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Adam Thompson column: Old lure still has lots of luck
It's a fish tale that's true, touching, spans three generations of a family and was told Sunday near the conclusion of the 36th annual Coho Derby. Gary Markus has a lure that he, for lack of a better term, inherited from his father, Bill Sr. Old and steeped in tradition, the lure doesn't get much use for fear that it could wind up a casualty of a broken line. But this lure has, in the past, proven to be magic for the Markus family and it was again Sunday. It was 14 years ago that Bill Markus used the lucky lure to catch the second-largest rainbow trout at the 22nd Coho Derby. Last year, Gary's son, Grant Markus, won the rainbow division of the Cleveland Fishing Derby at Hika Bay. Earlier this summer, Gary's other son and Grant's brother, Scott, hooked the first-place rainbow at Hika Bay.
My other life - Robert Croft
I'm basically a boy from the country, from Hendy in West Wales. It's something I started doing in those long school holidays in the summer. My grandfather fished, my father fished and it just gets handed down like playing rugby in Wales is handed down from generation to generation. What was your first fish?
Like a cricketer I started with a net. My parents took me down to the local river and I caught a trout. I didn't know at the time that they had taken out it of the freezer earlier. But I didn't care I was, er, hooked after that. What sort of fishing do you specialise in?
Although I do some sea fishing I mainly fly fish. A friend of mine owns a stretch on the River Tawe and that's where you will see me going after salmon and sea trout. What has been your biggest catch?
My biggest fish to date was a beautiful 15lb salmon I landed last September at a stretch of river in Capel Dewi in Carmarthen - one of the most prolific sea trout rivers in the UK.
Heat wave has driven local stream temps to dangerous levels
The big brown trout lay belly up at the tail of the bridge pool. Even though he had been dead only a few hours, his distinctive markings had already started to fade, and several crayfish were working on the 22-inch carcass. The record and near-record air temperatures, sunny weather and warm nights of the past two weeks have combined to stress trout populations and even eliminate them in the worst cases. Trout are cold-water fish. They prefer stream temperatures below 66 degrees and water with a relatively high concentration of dissolved oxygen. Shade and an influx of ground water are important factors in keeping stream temperatures low. Since cool water holds more dissolved oxygen than warm water, cool water temperatures and turbulence (riffles and waterfalls) keep dissolved oxygen at a healthy level.
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