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A&M defeats Ric with good offense your business >me prime-tii eposure. iders use these pagt ont let them know whal call 845-2611 to placet Children's 99< Everyday • Adult & New Releases $2.49 $2.00 off all IP's and cassettes $8.98 and up all CD’s $13.98 and up all books 25% off (excludes remainders and sale books) OPEN: Sun.-Thurs., 10-10 Fri. & Sat. 10-11 25% OFF 30% OFF Paperback Bestsellers! Hardback Bestsellers! EVERYDAY EVERYDAY By Hal L. Hammons Sports Editor The Texas A&M volleyball team rode an improved serving and attacking game to a four-set win over Rice Wednesday night at Autry Court in Houston. Four Lady Aggies were in double dig its in kills as A&M won 15-10, 15-13, 12-15, 15-3. The Lady Aggies improved their re cord to 4-2 in Southwest Conference play and 15-11 overall. Vivien Viera led the team with 18 of the team’s 78 kills, while Cheri Steensma added 17. Kelli Kellen contributed 16 with a team-high .464 hitting percentage, and Amy Cumings added 11 kills as well. A&M Coach A1 Givens said, “This was a must win for us. We knew coming in that Rice was a good ball club, be cause they had beaten Houston here at home last week. “They just got beaten by a better ball club tonight. ‘We let down a little bit in the third game. It seemed like we were waiting for them to fold. But we came backs! and it gave us momentum going ini fourth game.” A&M hit .243 as a team withonl) errors in 202 attempts. “We played extra aggressive,"Gin said. “We blocked better tonight,i our service was much improved." The Lady Aggies were down loss players after last weekend’s Floridal; tational, but Melanie Rother returas action against the Owls. Rotherplaytf all four games and contributed and seven digs. Rice was led by Suzanne Zakrse»sk 15 kills in 28 attempts fora .500perce age. Overall the Owls hit for a .227 [t centage with 61 kills and l9errorsinj attempts. “I’m pleased with the win," Gin said, “and we’re looking for the sj kind of effort against Tech.” The Lady Aggies face Texas Techt: day night at 7 in Lubbock. Highsmith vows AFilr PiU * She h I Adve Something's Always On Sale! College Station • Culpepper Plaza • Music • Books • Movies • Video • Music • Books • We Are Proud To Support Joe Barton Winfred Pittman, Billy Beard, Ronnie Miller, Randy Sims, Sandie Walker, Hank McQuaide, Congressman Joe Barton, Richard Smith, Nancy Byer, Dick Haddox, Corky Boehn, Marjorie Wright, Jo Jo Coyle, Walter Dandridge J Gerald,Bratton, Michael Calliham, Howard Cargill, Henry Colwell, L.G. Crum, Dick Haddox, Marc Hamlin, Ben Hardeman, David Horne, Jerry Kirby, Daniel MacGilvray, J.E. Marsh, Kenneth Matthews, Lynn Mcilhaney, Mike Ogg, Charles Phelps, Larry Ringer, James W Stegall, Jean Williamson. Sam Fachorn, James Spencer, Marvin Tate As Brazos County Local Officials We Urge You To ... RE-ELECT Congressman Joe Barton HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Oiler fullback Alonzo Highsmith went into the [ 1987 off-season determined to come back this season as “hell on wheels. ’’ But Highsmith’s wheels were used for blocking until Sunday’s 41-17 victory over Washington when the Oilers al lowed Highsmith to run down the clock and protect their big lead. Highsmith, who lost a fumble early in the game, responded with a career-best 75 yards on eight carries and had runs of 20, 21 and 27 yards. Now the Oilers are preparing for a Monday night showdown in the Astro dome against the Cleveland Browns and Highsmith wants more. “I think I can be a piece to the Super Bowl puzzle,” he said. ‘T’m a 240- pounder, and I can pound on the line backers all day and it doesn’t wear me down.” Highsmith, the Oilers’ No. 1 draft pick in 1987, missed part of his rookie year because of a lengthy contract hold out and the NFL players’ strike. Highsmith signed his contract Oct. 28 and was activated Nov. 8 but lost a fum ble in his first appearance against San Francisco. He’s fought the fumbling rap ever since. “I’ve struggled all season and not very many people have been on my bandwagon,” Highsmith said. missing. ‘T’ve struggled; it’s been a long coming,” Highsmith said. “But a vow to myself last week that going to run the ball aggressively if Ip a chance.” Highsmith got his chance in theft quarter Sunday against the Redskins “I just need the Houston Oilerstoir alize that Alonzo Highsmith can team other than just blocking,” Hi| mith said. “1 need someone to s ‘Let’s go with Alonzo, give him ball.’ ” Highsmith made the most of his for quarter call and Finished as the ganr leading rusher, including a career 27 yard run. “I’m glad Alonzo had some in runs,” Oiler quarterback Warren Moo: said. ‘‘He was kind of down on himst! because he hadn’t gotten the ball a lot, ‘‘He’s doing such a good jobofblocl ing and the other little things thatpeopli don’t see. Now he’s starting todosom of the things that running backs wantu] do and that’s run the football.” “I think the more opportunities gets, the better he’ll be,” Moon said, SALE SAL /c CD L < (Bau CO $ 59°( LU < $ 79°c U1 $ 79°t SAN Easy catching, eating make catfish popular Paid for by the Congressman Joe Barton Committee HOUSTON (AP) — If a poll were taken, people might prove to be about equally divided regarding four-legged cats; we either love felines or hate them, with few voting-age folks undecided. But on the issue of finned, freshwater cats (especially rolled in com meal and fried golden brown), it’s a favorable landslide. Sport fishing for black bass may be all the rage, but stringing a mess of catfish is a much straighter route to a statisfying family meal. Cats are fairly easy to catch, and cruise the bottom of almost every body of fresh water in the state. The general daily sport limit on catfish is 25 per day, 50 in the aggregate, with a 9-inch minimum. There is an exception on Lake Livingston, however, where the limit is 50 fish per day. Since catfish are primarily bottom dwelling scent feeders, artificial lures rarely work. Now and then, a big cat will hit a spinnerbait or crankbait, but odorif erous natural baits are far and away the better choice. Selecting a catfish bait is more a mat ter of personal preference than of effec tiveness. Catfish will hit just about any thing sooner or later, as long as they can smell it. And the more it smells (to the dismay of whoever does a catfisherman’s laundry) the better it works. for several hours, are a fast way tocattl more fish. Texas Parks & Wildlife ft partment regulations require that it more than 50 hooks be used, and th each hook be at least 3 horizontal fef from the next. Trotliners ofter use the same bails t rod-and-reel anglers. But for bigger fisli many switch to live bait and, accordias to Texas Parks and Wildlife state re cords, the tactic works. The biggest cats take to date on and reel are a 98-pound flathead (' liam Stephens, June 1986) and a 71- pound (Sammie Roberson, March 1986) Trotline catfish records are considerable higher — a 116-pound blue (C.D. Mai tindale, April 1985) and a 114-pouiii flathead (Charles Booth, October 1976) The state record channel cat, a 36'/i pounder, was taken on rod and reel bf Mrs. Joe Cockrell on March 7, 1965. Rod-and-reel fishermen do well with a wide variety of baits. Shad and night crawlers are top choices for those wish ing to offer the fish a familiar meal. Pre pared dough, cheese, blood and stink baits also are economical catfish-catch ers, the best of which depends mostly upon who you ask. Many veteran catfi- shermen go so far as to mix up their own secret concoctions, which usually turn out to be a combination of some or all ot the above. Technique and equipment range from simple to simpler, there’s no way to make catfishing as difficult or mind-bog gling as bassing. On a good day, in the right spot, a plain old cane pole may catch just as many cats as the fanciest graphite rod and reel. Terminal tackle for rod-and-reelers depends on the flow of water and attitude of the fish. Though they hit suspended baits at times, most cats are taken on or near the bottom. In the still water of lakes and ponds, a small split shot or no weight at all will keep the bait down. If the water is mov ing or longer casts are required, rig an appropriate egg sinker to slip on the line so the fish feels no resistance when it hits. Trotlines, multiple hook rigs left out Numbers of catfish vary from lake lake. According to Steve Gutreuter, a re search specialist with TP&WD in Aus tin, Lake Conroe has the best catfisb population among local impoundments. “Gill net surveys are better for deter mining catfish populations,” Gutreuter said, “but the most current data avail able comes from an electro-shocking sir vey. Lake Conroe produced 34 cats per hour. Lake Livingston was a close sec ond with 33.” Gibbons Creek shocking raised 16 catfish each hour, while Sam Raybun only produced eight. Zapping at Fayette County, which definitely has some good catfish on it, raised zero. That single sta tistic bears out Gutreuter’s statement thal electro-shocking is not the most accurate way to count catfish. In Fayette County and Gibbons Creel Reservoirs, state law prohibits trotlines In their place, fishermen set juglines, which are exactly what they imply—a hook and line attached to a floating jug. POPC 3 One more way to catch catfish, popi lar in some parts of the country but noi legal in Texas, is grabbling. Also called doodlesocking or noodling, the sport calls for the fisherman to reach into sunken logs or other hollow objects and grab the fish by whatever part is closest, hopefully the mouth. Grabblers, as it seems they’d have to be called, sometimes also get a handful of snapping turtle or water moccasin. In most circles, grabbling is not considered the most rational way to go about catch ing catfish. Illegal it may be, but at the least a person accused of grabbling could plead insanity with reasonable expects tion of sympathy from the judge. K