NED HICKSON , SPORTS EDITOR
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SATURDAY EDITION
❘ JULY 2, 2016 ❘
SECTION B
Siuslaw News
Sports & Recreation
S PORTS
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FISHING REPORT FOR
THE LOCAL REGION
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
Aug. 6
• COOL AT COAST
Rainbow trout stocking
is complete along the mid
coast. Holdover trout will
be available in most lakes
through the summer.
Fishing for the various
warm water fish species is
good this time of year as
fish move to the shallows
for spawning. There are
numerous lakes in the
Florence area that can pro-
vide good opportunity.
Aug. 13
• VIKING CUP
SCRAMBLE
V IKING
ATHLETICS
9 A . M .
O CEAN D UNES
Sept. 10
• SIUSLAW OPEN
V IKING
SIUSLAW RIVER:
ATHLETICS
9 A . M .
O CEAN D UNES
T IDE T ABLE
PHOTOS BY NED HICKSON/SIUSLAW NEWS
(Clockwise from top): STEP kids activity coordinator Mike Frankhouser points the way to a boat that two young
campers will be boarding for a one-hour fishing excursion; Isaac Glowacki holds up a water skipper he found
during the macro-invertebrates portion of Thursday’s camp activities; a pair of canoers get instruction from a
Siuslaw Watershed Council volunteer; campers line up to board canoes along the shores of Cleawox Lake at
Honeyman State Park.
W ATER
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
July 2
11:43am / 5.9
11:03pm/ 8.3
Low Tide
WORLDS
ALSEA RIVER:
5:17am / -1.3
5:02pm/ 2.0
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.
July 3
12:35am / 6.1 6:06am / -1.7
11:52pm/ 8.3 5:56pm/ 2.0
July 4
1:24pm / 6.4
Cutthroat
For cutthroat trout, cast-
ing small spinners, spoons
or fly fishing streamers or
dry flies can be very effec-
tive. Angling for all species
in streams above tidewater
is restricted to artificial
flies and lures until Sept. 1.
Casting small spinners,
spoons or fly fishing
streamers or dry flies can
be very effective.
NESTUCCA RIVER and
THREE RIVERS:
6:53am / -2.0
6:48pm/ 2.0
July 5
12:40am/ 8.2
2:09pm/ 6.5
7:37am/ -1.9
7:38pm/ 1.9
July 6
1:27am / 7.9
2:53pm / 6.5
8:20am/ -1.7
8:27pm/ 1.9
July 7
2:13am/ 7.4
3:35pm/ 6.5
3:35am/ 6.5
9:17pm/ 1.9
July 8
2:59am / 6.8
4:18pm / 6.4
9:43am /-0.8
10:09pm / 2.0
Steelhead, Chinook, cut-
throat
Spring Chinook angling
is improving as more fish
arrive. A few summer
steelhead are showing up,
too. Gear restrictions 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 cutthroat
should be fair to good in
the early season.
B Y N ED H ICKSON
Siuslaw News
S IUSLAW
N EWS
148 Maple St.
Florence
541-997-3441
S
iuslaw Middle Schoolers Kelsie
Phillips and Ki’ana Moody filter
through the murky water’s edge
of Cleawox Lake. They’re on the hunt
for things in a world most people
never notice — or even see.
“We’re scooping macroinverte-
brates,” says Moody, who dumps a
fine-screened net into a plastic bucket
of lake water.
Noticing movement along the sur-
face, Phillips points to a tiny water
bug skimming the surface with a mul-
titude of legs.
Next to her, Isaac Glowacki adjusts
his Cincinatti Reds baseball cap and
&
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concentrates, walking knee-deep in
the water looking for signs of move-
ment while tying to avoid stirring up
the lake bottom. He crouches slowly
and grabs a “water skipper” by the
leg.
“Look at that,” he says, holding it
up, then dropping it into a bucket of
water.
On the lake, a small outboard motor
revs as Siuslaw Watershed Council
(SWC) volunteer and new Siuslaw
Middle School principal Andy Marohl
takes a small group of young anglers
out in his boat for a little fishing.
“I heard someone caught a catfish
here last week,” says sixth-grader
Katelyn Irvin.
Mike Frankhouser, kids activity
coordinator for the Salmon Trout
Enhancement Program (STEP), gives
last-minute instructions to a group
about to climb into another boat head-
ing out to fish.
“Remember to listen to your boat
captain and to have fun,” says
Frankhouser.
Meanwhile, another group is climb-
ing into canoes with the help of SWC
volunteers.
Welcome to the SWC Intermediate
Camp, the first of three summer
camps hosted by the SWC offering a
hands-on, close-up look at the
Siuslaw Watershed to local youth
ranging from grades four through 12.
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WATER 4B
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
See
FISHING 3B
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and safe
July 4th
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