SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2015
Viks
from 1B
40-41. In Saturday’s game, the
Chieftains were once again
able to hold out for a one-bas-
ket win, 43-41.
Fishing
from 1B
caught from the lower river up
to Moonshine Park by both
bank and boat anglers. This
time of year is typically slow to
fair for winter steelhead. Fall
Chinook fishing is slow as
most remaining fish have
moved onto the spawning
grounds.
SIUSLAW
RIVER:
Steelhead, Chinook
Winter steelhead are starting
✔
Friday, the Viking boys will
travel to South Umpqua for the
nonleague Skywest Crossover
Tournament, where they will
take on Henley, beginning at
1:30 p.m.
On Saturday, the tournament
will continue with the Vikings
playing Phoenix.
Tip-off for that game will be
at 11 a.m.
The girls, meanwhile, will
travel to Hidden Valley High
School on Friday to play
Klamath Union at 1:30 p.m.
The tournament continues
Saturday at 11 a.m., when the
Viking girls play Hidden
Valley.
Tomorrow night, the Viking
girls will be at home to host
Junction City in a nonleague
matchup beginning at 7 p.m.
The boys team is off that
night.
Far West League competi-
tion begins Friday, Jan. 16,
when both Siuslaw teams will
travel to Marshfield to take on
the Pirates.
Girls tip off at 6 p.m., fol-
lowed by the boys at 7:30 p.m.
to show up in small numbers
around the mid to lower sec-
tions of the Siuslaw and Lake
Creek. Fall Chinook fishing is
very slow and any remaining
fish have moved onto the
spawning grounds.
WILSON RIVER: Chinook,
steelhead
Fall Chinook are still avail-
able in decent numbers. Fish
should be spread out through
the river, especially after rains
raised the river last week.
Release dark fish to spawn. All
techniques should produce fish,
with bobber and bait, back
bouncing, bait-wrapped plugs,
and casting spinners among the
best.
Winter steelhead are avail-
able in increasing numbers as
well.
spawned.
ate permit from Weyerhaeuser.
In the Coos Basin, one addi-
tional fin clipped steelhead
may be retained per day for a
total aggregate of three adult
fish harvested daily.
Crabbing in Coos Bay has
been decent for boat crabbers.
The best crabbing has been
near the jetties but crabbers are
getting legal-size crab all the
way up to the BLM Boat
Ramp.
Clamming is excellent dur-
ing low tides near Charleston,
off Cape Arago Highway, and
Clam Island.
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RIVER:
Steelhead, Chinook
The winter steelhead run is
starting to kick in with anglers
getting into a few fish along the
Big Elk as conditions allow.
The fall Chinook fishery is
essentially over for the season
as most fish have already
COOS
RIVER
BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
steelhead
Steelhead have been caught
this past week on the West Fork
Millicoma,
East
Fork
Millicoma, and South Fork
Coos rivers. There is bank
access on the West Fork
Millicoma at the Millicoma
Interpretive Center and on the
East Fork Millicoma at Nesika
Park. Access to the South Fork
Coos River is through
Weyerhaeuser property and
anglers must have the appropri-
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Dungeness crab
The ocean is open again for
harvest of Dungeness crab.
Fishing for bottom fish, includ-
ing rockfish and lingcod is
open to all depths. The marine
fish daily bag limit is seven fish
and a separate daily limit of
two lingcod.
Retention of cabezon is
allowed but for only one
cabezon per day per angler.
P ACIFIC H ALIBUT :
The 2014 Pacific halibut sea-
sons have all closed for the
remainder of the year. The
International Pacific Halibut
Commission (IPHC) will set
2015 quotas for all areas in late
January 2015. More informa-
tion on the 2015 seasons will
be available after that time.
B OTTOM F ISHING :
The ocean is open to bottom
fishing at all depths. This time
of year, whenever the weather
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There are separate daily lim-
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fish and canary rockfish may
not be retained.
C RAB :
Ocean-caught crabs are big
and full of meat this year,
although crabbers might have
to pay their dues in patience —
many crabbers are reporting
slow catch rates, but excellent
quality crabs.
Bay crabbing can also be
very good this time of year.
Keep in mind that major rain
events can dramatically lower
the salinity in some bays and
prompt crab to move lower in
the bay or out to the ocean.
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Chinook, fin-clipped coho
Most salmon have already
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Steelhead
The South Umpqua is open
for steelhead. The peak num-
bers of fish normally show up
from February to late March.
The South Umpqua offers the
best chance for catching an adi-
pose-fin clipped steelhead for
harvest.
The hatchery program for
winter steelhead is centered in
the South Umpqua. Most
hatchery fish are caught from
Canyonville downstream.
All wild fish must be
released unharmed.
TENMILE BASIN: Yellow
perch, coho salmon
Yellow perch are biting on
night crawlers or jigs tipped
with a worm in Tenmile Lakes.
Yellow perch will be concen-
trated in big schools in deep
water. Sometimes anglers need
to try several spots before find-
ing the bigger fish. There are
lots of smaller yellow perch
that anglers have to sort
through to catch enough keep-
ers for a meal. Some of the
keeper yellow perch are over
12 inches long.
The wild coho season open
in Tenmile Lakes is closed.
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