SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016
A NNUAL E LLIOT
The Florence Siuslaw Lions
Club will host its 34th annual
Elliot Fun Bass Tournament,
June 4 and 5, on Siltcoos
Lake.
Held in memory of George
Elliot, a long-time supporter
of the Florence Lions Club, it
originated as a joint fund rais-
er with the Florence Bass
Club.
The two-day tournament
will begin at 6 a.m. on
Saturday, June 4, with two-
person teams launching from
Darlings Resort and fishing
until 5 p.m.
Sunday, fishing will be
from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.
The cost for entering the
competition is $60 per team;
weigh-ins are at noon and 5
p.m. on Saturday, and 11 a.m.
on Sunday.
All fish will be released
back into the lake, and tro-
phies will be presented
between 11 a.m. and noon on
Sunday.
During those two days, the
Lions Club will be cooking
Fishing
from 1B
hamburgers and hot dogs from
their food wagon. There will
also be raffle tickets available
for a raffle fundrasier follow-
ing Sunday’s trophy presenta-
tion.
Raffle items will include
merchandise donated by local
merchants. Money raised from
the raffle will go to the Dale
Libby Memorial Scholarship
Fund and Joann Coffindaffer
Scholarship Fund. The funds
provide two scholarships to
graduating high school stu-
dents each year.
Raffle tickets are $1 each
and can be purchased by any-
one Sunday morning at
Darlings Resort.
For more information or to
register a team for the fishing
contest, call Mark Meyers at
541-999-9104
or
Jerry
Coffindaffer at 541-997-8108.
The community is invited to
bring a picnic lunch or pur-
chase fresh-grilled burgers and
spend the day enjoying the
lake, watching the weigh-ins
and participating in the raffle.
or dry flies can be very effec-
tive.
SIUSLAW RIVER:
ALSEA RIVER:
The river is now open to
cutthroat trout fishing. Casting
small spinners, spoons or fly
fishing streamers or dry flies
can be very effective. Bait is
not allowed above the head of
tide until Sept. 1.
SALMON RIVER:
The river basin is open for
cutthroat trout fishing. Casting
small spinners, spoons or fly
fishing streamers or dry flies
can be very effective. Bait is
not allowed above the head of
tide until Sept. 1.
SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead
Steelhead fishing is slow but
the summer steelhead run is
underway. This run typically
peaks by early July but fish
can be found throughout the
mainstem at any time now.
Casting spinners, drifting bait
or using a bobber and jig can
be effective.
Cover water and fish small
and simple as the river condi-
tions are low and clear.
Cutthroat trout opened May
22 and can offer anglers of all
experience levels good oppor-
tunity. Casting small spinners,
spoons or fly fishing streamers
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
BASS FISHING CONTEST J UNE
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COURTESY PHOTO
The Florence Siuslaw Lions Club will team up with the Florence Bass Club to host the 34th annual bass competition this
weekend at Darlings Resort.
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. 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.
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
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.
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.
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Wednesday 5/25
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