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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1976
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Battalion Staff Writer
In the last month, I’ve heard of a string of 20 bass that weighed
81 pounds, a string of 10 that weighed 69 pounds, two ice chests
full of white perch (East Texas crappie) that averaged two
pounds and a trophy seven-pound six-ounce bass.
All this points out that cold weather fishing pays off in a big
way for a fisherman who knows what he’s doing. Finding and
catching fish when the water is cold is a different game than
when the water temperature is higher.
Fish are cold-blooded so their metabolism gets slower and
slower as the temperature drops.
As the fish’s body temperature drops, its activity slows. A cold
fish doesn’t feed as often as a warm one, because it doesn’t
need as much food. When a cold fish feeds, it feeds slowly and
with great deliberation. The aggressive tendencies are almost
eliminated.
What this means is that the fisherman has to slow down too.
Running baits that have to be reeled in a hurry to get deep don’t
catch many cold-weather bass. Baits that sink quickly and run
slowly do. That 81-pound string was caught in 25 feet of water at
Toledo Bend on black bucktail jigs barely moving on the bottom.
My personal favorites for cold water are the Little George
type baits and spinnerbaits with a twister tail without a skirt.
Little Georges work better with the front prong of the treble
hook cut off. That keeps them from hanging up. I also substitute
a larger spinner blade for the one the bait comes with, to make
it easier to feel as it works bottom. Feeling the bait is absolutely
necessary, because the slightest deviation from a “normal” feel
may mean a strike.
Using a spinnerbait in cold weather means pulling it along the
bottom just fast enough to keep the blade turning over. The
reason I take the skirt off is to let the bait sink faster.
Finding fish in cold weather is the trickiest part of the process.
You can’t count on shoreline stragglers to fill a string. Bass and
other fish tend to congregate around deep structure when the
water gets cold. They won’t actively chase a bait, so you have to
know exactly where the concentration is. After finding it, you
can usually catch several fish in one place. They won’t move out.
Finding fish where there is no deep structure is more of a
problem. Because shallow lakes and ponds are affected by each
change in temperature, the fish will move. Several days of
midwinter sunshine can warm the shallow water enough to
bring fish into it. On the other hand, a strong front may lower the
water temperature so quickly that all fish activity stops.
Welcome back to Backlashes. We ll do a whole bunch of Hawg
Huntin’ this spring. Hawg Huntin’, by the way, is trying to find
and catch some big old bass. All you folks who stick with me are
in for some tips on how to build balsa running baits for about a
dollar each and how to make cheap spinnerbaits out of safety
pins. Look for a review of new products and hints about boat
maintenance. Tournament reports and lake reports pretty much
round out the lineup, but there’ll be some surprises as soon as I
think of some.
Miller introspective,
offers no excuses
Associated Press
Johnny Miller has no apologies for
his failure to sweep the two Arizona
events for a third consecutive year.
“Actually, it may be the best thing
forme,” Miller said Wednesday after
a practice round over the 6,815 yards
of gorgeous, seaside real estate that
make up the Pebble Beach Golf
Links, site of this week’s Bing
Crosby National Pro-Am Golf Tour
nament.
“If I’d won again, I’d probably go, ”
he paused a moment, let his body
slump, “just go blah like I did before.
When you win all those tournaments
starting off the year, you kind of have
a mental let-down, like you’ve got it
made.
me.
“It happened to me the last couple
of years (when he swept both Arizo
na tournaments and won three of his
first four starts). I got off to that great
start, really 5m unbelievable start,
both years and then kind of went flat.
“Now I’m hungry again. I want to
win again.
“Really, I played pretty good in
Arizona. I won the first one — Tuc
son — and finished just one shot out
of third in the other one — Phoenix.
That’s not bad. It’s just that I’d
played so well before, everybody
was expecting too much out of me. ”
And he has high hopes coming into
this unique $185,000 event — an an
nual Northern California social hap-
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bill Walton
doesn’t look anything like your aver
age pro basketball player. But the
huge center of the Portland Trail
Blazers is becoming an awesome
force in the National Basketball As
sociation.
The 6-foot-ll Walton comes on
the court with his scraggly red hair
tied in a pony tail, a flowing red be
ard, both knees bandaged, the last
two fingers on his left hand and the
third and fourth fingers on his right
Musselman firing
ends! Squire split
Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va. — Bill Mussel-
man’s nine-week stint as coach of the
Virginia Squires has been termi
nated because of his apparent split
with both the players and the front
office.
Musselman’s troubles began
shortly after he succeeded A1 Bianchi
last Nov. 19 as coach of the American
Basketball Association team, whose
money woes have made its ABA fu
ture uncertain.
An underlying factor in Mussel-
man’s woes was his penchant for
using few substitutes during a game
— a throwback, perhaps, to his col
lege coaching days at the University
of Minnesota and Ashland, Ohio,
College.
In one game, all five starters
played the entire 48 minutes for the
Squires. This left six players
benched — and unhappy.
The unhappiest of all turned out to
be Ticky Burden, Johnny Neumann
and Jan van Breda Dolff.
Bothe Neumann and van Breda
Kolff later were traded to Kentucky
for Marv Roberts. Mussleman, fur
thermore, strongly favored trading
Burden, the team’s leading scorer
with a 22.59 average.
Veteran players such as Willie
Wise and Mack Calvin said they
wanted Burden kept on the team.
General Manager Jack Ankerson
said he felt “we should try to iron out
our differences concerning Burden
and keep him. ”
Burden was left home on two road
trips, and for one week didn’t prac
tice with the team at all.
The issue between Musselman
and Burden came to an end
lateTuesday night during a high-
level meeting of the club.
hand taped to protect dislocations,
and his left wrist heavily taped fol
lowing an early-season fracture.
After the game, Walton can be
seen in the locker room with his hair
tied in pigtails, putting on his tie-
dyed longjohns, a pair of heavy blue
pants with a rope-like belt and a de-
caled tee shirt.
Looks aside, however, it is Wal
ton’s basketball ability that most
concerns the Trail Blazers, and in
that regard, he is beginning to pay
huge dividends on the reported
five-year, $2 million contract he
signed with Portland last season after
a brilliant collegiate career at UCLA.
“When I’m healthy, I play real
good, I think,” he said.
Walton, however, has not been
healthy very often in his UA seasons
with the Trail Blazers.
In his rookie season, he missed a
total of 47 games of the 82-game
campaign because of a sprained
finger, a bone spur on his left ankle,
complications from the ankle injury,
a strep throat, a sprained ankle, a
broken toe, a bruised cheek and a cut
eye.
This season, he already has missed
14 games because of the hairline frac
ture of the left wrist, the dislocated
fingers and an ankle injury.
“You keep hoping every injury
will be the last one, he said.
When he is healthy, however, he
plays like the three-time All-
American and two-time Player of the
Year he was in college.
Tuesday night, against the New
York Knicks, was a typical example.
Although the Trail 1
104, Walton was asti
points and game-hight:
bounds and 10 assists.II
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pressive for a man (
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but still he was not safl
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pening familiarly known as “Bing’s
35th Clambake.”
“This is kind of a second home to
said Miller, a native of San
Francisco. “I usually play pretty
good here. I’d say Jack Nicklaus has
to be the favorite and I’m probably
the second favorite.”
The assessment appears to be cor
rect.
Nicklaus, coming off one of the
finest seasons of his unmatched
career, is making his first start of
1976. And he’ll be playing on one of
his favorite layouts. He’s won this
tournament three times and ac
quired the 1972 U. S. Open crown on
the same Pebble Beach Links.
“My goals for the year?” Nicklaus
mused. “Well, as always, they’re in
the major tournaments. But we re at
Pebble Beach now. How about start
ing off the year with a win here?”
Opposing him is the usually strong
lineup of the game’s best. Among the
standouts are defending champion
Gene Littler, British Open king Tom
Watson, Tom Weiskopf, Hubert
Green, Hale Irwin and Billy Casper.
The 168 pros, each with an
amateur partner, play one round on
Spyglass Hill, Cypress Point and
Pebble Beach before the field is cut
to the low 60 scorers for the final
round on Pebble Beach Sunday.
ABC-TV will provide national
coverage of portions of the final two
rounds.
Any students, or faculty members, who
are initiated members of Alpha Tau
Omega, please contact Joe Hamrick at
846-7103.
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