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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JULY 24, 2017
In Seaside, a fi sh(y) story
Dam in Eastern Oregon being
removed to ease fi sh passage
Associated Press
PENDLETON — Work
has started to remove a
dam in Eastern Oregon that
blocks salmon, steelhead and
lamprey.
The effort to remove the
Dillon Diversion Dam on
the Umatilla River outside
of Echo started earlier this
month, the East Oregonian
reported. The dam is 200 feet
long.
Bill Duke, district fi sh biol-
ogist for the Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife, said
fi sh ladders on either side of
dam don’t always work prop-
erly, and the dam was consid-
ered a signifi cant problem for
native salmon and steelhead.
“Fall Chinook and coho,
they tend to come up to that
obstruction and get delayed
there,” Duke said. “They end
up spawning there below the
dam.”
He said the spot is not con-
ducive for rearing juvenile
salmon and steelhead.
The dam built in 1915
served fi ve landowners as
part of the Dillon Irrigation
Co. with water rights dating
to the 1890s. But the land-
owners say the dam that’s 16
feet deep clogs with gravel
and is diffi cult to maintain.
The landowners will
now get their water from the
upstream Westland Diversion
Dam and a 2-mile pipeline
completed in March.
The pipeline is being paid
for in part with a $175,000
grant from the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Brien opens bait
and tackle shop
Wildlife’s Restoration and
Enhancement Board.
The Oregon Watershed
Enhancement Board, a state
agency that provides grants
to improve streams, rivers
and wetlands, added another
$300,000. Irrigators contrib-
uted $140,000.
The Bonneville Power
Administration
is
pay-
ing $600,000 to remove the
dam as part of its require-
ment to support viable fi sh
populations.
“There’s water savings.
There’s ecological benefi ts.
There’s economic benefi ts for
the local irrigation districts,”
said Michael Ward, executive
director of the Umatilla Basin
Watershed Council. “This
has all hallmarks of a great
project.”
By EVE MARX
For The Daily Astorian
Man charged in brother’s death in Tillamook
Associated Press
TILLAMOOK
—
Authorities
arrested
a
42-year-old man accused of
killing his older brother in
Tillamook.
The Tillamook County
Sheriff’s Offi ce says in a
news release that police
went to a home on a distur-
bance call Sunday and found
the body of 49-year-old John
Armitage.
His brother, Jared Armit-
age, was booked into jail
on a murder charge. Court
records show Jared Armit-
age pleaded guilty in May to
misdemeanor harassment of
his older brother.
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a.m. Thursday. Short traffi c
delays may occur. For ques-
tions, contact Steve Ruggles,
engineering technician at
503-338-5173.
ON THE RECORD
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chief law offi cer of the city of
Wilsonville.
In 1985, he became the full-
time b uilding o ffi cial in Sea-
side and says he was the head
of every building department
at one point or another in Clat-
sop County. His last full-time
position before retiring was
b uilding o ffi cial for Gearhart.
Customers for his lures are
fi shing for salmon and steel-
head, Brien said.
“You have to walk the river
to fi nd the fi sh,” he said. “You
have to learn how to cast.”
Fishermen, he said, are
secretive. They don’t want any-
body to know their best spots.
“I’d just as soon lose the
fi sh than let another fi sher-
man know where I caught it,”
Brien said with a laugh.
Lightning Strike Lures are
immensely colorful. Why is
that? Aren’t fi sh colorblind?
“People will tell you they
can’t see colors,” Brien said.
“But that’s not my experi-
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Eve Marx/ The Daily Astorian
Jim Brien in front of his new bait and tackle shop on Ave-
nue S, which opened last week.
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DUII
• At 2:17 a.m. Satur-
day, Dexter Goodrich, 45,
of Astoria, was arrested by
the Seaside Police Depart-
ment on the 1100 block of
Avenue A and charged with
driving under the infl uence
of intoxicants, attempting to
elude a police offi cer, refus-
ing to take a breath test, open
container, driving while sus-
pended, failure to carry
and present identifi cation
and harassment. Goodrich
allegedly did not stop when
pulled over by an offi cer in
the Rite Aid parking lot. He
then allegedly sped through
the parking lot, onto Lin-
coln Street and exited his car
on Avenue, where he was
arrested after attempting to
fl ee on foot.
• At 1:32 a.m. Sunday,
Carisa Trent, 30, of Corne-
lius, Oregon, was arrested by
the Seaside Police Depart-
ment on the 30 block of North
Prom and charged with DUII.
DEATH
July 20, 2017
CURRY, Jean W., 92, of Astoria, died in Asto-
ria. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory, Astoria/Seaside
is in charge of the arrangements.
MEMORIAL
Tuesday, July 25
STRATTON, Diana M. — Rosary and Mass at 10:30 a.m.,
St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church, 79441 U.S. High-
way 101 in Arch Cape.
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sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
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ence.” He said they always
seem to notice something red
on the line. Which is proba-
bly why his “Shark Attack”
lure is one of his most pop-
ular. It really does look like
a spray of blood, but in an
attractive way. He said Chi-
nook salmon favor lures that
are green, while coho tend to
like pink.
“The #5 Hula Girl lure is
one of my top sellers, too,”
Brien said.
Who or what wouldn’t be
lured by a hula girl?
Brien acknowledges there
is an art to fl y-tying. And
knowing what works best for
a particular species of fi sh and
knowing which lure is the
right one to troll.
He also sells salmon and
steelhead fi sh bait, which
means night crawlers, salmon
eggs and sand shrimp. “I also
sell crab bait,” he said, wrin-
kling his nose. Crab bait is
stinky. Not his favorite smell.
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Sunset tonight ........................... 8:55 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 5:50 a.m.
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Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.10"
Normal month to date ....................... 0.83"
Year to date .................................... 49.67"
Normal year to date ........................ 36.74"
July 30
FRIDAY
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
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Normal high/low ........................... 68°/54°
Record high ............................ 91° in 1924
Record low ............................. 44° in 1977
First
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SEASIDE — If it’s a fi sh-
ing story you’ve got to tell or
a contractor tale, take a load
off and mosey on over to Jim
Brien’s Bait & Tackle shop on
Avenue S in Seaside. Brien,
who retired in January as Gear-
hart’s building offi cial, opened
his shop last week. The fi sher-
men and the contractors he’s
known and worked with for
years are already dropping in.
“This is custom service
for fi shermen,” Brien said.
He made it clear it’s not just a
boy’s club; lady fi shermen are
very welcome. He’s selling his
Lightning Strike Lures, which
he’s been making as a hobby
for decades. Most of them are
so pretty that minus the hooks,
they could pass for jewelry.
“I’ve been selling them at
wholesale prices for awhile
now, unoffi cially,” Brien said.
The shop is plentifully stocked
with alluring lures, each one
of them handmade by Brien .
“There isn’t a lure here that I
haven’t made.”
Brien has been a fi sher-
man since he was 5 years old.
He grew up casting off the
Redondo Beach pier as a child
in California. For most of his
life he worked in some capac-
ity as an enforcer of city ordi-
nances. In 1985 he came out
to Oregon from Las Vegas.
He had a lumber business in
Tualatin. He also worked as
a foreman overseeing water
storm lines.
“I did a stint as a police
offi cer in the c ity of Tigard,”
he said.
For a time he was the
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