SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2016
Fishing
from 1B
move to the shallows for
spawning. There are numerous
lakes in the Florence area that
can provide good opportunity.
SIUSLAW
RIVER:
Cutthroat
For cutthroat trout, casting
small spinners, spoons or fly
fishing streamers or dry flies
can be very effective. Angling
for all species in streams above
tidewater is restricted to artifi-
cial flies and lures until Sept.
1. Casting small spinners,
spoons or fly fishing streamers
or dry flies can be very effec-
tive.
ALSEA RIVER: Cutthroat
The Alsea River is open for
cutthroat trout, 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.
NESTUCCA RIVER and
THREE RIVERS: Steelhead,
Chinook, cutthroat
Spring Chinook angling is
improving as more fish arrive.
A few summer steelhead are
showing up, too. Gear restric-
tions are in effect in Three
Rivers. On Three Rivers, from
the hatchery deadline down-
stream to markers below
Gauldy Bridge, new angling
regulations allow youth
angling only (17 and under)
from June 1 to July 15. Check
regulations. Angling for cut-
throat should be fair to good in
the early season.
SALMON
RIVER:
Cutthroat
The Salmon River is open
for cutthroat trout , 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,
cutthroat
Steelhead fishing is slow.
This run typically peaks by
early July but fish can be found
throughout the mainstem.
Casting spinners, drifting bait
or using a bobber and jig can
be effective. Cover water and
fish small and simple as the
river conditions are low and
clear. For cutthroat trout, cast-
ing small spinners, spoons or
fly fishing streamers or dry
flies can be very effective.
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead,
Chinook, cutthroat
Fishing for steelhead and
spring Chinook is slow. The
water is low and clear, so use
lighter gear and target the
deeper holding areas. Trout
angling should be fair.
YAQUINA
RIVER:
Cutthroat
For cutthroat trout casting
small spinners, spoons or fly
fishing streamers or dry flies
can be very effective. Angling
for all species in streams above
tidewater is restricted to artifi-
cial flies and lures until Sept.
1.
COOS COUNTY LAKES
AND PONDS: Trout, warmwa-
ter fish
Legal and trophy size trout
were released earlier this
month in Empire Lakes, and
legal-size trout were put into
Tenmile Lakes. This was the
last trout stocking until fall.
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 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.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
steelhead, bass
Angling is restricted to arti-
ficial flies and lures in streams
and rivers above tidewater.
Tenmile Lakes is open all year
for trout. Anglers have been
catching rainbow trout trolling
wedding ring spinners. Use of
bait is allowed in lakes year
round.
Largemouth bass fishing has
been good over the past month.
Anglers are catching bass near
structure or on the deep end of
the weed lines using spinner
baits, jigs, or rubber worms.
Top water lures have been
effective in the early mornings
or evenings.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Bass, trout
Trout fishing should remain
viable in cold water areas.
Trout fishing is catch-and-
release only in the South
Umpqua and tributaries. Bass
fishing should be good with
warming water temperatures.
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BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottom fish in
the Triangle and South jetty
has been successful.
OCEAN
AND
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
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 June 25 with a quota of
26,000 coho.
The Nearshore Halibut sea-
son is open seven days a week
from Cape Falcon to Humbug
Mt.
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 sepa-
rate daily limit for lingcod (2).
Anglers can only keep 3 blue
rockfish and 1 canary rockfish
as part of their daily limit and
there will be no harvest of
China, quillback, or copper
rockfish.
• O CEAN S ALMON
The Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt. Chinook salmon
recreational fishing season
continues through Oct. 31.
This season is open for all
salmon except coho salmon,
with a bag limit of two salmon
per day, and minimum 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.
• B OTTOM F ISHING
Bottom fishing is good on
both the north and south coasts
last week. Anglers out of
Garibaldi averaged over five
fish per angler and south coast
catches averaged 3-5 fish per
angler on private trips, and
limits on charter trips.
Lingcod has dropped off
somewhat along the majority
of the coast, but Garibaldi
anglers averaged one lingcod
per angler and Depoe Bay
anglers brought in nearly two
lings per angler.
There were also some ling-
cod landed on the south coast,
averaging one lincod per
angler out of Charleston.
Lingcod move closer to
shore in spring to lay large egg
3 B
masses, which are guarded by
males.
To catch lingcod, try a white
plastic grub on a lead jig head
in rocky areas when the tide is
not running fast.
There’s a new rockfish in
town – the Deacon rockfish.
Deacon rockfish is a newly
identified species that was for-
merly referred to as the solid
version of blue rockfish.
What does that mean for
you? Nothing in 2016. Every
rule that refers to blue rockfish
(like the daily bag limit of 3)
now applies to blue rockfish
and deacon rockfish com-
bined.
• S URFPERCH
South coast surf perch fish-
ing has been excellent, with
lots of limits! Surfperch are a
diverse group of fish that pro-
vide a variety of angling
opportunities.
Striped Seaperch are found
year-round in rocky areas like
jetties; and ocean surf is the
place to find Redtail Surfperch
and Silver Perch.
• R AZOR C LAMS
NOTICE: Razor clams are
closed from the north jetty of
the Siuslaw River to the
California border due to
domoic acid. Razor clamming
open from the Columbia River
to the north jetty of the Siuslaw
River.
The Oregon Department of
Agriculture is continuing to
test for shellfish toxins.
• C LAMS
Both razor clamming and
bay clamming have been
excellent all along the coast.
Check the ODFW Shellfish
website for where and when to
harvest your favorite bivalves.
Updated maps on where to
clam
Some recommended areas
to go are the Charleston
Triangle in Coos Bay for gaper
clams and Netarts Bay for but-
ter clams.
• C RABBING
Ocean crabbing has been
slow on the south coast, and
good on the central coast.
Estuary crab catch has been
picking up as male crab molt,
grow into legal size, and move
into estuaries.
Red rock crab are caught
using the same gear as
Dungeness crab but have a
larger daily limit (24), and,
unlike Dungeness crab, any
size or sex of red rock crab
may be retained (although
most crabbers keep only the
largest crabs, which have a lot
more meat than small ones).
SWC to discuss effects of barred owl removal
The Siuslaw Watershed
Council (SWC) will host a
general meeting Wednesday,
June 29, at 6:30 p.m., to dis-
cuss the experimental removal
of barred owls to benefit
northern spotted owls.
There will be a 2016 status
update that includes marbled
murrelets and corvids and the
effects of the program on
landscape and location.
The Siuslaw Watershed
Council’s general meeting
will be held at the Grange in
Blachly on Blachly Grange
Road, near the Triangle Lake
Schools campus.
The
meeting
agenda
includes a presentation by
Dave Simon, U.S. Geological
Survey Research wildlife biol-
ogist, and Kim Nelson, a
research wildlife biologist at
Oregon State University.
The SWC board of directors
and executive director will
give project updates and
announcements of upcoming
activities.
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