piles; catfish good on cut bait or punch bait 5 to 15 feet deep over chummed beans. POMONA: 80 degrees, murky, 1 1 2 feet low.

Outlook: Lighthouse Bay Marina reports: crappies fair on jigs 18 feet deep in the brush in the 110 Mile Creek arm; wipers slow to fair on crankbaits in the 110 Mile and Wolf creek arms. COFFEY COUNTY: 83 degrees at midlake. Outlook: Coffey County reports: smallmouth bass fair; channel catfish good; blue catfish fair. LA CYGNE: 90 degrees at the outlet, clear, 2 1 2 feet low. Outlook: Lynn County Parks reports: white bass good at the outlet using small spinners and spoons; channel catfish fair.

HILLSDALE: 85 degrees, murky, 2 feet low. Outlook: Jayhawk Marina reports: crappies fair on minnows in the brush piles. MILFORD: 78 degrees, clear, 4 1 2 feet low. Outlook: Vic Oertle Guide Service reports: White bass and wipers very good on Chug Bugs or buzzbaits in the evenings on topwater, also trolling big crankbaits (cloudy days are best). MELVERN: 73 degrees, clear, 2 feet low.

Outlook: Melvern Marina reports: all species poor. Other area waters GRAND 78 degrees, clear, 1 foot high. Outlook: Guide Ivan Martin reports: Crappies good to very good 16 feet deep in main-lake brush piles; bass fair to good off points above Sailboat Bridge. BEAVER 77 degrees, very clear, low. Outlook: Beaver Lake Guide Service reports: lake is trying to turn over; stripers fair on live shad; white bass and hybrids fair on Kastmasters (fish are schooling near the surface); walleyes fair 10 to 20 feet deep on Hot Tots, Rapala Tail Dancers, Shad Raps, Reef Runners and Ripsticks WHITE RIVER Clear, low, light power generation.

Outlook: White River Resort reports: Trout very good on redworms and night crawlers, Gulp worms, PowerBait eggs, Rooster Tails, Blue Fox spinners, Little Cleo spoons, and buoyant or Colorado spoons. Fly fisherman have been using Western-style hoppers, black parachute ants, big beetles, bivisibles, olive bead headed wooly boogers, red fox-tail squirrel nymphs, copper Johns, soft hackles, sow bugs, and zebra midges. FISHING REPORT Brent Frazee is on assignment. Best Bet will return later this month. said Carlino, who also competes in the Ferrari Challenge, aGrand-Am sanctioned series for Ferrari owners.

car racing has not had the same impact in America (as NASCAR). a lot of fun, expandingand with the merger, going to be a lot more focus on sports car racing. So for those of us who like that, this is Kansas NASCAR aficionados will have to learn some new racing jargon and adjust to the differences between oval racing and road course racing. Instead of Ford, Chevy and Toyota, fans will watch Corvettes, BMWs and Ferraris that can top out at 200 mph. The races are not measured by laps but by time, ranging from 2.5 hours to the 24 Hours at Daytona.

And each race car has multiple drivers, usually two per car for the 2.5-hour races. first guy drives the first 30 minutes to an hour, and the other person drives the final 90 minutes or said Ryan Ellis, who tested a Continental Tire series Mazda. two drivers, a ton of strategy, not only in getting the driver change done, but your pit stops, how many times you need to So who decides who starts and who finishes? starter you want to be said Ellis. in the top 10, and you crashed the car, in a good start. The finisher is usually the crazy one out of the two, whose job is to get to the front, no matter what.

I started the season as a starting driver and am ending it as the Ellis and Carlino were joined by veteran Grand-Am Rolex drivers Joao Barbosa and Bill Auberlen for the test sessions. Just as NASCAR has its Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series, Grand-Am not only has two major seriesbut two divisions within each series. The top-tier Rolex series includes the Daytona Prototype division, which features exotic race cars such as the Corvette driven by Barbosa, and the Grand Touring division, in which actor Patrick Dempsey races street-looking cars like BMWs, Audis, Ferraris and Porsches. Both divisions race on the track at the same time, creating two races within a race. The same goes for the second-tier Continental Tire series.

The Grand Sport class in- cludes bigger V6 and V8 engines in the Mustang, Camaro, and Dodge Challenger as well as foreign makes BMW, Subaru and Porsche. The smaller Street Tuner class features smaller imports, including the Honda Civic, Mazda, Mini Cooper and Kia Forte Koup and are limited to four-and six cylinders. There could be up to 10 Daytona Prototypes and 20 Grand Touring cars on the track for a Rolex raceand 24 Grand Sport and 40 Street Tuners in a Continental Tire race. Imagine Sprint Cup and Nationwide cars on the same track at the same time competing for two different wins. what makes it said Barbosa, a two- time winner this season and two-time winner of the 24 Hours at Daytona.

see so much diversity, cars racing at the same time. Sometimes in the way. But another thing about road racing. You have to have the ability to race with those (slower) guys on the track and master overtake maneuvers while losing the least amount of time as All three full-time drivers were impressed with Kansas road course. design is said Ellis.

have the fast oval (for the finish). all high speed and allows us to keep our momentum going at a high average speed at the end. I compare it to Daytona. the fastest oval we go to. I love Daytona.

sure going to love this track, Auberlen, a two-time GT champion two-time Rolex 24 at Daytona winner, said road courses are compromised when placed inside an oval but believes building one at Kansas Speedway will increase the fan base. fact we can plop it right next to a bustling city now with spectators coming, it take much to make an amazing show, and what we can put on said Au- berlen, who competes in both Grand-Am and soon-to-be- merged rival American Le Mans Series. wish as a driver the sports car was appreciated as much as NASCAR. The merger has to be a good thing for the sport. Whenever you dilute it, never as good as it could be.

Now in the hands of the right people, it could be To reach Randy Covitz, send email to TRACK: Drivers are pleased with new venue FROMB1 Tamba normal Sunday routine this time of year is to make the drive to Arrowhead Stadium, where he joins his teammates in preparation for the game. He clearly know what to do with himself last week. Sunday, you have a routine. You have things you the Pro Bowl linebacker said, slowly getting aggravated at the memory. was a little different waking up in the morning and watching a bunch of TV and walking around.

not what used to. But I was able to get through it. away from our team something I Hali rejoined the Chiefs at practice Wednesday, his one- game suspension for an undisclosed violation of the substance-abuse policy finished. He will play in game against the Bills in Buffalo. His first order of public business was to apologize to the league and the Hunt family, owners of the Chiefs.

is not the type of light they want the organization to be he said. truly sorry for the embarrassment. I just want to move forward and get better as a team and as an The Chiefs, who were picked apart by the Falcons without Hali on the field on Sunday, were more than ready to forgive him. has already made his linebacker Derrick Johnson said. stick by Tamba all the way.

one of our brothers, one of our family members. We know all-in with us, so we just wait for him to go out and sell his heart out there on Hali has been the leading pass rusher in each of the past four seasons. He led the AFC with 14 1 2 sacks in 2010 and played in the Pro Bowl for the first time last year after getting 12 sacks. The Chiefs had trouble putting pressure on Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan. Their other starting outside linebacker, Justin Houston, had asack, but Ryan mostly had adequate time to make his passes.

hope I see the effort he gives on every play (and) what he brings to the table as far as pass rush Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel said. hope he forgotten anything and that he can step right in and move right along. way he approaches the game and the way he plays down in and down out, that impacts the guys around him. They want to play up to the level he plays. When you get guys playing up to the level that he plays, then you can lift the Hali had missed just one game in his first six seasons with the Chiefs, a 2008 contest against New Orleans.

That was for injury reasons. Hali was able to work out at the practice facility last week and attend team meetings, but he was not allowed to practice. Since he play or be on the sideline for the Atlanta game, he stayed home with his mother and daughter. fun screaming at the he said. played a good team.

always frustrating when I be out there or any of the other players be out there to contribute. They played as best they (could). think we played bad. I think that team we played (against) was able to execute. We just need to be on top of our game and that was something that was Having already lost one at home, the Buffalo game is crucial for the Chiefs.

But the Bills are a similarly desperate team, having lost their opener by 20 points to the Jets. sure (the Bills) are desperate and want to Hali said. want to win. The guys in the locker room, not too pleased with the result last week. into this game, it will be a lot more emotional.

Then have to settle down and play a lot more poised and get a win out Contrite Hali back on field Linebacker apologizes for substance-abuse issue. Team is forgiving. By ADAM TEICHER The Kansas City Star Hali Picks are made by reporters and editors who cover the NFL for The Star. Randy Covitz Sam Mellinger Columnist Jeff Rosen Sports editor Adam Teicher Chicago at Green Bay Packers 23-20 Bears 23-30 Packers 24-21 Bears 27-21 Last week11-511-510-68-8 THE NFL PREDICTION Chiefs safetyEric 2011season ended after just a handful of plays when Berry tore his ACL in the opener after being leveled on a cut-block from Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stevie Johnson. Berry then took to Twitter, accusing the Bills of being out to get him.

He later said he was only joking, but the issue will be one to watch on Sunday when the Chiefs and Bills meet in Buffalo. Berry was unavailable to answer questions on Wednesday. In Buffalo, the Bills said there was no intent to injure Berry. have never been a dirty player, and I never try to take somebody Johnson said. know the work put in to get where he is and where I Bills coach Chan Gailey said, hate (that Berry) feels that way because there was never any intention.

Our guys were just hustling and trying to make blocks. It was unfortunate it happened. a great player, and glad to see him back on the Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel tried to downplay the incident. know Eric has mentioned that last year, during the offsea- son, I think it Crennel said. mentioned anything this year other than trying to win the game.

we are focusing on this game and this season. The things that happened last year, they really impact us this Lewis, Toribio in pads Free safety Kendrick Lewis (shoulder) and nose tackle Anthony Toribio (ankle) practiced in pads for the first time since their injuries. They worked only during individual drills at practice and then stepped aside when the team portion of the session began. unlikely either player will participate against the Bills, but this still represents progress. nowhere near 100 Lewis said.

lie to you and tell you that. But showing progress. getting closer and closer to being back on the Cornerbacks Brandon Flowers (foot) and Jalil Brown (groin) and defensive lineman Allen Bailey (ankle) were also listed as limited practice participants on the injury report. Rookie wide receiver Devon Wylie has a sore hamstring and did not practice. Practice squad move The Chiefs released receiver Junior Hemingway from the practice squad and re-signed offensive lineman Rich Ran- glin.

The Chiefs might be swapping the two on and off the practice squad regularly. Ranglin began the season on the practice then was released on Saturday when the Chiefs signed Hemingway. CHIEFS NOTEBOOK injury recalled Buffalo says there was no intent to maim; Crennel sees no ill will. By ADAM TEICHER The Kansas City Star INJURY REPORT BEARS: QUESTIONABLE: TE Kyle Adams (shoulder), CB Charles Tillman (shin). PROBABLE: LB Brian Urlacher (knee).

PACKERS: OUT: LB Terrell Manning (concussion). DOUBTFUL: CB Davon House (shoulder), WR Greg Jennings (groin), RB James Starks (toe). QUESTIONABLE: LB Jamari Lattimore (ankle), DE C.J. Wilson (groin). BEARS AT PACKERS WHEN: 7:20 tonight NFL Network, WHB (810 AM) NFL GAME.