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\ 8 - Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 10, 2000 / All for fitness Tim's Fishin' Lines by Tim Rypstra Clarke High School students are on a drive to raise funds for new fitness equipment for their school. "A lot of kids are not sports minded, but want to be fit," said Physical Education teacher Greg Morrison. In fact enrolment in the Physical Education course has increased since the fitness unit was introduced. A full-course roast beef dinner with a silent auction will be held on Saturday, May 27, at the school, with all the proceeds going to purchase equipment for the fitness room. Tickets for the dinner are $20 a plate and can be ordered by calling the school at 987-4771. The school is also looking for donated articles to be used in the silent auction or in the raffle. Pictured are: Noah Sturrock, Tell Stacheruk, Melissa Searle, Pete Etmanskie, Corey Eastwood, Brenda Burt and Jamie Parry. This past weekend, I went fishing in the Ganaraska River with Darrell Kennedy and his friend Matt, from Pickering. We were fishing for steel head and stream trout. Darrell hiked and landed a nice steel head under the bridge with a red and white spoon. The fish, a female, probably weighed seven or eight pounds. Using a sponge with a float, I caught a nice male weighing around seven pounds. It had a broken lower jaw, so we kept it to eat. I also caught many stream trout from four to. ten inches long, and another steel head, this steel head was huge, over ten pounds, ' and . pretty healthy. I caught that fish after Darrell went home. It was a fun fishing trip but 1 got another hole in my chest wader boots, and the felt bottoms bottoms started to peel off. Since walleye and pike season opens this weakend. May 13,1 will share a few tips with you. When the pike 'are slow going, and don't hit anything, anything, try a big fat chub minnow. minnow. Always make sure you are using a steel leader, so the pike won't bit through the line. When pike are not too slow, use crank baits and twitch baits. When pike are really active, try spoons, spinners spinners and buzz baits. The best area to fish for pike is in shallow weedy bays. Walleye (pickerel) can be caught at stream mouths this early in the season because they sometimes spawn up rivers. The best presentation for walleye is jigs. Whether they are buck tails, yellow grubs or minnows, jigs work good when the fish are inactive. When the fish are active, switch to deep diving, long narrow baits, like the wally diver. If you want to fish for walleye walleye in Rice Lake, go to . Bewdley and head straight out to the middle of the lake. If you don't have a boat, you can rent one in Bewdley. If you've never gone walleye walleye or pike fishing, you should give it a tty, they are fun fish to go for. The 'Health of our Water' report ' The Health of our Water is a new report that draws widely widely from Canadian research resources to provide .an-' overview of information assessing the health of Canada's rural water It is one in a Series of A AFC publications publications focussing on the interaction interaction between agriculture and Canada's resource base. Other publications in the series include The Health of our Air, The Health of our Soil and the Environmental Sustainability of Canadian Agriculture: Report of the Agri-Environm entai Indicator Project. The report's main message is that sustainable agriculture can only be achieved with wise stewardship of our water resources, and water quality is one of Canada's chief environmental environmental concerns, especially especially in rural areas. Agricultural production has intensified over the past three decades and some management management practices have contributed contributed to a decline in water quality. The Health of our' Water report helps pinpoint where challenges remain and how ongoing responses will be required by industry, government government and Canadians. The agricultural sector is , working with government and other agencies to develop best management practices and encourage the adoption of environmental farm plans. Whole communities are addressing water quality concerns concerns by working at the watershed watershed level. Government responsibility for protecting water quality related to agriculture agriculture includes education and (raining, policy and programs that target areas of intensive crop and livestock production, and regulations. Farmers can help to improve water quality by controlling controlling runoff and erosion, improving the management of zones and shelterbelts. Practices to protect water quality are often the same ones proven successful in promoting promoting soil conservation. Although the long-term effects' of global warming on the continued availability of our freshwater supplies is still uncertain, it is likely we will continue to enjoy abundant water in most parts of the country for years to come. However, if we abuse our water resources through over- exploitation or pollution, we will be faced with an inadequate, inadequate, supply to meet our needs. in,areas of Canada where water supply is limited or there is competition among users, farmers may have to find ways of using existing water more efficiently, learn to farm with less water and face the prospect of paying for water that traditionally has been a free or low-coSt resource. IN I E Northcutt Elliott Funeral Home THOUGHTFULNESS, SERVICE & CONCERN A Family Owned Business, Offering: . 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