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hal | 16 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 31, 2001 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" | -- AIAG GR ISLAN on"! TAXI 905 985-taxi (8204) | RIK DAVIE / PORT PERRY STAR HERE'S THE PITCH: Local squirt ball clubs from all across the township took part in a round-robin tournament here in Port Perry last weekend. Here, a bat- ter from the Hank's Pastries squad tracks the movement of a pitch, tossed by a Greenbank Greens player. Ontario Super Latemodel Racing Series arrives Latemodel series takes up the Mosport challenge By J. Wally Nesbitt From Corner Five On July 28, the Ontario Super Latemodel Racing series made its second stop of the season at Mosport Speedway. Nineteen OSLR cars prepared to chal- lenge Mosport's 1/2 mile oval with four heat sprints kicking off the evening's Super Late Model activities. Running virtually clean and green throughout the ten lap preliminaries, heat race victories were awarded to Shane Maginnis, Jeff Tysick, Dave Burbridge and Mosport veteran Pee Wee Evans. With Mosport's regular feature races completed for this night, the OSLR com- petitors once again took to the track for the evening's finale. When the checkered flag flew fifty laps later, the race's box score displayed only two race leaders, but this fact offers no indication of the excitement that filled the contest. Whitby's Terry Robichaud was the quick man off of the line at the drop of the green flag, taking advantage of his front row grid position to move into the early race lead. Challenged almost immediately by Bradford's Rick Brown these two held sta- tion at the head of the field until a lap ten, caution flag restart. Dundas, Ontario's Shane Maginnis, working his way up from mid-pack, nosed inside of Robichaud's Camaro heading into turn three, powering into the lead as the field charged down the 800 foot long front straight. With a gap opened up by Maginnis, three more dri- vers, West Lee Talons, Brad Corcoran and points leader Derek Lynch also squirted by Robichaud, and the top four proceeded to open a space on the rest of the pack. On the 30th circuit, Lynch made his move, advancing two places and up into position to challenge for the overall race lead. While Corcoran began to fade slightly, the top three, Maginnis, Lynch and Talons circulated bumper to bumper working lapped traffic with apparent ease until the 'Five To Go' sign was given. Coming through turn three, the back end of Talons' Corvette suddenly came around, leaving the Smithville driver stranded sideways on the track. "We were coming into traffic and sud- denly Shane and Derek had to check up. | punched the brakes to avoid them and the back end just broke loose," explained the Mosport regular. The final five laps were run in order with Maginnis in the #03 Grand Prix able to hold Turn to Page 17 Finesse Fishing By Chris Hockley Using biological behaviour Many people when fishing do just that: fish. They are totally unaware of very use- ful things that are happening around them that could be utilized to increase catches. Many people will move into a shallow area to fish for bass and see them darting away from the boat everywhere. They spend a good part of the day fish- ing for these fish and never get a bite let alone catch them. If these anglers had taken the time to notice that when these fish swam away they left a trail of bubbles behind them, they would have realized that they had spent the day fishing for carp. A bass on the other hand, regardless of size, will next to never leave any trail behind them but a small wake. A useful tidbit of information. Have you ever noticed just as your bait hits the water small fish or minnows jump- ing out of the water? This isn't just a fluke. When these small forage fish feel they are threatened they will all do this. While being chased down by a hungry fish they can either swim for it (with no way of out swimming the larger fish) or temporarily leap out of its field of view. Because of the way that light changes its angle of inci- dence when it enters the water it can con- fuse a larger fish just long enough to escape its deadly purpose. By imparting this jumping or tailwalking action into your lure you can convince aggressive and even neutral fish to bite instinctively. You can also cover a lot of water fishing like this. Experiment with different baits to see which will work best. Crayfish is another prey of many fish that is worthwhile taking the time to observe. The most obvious thing about these small, armoured crus- taceans is the backward direction they swim. They tend to stir up the bottom. Therefore, by dragging a jig along the bottom it takes on the appearance of a crayfish. Also when a crayfish is about to be eaten it will attempt to protect itself by lifting its claws in front of itself and will lift up vertically. By placing a plastic crayfish onto your hook and allowing it to curl around the bend it simulates this defen- sive position. Something that can really trigger strikes. The frog is another bait that can be used more effectively at different times of the year. In the spring and the fall there is a massive frog migration that takes place. You can usually tell by driving at night. There can be an incredible number of frogs on the road. It can be an arduous task just trying to miss them. Fish are also aware of these movements. In fact, pick- erel will even move up at night into water as shallow as they are physically capable of just to feast on these long-legged amphibians. There are so many different little pieces of big information that can help you out when fishing. There are a number of books available that are written entire- ly on this topic. We haven't even gone over a light dusting of the information available. Next time you are on the water take the time to absorb something other than the rain and use it to your advantage. Knowledge can be a dangerous thing - for the fish of course. Boat safely and good fishing! Drop by my web site at www.blitzcreek.com or drop me a line at blitzcreekprofishing@hotmail.com [il RE PIZZA, SUBS BOA TH IEC SE yo THINK BIG LLL BIGFOOT 7 | ge Se EVEN 2 FOR IDEALS CAN TREAT BIGFOOT» PRI 0 mo { { | vk © &WINGS 80) Watiar St, [Port [Pers 905- 985- 8448 24 1% 0] 57 \ re. %i a THEY TRY... 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