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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2016
Workshops
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But after I show them how fun
and easy it is, then their faces
light up.
“There is nothing more
rewarding than watching a kid
feel a sense of accomplishment.
These clinics are great charac-
ter building exercises for kids
and kids at heart.”
The first crabbing clinic will
be Wednesday, June 8, at 9
Fishing
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Casting small spinners,
spoons or fly fishing streamers
or dry flies can be very effec-
tive.
SIUSLAW RIVER:
The river is now open to all
fishing or cutthroat trout. This
fishery can offer anglers of all
experience levels good oppor-
tunity. Casting small spinners,
spoons or fly fishing streamers
or dry flies can be very effec-
tive.
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead,
Chinook, cutthroat
Fishing for steelhead and
spring Chinook is slow. More
fish should be moving into the
river. The water is low and
clear, so use lighter gear and
target the deeper holding
areas.
Trout season is now open.
YAQUINA RIVER:
Steelhead
The river basin is now open
to all fishing, including above
the head of tide.
COOS COUNTY LAKES
and PONDS: Trout, warmwa-
ter fish
Legal size trout were
stocked this month into
Powers Pond, Empire Lakes,
Bradley Lake, Butterfield
Lake, Saunders Lake, Sru
Lake, and Tenmile Lakes.
Anglers that catch a tagged
trout in Empire Lakes can
report the tag number to
ODFW by stopping by the
Charleston Office, calling 541-
888-5515, or report tags
online.
a.m., at the SW 51st Street
beach access (near Mo’s
Restaurant) in the Historic Taft
District of Lincoln City.
Each participant over the age
of 12 will need a five-gallon
bucket, a large package of
chicken legs for bait, a pair of
rubber gloves, and a valid
shellfish license.
Crab traps and gauges can be
purchased from Lackner at the
clinic.
Prior to crabbing, partici-
pants will meet for a brief ori-
entation on crabbing regula-
tions, harvest methods, identifi-
cation, and cleaning and cook-
ing techniques.
The first clamming clinic is
Thursday, June 9, at 10:30 a.m.,
beginning with a presentation
at Driftwood Public Library,
801 SW Highway 101, on the
second floor of City Hall.
Talks last approximately 45
minutes, followed by clam dig-
ging on Siletz Bay. Participants
will need a five-gallon bucket,
a pair of gloves and a shellfish
license.
Clam bags and shovels will
be available for purchase on
site.
Looking back on four years
of hosting the crabbing and
clamming clinics, Lackner
thanked the city for its suppor
of the clinics.
“Lincoln City is a leader in
supporting recreational oppor-
tunities like crabbing and clam-
ming,” says Lackner. “When
we started these clinics, we
wanted to show off the wonder-
ful bay-front here in town and
all of the great things you can
do on it. Now it has taken on a
life of its own, and I am thank-
ful that the city continues to
support it.”
For the full clinic schedule
and more information on the
crabbing and clamming clinics,
call 800-452- 2151 or visit
www.oregoncoast.org.
A few of these tags are
worth a $50 gift card. Fishing
in the area lakes for trout has
been ok with anglers having
the best success using small
spinners, spoons, or garlic fla-
vored Powerbait. The daily
trout bag limit in these lakes is
five trout per day with only
one trout over 20 inches.
There are trout available for
kids in the Millicoma Pond at
the Millicoma Interpretive
Center and fishing is excellent.
Millicoma Pond is set aside for
kids fishing only and is a great
chance for them to hook into
fish.
Call before traveling to
Millicoma Pond to make sure
the gates are open. The phone
number is 541-267-2557.
Largemouth bass and
bluegill fishing is picking up
with the warmer days. This
time of the year bass and
bluegills will be found in shal-
low water typically near a
weedline or structure. Plastic
worms, shallow crankbaits,
and spinner baits are good to
use for bass.
Bluegills will bit on worms,
small jigs, or flies.
for lingcod (two). Anglers can
only keep 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.
Retention of cabezon is pro-
hibited through June 30.
Crabbing has been decent
with the best crabbing near
high tide. There has been a
mixture of hard shell and soft
shell crab in the catch. It is
still recommended you discard
the crab viscera (guts/butter)
before cooking.
Recreational harvest of bay
clams remains open along the
entire Oregon coast.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
steelhead, bass
Trout season is open in
rivers and streams. Angling is
restricted to artificial flies and
lures in streams and rivers
above tidewater. Tenmile
Lakes is open all year for trout
but trout fishing has been slow
but the lake was recently
stocked with legal size rain-
bows.
Largemouth bass fishing has
been good over the past
month. Anglers are catching
bass in shallow water on spin-
ner baits, jigs, and rubber
worms.
have been reports of Spring
Chinook being caught below
Winchester Dam and around
Rock Creek.
Note that through June 30,
fishing in the fly water area is
restricted to fly angling only
with a single barbless fly. Per
the new regulation on page 31,
32 of the 2016 Oregon Sport
Fishing Regulations booklet,
from Feb. 1 – July 31, 2 wild
Chinook per day can be har-
vested.
Ten wild Chinook may be
harvested in the North during
this time frame in aggregate
with wild Chinook harvested
in the Main.
COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
rockfish
Trout season is now open in
rivers and streams.
Anglers have been catching
rockfish along the jetties and
submerged rock piles. An
occasional ling cod is also
being caught in the bay. The
marine fish daily bag limit for
bottom fish (rockfish) is seven
fish and a separate daily limit
UMPQUA RIVER, NORTH:
Steelhead, spring Chinook
Winter steelhead angling is
about over, but summer steel-
head angling will be picking
up as we move towards the
summer months. Remember
all wild steelhead must be
released unharmed.
Spring Chinook fishing has
been improving and should
continue to do so as water
temperatures warm. There
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottom fish in
the Triangle and South jetty
has been successful.
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