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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1965
Page
7
A Popwar Boating editors survey lists 2898 recreational boat models from 381 companies. Boats range 5 to 75 feet and 24 to 260000 dollars, with fiberglass the dominant material and about a third offering sleeping accommodations.
Outdoorsmen find spring brings many wild plants and fruits ready to pick for dishes. The guide lists edible items such as mushrooms, dandelions, cattails, watercress, wild onions, purslane, June berries, wild plums, and more while warning some greens are unpalatable or poisonous. A field guide from a conservation department or state university helps select edible plants and show how Nature stocks her cupboards.
The United States Power Squadrons report a gain of 2 334 members over March 31 1964. Vice Commander Nick Tiburzi national secretary notes total individual members reach 58 827 across 356 local squadrons nationwide.
The Interior Department reports six more of the endangered whooping cranes have left the Aransas wildlife refuge in Texas for summering near Great Slave Lake in Canada. Only one of the birds remains at the winter nesting grounds.
Morel season is here. these wild mushrooms are easy to identify and prized for flavor. Last spring in Ohio yielded bonanza sizes. look on hillside stands of large trees after a warm spell with light rain for best picking.
Sportsmans Digest outlines a backstop for indoor ranges. It specifies a 3 inch deep backstop for 50 and 754 range targets with a .22, a solid brick or cement wall behind it, and a sandless deflection setup using boards. It also notes mounting 4 targets at 1 cent apart and arranged for prone and standing shooters with a white paper reflector.
Americans may hunt Beluga whales in Manitoba for the first time this season from June 20 to September 1. Licenses cost 40 dollars for residents and non residents with a limit of one whale per day and two per season. A local Eskimo guide provides gear and conducts the hunt from a 22 foot canoe with harpoon and rifle. All but 25 pounds of meat from each whale goes to the guide. A CN rail package offers Winnipeg to Churchill round trip with meals and five nights in Churchill for 150 dollars.
The article quotes a bait seller and others to explain why only about 10 percent of anglers catch most of the fish. It notes experience and know how come from time and questions, good equipment helps, and advises slow quiet fishing and matching lures to the fish diet, using smallmouth bass as an example.
Ohio Wildlife Division will seek to overturn a temporary injunction barring enforcement of gill net mesh sizes in Lake Erie east of the Huron lighthouse. Judge Leroy Kelly issued the ruling. Division Chief Dale Whitesell vows to defend the current 2 1/2 inch mesh while a bill seeks to lower it to two inches.
Angling editor Jason Lucas of Sports Afield Magazine offers practical advice for faster progress and better luck. Fish often, vary depth and retrieve, fish early and late in the season, avoid spawning beds, and use a wide range of lures to keep bass guessing.
Angles State Chicago round action in the Ohio Archers area yielded four firsts and three seconds for local archers. Mildred Zimmerman led with a high distaff score of 786 in Class A freestyle, while Ruth Huckeby and June Schork posted top marks in their divisions. Bednar tied for top frames and won Class A freestyle at the Ohio Archers tournament, sharing high totals with Fred Lucas Jr. Other shooters earned state honors, with regional matches continuing at Kostya's Archery Center and Shawnee Archers hosting events despite cold weather. The national growth in archery is noted by Indian Archery Co. president Robert Griffin.
The Bellevue Fennwood Open International NRA Skeet Championship, the first NRA International type open skeet event in Ohio, is set for Sunday at the Bellevue Fermiwood Winchester Gas Club east of Bellevue on Route 20. Club president Robert P. Fenn says the competition is open to all shooters with trophies for champion and runner up plus multiple high gun Lewis Class trophies.
About 220 acres of marsh and woodland deeded to the state by Morton Salt Co. will be dedicated today in Mentor Ohio. Officials including Dav. James Rhodes will attend the ceremony as the Port of Mentor Marsh becomes a reservoir of wildlife and plants managed by the Cleveland Natural Science Museum.
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