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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.
Mid-South Fishing Report
Pickwick Lake: Tommy Akin of Strike King Lure Company says the stripe fishing below Pickwick Dam has been excellent. Anglers are catching lots of fish during the heat of the day, bumping bottom with live skipjack. When the fish come to the surface during the evenings, Akin says, you can catch them on just about any kind of topwater bait or jerkbait. Fish in the 7-to-12-pound range have been common. Reelfoot Lake: With water temps in the high 80s, fishing has been super slow. A few anglers are catching bluegill around shallow weeds on jigs tipped with wax worms. Catfishing is also fair with a few eating-size fish taking nightcrawlers in the ditches. Herb Parsons Lake: Bank fishermen are catching a few decent catfish on chicken and turkey livers, but everything else is slow. Lake Graham: Bass fishing is fair with trick worms and Zoom Super Flukes fished around the shallow cover just after sunrise and for about the last 90 minutes before dark.
Trout blamed for too much
WITH the new trout fishing season upon us, I think that my recent discovery is timely. Among some old papers which were stacked in a box under my house, I found a report concerning the native spotted tree frog, Litorea spenceri, which was threatened with extinction some time before 1990, although the report I have is dated 1997. The main theme of the report was that these threatened frogs were declining in numbers as a result of being eaten by rainbow trout. To help the dwindling frog numbers there was a scheme afoot, involving the Victorian Government and then Department of Environment, to withdraw or eradicate rainbow trout from streams in the Mt Buffalo National Park in particular, in an effort to halt this alarming decline in frog numbers. Both rainbow trout and brown trout are exotic fish species, being introduced into Australia from the US and England respectively in the late 19th century.
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