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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 2003
Page
26
Tom Osterkamp of Cedar Rapids posed with a 9 pound 9 ounce brown trout caught Christmas Day in Spring Branch near Manchester. The fish surpasses his 8 pound 14 ounce rainbow from two years earlier in the same hole. Osterkamp notes his Winter big-trout specialty.
The Nature Conservancy paid 30 million dollars for about 9000 acres of farmland near the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers in Staten Island California. The deal included a grant from CALTED to safeguard the Bay Delta ecosystem and will see an affiliated non profit manage farming and workers to preserve habitat for tens of thousands of waterbirds including up to 16000 sandhill cranes. Active land stewardship will accompany protection to support diverse fauna.
Thad Takes, three time Cedar Rapids Bassmasters Fisherman of the Year, weighs pursuing professional circuits over club tourneys. He aims to improve from five two pound limits to three pound limits to compete at the pro level, amid support from Acme Electric and fellow anglers. He led the year with a win at Prairie du Chien and will join Iowa’s regional team in Ontario, Canada.
Thad Takes relies on spinner baits and plastic tubes for most catches. He singles out a half-ounce white and chartreuse spinner with tandem willow blades as his top lure and favors crayfish-colored tubes on jigs or worm hooks. He also uses Chompers grub rigs and topwater lures like buzzbaits or plastic frogs to spark explosive strikes in slop and shallow water on the Mississippi.
The center hosts a Birds and Breakfast event Saturday at 8 a.m. with continental breakfast and wild birds viewing from the sunroom. Admission 5 dollars for members 8 dollars for non members. Several Feb 8 workshops on rain barrels rain gardens snowshoes with fees 20 22 3 5 dollars and preregistration 636 2617.
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