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8C Thursday, August 28, 2008 THETENNESSEAN www.tennessean.com OUTDOORS Jet Ski racer is never on injured list Temperatures in most area lakes are in the 80s. APBA WATERCROSS NATIONALS Where: Nashville Shores, Percy Priest Lake When: Friday and Saturday (10 a.m.-5 p.m.), Sunday (8:30 a.m. -4 p.m.) Admission: $23.95 general admission, $17.95 junior More information: pwcfun.com I raced, I guess. I don't know." Green, who owns a marine repair shop, said he had not allowed his situation to keep him from doing anything else he wanted to and he wasn't about to let it keep him off a competitive Jet Ski. Three-wheelers to Jet Skis A year after losing his legs Green started racing three-wheel all terrain vehicles on dirt tracks.

He began racing Jet Skis about 10 years later. "I knew I could race Jet Skis. My legs don't put me at a disadvantage at all," Green said. "And now Pm out there racing with the best racers in the world." Green said in most races he reaches 62 mph hour on his souped-up Kawasaki. In separate events he has jumped nearly 93 feet in length and four stories in height, he said.

Green returned to Arizona this summer and competed in the first two APBA National Tour events. The event at Nashville Shores is the last of the year. He's ranked in the top five in the veteran ski open class and finished second in last week's event at Orange Beach, Ala. Reach Mike Organ at 615-259-8021 or morgantennessean.com. ary points using crank and spinner baits.

Catfish bite is good in old river channel. Old Hickory: Crappie bite is good. Bass are being caught on top water baits at night and early morning. Catfish bite remains good on various baits. Percy Priest: White bass are being caught on small jigs and spoons near the dam.

Largemouth bass bite is good on spinner and crank baits along with plastic worms and minnows in the upper portion of the lake. Crappie bite is good at night in 10-15 feet of water. Catfish are biting night crawlers and cut bait in and around the creeks. Tims Ford: Largemouth, smallmouth bass and hybrid bite remain good. Watts Bar: Striped bass are being caught in the tail waters of Melton Hill and Ft.

Loudon dams. Rockfish and white bass are being caught near ledges along submerged humps in the mid to lower section of the lake. Some bass are being caught during the low light hours on top water lures near rocky deep banks. Catfish bite is good. MIKE ORGAN Caney Fork: Trout bite good on night crawlers, power eggs, spinner baits or fly rod.

Center Hill: Bass are being caught at night on soft plastics in 5-15 feet of water on points and drops. Walleye fishing is fair while trolling with night crawlers in 25 feet of water on gravel flats. Some catfish are biting in the creeks. Bluegill are being caught on crickets and night crawlers. Cordell Hull: Crappie is still being caught on minnows in about 10 feet of water.

Bass bite is good on top water baits, spinners and worms. Dale Hollow: Some walleye are being caught while trolling night crawlers, rigs and jigging spoons on humps and drops in about 30 feet of water. Bass fishing is good at night on spinner baits while fishing points in 15-25 feet of water. Catfish are being caught on jug lines using big minnows in the middle of the lake. Trout fishing is good near the dam while trolling with spoons.

Kentucky Lake: Largemouth bass are being caught on spinner baits and jigs on the flats and in the creeks. Smallmouth bass are being caught early and late in the day on second Double amputee has national rank By MIKE ORGAN Staff Writer LEBANON Kevin Green had been airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital and undergone surgery for a broken back. Doctors told him he'd participated in his last Jet Ski race. One of the Lebanon native's vertebrae had been crushed when his craft landed Kevin Green lost his legs in awkwardly an automobile crash at age 12. after a 63-foot ramp jump in Arizona's Lake Havasu last October.

"I instantly knew I had broken my back," Green, 37, said. "I felt the pressure." He also knew that, despite what doctors said after the operation, he would race and compete in Jet Ski jumping competitions again. "I just kind of brushed them off," said Green, who would spend the next seven months on his back recovering from Captive hunt By MIKE ORGAN Staff Writer Captive hunt reserves will be relegated to at least 1,000 acres if the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission changes its rules governing such facilities. Currently in Tennessee, captive hunt facilities or canned hunt facilities as critics call them are allowed on land of at least 20 acres. Hunters pay a fee to shoot imported exotic animals including zebra, antelope, elk, buffalo and wild boar in an enclosed area.

The Humane Society of the United States claims this type of hunting is animal cruelty and joined neighbors of a facility in Grainger County earlier this month to protest its opening. At its monthly meeting last SUBMITTED PHOTO Kevin Green, who suffered a broken back last October, will compete at this weekend's Jet Ski jumping event in Nashville. the eight-hour surgery to fuse two vertebrae together using a titanium cage. This weekend, Green and 300 other Jet Skiers will compete in the Hydro-Turf American Power Boat Association Water-cross Nationals at Nashville Shores on Percy Priest Lake. Automobile wreck This was not the first time Green had overcome a trau- sites may get week, the TWRC's wildlife committee recommended the minimum size of captive hunt facilities be increased.

"The commission feels that 20 acres obviously is not enough acres to have a hunting preserve like that," commissioner Boyce Magli said. "A thousand is about 50 times what is allowed under the current law and that's a lot of land." The wildlife committee also recommended preserves be limited only to native North American game and fees for operating permits be increased to cover the cost of program administration The commission will present its recommendations in a formal document and vote on it SUBMITTED PHOTO Mt. Juliet's Hunter Mehring, 12, caught this 40-inch, 30-pound snook at Fort Pierce, using live pinfish as bait. matic accident. He lost his legs in an automobile crash when he was 12.

He had been warned then how dangerous it was for a bilateral amputee just to ride a Jet Ski, much less race competitively. He often wears two prosthetic legs but has to remove them to ride the watercraft. When Green decided to race in spite of the risks, he met resistance from officials. "They tried to disqualify me," he said. "I was racing in a standup class and I was sitting in the tray of a standup." When asked how he was able to convince officials to allow him to compete Green said: "I just gained their respect by how minimum size at the next meeting Sept.

17-18 in Nashville. If approved, it goes to the Secretary of State's office for legislative approval. Waterfowl seasons: Waterfowl hunting seasons were set at the TWRC meeting. Statewide duck season is Nov. 28-Jan 25.

The Reelfoot Duck zone season is Nov. 15-16 and Nov. 29-Jan 25. Youth waterfowl season for ages 6-15 in the statewide zone is Jan. 31-Feb.

1. The daily bag limit is six ducks that may include no more than four mallards. Statewide hunting season for Canada goose is Oct. 4-11 and Nov. 28-Jan.

30. For light geese (snow, blue, Rose) the season isNov.24-Feb. 8. Reach Mike Organ at 615-259-8021 or morgantennessean.com. flfid iUMiikit) mtBsji HUNTING Today: Middle Tennessee Kids Hunting For a Cure meeting, Spirit of Life Church, 3646 Murfreesboro Antioch, 6 p.m.

Contact Rick Taylor at 615-568-9211 or Rick.tay-lormidtnkidshunting-foracure.com. Today: National Wild Turkey Federation Battleground Longbeards fundraiser, Williamson County Agriculture Expo Park, Franklin. Contact Jim Henry at 498-7985 or oklatenn1gmail.com. Saturday: Ducks Unlimited Old Hickory Chapter Banquet, Cherokee Steak House, Gallatin, 5:30 cocktails, 7 p.m. dinner, 8 p.m.

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