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Friday, April 17, 2015
Denton Record-Chronicle
Outdoor activities call for splash of DEET
AREA FISHING REPORT
t doesn’t matter if you’re fish-
ing, hiking, camping, bird-
ing, looking at wildflowers or
hunting turkeys — spring is a
good time to be outside. Re-
member to be careful out there.
There are tiny insects that can
cause serious health problems
by carrying dangerous diseases
like West Nile virus and Lyme
disease.
West Nile is carried by mos-
quitoes, and Lyme disease is
tick-bome. Texas is a U.S. hot-
spot for West Nile. Though Tex-
as is not recognized as a state
with a Lyme disease problem, I
know people who contracted
Lyme disease in Texas, with dev-
astating results.
In 2012, there were about
30,000 tick-transmitted diseas-
es reported in the U.S. and 5,674
cases of West Nile virus.
Lyme disease has symptoms
that mimic other nasty maladies,
so it often goes undiagnosed. The
bottom line is that it’s best to avoid
health issues transmitted by bit-
ing insects. How is it possible to
avoid ticks and mosquitoes with-
out staying indoors?
I occasionally get bitten by a
mosquito in my own yard, but I
bug-proof zone around me.
DEET was developed by the mil-
itary in 1946. It became available
to tire public in 1957 when S.C.
Johnson introduced OFF!, with
DEET (diethyl-meta-toluamide)
as the active ingredient.
Nobody really knows how
DEET works. The most popular
theory is that DEET confuses
the scent receptors of biting in-
sects, making it difficult for
them to recognize a person us-
ing DEET as a food source.
DEET is the active ingredient in
many insect repellants.
You can spray it on your
clothes or apply it directly to
your skin. There are even cam-
ouflage face paints available
with DEET in the formula. I use
DEET to protect my bare skin
from mosquito bites.
Permethrin is different. It’s
an insecticide that’s been regis-
tered with the EPA since 1979
and used by the military since
1990, the same year it was re-
leased for public use.
Unlike DEET, permethrin
should never be applied to your
skin. Treat your clothes with it, ac-
cording to the directions on the
can or pump spray container. One
treatment will last up to six weeks,
through six wash cycles.
You can buy clothes like Ex-
Officio’s Bugsaway series that
come pre-treated with permeth-
rin. They claim effectiveness for
70 washings.
Before a turkey hunt, I use
permethrin (Sawyer is the brand
I see most often) to treat my
pants, shirts, socks, boots,
gloves, facemask and cap. Be
sure to follow the directions.
Give the chemical time to dry
before wearing your clothes.
There are folks who can use
natural products as protection
from mosquitoes, but I’m not
one of them. I’ve tried various
products over the years, but they
just don’t work for me. What
works is a chemical shield creat-
ed by DEET and permethrin.
Weekend tip
With Wednesday’s start of
the eastern turkey season,
spring turkey season is open
throughout the state. Calling a
gobbler can be a challenge.
There are times when they won’t
come to calls made by a world
champion.
Many beginners give up after
I
GRAPEVINE: Water clear; 62-65 degrees; 8.07 feet low. Black bass are
slow on shallow and medium shad pattern crankbaits. Crappie are fair on
minnows. White bass are good on minnows and slabs. Catfish are good
on rod and reel.
LEWISVILLE: Water lightly stained; 62-65 degrees; 2.85 feet low. Black
bass are slow on medium crankbaits and small plastic swimbaits. Crappie
are good on minnows. White bass are good on minnows. Hybrid striper
are good on slabs. Catfish are good on cut shad.
RAY ROBERTS: Water clear; 62-65 degrees; 3.78 feet low. Black bass
are good on Texas rigged worms and craws near shallow cover. Crappie
are fair on jigs near brush piles. White bass are good on minnows. Catfish
are fair on prepared bait.
WfL
Ray
Sasser
OUTDOORS
a few unsuccessful hunts, think-
ing that calling a turkey is too
hard. It has more to do with be-
ing in the right spot at the right
time than with calling expertise.
It’s also a rare hunting sport
where opening day may not be
the best time to hunt.
ny on Lewisville Lake. Visit
www.supraboatspwt.com.
■ May 16 — Crappie Anglers
of Texas tournament at Ray
Roberts Lake. Visit www.
crappieanglersoftexas.com or
call 903-887-0334.
■ May 30 — Scholarship
charity shoot at Fossil Pointe
Sporting Grounds in Decatur to
underwrite Youth Target Foun-
dation scholarships. Contact
Jeanie Almond at 972-436-
3637 or jeanie@youthtarget
foundation.org.
RAY SASSER can be readied
at rsasser@dallasnews.com. If
you have an area outdoors
event or big-catch picture,
e-mail drcsports@dentonrc.
com.
haven’t had a tick bite in more
than 20 years. That’s a pretty
good accomplishment for a
spring turkey hunter.
When you think about it, tur-
key hunters are in the highest
risk group for tick bites. We sit
still for long periods on the
ground, leaned back against a
tree, often surrounded by brush,
making sounds like a hen turkey.
If we don’t hear a gobbler, we
take off walking, often through
high weeds and brush, stopping
occasionally to call. That’s an in-
vitation for ticks to load up, no
RSVP required.
I use two chemicals, both first
used by the military. Used proper-
ly, DEET and permethrin create a
Calendar
■ Saturday — Fourth annu-
al Caddo Lake Earth Day Pad-
dling Regatta at Shady Grove
Marina, 449 Cypress Drive in
Uncertain. For details, send an
email to 2015earthdayregatta
@gmail.com or call 903-672-
5524 or 903-979-9817.
■ May 8 and 9 — Supra
Boats Pro Wakeboard Tour at
Stewart Creek Park in The Colo-
No Finals favorite yet
other story to go run routes with
professional football players.
“Time is what it ultimately
takes, and he doesn’t have a
whole lot of time [before orga-
nized team activities in June],
but he has enough to do well.”
Just as Stewart pointed out,
Kegans said he hopes everything
works out for Stewart in the end.
And the Titans’ decision to keep
him on the payroll last year
when many undrafted free
agents would’ve been given inju-
ry settlements and sent on their
way is promising.
Now, one of Stewart’s main
goals is to see a vivid dream he
had come true.
The dream was of him mak-
ing his NFL debut, decked out in
a Titans uniform, with his 2-
year-old son Kayson in the
stands watching, just like he did
as an infant during Stewart’s ju-
nior year in Stillwater, Oklaho-
From Page IB
Stewart
By Brian Mahoney
AP Basketball Writer
Sweet-shooting
Curry and the Golden State
Warriors have the best record,
an unmatched home-court ad-
vantage, and the understanding
that means nothing now.
‘We had a great home record
and did some historic things, but
that doesn’t get you any extra
points in the playoffs,” Curry said.
The Warriors (67-15) were the
NBAs best this season. LeBron
James has been on top before,
though never in Cleveland. And
don’t forget the Spurs, even
though you have to look far down
the West standings to find them.
When the NBA postseason
opens this weekend, there will
be plenty of championship con-
tenders but perhaps no clear fa-
vorite.
Pro basketball
NBA playoffs
*
Stephen
receivers coach told me not to
worry and that they were going
to take care of me.”
something special and that kicks
off this weekend,” James said.
The Cavaliers start Sunday
against Boston, a familiar foe for
James and the one that ended
his last postseason in a Cavaliers
uniform.
The playoffs begin Saturday
with four games: Washington
visits Toronto in the opener be-
fore the Warriors, 39-2 at home
during the regular season, host
Anthony Davis and the New Or-
leans Pelicans. After that come
two short trips: Milwaukee trav-
els to Chicago and Dallas heads
to Houston.
On Sunday, Atlanta hosts
Brooklyn, Portland visits Mem-
phis, and the Los Angeles Clip-
pers welcome San Antonio for
the opener of what appears to be
the marquee first-round series.
Texas two-step
The reward for James Hard-
en and the Rockets after earning
the No. 2 seed? A matchup
against a Dallas team that won
50 games. The Rockets out-
scored the Mavericks just 402-
398 in their four meetings, and
Dallas had double-digit leads in
three of them.
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That news provided a boost
of confidence for Stewart, 22,
who was a two-way star at Guyer
from 2008-10 and an all-Big 12
performer at OSU. Stewart im-
mediately was sent in to talk to
Titans front office personnel
who told him he’d be placed on
injured reserve and the team
would pay for his surgery and re-
hab. The Titans also paid a por-
tion of his salary throughout the
year.
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David Minton/DRC file photo
Oklahoma State receiver Josh Stewart scores against
Missouri in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 3, 2014, in Arlington.
Players put on IR often are
paid a split salary — roughly half
their contract value. Stewart re-
ceived considerably more than
half of his $435,000 salary, per
his three-year contract.
“After I talked to the contract
guy, everything was good news,”
Stewart said. “It was the best sit-
uation possible.”
The next thing on Stewart’s
mind was rehabbing his surgi-
cally repaired Achilles, prepar-
ing to return to the Titans in ad-
vance of the 2015 season and
picking up where he left off in
impressing his coaches. After his
rehab was complete, it was time
to get back into shape and re-
gain his speed, explosiveness
and strength before reporting
back to Nashville, Tennessee.
Stewart could have gone any-
where to do that, and it was sug-
gested he go to performance
training centers in Florida and
California, but Stewart knew
where he was going — back
home.
Stewart before the NFL com-
bine.
“It’s awesome on all levels — to
watch him do his thing and to
work with someone of that cali-
ber. To do it in this environment,
it can’t get any better than that.”
Kegans, who has a master’s
degree in human movement
with a specialization in sports
performance, is certified by the
National Strength and Condi-
tioning Association and several
other respected organizations.
He said he knew from the time
the pair began working together
in January that it would be a
long road to get Stewart ready to
report to Nashville on Sunday
and to begin the team’s offseason
conditioning program Monday.
Kegans said that with an
Achilles injury, recovery and be-
ing 100 percent takes time. The
two have worked together six or
seven days a week since January,
often twice a day.
“The No. 1 goal is you have to
have strength before you can
have power,” Kegans said. “So
going into the weight room, we
have to get that strength back to
get his legs back underneath
him to handle the stress of all
these powerful, explosive move-
ments. It’s one thing to go run
routes with me, but it’s a whole
ma.
“I got no idea who’s going to
win the championship. This is
the most convoluted I’ve ever
seen the NBA as far as, I’ve got
no idea,” Hall of Famer and TNT
analyst Charles Barkley said.
With James gone from Mi-
ami, so are the days of penciling
in one half of the NBA Finals
matchup. The Heat reached the
last four finals, winning two of
them, before James returned to
Cleveland last July.
The Cavaliers don’t even have
the best record in the Eastern
Conference, finishing in second
place behind Atlanta. But they
have rolled through the second
half of the season so easily that
it’s hard not to consider this No.
2 as the one.
‘We have an opportunity to do
Stewart knew he would get
the best training and genuine
care from someone he’s known
since he was an eighth-grader.
“I know his mindset on
things and his work ethic,” Stew-
art said of Kegans. “If you see
him work out, you’d understand.
It’s just that mindset. I need to
be around people that have that
mindset. He’s just so smart and
knows what he’s doing.
“There was no need for me to
go pay some random guy I bare-
ly know and I don’t even know if
he cares about me as a person,
when I could be here with some-
one I know cares about me and
my future. It was just a no-
brainer.”
For Kegans, it was an honor
to see Stewart come back to
Guyer, a suggestion he said he
makes to all of Guyer’s players
when they graduate.
“Not only is it a kid you
watched grow up from eighth
grade on and watched him in his
college career, he’s a kid that be-
lieved so much in what we do
he’s going to come back and
work and train to perform on
the highest level,” Kegans said.
“There’d be nothing like it,”
Stewart said with a big grin. “I’ve
definitely thought about it. I’ve
had dreams about it. Just think-
ing about that dream and how
pumped up I got for that dream,
I just imagine how over-
whelmed I’d be if it turned out
like that.”
Even if it never works out,
Stewart said he has not regret-
ted leaving college a year early
only to go undrafted. With his
well-documented story of over-
coming a life of adversity — be-
ing displaced by Hurricane Ka-
trina and losing both parents at
a young age — Stewart still re-
mains as positive as ever despite
the latest obstacle put in his way.
“I never had regrets. I asked
myself what would I be doing
last season [at OSU],” Stewart
said. “I think I would’ve had a re-
ally great year and gotten draft-
ed in this draft, but I’m not wor-
ried about that. I told myself all I
wanted was an opportunity and
I got it, so I’m not going to com-
plain about anything.”
ADAM BOEDEKER can be
reached at 940-566-6872 and
via Twitter at @aboedeker.
Kidd’s kids
Jason Kidd won a first-round
series as a No. 6 seed last year in
Brooklyn. He’s back in that spot
after his first season coaching in
Milwaukee with a young team
that will try to overcome its play-
off inexperience.
It started with a text message
to his old strength and condi-
tioning coach, Guyer’s Bryan
Kegans, who served exclusively
in that capacity before leaving to
take a job at Texas during Mack
Brown’s final year with the
Longhorns. When Brown left
last year, Kegans returned to
Guyer and worked briefly with
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Rangers
14 innings to win his first two
starts. Yovani Gallardo (1-1, 5.59
ERA) became the opening-day
starter in his first season with his
hometown team after Darvish
went out, and Colby Lewis (1-0,
3.38) has been solid his two starts.
But lefty newcomer Ross Detwil-
er (0-2, 9.00) has struggled, and
Holland’s spot is up for grabs after
Anthony Ranaudo lasted only five
outs in his first start and got sent
back to Triple-A
homestand, which wrapped up
Wednesday with a 10-2 loss to
the Los Angeles Angels — after
an 8-2 win the previous night.
Texas’ .210 batting average is
tied for 26th in the majors with
Seattle, where the Rangers open
a three-game series tonight.
‘We talk about hitters finding
rhythm, controlling the strike
zone,” Banister said. ‘We’re trend-
ing in the right direction with the
mindset. We’ve got to get the
mindset and the physical side of it
to push through and match up.”
With 152 games and 5 1/2
months left in the regular sea-
son, here are a few things to
watch with the Rangers:
Prince’s power outage
Slugger Prince Fielder was
10th in the majors with a .400
batting average through the first
10 games. But of his 16 hits, he
has only two doubles and no
home runs. “Getting hits is al-
ways better than making outs,”
Fielder said. Several of Fielder’s
hits have been to the left field,
going the opposite way with
teams using drastic defensive
shifts against him. “Obviously,
when I’m up there I see the hole
sometimes,” he said.
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Searching for Elvis
Shortstop Elvis Andrus is the
team’s longest-tenured position
player, in his seventh season at
age 26, and just starting the
$120 million, eight-year con-
tract extension he signed two
years ago. He had his first home
run in 482 at-bats, but is hitting
only .167 (7 of 42) with five
strikeouts and no walks. In the
field, he already has three errors.
Bullpen boost
Right-hander Tanner Schep-
pers will be activated today from
the disabled list (right ankle).
Scheppers, the 2014 opening
day starter who returned to the
bullpen last year, is coming of a
three-game rehab assignment at
Double-A Frisco. He was ejected
from one of those games for
throwing at a hitter. The Texas
League fined him, and he faces a
suspension if he goes back to the
minors.
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