SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016
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Cape Mountain run set for Saturday Support local park
Registration is now open for
the 2016 Cape Mountain 10-
mile and 4-mile trail runs to be
held June 11.
First held in 2003, the event
has become a favorite for trail
runners from around Oregon,
drawing nearly 100 partici-
pants annually.
Contestants of all levels are
welcome, including hikers.
This unique trail run winds
its way through the beautiful
old-growth forests and mead-
ows that are the result of a
1930s fire, creek crossings,
and lovely ocean overlooks.
The race takes place on the
USFS Coast Horse Trails locat-
ed north of Florence, starting
and finishing at the Horse
Creek Campground.
The two events cover trails
in the Cape Mountain, Nelson
Ridge and Berry Creek areas.
Race director Jim Archer
COURTESY PHOTO
Runners begin last year’s Cape Mountain Trail run.
began the event as a fundraiser
Free clinic will teach
how to harvest clams
LINCOLN CITY — A
clamming clinic will be led by
local expert Bill Lackner who
will teach how to catch fresh
purple varnish clams.
The clinic will be Thursday,
June 9, at 10:30 a.m., begin-
ning with a presentation at
Driftwood Public Library, 801
SW Highway 101, on the sec-
ond floor of City Hall.
Talks last approximately 45
minutes, followed by clam
digging 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.
For the full clinic schedule
and more information on the
crabbing and clamming clin-
ics, call 800-452- 2151 or visit
www.oregoncoast.org.
for the Siuslaw High School
Fishing
from 1C
run is underway. This run typi-
cally 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
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
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cross country team. SHS run-
ners who help at the race
receive financial support to
attend the Steens Mountain
high altitude training camp this
summer.
The Steens Camp is held in
July, on Steens Mountain south
of Burns, Ore.
The list of past attendees
reads like a “who’s who of both
state champions and collegiate
runners.
Like most trail running
events, the Cape Mountain run
is a family affair complete with
food, prizes and running sto-
ries.
Registration information can
be found at www.eclecticedge
racing.com.
For other information, con-
tact Jim Archer at 541-991-
6021 or email trailrunner45
@gmail.com.
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
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The Friends of Honeyman State Park is a nonprofit
group of citizens who support the park in its educational
and interpretive pursuits.
This includes hosting, sponsoring or volunteering for
events and programs.
Honeyman State Park brings more than a million visi-
tors to the area each year.
During the past year, the Friends of Honeyman have
collaborated with the Oregon Parks and Recreation
Department to engage in planting and clean-up projects,
educational field trips for students, “Art in the Park,”
“Earth Day,” and “Awakening Peace” events.
Future potential projects include an October “Haunted
Hayride” and a December “Winter Wonderland” light dis-
play.
During the month of June, the Friends of Honeyman is
engaged in a membership campaign to boost participation
and expand activities.
Annual membership dues are $10 per household.
Those wanting to become a member can call 541-590-
0779 or attend the meeting on Saturday, June 18, at 12:30
p.m., at the Ranger Station Office.
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. There
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.
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottom fish 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
cooking.
Anglers fishing the beaches
from Coos Bay to Bandon
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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 Nearshore Halibut sea-
son 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 rockfish
has been good from Coos Bay
south to Bandon. Fishing for
ling cod has been decent. The
marine fish daily bag limit 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 har-
vest of China, quillback or
copper rockfish.
Retention of cabezon is pro-
hibited through June 30.
O CEAN S ALMON
The Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt. Chinook salmon
recreational fishing season is
scheduled to continue until
Oct. 31. This season is open
for all salmon except coho
salmon, with a bag limit of
two salmon per day, and mini-
mum sizes for Chinook at 24
inches or larger, and steelhead
at 20 inches or larger.
Ocean Chinook fishing so
far this season has been rela-
tively slow, due to overall low
effort levels. Most anglers are
concentrating on bottomfish
for now.
Just a reminder: Anglers are
restricted to no more than two
single point barbless hooks
when fishing for salmon, and
when fishing for any other
species if a salmon is on board
the vessel.
Anglers fishing in ocean
waters adjacent to Tillamook
Bay between Twin Rocks and
Pyramid Rock and within the
15 fathom depth contour are
reminded that only adipose
fin-clipped Chinook salmon
may be retained or on board
while fishing prior to Aug. 1.
B OTTOM F ISHING
The north coast is having
great fishing with many limits
and near limits. Central coast
bottom fishing is also excel-
lent on the central coast. South
coast fishing is good with 3-5
fish per angler.
Lingcod has been good on
the south coast with an aver-
age catch of 1 lingcod per
angler.
Cabezon retention is prohib-
ited through June; this is an
annual seasonal closure.
P ACIFIC H ALIBUT
The next opening is June 2-
4. After June 4, back-up dates
may be available if quota
remains.