extra! (Pg. A5,6 - Sept. 3, 2009)

Meet the Bulldogs

“Meet the Bulldogs” night has been scheduled for tonight, Thursday, Sept. 3, beginning at 6 p.m. on the CHS football field with the public invited to meet members of the football, volleyball, and cross country teams and the cheer squad.

Hot dogs, hamburgers, chips and pop will be available for $5. The event will also offer “dunk your favorite coach” and field goal kicking activities for $1 each.

Colfax football players will start their season the next night, Friday, at the football jamboree in Ritzville, and the Colfax volleyball team will host a jamboree that Saturday.

Colfax XC team will join jambo

Colfax Cross-Country Coach Jamie Kinley has nine runners in the pack this year for the start of the season. The Bulldogs will go to the Northwest Christian Jamboree Saturday and will then start the regular season at Springdale.

One feature of the jamboree, which limits runners to two miles, is the mud on the course, Coach Kinley noted.

Morgan Willson, who booked an outstanding season last year as a freshman distance runner for the Colfax track team, will try her first year of cross country this fall as the lone girl on the club.

Juniors Cody Wuestney and Kyle Largent and sophomore Brady Cornelius will be on the boys team with freshman Brandon McAdams.

Junior high runners with the team will include Jackson Elfers, Katie Largent, Brynn Buck and Sara Groom.

Snake River opens for fall chinook season

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife opened two sections of the lower Snake River for fall chinook salmon fishing as of Tuesday, Sept. 1.

A good return of upriver bright chinook this year allowed the department to open the fishery on marked, hatchery-reared fish, said Glen Mendel, district fish biologist.

The hatchery chinook fishery, which is not listed in WDFW’s Fishing in Washington sportfishing rules pamphlet, is scheduled to remain open through Oct. 15, but could close earlier if the allowable incidental impact to wild chinook is reached. The fishery is allowed under a federal permit that prescribes strict limits on the incidental catch of wild salmon protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.

Last year’s fall chinook season was the first in nearly 30 years.

The hatchery chinook fishery will be open from the Highway 12 Bridge, near the mouth of the Snake River at Pasco, upstream to the no-fishing zone below Ice Harbor Dam, and from the Highway 261 Bridge crossing at Lyons Ferry upstream to the no-fishing zone below Little Goose Dam.

In most of the open area, the daily catch limit will be two hatchery adult chinook (24 inches or greater), and four chinook jacks (less than 24 inches) either wild or hatchery-marked. Hatchery fish can be identified by a clipped adipose fin and a healed scar on the fin.

One exception is along the “wall” and walkway area upstream from the juvenile fish bypass return pipe below Little Goose Dam, where the daily limit will be one hatchery adult chinook and up to two chinook jacks.

Anglers must stop fishing for salmon once they retain the daily limit of adult hatchery salmon.

In addition, a night closure will be in effect for all species, including steelhead.

Within the boundaries of the fishery, Coho salmon, adult wild chinook and wild steelhead must be immediately released unharmed. Anglers must use barbless hooks when fishing for chinook or steelhead in the Snake River.

“It’s important for anglers to be able to identify their catch because wild chinook salmon, coho salmon and wild steelhead are in the Snake River during this fishery,” Mendel said.

Women’s golf Results from Aug. 26

Lynne Bruya scored low gross, and Diana Hall low net in B Division play of the Colfax Women’s Golf Association play Wednesday.