SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015
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PRECAUTIONS TO KEEP CAMPFIRES FROM BECOMING WILDFIRES
Sitting around a campfire is
one of the special times we all
enjoy, but campfires are also a
major cause of wildfires.
Keep Oregon Green, the
Oregon Office of State Fire
Marshal and the Oregon
Department of Forestry urge
Oregonians to follow these
basic outdoor safety tips:
• Know before you go —
Call your local forestry or fire
district to learn if there are any
current campfire restrictions at
your recreation destination. An
interactive map of Oregon’s
fire restrictions is available at
www.keeporegongreen.org.
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• Kick the campfire habit this
summer — Portable camp
stoves are a safer option to
campfires at any time of year.
Areas that prohibit campfires
outside maintained camp-
grounds with established fire
pits will often allow the use of
camp stoves.
• Select the right spot —
Where campfires are allowed,
avoid building the fire near
your tent, structures, vehicles,
shrubs and trees, and be aware
of low-hanging branches over-
head.
Clear the site down to miner-
al soil, at least five feet on all
sides, and circle your campfire
site with rocks. Store your
unused firewood a good dis-
tance from the fire.
• Keep your campfire small
— A campfire is less likely to
escape control if it is kept
small. A large fire may cast hot
embers long distances. Add
firewood in small amounts as
existing material is consumed.
• Attend your campfire at all
times — A campfire left unat-
tended for only a few minutes
can grow into a costly, damag-
ing wildfire. Staying with your
campfire from start to finish
until dead out is required by
state law, to ensure that any
escaped sparks or embers can
be extinguished quickly.
• NEVER use gasoline or
other accelerants (flammable or
combustible liquids) to start or
increase your campfire. Once
the fire is ignited, wait until the
match is cold and then discard
it in the fire.
• Always have water and fire
tools on site — Have a shovel
and a bucket of water nearby to
extinguish any escaped embers.
When you are ready to leave,
drown all embers with water,
stir the coals, and drown again.
Repeat until the fire is dead out.
If it is too hot to touch, it is too
hot to leave.
• Burn only wood — State
regulations prohibit the open
burning of any material that
creates dense, toxic smoke or
noxious odors.
Escaped campfires are costly
— The Oregon Department of
Forestry spent more than $3.3
million in 2014 to suppress
unattended and escaped camp-
fires. State law requires the
proper clearing, building,
attending and extinguishing of
open fires any time of year.
Fishing
ing, with trout fishing being
strictly catch and release.
Catch and release trout fish-
ing in South Umpqua tributar-
ies below Jackson Creek
Bridge is also open, with fish-
ing restricted to the use of arti-
ficial flies and lures.
Smallmouth bass fishing
should be productive with
warming water temperatures.
This includes all beaches and
all bays. Before any shellfish
harvest trip, make sure to
check the Oregon Department
of Agriculture website for any
updates.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
largemouth bass, yellow perch
Streams in the Tenmile
Basin are open for trout fish-
ing. Fishing is restricted to
artificial flies and lures in
streams above tidewater.
Anglers should have good suc-
cess catching trout in the deep-
er pools and riffles using spin-
ners or flies.
Tenmile Lakes is open all
year for trout and anglers have
been catching trout trolling
wedding ring spinners tipped
with a worm in the main part
of Tenmile Lakes.
Bass anglers have been
catching several largemouth
bass in Tenmile Lakes. Bass
can be found this time of the
year in shallow water near
structure like logs or weed
lines.
A few anglers have been
catching yellow perch from
the fishing dock at the County
Boat Ramp and near the edge
of the weedlines. A worm or
piece of cut bait fished near
the bottom works well for
catching yellow perch.
with some limits reported.
from 1B
presentations. Typical steel-
head tactics apply such as bob-
ber and jig / bait, or casting
spoons or spinners. Cutthroat
trout are now also open to har-
vest and can be found through-
out the main stem river and
many large tributaries.
WILSON RIVER: steelhead,
Chinook, cutthroat
Spring Chinook fishing is
slow in the low clear water. A
few more fish are showing in
the river. Summer steelhead
angling is slow also. Angling
for cutthroat trout should be
fair. Use lighter gear for best
results.
YAQUINA RIVER: cutthroat
trout
The cutthroat trout season
opened on May 23rd and
anglers can expect to have fair
to good fishing. The mainstem
Yaquina and Big Elk Creek are
good places to try casting
small spinners or spoons as
well as bait fishing near the
head of tide.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
The mainstem South
Umpqua upstream to Jackson
Creek Bridge is open to fish-
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COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
rockfish, trout
Anglers are still catching a
few rockfish inside lower
Coos Bay around the jetties.
The best fishing has been
around the slack tides. The
marine fish daily bag limit
(which includes fishing in
estuaries) is 7 fish and a sepa-
rate daily limit for lingcod
(two). Anglers will be able to
keep only 3 blue rockfish and
1 canary rockfish as part of
their daily limit and there will
be no harvest of China, quill-
back or copper rockfish.
• Crabbing has been good in
the lower bay with crabbers
catching mostly hard shell
crab with a couple soft shell
crabs in the mix. The best
crabbing will be near the jet-
ties and close to slack tides.
• Clamming is excellent
during low tides near
Charleston, off Cape Arago
Highway, and Clam Island.
There are also good places to
dig clams even on positive low
tides in Coos Bay.
• Recreational harvest of
razor clams is closed for the
entire Oregon coastline from
the Columbia River to the
California border due to ele-
vated levels of domoic acid.
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottomfish in
the Triangle and South jetty
has been successful. Perch
fishing has been productive in
the bay, and it was reported
that good size striped perch
were being caught along the
jetty.
Crabbing has picking up
PACIFIC OCEAN and
BEACHES: Bottomfish,
salmon, Dungeness crab, surf
perch
The ocean is open for har-
vest of Dungeness crab.
Anglers continue to catch
surf perch from the beaches
near Winchester, Bandon and
Coos Bay. The best fishing is
usually on the incoming tide.
Sand shrimp is one of the best
baits to use when fishing for
surf perch.
Recreational ocean salmon
season from Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt. opened on March
15.
The season is open for all
salmon except coho salmon,
with a bag limit of two salmon
per day, and a minimum size
for Chinook salmon at 24
inches or larger. Fishing has
been difficult due to rough
seas and there are few reports
of fish being caught, but fish-
ing should improve with con-
ditions.
The next all-depth halibut
open days will be June 25-27.
The nearshore halibut sea-
son does not open until July 1.
Fishing for bottom fish is
restricted to inside the 30 fath-
om curve. Fishing for black
rockfish continues to be good
from Charleston to Bandon.
Anglers are still picking up
a few lingcod also.
REMINDER: Cabezon is
closed through June 30, and
the ocean is open for bottom
fishing only inside of the 30-
fathom regulatory line (30-
fathom waypoints) through
Sept. 30.
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