THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 31, 1976
Page 13
|'s ten said that 10 per cent of
lermen catch 90 per cent of
and that’s about right. The
isn’t because 10 per cent have
bait, but that they fish in the
at the right time.
Lockamy, Bryan Bassmas-
last week that if you’re cast-
to i shoreline, 90 per cent of the
I b behind you. Lockamy, like
uccessful tournament fisher-
concentrates on deep-water
I lire.
cture, simply defined, is any
I in the normal bottom contour.
| se bass arc completely object
t d, they will always he around
ind of structure. A bass’ idea
cture is something different
| fisherman’s.
rmen tend to think of struc-
s a sharp rise or drop under
A tree stump, a six-inch-deep
i ditch or an old fence row
structure to a fish.
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Lockamy said the key to successful
structure fishing is to keep a close
watch on the depthfinder. His sys
tem is to study contour maps, pick a
certain area, then fish it until he
catches one. If he doesn’t catch
another fish there quickly, he goes
over and finds out exactly how deep
the first fish was.
He then tries the same depth
water all the way around the particu
lar structure. If he still hasn’t found a
concentration, he tries the same
thing around similar structure in
another area. What he looks for is a
pattern.
The reason you catch a few fish in
one place and then don’t catch any
more, Lockamy explained, is that
the fish have moved, not that they
have quit feeding.
He compensates for moving fish
by fishing the migration routes. A
migration route can be a contour
line, a creek channel or an old fence
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By MARLA GAMMON
■sareinj ketball fans nationwide pro-
ley know a good player when
cedliri see one when Texas A&M’s
week Parker was selected to play in
ywootl th annual Pizza Hut Basketball
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ker, a senior at Texas A&M,
ngeriiu "d third in nationwide ballot-
laid, 1i nducted by Pizza Hut. Parker
tureJti Saturday for the Las Vegas
rtandu :ntion Center where he will
‘ry year' even other members of the
team for the Monday night
1 looking forward to playing in
irker said. “It’ll help me with
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ro scouts there and that’ll help
ker and Rick Bullock from
Tech will represent the
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— Eleven Olympic de
al hopefuls, including some
liege performers, opened the
annual Texas Relays today
ir a revised format.
irmally open only to collegians
iad mid choolboys, the meet for the first
ven i® 1 will include individual perfor-
saiil out of college to give them a
;ofn»* le to qualify for the Olympic
hisW tryouts.
| le decathlon was split into five
JFL 1 ^ its today and Thursday. The
s Rat* 110-meter run also will be held
was* rcday, with other events Friday
ayer 1 Saturday,
ily trad mm
Many of Parker’s 349,100 votes
came from his hometown Chicago
area. A&M yell leaders organized
voting at the Aggies’ home basketball
games this year and Parker feels a
good many of his votes came from
people who saw him play in tourna
ments at the beginning of the season.
Ken Denzel, a lawyer friend of
Parker’s, helped him some with pub
licity in the Chicago area.
“Well, no one specifically or
ganized it for me (voting in the
Chicago area),” said Parker. “It was
mainly because I was from Chicago
and people knew me. My lawyer
friend helped me with my public
ity.”
Parker, better known as Sonny P.,
led the Aggies to two consecutive
SWC crowns during his stay at
A&M. He was twice voted All-SWC
and was named the Most Valuable
Player in the conference both years.
He attended Mineral Area Junior
College in Flatonia, Mo., where he
was All-America and Player of the
Year two years. He was also the lead
ing scorer in junior college Region
16.
Sonny P. was the Aggies’ leading
scorer this year with a 20.8 game
average. He was the mainstay of a
team that fought back after the sus
pension of two starters to win the
SWC crown. For his efforts he was
named Most Valuable Player of Dis
trict 6 for the 1976 season.
Aggie assistant coach Norman
Reuther was pleased with the fans
selection of Parker.
“We re tickled to death about it,”
he said. “I feel like anyone who pul
led that many votes nationwide has
got to be of all-America standing in
the fans’ point of view.
“I’m glad he’s representing the
conference along with Rick Bullock.
He won’t be just a filler. He’ll be one
of the best ones there.”
Sonny P. plans to play pro ball and
has already been contacted by sev
eral pro scouts.
“I’m letting my lawyer friend take
care of that,” he said, “so I can con
centrate on getting out of school.”
Touted by Aggie coach Shelby
Metcalf throughout the year as “the
best player I’ve seen in the confer
ence in my 18 years here,” Sonny P.
will be missed by the Aggies next
year. He proved he’s a good one, and
the fans know it.
row. When the moving fish reach a
break in the migration route, they
will usually stop again.
Pattern-fishing structure the way
Lockamy does is the systematic way
to find concentrations of fish. You
may pick up scattered fish beating
the shoreline to death with a spin-
nerbait, but the real payoffs come
from establishing a pattern and stick
ing to it.
The requirement for structure
fishing is a good depthfinder. These
little gadgets, which work like SO
NAR, have revolutionized bass fish
ing. Once you’ve fished using one,
you won’t understand how you ever
got along without it. They cost from
$50 to $500, but you can pick up a
pretty good one for about $100.
Besides physical structure, oxy
gen structure is getting recognized
as a big factor in finding fish. The
bottom structure might be great but
if there’s no oxygen, there won’t be
any fish.
An oxygen monitor costs about the
same as a depthfinder and is a useful
tool. By correlating good bottom
structure you locate with the
depthfinder with a 6 to 12 parts per
million (ppm) oxygen reading, you
have found the ideal place for fish.
In addition to depthfinders and
oxygen meters, there are instant
readout thermometers and light in
tensity meters on the market.
By the time you’ve correlated the
data from the depthfinder, the oxy
gen meter, the thermometer and the
light intensity meter, you have a
PhD. in Environmental Engineer
ing and have found the one cubic foot
of water in the lake with all the fish in
it.
The point is, the conditions don’t
have to be perfect. Sure, we’d all like
to find an area with a roadbed that
runs into a farm pond next to a creek
channel with 8 ppm of oxygen at 72
degrees and a light intensity of .05.
We’d also like to have free beer wait
ing at the dock.
Fish are going to be in the area
that comes closest to being perfect.
That doesn’t mean that fish in the
Jungle at Livingston are going to
move to the dam because the water is
five degrees cooler there. They’re
going to make do with what they
have.
My system is to pick an area, then
ilaces that
being perfect. Then I
work them hard. I won’t give up on a
good-looking area just because I
didn’t catch any the first pass. I’ll
change baits or colors and try it again
and again. Then I quit. There’s no
sense being a damn fool about it.
Scientific fishing is based on one
principle and one principle on
ly: fish are cold-blooded beasts gov
erned entirely by their environ
ment. Remember that and you’ll
catch more of those “smart” bass.
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If the concentration of fish is at point A and they want to get
to the feeding grounds at point F, they have several possible
migration routes. They can follow the creek channel all the
way up, stopping at points B, C, D and E. They can go from
A to B, then follow the fence line to the shoreline and up to
the moss beds, or they can just cut across the flats from A to F.
They’re most likely to follow the creek, so you should concen
trate your efforts on points A, B, C, D, E and F, moving from
one to the next as the fish move.
look it over to find the pi
come closest to being perfe<
Baseball men
in negotiations
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The baseball
owners, once calling for fastballs but
now signaling for the slow stuff, get
back to the bargaining table Wed
nesday with the Players Association.
It’s the 34th negotiating session
between the two sides. The bargain
ing for a new contract has been in
limbo for the past week since the
owners had turned their attentions
toward an internal matter-
expansion.
During the one-week layoff, the
Players Association said it was will
ing and able to meet every day, but
the owners’ minds apparently were
elsewhere.
Both the American League and
National league were racing to get an
expansion team into Toronto. The
American League got there first, but
the official results haven’t been
posted yet because, on Monday, the
National League appealed to the
chief steward, Commissioner Bowie
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