SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2016
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Local sand drag racers open 2016 season season
COURTESY DIRT-N-DUNEZ PHOTOGRAPHY
Florence sand drag racers Gee Armstrong (left) and Budy Palmer compete in the 2016 USA Drag Race opener.
Florence sand drag racers Budy Palmer and Gee
Armstrong recently entered the 2016 USA sand
drag racing season-opener at the Kern County
Fairgrounds in Bakersfield, Calif, where more than
200 racers from around the United States and
Puerto Rico registered for the race.
Palmer won the Sport 1 Class Race and placed
Second in the 776-900cc Heads-Up Race.
Armstrong used the four days of racing to break-
in and tune-up an all-new motor and chassis setup
Fishing
from 1B
ALSEA RIVER: Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing is
good with anglers doing well
in the upper to mid river sec-
tions. With so much rain this
winter, many fish have pushed
upstream quickly. During
higher flows, the upper river
fishes well. During lower clear
flows, it’s better to focus
efforts in the mid to lower
river sections. Casting spin-
ners / spoons, or floating bait
or a jig are good options.
COURTESY PHOTO
Retired chief park ranger Michael Noack will host a spe-
cial presentation on grey whales March 21.
Whales
from 1B
the visitor center.
Whale Watch Week is part
of Oregon State Park’s Whale
Watch Spoken Here program.
All presentations and events
are free, but a Northwest
Forest Pass, Oregon Coast
Passport, federal recreation
pass or $5 day-use fee is
required within the Cape
Perpetua Scenic Area.
For more information, con-
tact the Cape Perpetua Visitor
Center at 541-547-3289.
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SALMON RIVER:
Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing is
fair and fish can be found
throughout the mainstem as
river conditions allow. Casting
lures, bouncing the bottom or
drifting jigs or bait under a
bobber are good techniques to
consider.
SILETZ RIVER: steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing is
fair to good with both bank
and boat anglers hooking fish
through the mainstem as river
conditions allow.
The river should fish well
most of this week. Side drift-
ing, bouncing bottom or bob-
ber fishing can be productive.
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead,
Chinook
Steelhead angling should be
good as the river drops from
recent high water. Fish are
spread out through the system.
Angling for Chinook is closed.
An error in the 2016
Fishing Regulations mistaken-
ly lists river as open for hatch-
ery Chinook beginning Jan. 1;
the correct opening date is
April 1.
YAQUINA RIVER:
for the 2016 season.
Their next race is scheduled for April 16 at
Albany Sand Drag’s “Best in the Northwest”
Grudge Race in Albany, Ore.
Steelhead
The winter steelhead fishery
is fair in the Big Elk and
should continue to produce
over the next few weeks.
Look for the next good rain
to push in another batch of
fish. Anglers are reminded that
there is a lot of private proper-
ty along the Big Elk. Casting
lures or bobbers fishing are
the best techniques for this
river.
COOS COUNTY LAKES
PONDS: Trout
AND
Lakes in Coos County are
open all year for trout fishing.
Last week 30 hatchery steel-
head, that returned to Eel Lake
trap, were stocked into
Butterfield Lake to provide
additional fishing opportunity
for trout anglers.
These steelhead stocked
into Butterfield Lake are no
considered trout and may be
harvest.
The daily trout bag limit in
Butterfield is 5 trout per day
with only 1 trout over 20 inch-
es per day.
COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, steelhead,
bay clams
Steelhead anglers are catch-
ing lots of steelhead when
conditions are right. With the
recent rain the river might be
fishable today but too high
and muddy tomorrow.
Anglers are catching steel-
head drift fishing corkies or
eggs. Jigs fished under a bob-
ber area also catching several
steelhead.
The West Fork Millicoma
River is the first river to clear
after a rain followed by the
East Fork Millicoma and
South Fork Coos rivers.
Anglers fishing the South
Fork Coos River above
Dellwood will need a permit
from Weyerhaeuser, which
they can pick up at the
Dellwood office.
In the Coos Basin 1 addi-
tional hatchery steelhead may
be retained per day for a total
aggregate of 3 adult fish har-
vested daily.
Recreational harvest of crab
re-opened from the Columbia
River to the California border.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
steelhead
Streams in the Tenmile
Basin are now closed for trout
fishing until May 22. Tenmile
Lakes is open all year for trout
but trout fishing has been
slow.
Steelhead fishing has been
slow in Tenmile Creek and Eel
Creek. Thirty five hatchery
steelhead from the Eel Lake
Fish Trap were recycled back
into the fishery at Spinreel
Park. In the Tenmile Basin 1
additional hatchery steelhead
may be retained per day for a
total aggregate of 3 adult fish
harvested daily.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
The South Umpqua is cur-
rently open to adipose fin-
clipped steelhead harvest, and
winter steelhead fishing will
improve as water levels
recede.
There will be excellent
hatchery steelhead harvest
opportunities on the South
Umpqua as the season pro-
gresses, especially around
Stanton Park in Canyonville.
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottomfish in
the Triangle and South jetty
has been successful.
PACIFIC OCEAN and
BEACHES: Bottomfish,
Dungeness crab
Recreational harvest of crab
is open along the entire
Oregon Coast. It is still rec-
ommended you discard the
crab viscera (guts/butter)
before cooking.
Fishing for bottom fish is
open to fishing at all-depths.
Fishing for black rockfish and
lingcod continues to be very
good from Charleston to
Bandon when the ocean is
calm enough for anglers to get
out on the water.
The marine fish daily bag
limit is seven fish and a sepa-
rate daily limit for lingcod
(two).
Anglers can only keep 3
blue rockfish and 1 canary
rockfish as part of their daily
limit and there will be no har-
vest of China, quillback, or
copper rockfish. Retention of
cabezon is prohibited through
June 30.
B OTTOM F ISHING
Cabezon retention is pro-
hibited through June; this is an
annual seasonal closure.
The few boats that were
able to get out of Newport last
week had limits of large rock-
fish and nearly one lingcod
per angler. Effort in other
places was limited due to
rough seas.
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