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When backing, the stern will go In the opposite direction from your steering wheel
...If the wheels turn right, the stern will go left
Launching a boat is easy if
you use common sense rules
Launching a boat is a relatively
simple part of boating. Before
backing the trailer down the ramp,
however, a few common sense rules
should be followed
While in the lot and out of the
way, slow all gear Ail rods, tackle,
coolers, bait water skis, clothing,
life jackets, etc., should be trans
ferred into the boat before backing
down.
Make sure the drain plug is
in— then check it again. Till the
motor up and unplug the trailer
lights.
Then check out the launching
ramp. Make sure that the ramp ex
tends smoothly into deeper water.
Look out for obstacles, holes or a
sharp dropoff which might catch
trailer wheels.
When ready to proceed, pull into
position and, using your partner's
guidance and rearview mirrors, back
carefully toward the ramp.
Remember, when backing, that
the stern of the boat will move in
Mills carves, from p-2B
bul to this day everybody has," he
said.
Ernie said he has taught about
300 to 350 students. The classes
run SHS and arc limited to six
people.
My oldest student was 84 and
my youngest 12," he said. "You
don't have to know anything about
it to get started.
All tools and materials arc in
cluded.
"At the end of the course they
have a carving set and a decoy that's
worth SIOO on the market," Ernie
said.
"Most of them go on as a
hobby," Ernie said. "It’s a hobby
that'll pay for itself."
Fishing report, from p-2b
Bream and shellcracker are slow, except for little bream. You can catch
all of them you want to, but we're not seeing any larger ones to amount
to anything. The lake is down about Bto 10 inches and clear. Re
ported by Van Kersey, Kersey's Fish Camp.
WEST POINT Bass fishing is good. They're using smoke blue and
blue flash worms and Zoom pumpkin seed worms, off the points on the
main lake, in about 4 to 12 feet of water. They're catching hybrids on
live bait, just below the 109 bridge and in the mouth of Weehadkee
Creek. Crappie have been slow, except in the evenings, around bridges
about 8 feet deep The lake is full and clear, about 77 degrees. Re
ported by Jack Baytos, Highland Marina.
EUFAULA Bream are about gone, except around the banks. Bass
are doing real good. A boat came in Friday morning about 9:30, and
they’d already caught 25 They're using spinnerbaits and Rattlin Rap
around the riprap and weed beds in shallow water. The lake's down
about 1 1/2 feet and a little murky Reported by Art Cunning
ham, Lake Point State Park Marina.
OCONEE Catfish and bream —that's basically all there is here.
The bream are on beds, mostly in the coves, and biting on crickets.
Catfish are hitting worms and chicken livers all over the lake. The peo
ple can't seem to catch any largemouth at all. They're still on the beds.
Crappie are picking up a little around bridges and docks. White bass,
hybrids and stripers are doing pretty well on live shad from daylight up
until 8:30 The lake is down maybe 4or 5 inches, but it has good color to
it Reported by Jacky Lord, Blue Springs Marina.
Salt water report
SHELL POINT, FLA. They're catching a few grouper, rock bass
and grunts, about 20 to 25 miles out, in 40 to 50 feet of water, using
cigar minnows, squid and shiners. They're catching speckled trout on
the east flats, using live shrimp. The sun has been shining the last cou
ple of days, and it should be a nice weekend. Tides are: Saturday, L
1:38 a.m. -- H 8:29 a.m. -- L 1:47 p.m. - H 7:34 p.m., Sunday, L 2:36
a.m. -- H 9:25 a.m -L 3:19 p.m - H 7:34 p.m. Reported by Dink
Williams, Shell Point Marina.
SUWANNEE, FLA. We're looking forward to a big weekend
They're catching a few trout, but not too many, and some mackerel, on
shrimp and grubs. Fresh water fishing is doing pretty good. Nobody's
been doing much fishing offshore. Tides are: Saturday, H 8 a.m. - L
1:30 p.m. - H 7:05 p.m., Sunday L 2:20 a.m. -- H 8:55 a.m. -- L 3:05
p.m. - H 8:45 p.m Reported by Ray Taylor, Bill's Fish
Camp.
the opposite direction of the tow
vehicle's steering wheel. If the
wheels turn right, the stern will go
left.
In driving a boat off the trailer,
your partner should climb aboard
while the rig is stopped on the
ramp.
The safety straps and bow line
should be disconnected, and the
trailer should be eased into the wa
ter until the boat floats. Trim the
engine down before starting. The
operator should slowly back off the
trailer.
If launching a smaller boat, at
tach a bow line and, when deep
enough, push the boat off the trailer
and guide it ashore or to the dock
with the line.
Move as quickly as possible
while on the ramp. Once the boat is
launched, move away from the
ramp area so others can use the fa
cilities. Offer to assist other boaters
whenever possible.
Most owners of small boats
Ernie said bird carving is one of
the fastest growing hobbies in the
country.
"When 1 came down here, I could
hardly find five people in the state
who carved birds," he said. "Now
there arc a thousand or more."
He said carvers can find an easy
market for their work "just among
people you know, who see one you
did and ask you to do one for
them."
Ernie said he still has a couple
of openings left for his June 16-18
class, which will probably be the
last one he leaches this year.
The carving done by the classes
is not a true working decoy, bul a
"mantle bird."
have lo low ihcir rigs a number of
miles before they launch. If they
find they have forgotten something
vital, it's usually very inconvenient
lo go back for it.
Boating authorities suggest that
boaters prepare a checklist of
equipment ahead of time and use it
when loading their boat and low
vehicle at home.
Here's a sample of some of the
items you might need. You may
want to add others to cuslomi/.c
your list:
Trailer lie-downs bow and
stern, transom drain plug, portable
fuel tank with hose, keys engine
and trailer, boat battery, two-cycle
oil, on-board tool kit, hand bilge
pump, anchor with line, deck lines
bow and stern, spares fuel
line, prop and spark plug, trailer
mounted spare lire, boat cover, boat
fenders, trailer jack, oars or paddles,
bucket and sponge, wheel chocks,
seal cushions, personal flotation
devices, fire extinguisher, distress
signalling devices for day and night.
"I won't leach them to make
working decoys," he said. "Not un
less someone wanted to go into it
as an apprentice, maybe. But you
can’t find anyone who wants to pul
that much time into it."
Ernie's 10-ycar-old grandson
Chris will be taking the classes
soon.
"I'll teach him to carve decoys, if
he wants me to,” he said.
Ernie moved to Warner Robins
in 1978 as a flight controller at the
Macon Airport for Hawaiian Air
lines.
When the airline shut down op
erations, Ernie was left stranded. So
he decided to go into carving full
time.
"I didn't want to go back to a big
city area," he said. "I figured I'd get
six months and have to go back to
work."
But Ernie has been successful in
his endeavor, and now his decoys
sell for about SISO each. He makes
52 different working decoys.
He works strictly to order and
has a wailing list. Delivery of a
finished bird lakes at least six
months.
Ernie credits his association with
Ducks Unlimited for much of his
success. He has donated many carv
ings for their fund-raising auctions,
and has been named a life sponsor.
"Thai's what has really given me
the contacts," he said. "This is re
ally one of the most unlikely areas
for a decoy carver. Most of my
work goes out of slate or to the
Atlanta area. They know me better
in California than in Middle Geor
gia."
The highest price brought by
one of his carvings was about
SS,(KM) for a life-size Canada goose
at a Ducks Unlimited auction in
Atlanta in 1985.
Ernie says collecting decoys is a
good hobby, 100, and can be prof
itable.
"One of my $l5O decoys will
probably double in a year's time,"
he said.
But, like collecting anything,
Ernie said it's not a good idea to try
to buy decoys just with the idea of
making money.
"You have to like it first," he
said.
Now you know
Female lions do more than 90
percent of the hunting for their
pride.
Local men, from p-2b
one would find ihc hig fish and win
as Slancil and Howard did.
As an outdoor media observer, J
spent the day with Robert Escoc
and Jimmy Shclnul, both of the
Loganvillc "crappic mafia' which
has been giving the Warner Robins
crowd a challenge at each lourna
mem this spring. These guys won
two U.S. Crappic Tournaments this
year as well as one Crappicthon
Tournament which combined for a
$5,600 purse for them. On practice
day at Lake Russell they only
Tuggle,
from P-2B
can be used on one's person without
endangering other people if one
would bother to use them.
We have thirty acres of land in
the city limits and never have any
problem with mosquitoes on it. We
hardly ever see a mosquitoc. I am
sure that the city's spray does not
penetrate into this thirty acres and
control them. We keep all of the
mosquitoc breeding places cleaned
up and the 50 or more purple mar
tins and the 8 to 10 bluebirds that
we have nesting on the property
probably kill more mosquitoes than
all the city’s spraying in one day.
If the city would spend the
money that they spend on spraying
on the clean up of mosquitoc
breeding aretes and die promotion of
marlins and bluebirds they would
have a far more effective program of
control.
People need to wake up to the
tremendous amount of damage that
we arc doing to our selves before it
is 100 late. We may some day truly
face a "Silent Spring,"
Houston Fisharama nears
Don't forget the Houston
County Fisharama at Higdon's
Pond June 10.
Kids will he treated to expert
fishing instruction by some of the
area's lop anglers, tackle
demonstrations, and an opportunity
to catch some fish on their own,
with prizes for top catches in each
age group.
Even a hot dog lunch will be
included for die Si registration fee,
which may be waived in hardship
eases.
Those wishing to attend need to
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caught fish which sounded poor to
me at first, but after I learned that
most teams only had one to three
fish, 1 thought they had a good
chance to win the whole shooting
match.
On practice day, they fished a
cover dial had surrendered three nice
3/4 pound crappic on one pass
which pretty much settled where
they would be come tournament
morning. That spot produced just
enough fish, although small, to
prevent them from moving on to
another location on tournament day.
They slowly trolled both
minnows and jigs using 18 fool
poles as not to spook the fish, and
kept their lures suspended 5 - 6 feet
below a styrofoam cork,
1 hey used both minnows and an
assortment of jigs to pull in their
20 crappic. No culling was neces
sary, because 20 fish was all that
was caught; and they were grateful
for those,
Shclnul and Escoc trolled in a
manner that had brought them
much success this year, but in a
tournament 20 fish is just 20 fish
and total weight is everything.
They said, "You have to dance with
who brung you" and their style of
trolling had previously paid off.
Rut they never found any big fish
in the edve, and in retrospect they
theorized that the fish on Russell
had sprawned out and were sus
pended in deeper water as S lane ils
and Howard's win confirmed.
Esco and Chestnut fish out of a
18 1/2 foot cajun boat pushed by a
150 hp Gl motor and use a wide
variety of rods and reels. Their
variable speed, during amp trolling
motor made by motor guide is one
of their most important tools be-
pre-register by June 7.
Registration forms arc available
from the Fisharama's sponsors at
the following locations: Watson
Insurance Agency, B & C Sporting
Goods, Chuck's Bait and Tackle,
the Sports Center, Houston County
Recreation Department, The Warner
Robins Daily Sun and The Houston
Home Journal.
The Fisharama is being orga
nized and managed by John
Trussed, outdoor writer and chief
probation officer of Houston
County,
cause it allows them lo sel an exact
trolling speed lo suite fishing con
ditions.
The pair most often trolls while
crappic fishing, but one new twist
that they have added is lo fish with
16-fool poles, which are more than
twice the length of standard fishing
poles. "The long poles sel the lure
away from the boat and noise of the
trolling motor and helps us by not
spooking the crappic," says Robert.
People laugh when they see our
long poles, but when they learn
what's at slake and the fish we
catch, it's not funny anymore," adds
Jimmy.
Hot weekend, chance of
thundershowers Sat.
Zone 5, Central and West
Georgia: Partly cloudy Saturday
with 30% chance of thundershow
ers, mostly sunny Sunday.
Sal. Sun.
High near 90 upper 80s
Low mid 60s 60s
Wind W-NW, 10 mph
Zone 11, Southwest Georgia;
Partly cloudy Saturday with slight
chance of thundershowers, partly
sunny Sunday.
Sal- San.
High mid 90s near 90
Low upper 60s upper 60s
Wind W-NW, 10 mph
Current Conditions (10:25 p.m.
Friday):
Temperature 80
Barometer 30,09, rising
Humidity 69%
Wind W, 6 mph
Sky clear
Sal Sun.
Sunrise 6:29 6:29
Sunset 8:34 8:35
Bee course slated
Perry and South Houston
County beekeepers may have an
interest in the annual Apiculture
Short Course on Saturday, June 10,
at the University of Georgia.
For a copy of the program and a
registration form, contact the
Houston County Extension Office
in Perry at 987-2028.
The fee is $25 and should be
mailed in by June 8.
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