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4 B SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2015 FISHING Dungeness crab, salmon, bay clams Streams in the Coos Basin are now closed for trout until May 22, 2016. A few dedicated salmon anglers have been trolling in the Coos River this past week. They have picked up a few chinook and coho salmon trolling cut plug herring behind a flasher. The wild coho season is closed. A few steelhead should be moving into the rivers later this month. Crabbing continues to be very good in the lower bay. Crabbing has been good all the way up to the BLM Boat Ramp but the best crabbing will be near the jetties and close to slack tides. A few legal crabs have been caught off the Charleston docks. Clamming is excellent dur- ing low tides near Charleston, off Cape Arago Highway, and Clam Island. TENMILE BASIN: Trout, largemouth bass, yellow perch, coho Streams in the Tenmile Basin are now closed for trout fishing until May 22, 2016. Tenmile Lakes is open all year for trout but trout fishing has been slow. Bass anglers have been catching several largemouth bass in Tenmile Lakes. Bass can be found this time of the year in shallow water near structure like logs or weed lines. Yellow perch fishing has been very good for anglers in boats and from the fishing dock at the County Boat Ramp. A worm or piece of cut bait fished near the bottom works well for catching yellow perch. Wild coho season is open in Tenmile Lakes until Dec. 31.The bag limit is 1 wild coho per day and 5 wild coho for the season in aggregate with all other wild coho fisheries in the NW and SW zones. A few coho entered the lake after last week’s rain. this event. • Dec. 27-31, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. — Whale Watch Week: Volunteers trained through Oregon State Parks’s “Whale Watch Spoken Here” program will be at the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center and viewpoints throughout the Cape Perpetua Scenic Area to help visitors spot and learn about grey whales during the mammals’s winter migration to their breeding grounds off Baja, Mexico. No RSVPs necessary. For information, call the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center at 541-547-3289. from 2B in deep water should provide lots of bites for yellow perch. Bandon Hatchery were stocked into Butterfield Lake. These trout are leftovers that did not get used in family fish- ing events this past summer. Fishing for largemouth bass has been good in many of the Coos County lakes. As the water cools down fishing for bass will be good throughout the day. Bass will be concen- trated near drop-offs and struc- ture like submerged logs. Yellow perch fishing will start to pick up this month in lakes like Saunders Lake. Fishing a worm on the bottom COOS Cape from 1B welcome to participate. There is no need to RSVP for RIVER BASIN: UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH: The South Umpqua opened to fishing Dec. 1. WINCHESTER BAY: Bottomfish, perch, crab Fishing for bottomfish in the Triangle and South jetty has been successful. Crabbing has been productive, but Chinook and coho fishing has slowed in the ocean off of Winchester Bay and in the lower Umpqua River. PACIFIC BEACHES: OCEAN and The ocean is now open to Dungeness crab harvesting. Fishing for bottom fish is now open to fishing at all- depths. Fishing for black rock- fish continues to be very good from Charleston to Bandon. The marine fish daily bag limit is seven fish and a separate daily limit for lingcod (two). Anglers can only keep 3 blue rockfish and 1 canary rockfish as part of their daily limit and there will be no harvest of China, quillback, or copper rockfish. Retention of cabezon is now allowed at 1 fish per day and at least 16-inches long. Bottomfish, Dungeness crab, Visit the Siuslaw News online at WWW.THESIUSLAWNEWS.COM Commercial • Residential • Drop Box Service • Portable Toilets • Portable Storage Rentals • Recycling Specialist • Recyling Services & Containers available at no cost to customers. 85140 Hwy. 101 S Phone: 541-997-8233 Florence, OR 97439 Fax: 541-997-7345 Buying or Selling? I can help. 32 Bonnett Way – Build your dream home here! Fawn Ridge is a beautiful gated community with fine homes near the river, ocean, and town, This corner lot is flat and ready to build on, for a won- derful view. Don’t miss it! $75,000. #2529- 15184420 Desiree Johnson Principal Broker 541 999-5223 1749 Highway 101 • 541-997-1200 See Jim for your auto sales needs! NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS Viking girls basketball head coach Clint Tatum talks shooting technique with returning players Abby Watkins and Sierra Potter. 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