18 The Mission Record Thursday, January 20, 2011
MISSION MINOR M
LLacrosse Club
2011 REGISTRATION
Salmonids are able to shrink body length in colder temps
will be held at
Mission Leisure Centre Lobby Sat. January 29th, 11am-3pm Tues. February 15th, 6pm-8pm Wait lists and/or tryouts may apply. Late fee will be applied to all registrations taken after these dates.
Birth Certificate, Care Card & proof of residence required at registration.
Fun for Everyone! Ages 4 to 16 years •For more information call Lori: 604-826-4465 •Interested in refereeing? Call Jeff 604-820-8066 •Coaching applications on-line
www.missionminorlacrosse.com
H
ot off the news wire this week: trout shrink! A group of Norwegian and Finnish scientists have recently observed that during cold temperatures, salmoniods can reduce their body length up to 10 per cent. It is believed that they do this by reducing the gel in their vertebral disks. Add this new revelation to the fact that a fish’s whole metabolism slows down in relation to dropping temperatures. Along with the fact they can also change their skin colour to adapt to their surroundings (science has documented that trout call change colour completely in 36 hours), and one gets a glimpse into
what science has named functional ecology. Fish are also able to change colour to hide from predators, regulate food intake and digestion with metabolism along with conserving energy by reducing body size. After reviewing all this data, one question stands out in my mind. How big was my friend Dave Rice’s 44 inch, fly caught, Thompson River Steelhead, before it shrank? One can only guess. The report The ice is off our Lower Mainland lakes but it will take a day or two of sunny skies to get the fish feeding actively again. If you are going try a slow
retrieve or troll with: Big Black, Woolly Bugger, Micro Leach, Sixpack, Dragonfly Nymph, Halfback, Doc Spratley, or Zulu. Our Lower Mainland beach and estuary fisheries for searun cutthroat are likely your best bet until all Je the high water recedes. Try: Epoxy Minnow, Tied Down Minnow, Muddler Minnow, Clouser’s deep Minnow, Lioness, Grizzly King, Mickey Finn, Coachman, Knudson’s Spider, Zulu, Purple Joe, or Borden Special.
The Fraser River and soughs are slow to fair for cutthroat and dolly varden. For cutthroat try: Rolled Muddler, Mickey Finn, Eggo, Tied Down Minnow, Epoxy Minnow, Winter Stone, Flesh Fly, Profesff sor, Lioness, Coachman, Zulu, Chez Nymph. For dolly Varden try: Large (#4 to #1) Eggo, Dolly Whacker, Bucktail, Epoxy Minnow, Big Black, Muddler, or Zunker. The Vedder River should be fishable, and
Tight Lines
Weltz
good for steelhead, dolly varden and rainbow, by the weekend. For steelhead try: big Black, Popsicle, Steelhead Nightmare, Polar shrimp, GP, Thor, Squamish Poacher, Kaufmann Stone, Purple Peril, or Eggo. For rainbow try: Rolled Muddler, Mickey Finn, Eggo, Flesh Fly, Kaufmann Black Stone, Black Gnat, Zulu, Chez Nymph, Big Black, Sixpack, or Renegade. The Stave River is good for rainbow and cutthroat. The Chehalis River is fair for steelhead and cutthroat. The Harrison River is fair to good for cutthroat, and rainbow. You can find more at “The Reel Life Press” by Jeff Weltz
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Heritage hosts eight-team Bagpipe Invitational tournament Jan. 29-30 From HPSS Page 17
majority of practices are used to make the team gel as a unit. Those individual skills need to be worked on in the offseason, he stated.
Chan said half the team graduates at the end of the year but there are bright spots on the horizon, especially the Grade 10 sisters, Chelsea and Mackenzie Fowler. “They’ve really stepped up for us. They’ve been
starting regularly,” he said. The Highlanders next play against WJ Mouat at home tonight. The team hosts the eight-team Bagpipe Invitational Jan. 2930. Only one team isn’t ranked in the top 20.
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Mission Ecolé Secondary School
Snowboard and Ski Team would like to thank the community of Mission for the following businesses and private donations for the silent auction held at a fundraiser at the Mission Springs Restaurant last Wednesday, Nov 24th.
Your generosity will help students practice and compete in races this winter at Hemlock and Whistler Mountains.
Thank you everyone who took part in the fundraiser and a thank you to the following contributors: •Paramount Auto Body •Urban Planet •Akasaka Sushi •Mission Whitespot •Cineplex Silvercity Mission Theatre •Wentings Cycle and Mountain Shop •Save on Foods •The Gold Bin •Mackie Naturals •Rex Cox •Grabba Java •Fraser Valley Building Supplies •Starbucks •Sports Chek •Mission Springs Brewery •Laura Simpson-Mary Kay Consultant •Janze, Brisson, Anderson, Strachan and Vergara Families.