SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2015
Aquarium hosting Edible Oregon Camp
NEWPORT — The Oregon
Coast Aquarium’s Edible
Ocean Family Camp-Out
invites adventurous eaters ages
8 and older to explore wild-
sourced summer delicacies
from Saturday, July 25, to
Sunday, July 26.
This food-centric adventure
walks participants through the
Fishing
from 1C
will start finding more fish up
in the shallows this time of
year.
SIUSLAW RIVER: Cutthroat
trout
The cutthroat trout season is
now open for the season. The
main stem of the Siuslaw and
Lake Creek can be good fish-
ing as well as the larger tribu-
taries entering these systems.
Bait is not allowed above the
head of tide but small spin-
ners, spoons and fly fishing
can be very productive.
ALSEA RIVER: Cutthroat
trout
The cutthroat trout season is
now open for the season and
anglers should have fair to
good results in most of the
larger tributaries and main-
stem. Small spinners are typi-
cally productive as wells as
small spoons or fly fishing
with nymphs or streamers.
SALMON RIVER: Cutthroat
trout
Cutthroat trout are now
open to harvest. Typically
good fishing can be had during
the early part of the season.
Using small lures like spin-
ners, spoons or various flies
can be productive.
SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead
Summer steelhead fishing is
slowly starting to pick up.
New fish will continually be
moving into the river over the
next few months with the peak
numbers typically in July.
River flows are much lower
than normal for this time of
year so think small and subtle
presentations.
Typical steelhead tactics
apply such as bobber and jig /
bait, or casting spoons or spin-
ners. Cutthroat trout are now
also open to harvest and can
be found throughout 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 is
open 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.
forage to fork process, from
regulations to gathering to food
preparation.
Campers can expect to get
their fingers muddy while
clamming, test their taste buds
with edible seaweeds and foray
through coastal forests for edi-
ble plants.
This overnight adventure
includes admission to the
aquarium, camping accommo-
dations at Beverly Beach State
Park and all meals, all for for
$55 for youth ages 8 to 17 and
$70 for adults ages 18 and
older.
Discounts are available for
aquarium members.
To learn more about Edible
Ocean Family Camp-Out and
download reservation forms,
visit www.bit.ly/edibleocean.
To learn more about the
Oregon Coast Aquarium’s
exhibits, conservation and edu-
cation programs call 541-867-
FISH (3474) or visit aquari-
um.org.
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.
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.
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. is open.
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 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 fish-
ing is now open, and the ocean
is open for bottom fishing only
inside of the 30-fathom regula-
tory line (30-fathom way-
points) through Sept. 30.
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 seven fish and a
separate daily limit for lingcod
(two). Anglers will be able to
keep only three blue rockfish
and one canary rockfish as
part of their daily limit and
there will be no harvest of
China, quillback 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.
This includes all beaches and
all bays. Before any shellfish
harvest trip, make sure to
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
with some limits reported.
Lighthouse tours
now being offered
YACHATS — Heceta Head
Lighthouse tours are now
being held from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. daily.
Lighthouse maintenance
and inspections of the upper
levels mean tours will only be
conducted on the lawn area
adjacent to the lighthouse and
in the first level of the light-
house, but not up in the tower
itself.
An updated schedule of
tower tours will be announced
when they resume.
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Viewpoint is 14 miles north of
Florence on Highway 101. It
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trails, picnicking, a small
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