The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 21

THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS, Wednesday, August 25, 1993 B7 Hatchery personnel wb a 'special bunch' i wmvmm-m)' in m-mj. jmm i it Sip nn r- Personnel operating the Chilliwack River Hatchery are a special bunch. They are an organization of tireless individuals responsible for the sport fishery which inspires many anglers frequenting the ChilliwackVedder River. -1 if olds. Anglers caught about one half of the return while an escapement of 500 reds remains in the hatchery for reproductive purposes.

The hatchery needs half a million eggs from this stock for progeny; excesses are utilized by affiliates such as the Chehalis Hatchery. Last year the number of White Chinook returning to the river was proportionately high: 37,000 whites returned. Twenty-one thousand of these fish spawned in the hatchery and the remaining 16,000, considered hatchery produced adults, returned to seed the rest elsewhere in the system. The 1989 release of whites numbered 630,000. Based on conditions in the Gulf, Coho returns look good.

In the spring of 1992 hatchery personnel released two million Coho into the ChilliwackVedder River. Coho, along with Steelhead, are much prized among sport anglers here and abroad. Recently, hatchery researchers conducted a time-release experiment with respect to Steelhead smolts. The study indicated that Steelhead released during the first week of May (early release) have a greater survival rate than Steelhead released from the middle to the end of May (late release). Test results show that the early release practice yielded twice the return of the late release method.

Based on this finding, Steelhead smolts are currently released into the ChilliwackVedder system during the first week of May. -4 Terry Hansen Valley Fishing Don Buxton, manager of the hatchery, took some time from his busy schedule to share information concerning anadromous fish in the system. Incidentally, the term anadromous is used to describe fish which ascend the river from the ocean to spawn; of interest to sport fishers are the Red Chinook, the White Chinook, the Coho and the Steelhead. This year's run of Red Chinook is pretty much finished now. Approximately 1 ,500 reds returned to the system of the 260,000 released from the 1989 brood.

Although three-, four- and five-year-olds can return simultaneously, the run consisted predominantly of four-year- Photo by Steve Kidd More than 400 slo-pitch softballers took part in the Townsend Park tourney last weekend. Jolly no more after 'heartbreaker' Texas scramble produces 13-5, champion Red Eye Express new Kinkora golf record 7-0, and Tron of Burnaby 5-4 before beating Richmond Bullies 7-4. They lost to eventual fourth-place co-ed team Mission Danglers 16-4 in their tinal game. Paller Farms of Yarrow went 2-3 A heartbreaker in the last inning of a quarter-final did in the Jolly Miller men's team. Jolly Miller lost a 12-5 lead in the bottom of the seventh to the Langley Express, which steamed back to win 13-12.

The loss prevented Miller from being the only local team to make the final four at the Kinsmen-Coors Light Slo-Pitch provincial Softball championships at Townsend Park last weekend. Langley Eagles won the men's division and Mission's Red Eye Express the co-ed division at the two-day tournament. The Eagles beat the Burnaby Bulldogs 7-3 in the men's final Sunday afternoon, while the co-ed final went to the Express 7-6 in a squeaker over Brian's Glass of Abbotsford-Matsqui The championships featured 24 and more than 400 players, most from the Lower Mainland and one from Salmon Arm. Jolly Miller finished the tournament with a 2-4 record. The team lost 14-2 to Kennedy (North Delta), 8-3 to Langley Express, 20-4 to Burnaby Bulldogs and in co-ed play.

They lost to Epp Electric of Deroche 18-5; defeated Kinkora Golf Course's second annual Texas Scramble produced a new course record in four-ball best-ball. The team of Dean Lewis, Wade Cox, Dan Mitchell and Rob Horn-sby put together a 45, 11 under par, to win the Scramble. Second place went to the team of Jad Perry, Roy Lyonnais, Earl Berner and Dwight Richardson with a 49. A 50 bagged third place for Pat Hardy, Gus Hardy, Darryl Palmer and Del Becker. Closest-to-the-pin winners on the women's side were Rita Chuley, Anastasia Atwell and Ivy Templeton.

Men's winners were Ray Cheah, Del Becker and Larry Hankins. The Saturday tournament attracted 120 participants. Mountain Creations of Mission 8-4; lost 9-5 to Vancouver Chilliwack had a good run before losing to eventual third-place finisher Kennedy in the men's division quarter-finals. Hustlers had the best recor'd of the five local teams at 4-2 overall. Hustlers lost to eventual champion Langley Eagles just 9-8 in their opening game before rattling off four straight wins: 15-6 over L.A.

Transport; 9-5 over Salmon Arm Legion; 9-8 over Vancouver Rockies; and 23-4 over Chilliwack's overmatched First Engineers Combat team. Hustlers were shut out 3-0 by Kennedy on Sunday in single-game elimination play. Archie's of Chilliwack, playing in the co-ed division, finished at 1-4. They lost to Mission Danglers Bulldogs; beat Tron 8-3; and lost to Red Eye 11-3 to end the tournament. Tournament co-organizer Victor Wells said the Kinsmen Club already looking at staging the event again next year.

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