SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2016
Track
5 B
(17.07); senior Mikaela Siegel,
who was third in the 300-meter
hurdles (48.34); and junior
Abby Watkins, who was third
in the triple jump (31 feet, .25
inches) and fourth in the long
jump (16 feet, 2 inches).
Yesterday, the Vikings com-
peted in the final meet before
district, at the Wally Ciochetti
Invitational in Cottage Grove
(after press deadlines).
The Far West League district
meet will take place May 13
and 14, at Douglas High School
in Winston, Ore., with quali-
fiers advancing to state.
from 1B
the win before throwing a PR
in the discus at 94 feet for fifth
place and another personal best
mark.
Meanwhile,
sophomore
Trent Reavis won the discus
with a throw of 139 feet, 8
inches. Reavis was also eighth
in the javelin at 139 feet.
Other top performances
came from junior Jack Pickell,
who placed third in the 800
meters (2:10.14); senior Dylan
Jennings, who landed fourth in
the shot put at 41 feet, 4 inches;
freshman Kaeli Ramos, who
was third in the 400 meters at
1:02.30 and fourth in the 800
meters (2:37.19); sophomore
Kaylee Graham, with second
place in the 100-meter hurdles
Sophomore Kaylee Graham
was part of the third-place
4x100 team with Annabel
Tupua, Abby Watkins and
Kaeli Ramos.
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Fishing
from 1B
opportunity and have both boat
and bank access.
SIUSLAW RIVER:
The river basin is closed to
all fishing above the head of
tide and will reopen for cut-
throat trout fishing on May 22.
ALSEA RIVER: Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing is
slow. The river closes to all
fishing effective May 1 and
will reopen with the cutthroat
trout fishery on May 22.
SALMON RIVER:
The river basin is closed to
all fishing above the head of
tide and will reopen for cut-
throat trout fishing on May 22.
SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead
Winter steelhead fishing is
slow. This time of year is typi-
cally dominated by mostly
wild fish. Side drifting, bounc-
ing bottom or bobber fishing
can be productive.
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead,
Chinook
Winter steelhead fishing is
slow. This time of year is typi-
cally dominated by mostly
wild fish. Summer steelhead
season is around the corner
and a few early fish could start
to show up at any time.
YAQUINA RIVER:
Steelhead
The river basin is closed to
all fishing above the head of
tide and will reopen for cut-
throat trout fishing on May 22.
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Bluebill Lake is scheduled
to be stocked with legal size
trout this week. Trophy and
legal size trout were recently
stocked into Empire Lakes and
Powers Pond. Anglers that
catch a tagged trout in Empire
Lakes can report the tag num-
ber to ODFW by stopping by
the Charleston Office, calling
541-888-5515, or report tags
online. A few of these tags are
worth a $50 gift card.
Bradley Lake was stocked
last week with trophy trout.
These fish were planted from
the north side of the lake to
avoid the aquatic vegetation
problem at the boat ramp.
Legal size trout have also been
stocked recently into Tenmile
Lakes and Mingus Park Pond.
Fishing in the area lakes for
trout has been ok with anglers
having the best success using
small spinners, spoons, or gar-
lic flavored Powerbait. The
daily trout bag limit in these
lakes is five trout per day with
only one trout over 20 inches.
Largemouth bass fishing is
picking up with the warmer
days. This time of the year
bass will be found in shallow
water typically near a weedline
or structure. Plastic worms,
shallow crankbaits, and spin-
ner baits are good to use for
bass.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
steelhead, bass
Streams in the Tenmile
Basin are closed for trout fish-
ing until May 22. Tenmile
Lakes is open all year for trout
but trout fishing has been
slow. Trout fishing in Tenmile
Lakes has been slow but the
lake was recently stocked with
legal size rainbows.
Largemouth bass fishing has
been good over the past week.
Anglers are catching bass in
shallow water on spinner baits,
jigs, and rubber worms.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
The South Umpqua is cur-
rently open to adipose fin-
clipped steelhead harvest, and
a few hatchery winter steel-
head are still being harvested
below the confluence of
Canyon Creek.
There have also been reports
of solid bass fishing as the
water temperatures become
warmer, but remember the
South Umpqua is closed to all
angling May 1-21.
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottomfish in the
Triangle and South jetty has
been successful.
PACIFIC OCEAN and
BEACHES: Bottomfish,
Dungeness crab, surf perch,
salmon, halibut
Recreational harvest of crab
is open along the entire
Oregon Coast. It is still recom-
mended you discard the crab
viscera (guts/butter) before
The fourth annual Oregon Dunes
ON THE
Triathlon and Duathlon, which features
swim, bike and run events, is today at
STREET
Woahink Lake and Honeyman State Park.
If you had to do one triathlon event, which would it be?
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cooking.
Anglers fishing the beaches
from Coos Bay to Bandon
have been catching redtail surf
perch. Sand shrimp or Berkley
Gulp sand worms have been
working the best for bait. Surf
perch fishing is usually best on
the incoming tide.
Recreational ocean salmon
fishing from Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt. is open for all
salmon except coho salmon.
Anglers are allowed two
salmon per day with a mini-
mum size for Chinook at 24
inches or larger. The selective
coho (fin-clipped) season will
open on June 25 with a quota
of 26,000 coho.
The first All-Depth Halibut
fishing days from Cape Falcon
to Humbug Mt. will be May
12-14. The Nearshore Halibut
season will not open until June
1.
Fishing for bottom fish is
now closed outside of a line
approximating the 30-fathom
curve. Fishing for black rock-
fish continues to be very good
from Charleston to Bandon
when the ocean is calm
enough for anglers to get out
on the water. Fishing for ling
cod has been slow recently.
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.
BOTTOM FISHING:
Central coast bottom fishing
for rockfish has been good,
although highly weather
dependent. There were a few
bar restrictions over the past
week making it difficult for
smaller sport boats to get out.
But, charter boats did well
with limits of rockfish.
Lingcod catches have been
spotty — likely due to lacklus-
ter ocean conditions.
Patchiness aside, there were
some large lingcod caught on
the central coast. On the north
coast rockfishing has been hot
— with many near limits and
about 1 lingcod per angler
(when boats are able to get
out).
SURFPERCH: Being caught
on the beaches on the central
and south coast. However,
perch haven’t moved into the
estuaries yet — although that
should be happening any day.
Surfperch are a diverse group
of fish that provide a variety
of angling opportunities.
SHELLFISH:
“I would choose swimming because I like
to swim.”
—A LISON B ROWN , F LORENCE
“I would have to say biking, because I
can’t swim very well and running would
probably kill me.”
—C HUCK T RENT , D UNES C ITY
“I would swim, because I would probably
kill myself trying to do the other two.”
—T RACY A ARON , F LORENCE
DICLAIMER: The opinions expressed above are solely those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Siuslaw News or its advertisers.
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Current shellfish harvest
closures in the ocean and bays
due to elevated levels of
domoic acid as of April 15:
Razor clams: Open north
of Tillamook Head to the
Columbia River. Closed south
of Tillamook Head to the CA
border.
Bay clams: Open coast-
wide
Crabbing: Open coastwide
Mussels: Closed from the
Columbia River to Cascade
Head (north of Lincoln City) -
Open from Cascade Head to
the OR/CA border.
Call the ODA shellfish safe-
ty hotline at 1-800-448-2474
before harvesting.
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