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- FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Wednesday, Jun* 14,2000
Bass active with top-water bite
Lake Lanier is down 4.6 feet and the water
temperature is in the low 80s. The lake is
clear, with a little stained water in the creeks
and up the rivers. The best day for fishing will
be from 11:10 a.m.-4:10 p.m. on June 16. The
next full moon is the same day.
BLACK BASS are shallow early up the
lake and there is a fair top-water bite.
All-white buzz baits, Pop R’s and Spittin
Image baits are good choices in shad colors.
The water is not hot in the rivers yet. The
coves have shallow fish on wood, docks and
points.
Look in the backs of the creeks' in
Limestone Creek and Johnson Creek and you
can find the bass early and late. The fish are
biting top-water prop lures like the Johnny
Rattler in blue and chromes. The bank cover in
the coves are good locations, and stay in the
shadows as long as possible. Make sure to
keep the lures as close to the cover as long as
possible.
All-white Lunker Lure buzz baits cast right
on the banks and wood will work. The Spittin
Image in the shad color will catch almost any
fish. Pop R’ in the shad and bream colors are
good and work them by docks and around any
wood in the water. If a bass misses or simply
follows the bait, cast the same bait right back
at the fish, but use a different retrieve. Add the
red shad Culprit on a light Texas rig and work
this bait in the same locations before leaving
the area.
A small baby bass Flat A bomber is a good
choice for bass any time of the day. The live
bait has been good, and live lizards are on a
small No. 1 weedless hook and a split shot can
get a few strikes. Use light line for this type of
fishing, and a spinning reel will work much
better spooled with eight-pound line.
Devils crooning to
the beat of another
Stanley Cup run
A generation ago, Simon and
Garfunkel wistfully crooned,
“Where have you gone, Joe
DiMaggio? A nation turns its
lonely eyes to you.” That lyric
rings truer today than it did in
1967.
Over the past few weeks,
we’ve been inundated with cover
age of the Ray Lewis trial, tor
tured by the tribulations of John
Off His Rocker. Just before dawn
Saturday, Rafael Furcal was
charged with DUI, which begged
the additional obligatory charge
of underage drinking. We forget
the Braves shortstop phenom is
only 19.
So, where do we turn for an
old-fashioned, feel good, warm
and fuzzy sports story? Let’s try
the unlikeliest of places. A hock
ey team. Named the Devils.
Located in New Jersey.
Late Saturday night, as Furcal
was polishing off his last beer, the
New Jersey Devils polished off
the defending Stanley Cup cham
pion Dallas Stars, 2-1.
Jason Arnott one-timed a per
fect backhanded pass from Patrick
Elias, just past spreadeagled Stars
goalie Ed Belfour, for the Cup
winning goal at 8:20 of the sec
ond overtime period.
The Stars’ death came after
194 minutes, 41 seconds of fierce
play over the final two games, a
vain attempt to stave off elimina
tion. Trailing the series three
games to one on Thursday night,
the teams battled to a scoreless tie
into a third overtime period. The
Stars’ Mike Modano finally sent
the subdued Jersey crowd home,
Cupless, after 106:21 of playing
time.
Saturday night, the teams
raged up and down the Reunion
Arena rink for 25 minutes without
a score. Suddenly, Scott
iNiedermayer broke free for a
short-handed goal and a 1-0
lead.
• It lasted one minute. Mike
Keane scored after a nifty
Modano pass to tie the score, 1-1.
And that’s how it stood until one
iln the morning.
That the Devils even made the
Finals was incredible in its own
right. Owner Jack McMullen
moved the Colorado franchise to
the meadowlands in 1982. Under
president and general manager
Lou Lamoriello, the Devils won
the Cup, at long last, in 1995.
; In ‘96, resting on their laurels,
the Devils missed the playoffs. In
‘97, The Devils won the first of
three straight regular season divi
sion titles. They never survived
the second round of the playoffs,
twice getting bounced in the first
round.
This year, the Devils again
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Sturdivant
Down the lake, the bass have been cruising
the shallows behind marinas. Use the shallow
running Manns Minus One bream colored
baits on light, eight-pound test Super Silver
Thread line. Cast an all-white Lunker Lure on
the docks on the lower lake.
SPOTTED BASS are slow and the fish are
deep and tight in structure up and down the
lake.
The fishing has been tough both day and
night. Scale down baits all week, and try small
lead heads ad cut finesse worms down to three
inches. These small worms are taking some
fish all day in shades of greens are the best
colors. Stay with the Texas rig and keep the
weight and line sizes small to feel the light
strikes.
Around any of the lake’s docks, skip a
Zoom Super Fluke under them and let the
baits sink with a 4/0 Owner hook. Watch the
line and work the baits under as many docks
as possible, especially under the high sun.
Points, humps and deep natural structure at
19 to 30 feet are best. The spots are relating to
the natural bottom structure better than man
made brush piles. Live bait is a good choice
and night crawlers on an eighth-ounce jig head
around the docks and on rocky points are fair.
Around Lake Lanier Islands use the tiny
Rat L Traps on four-pound test. Almost any
color will draw strikes, but these are all the
Denton I
Ashway fIF
found themselves in first place,
and again found a late season
malaise. Lamoriello axed coach
Robbie Ftorek with only eight
games left in the regular season.
Larry Robinson became the
head man, stressing a defense ori
ented style. The Devils bought
into the program, sweeping
Florida, and beating Toronto in
six games.
The Devils then reverted, find
ing themselves trailing
Philadelphia, three games to one.
Robinson publicly blasted the
team. Amazingly, the Devils
responded with three straight
wins and a berth of the Finals.
All of this occurred with the
sale of the team pending.
McMullen, at 82 a bit old for
these fun and games, has sold the
team to a guy named
Steinbrenner. Perhaps you’ve
heard of him.
As if they weren’t toting
enough extra baggage already, the
Devils faced another obstacle in
the first period of the final game.
Center Petr Sykora hit the ice
after a strong check by Stars
defensemen Derran Hatcher.
While Sykora lay prone on the
ice, the referee’s mike picked up
Hatcher saying that he tried to
turn away from Sykora. The ref
> responded, “That was classy. It
♦ was a clean hit.”
Sykora was taken to the
Baylor University Medical
Center, where a CAT Scan proved
negative. Sykora even watched
the game on television, and his
scream after Arnott’s goal caused
quite a commotion at the hospital.
What Sykora saw next would
melt the hardest heart. There was
his coach donning Sykora’s No.
17 jersey for the celebration,
telling everyone that “This has
just been a fairly tale to me.”
And a few hours later, when
Sykora opened his eyes after a
restful night, right there in his
hospital room stood his team
mates. With the Stanley Cup.
So, who said there aren’t any
good sports stories anymore? You
just need to know where to look.
In the most unlikely places.
When not practicing his avo
cation, Denton Ashway practices
his vocation with the law firm of
Ashway and Haldi in Cumming.
CATCH from IB
Blue Ridge WMA and the
Chattahoochee tailwaters below
Lake Lanier.
While the Southern Appalachian
subspecies of the brook trout is con
sidered Georgia’s only native trout
species, they are not a trout at all.
Instead, “brookies” are members of
the char family.
Brook trout are immediately rec
ognizable by the white edge on their
fins. “Brookies” don’t compete well
with other trout and are mostly
found in small headwater streams
that are blocked by a barrier, such as
a waterfall, that will not allow rain
bow or brown trout migration.
While most brook trout are
small, Georgia’s record fish
weighed five pounds, 10 ounces and
was caught on Waters Creek in
Lumpkin County’s Chestatee
JUNIORS from IB
clubhouse, Uhles could tell by the
look on his schoolmate and playing
partner’s face as he came off the
18th green that things hadn’t gone
smoothly.
“My game collapsed on me
today,” Allmond said. “I don’t think
the heat bothered me, even though I
was sweating like mad. I just played
horrible.”
Allmond did salvage one hole,
picking up a par on the 11th where a
lake guards the front of the green.
“I layed up short in the fairway
with an 8-iron and then used my 5-
wood to get over the water and on
the green,” Allmond said.
Left with a 30-foot putt that
sloped to the right, Allmond figured
out the geometry and traversed the
distance in two putts.
The third member of the Laurel
Springs’ Three Clubateers, Taylor
Hall congratulated his putter for his
rescue from a treacherous course,
actually, his dad’s putter as it turned
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smaller fish.
Around the main lake’s rocky points, keep
a small, all-silver top-water bait ready for any
surface feeding. Keep a Fat Albert pearl grub
ready to skip docks anywhere on the lake.
STRIPERS are not biting very well this
week as the fish are scattered all over the
lower lake.
There are a few fish feeding early around
the main-lake humps and rocky points, feeding
on small shad. The food source continues be
very small shad or huge gizzards.
Try the small top-water baits and small jerk
baits early in the major creeks’ mouths at day
light. Get some small and large shiners or
giant gizzard shad. The fish are suspended at
30 feet in the creek mouths down the lake.
Also, trolling the large, all-white buck tails
with a six-inch eel trailer 70 feet behind the
boat. Keep moving as the single loner fish
seem to be the rule. In the heat of the summer,
stripers school up over humps in the creeks
mouths from Flat Creek to the dam.
CRAPPIE are on summer patterns.
Get a bucket of minnows and a lantern and
head to the docks and bridges all over the lake.
The fishing is slow around the lake both day
and night. There are only few fish showing up
on bridges. The Six Mile Creek and the Two
Mile creeks bridges are the best locations. The
fish are small and they have been hard to catch
even at night. A few marina docks are report
ing some limited action from dark until mid
night but after that it’s over.
We have a book “52 Weeks on Lake
Lanier” on sale. Call for details.
Ken Sturdivant, a long-time outdoor fish
ing guide on Lake Lanier, can be reached at
(770) 889-2654.
Wildlife Management Area.
Jacobs said this fish was a
stocked example of the larger east
ern subspecies. Also, Waters Creek
is a stream managed for trophy fish
where supplemental feeding takes
place.
Jacobs estimated that 70 to 80
percent of trout fishermen use spin
ning rods with natural baits such as
com, crickets or worms. Other fish
ermen use artificial baits such as
spinners or rapalas with spinning
rods.
However, there is a laige contin
gent of fly-fishermen who use fly
rods coupled with either dry flies,
wet flies, nymphs or streamers.
Depending on the skill of the
fisherman, all of the above methods
will consistently catch trout.
“The current is the key,” Jacobs
out.
“1 forgot mine, so my dad had
his Scotty Cameron in the trunk and
he let me use it,” Hall said.
Laurel Springs also sent a player
in the 13-and-under division,
Jonathon Fausel, a newcomer to
AJGA competition.
Unfazed by the pressure of bat
tle, Fausel, a student at South
Forsyth Middle, turned the front
nine in 41 as he headed to the back.
His mother, Celeste, credited his
steady play to his dedication to the
game.
“At Laurel Springs, they let the
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said. One of the mistakes bass and
panfish anglers new to the sport of
trout fishing make is to look for the
deep holes to catch fish. Jacobs said
trout look for areas of current and
wait beside the fast water for food to
come to them.
This “transition water” is a great
place to find trout. In the “where to
go” section of Jacob’s presentation,
he mentioned several places to find
good populations of wild trout such
as the Jacks River in the Cohutta
Wildlife Management Area.
kids start off the back nine at 8 a.m.
and Jonathon sets his alarm clock
every morning to get out there. That
amazed me,” Ms. Fausel said.
Playing with Fausel in the 13-
and-unders, David Bean, a regular
on the AJGA circuit the last two
years and fresh from his seventh
grade year at Otwell Middle, kept
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Creek used to be a great place to
catch large trout, but the appearance
of river otters and rampant poaching
degraded the quality of the stream.
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nine with a 44, parting Nos. 2,3,
and 8.
“I had a trouble spot on No. 9
when I sent my drive into the
woods,” Bean said. “But I was able
to get out and finish with a bogey.”
But Bean agreed that a minute in
the woods on hole 9 at Olde Atlanta
was certainly better than another
hour of English in room 9 at Otwell.