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A young girl checks out the anatomy of her trout.
A volunteer livens up the fish cleaning station.
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Photos by Natasha Kavanaugh
Khloe Hall (above) tries her hand at reelin' them in.
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10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Lhuuke Illahee Fish
Hatchery
Bring your own
equipment and bait
FREE
FMI: Kelley Ellis,
541-444-8227
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Stuart Whitehead (right) helps his granddaughter, Nova, cast
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Kids get hooked on trout at free family fishing day sponsored by Tribe, ODFW
Some kids catch larger
fish and excitedly
proclaim ‘I got one!’
By Natasha Kavanaugh
On July 9, a Family Fishing Day was
held at the Siletz Tribe’s Lhuuke Illahee
Fish Hatchery. The event was made
possible through a partnership with the
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
office in Newport, Ore., under Robert
Buckman and Christine Clapp.
Clapp, ODFW Salmon and Trout
Enhancement Program coordinator, worked
closely with Stan van de Wetering, Tribal
aquatics program leader, to get the fish,
equipment and all the volunteers on site.
Approximately 1,000 catchable
rainbow trout and 50 larger 3- to 4-pound
trout, which attracted lots of excitement,
came out of the Alsea Hatchery. Several
of the larger fish were caught by 8- to
10-year -olds.
Kids got a chance to see the fish get
dissected and some hands-on time with
the dissected heart, lungs, spleen and eggs.
All day you could hear children excit
edly saying, “Look look, I got it!” “1 got
one!” “I did it!” and “I want to do it again.”
With about 45 kids at the event, The
Longview Hill Fishing Club of Newport,
Ore., Wayde Dudley, Barbara Dudley,
Wayne Hill and Bill Furgason made sure
things ran smoothly that day. Also, ODFW
members Mirick and Kelsey Adkisson
were on hand volunteering as well. More
importantly, the fishing club has offered to
help the Tribe more in the future.
Culture Camp followed the public
event during the next week.
“They arranged for all the fish, equip
ment and volunteers for the first day then
we took care of staffing for the next three
days. They graciously loaned us their
equipment for the Culture Camp days,”
said van de Wetering.
Culture Camp had two trips per day
for three days. The nearly 120 Tribal kids
at the hatchery were able to take part in
catching about 500 trout during that week.
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Courtesy photos by Tribal Elder Maria
Westervelt (above) and Felicia Carmona (right)
Maxine Rilatos (above) enjoys a day
out with her daughter and son-in-law,
Valerie and Larry Hibdon.
The group (right) concentrates on a
game of Bingo.
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