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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1946)
and the turbulent Rogue, 38 miles J go places and do things in his weeks ? The reporter has been ab to the north, in Oregon. \\ ith the, own "steelhead** wav sent because of an injured ankle. exception of the deep w inter sea- < Last Monday the assistant sta te son. when most stream s are roiled tio n . th __., sincere word of cau * too much for the fish to see the , 7 ? ’ ?n '< , ° ne. .« “> ,‘° club leader, Miss Helen Cowgill, lures, salm on may be taken in L“ " ®. , 7 . u % 7 visited the 4-H clubs here. She was assisted by Mrs. R. M. Knox, e ith e r one or all of the four u T v e r .B ed h n T torrents. They are mostly of two 7 7 ? , 7 ± K t ° T of Gold Beach. They inspected fhetco and Winchuck types, the Chinook or kings, or ^ 7 . ™ e.s . bcfokre ,‘7 . anRle,r tu u .u of t which, u in u s rpk ta - rts thinking 7 . about his creel, t Rivers Offer Angler the v Silvers,des. e both t * »-I xl Ih,s involves lots of line, lots of season journey upcoas until they , paGence an(| m e n |a , saturation Best Net Returns 7 "7 r'7 T T " * °L “7 7 w ith ,h e fa ct ,h a ‘ a steelhead his (,wn , 'urn- county is internationally w a te r off-shore from the mouths has notions of th eir home stream s, turning ble of ( them , for its natural recreational right m th eir courses and. a fte r riRht up t0 thR moment h(, ceasps itures. hey have adjusted then systems be tla l, ahve steelh ead , (Therewr sportsmen g a t h e r o the different w a te r en ter the steelh ead , likt> salmon 'll eventually filter out all areas in favor of this cri- low er reaching for a day or two, taken jn the upper reaches of any fu,rT ,e r acclim ation un til they of the strea m s ln thp h e a d w a te r; , of outdoor interests, for to county they are absolutely I T a w n in g “ Wh‘Ch ’he5' ” sA nd in “ " " I L of their best chances in pit- 2T , ‘ , tneir spawning, passage upstream they a ttra c t, W r angling skill with sev- The£ . sc.hools a ^ us” ally a^ om‘ myriads of al sizes of trout, eager their angn g Ipam ed by sm aller jack-salmon, species of salmon and the the males, which range around to feast on the surplus eggs which J hungest fish of all ocean-wild 10 pounds, and are also mighty drift away from the nests the Ihead’ These run in all o u r ‘ ‘ , * larger fish thrash out of the ea and J hardly u a z4i one a « OI z one vwzv, US of zvf I ,ic upwards ---ViorHlv ► puts us! i,ne fi*sh. Chinooks, ......... . “*7;------ of stream beds in which to deposit I what lives within easy w alk- ; 50 P°Unds- a r<' at all uncom- their eggs These trout, in turn, distance of their haunts. And] ™ n t ^ ouKh is prob- can venture s tin fu rth e r upstream know there’s nothing b e tte r in ably c!ose t0‘ 25 P°unds- and everJ for the deposit of th eir own eggs, way of good food than thick, th at size fish comprises a lot ol frequently passing up for miles j slab of Chinook, fresh from th at fundam ental known in the above where the larger fish are ! sea. be it fresh from the v ernacular as grub. Salmon are excluded because of th eir size, m ostly from slowly troll-! This reproduction factor m akes 1 nned or smok- taken ing the lower stream s from a angling, far hack into the country, by some thrifty housewife. bota m ut many are taken in cast an attractiv e pursuit and, back or < it artificially colored. ing lures from the bank at the there, fish of acceptable propor For the angler who is w illing to extrem e mouth or “jaw s” of the tions may l>e had from alm ost he his car and bike a piece stream s. Salmon do not entirely every little trickle. ere are literally hundreds of confine th eir spawning to the There are three common vari- reams where trout may he had id we write feelingly when we larg er stream s. This w riter has eties of trout in the a re a : the so iled ¡ full pan of sizzling fish I •'5een Quite respectable fish taken called “native.” entirely silvery, »iy a comma to a hard day! ^rom >’a rd *wlde creeks w h o s e and often denominated as a mon- This entrancing sport. ' m ouths save proper egress in grel closely crossed with steel- la the immediate vicinity of from thc sea' head: 1he cut-throat, likewise a fixings or Harbor a r e the In most of the coastal stream s, silvery one, hut vv ith the typical ietco. and the smaller. Win-1 steelhead run. This is the same red slash under his chin, and the j rivers. These both have fish, which, when confined in in- imported, spotted, E astern Brook e.r ryn of salmon in season, land lakes is known as the land- trout. But the average angler is k though- the runs are some- locked salmon but when so con- not* especially p a rticu la r and is at smaller in number and o f' fined he becomes a short, chunky, just as pleased with successfully ertd duration than larger riv- individual which would certainly taking one species as another. they still number into the be spurned by his sleek, dynamic Rainbows are sometimes taken tousands of q u i t e “tolerable” i brothers who fight their way up- and will, on the average, be quite Should there be reasons why stream through the whitest of a hit larger than the other v a ri local resident finds the fish- w ater. There is no use at all in eties. For the tru e angler there are urge upon him and doubts trying to s e t ‘down ir. black and no stream s in the area which will percentage on these two riv-1 w hite the jerk, both m ental and s- he has easy access to la rg e r physical, a tru e angler experienc- not yield good catches. A well-laid feams—the Smith River, in Cal-! es when he ties into steelhead, re- fly under the overhanging brush nia. being 10 miles to the gardless of size, fresh in from the along any of our stream s, early teth and Pistol River. 24 miles'* sea and chuck full of notions to in the morning, or when the sun is slanting low. will eventually be rewarded with those big wise ones the less-experienced fisherm an will not dream to be lurking in such spots. But all the fish taken h ere Have you seen the 1 0 0 Wool Plaid abouts don’t necessarily come in the stream s. Rock fishing, in the seas, pays good dividends in a variety of fine sea food. Sea trout, Also the “Rootny Richard kelp fish, lyng and rock cod, perch, and potpourri, or other finny salt-w ater fish may be had from almost any point along the rocky coast. For those who might venture out in a boat, on a calm Templar Building, Brookings day, off-shore, there are larg er fish to be had—red snapper, cod. Nothing for every member of the family! halibut, and sea-caught salmon. J among others. At low tide dividends are paid in the form of clams, both of the b u tter variety, and larg er ones which are locally known as “quo- haugs” or horse clams, and here clam s a re taken by those who and there are beaches where razor A LARGE SHIPM ENT OF know their haunts and habits. Any one of these shellfish m ake MHAMHCt! a delightful variant in the d ie t.' Now and then a crab or two m ay be found isolated in a rock crev For Every Purpose ice when the tide has fooled him. T here’s hardly a m an alive, and lots of women, too, who yearn for the combination of circum stances th at will allow them enjoym ent in fishing. Mostly, they’re too far 1 from where fish may be had. H ere are fish all about and here no sooner is the urge felt than the angler can be fishing, e ith er in stream or sea, with more than ordinary' chances th at surprising ly soon a fte r the urge they’ll be tied into something th a t will both satisfy the desire and digestion. shing In Curry ninty Best In acific Coast A rea the work we have done so far, and offered helpful suggestions. W'e plan to have our 4-H sew ing work practically finished by the end of school. We are going to exhibit our work at the P.-T. A. meeting. May 3. 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MENDENHALL • 4-H Sewing Club W orks Have you noticed there hasn’t -> • 1-H club news for three
