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FEBRUARY
21
•
2015
On the move
A Sporting
On the
Bite
V iew
By Mark Vasto
A weekly
fishing report for
the local region
Sports doesn’t
need a reality
check
With the exception of the
mid-summer classic that
Major League Baseball puts
on every season, I’m not the
biggest fan of all-star
games. Skill competitions?
Yes ... big fan. And why the
NFL still can’t figure out
how to have some sort of
quarterback shootout is
beyond me.
Who wouldn’t want to
see Peyton Manning versus
Tom Brady trying to hit,
say, a pinata from 60 yards
out?
This year’s NBA all-star
game caught my interest a
bit, though. The game was
being held in New York,
and you couldn't get a hotel
room in Manhattan. Besides
the NBA, it was fashion
week, or something along
those lines, and you had the
40th
anniversary
of
“Saturday Night Live.”
What I found interesting
from an NBA sense was
that Knicks star Carmello
Anthony was planning on
“shutting it down” after the
game for the season.
The Knicks are the worst
team in basketball, he’s
been playing hurt, and it
was being reported that they
were going to waive Amare
Stoudemire after the game,
too.
“Wow,” I thought. “I
wonder who’s going to play
for the Knicks the rest of
this
year
...
Sarah
Silverman?” Conjecture
had Stoudemire heading to
the Dallas Mavericks.
Then, it was reported that
21 people were beheaded in
Libya.
See
VIEW 4B
S p o r t s
C a l e n d a r
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
MID COAST LAKES:
The rainbow trout stock-
ing program began in many
mid coast lakes in early
February. Be sure to check
out the 2015 stocking
schedule for the most up to
date information. Fishing
for the various warm water
fish species can still be
productive during the win-
ter months but anglers may
need to target different
areas of a lake (typically
deeper) versus when fish-
ing in the spring or sum-
mer.
ALSEA RIVER:
Steelhead
The winter steelhead
fishery has produced fair to
good results recently.
This week should be
productive in the mid to
lower reaches of the river
while flows are low and
river temperatures are
warming.
SALMON RIVER:
Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing
is starting to pick up in
many coastal basins. The
Salmon River is now open
to harvest of wild winter
steelhead through March
31. Anglers are advised to
read the new regulations as
there are harvest restric-
tions and new deadlines in
effect.
SILETZ RIVER:
Ned Hickson/Siuslaw News
Mapleton senior forward Tucker Ford slips past an Alsea opponent on a fastbreak opportunity Wednesday
night. Ford led the Sailors with 22 points in the victory that advanced Mapleton into today’s playoffs.
Sailors stop Alsea,
advance to playoffs
Feb. 21
• MHS boys BB
vs Lowell
MWL playoffs
at NCU
1:30 p.m.
Mapleton sophomore Tyler
Packebush offers a high-
five to teammate senior
Chris Free after
Wednesday night’s victory.
Mapleton faces
Lowell today for a
chance to reach state
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
Feb. 27-28
• SHS wrestling
4A state meet
at Memorial
Colesium
TBA
Spring sports
• March 17
SHS baseball
at Taft HS
3 p.m.
• March 19
SHS track
SHS Icebreaker
4 p.m.
• March 20
SHS softball
hosts Bandon
5 p.m.
In the words of Mapleton coach
Will Crook, “We live to play
another day,” he said of
Wednesday night’s hard-fought
playoff win over Alsea.
Earlier in the season, the Sailors
gave up a 20-point lead to the
Wolverines, who came back in the
“We were confident we
could win tonight,” said
Mapleton senior forward
Tucker Ford. “We just need-
ed to make sure we never let
up. We out-hustled them all
four quarters.”
second half to defeat Mapleton.
Not this time.
See
SAILORS 3B
Final decision reached on ATV travel routes
Decision finalizes
long-running ODNRA
routes project
WALDPORT — After a multi-
year analysis and review, including
input from thousands of members of
the public, the Siuslaw National
Forest has published the final Record
of Decision (ROD) designating
motorized travel routes and areas in
the Oregon Dunes National
Recreation Area (ODNRA).
The final ROD designates routes
that are open for motorized use in the
10(C) management area (riding on
designated routes only) and shifts
some areas from 10(C) to 10(B)
(open riding permitted).
It differs slightly from the draft
ROD (released September 2014) in
that it includes some minor clarifica-
tions and adds three supplemental
maps. This decision does not affect
which areas of the ODNRA are
zoned for motorized use and which
are zoned for non-motorized use.
It does not close any areas current-
ly designated for open riding nor
open up any non-motorized areas to
motorized use.
“We were pleased by the amount
See
DECISION 3B
Steelhead
Steelhead fishing is slow
to fair but should start to
pick up in the coming
weeks. Fish can be found
throughout the river for
both bank and boat anglers.
See
FISHING 4B
T IDE T ABLE
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Feb. 21
1:32am / 8.3
1:41pm / 7.9
7:42am / 0.5
7:58pm / -0.1
Feb. 22
2:15am / 8.3
2:35pm / 7.3
8:35am / 0.4
8:42pm / 0.7
Feb. 23
2:59am / 8.2
3:34pm / 6.6
9:31am / 0.5
9:30pm / 1.4
Feb. 24
3:47am / 7.9
4:40pm / 6.0
10:32am / 0.7
10:23pm / 2.2
Feb. 25
4:41am / 7.6
5:57pm / 5.6
11:39am / 0.9
11:25pm / 2.9
Feb. 26
5:42am / 7.3
7:20pm / 5.5
Feb. 27
6:48am / 7.0
8:37pm / 5.6
12:52am / 1.0
12:40am / 3.2
2:02pm / 0.9
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