SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Coach
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Mapleton senior Josi Hays confers with new Mapleton girls basketball coach Mike Murray. Hays is the team’s only senior.
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Oregon
Parks
and
Recreation
Department
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and function to any outdoor
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Browse for essentials like
baseball caps, water bottles,
portable coolers, a pocket
knife, a picnic blanket and
even a set of telescoping skew-
ers for toasting marshmallows.
Merchandise is on sale now
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Chinook
The Siletz River and bay is
open for Chinook salmon.
Fishing is slow.
Fish are throughout the bay
and river. Trolling herring in
the lower bay is an effective
technique. Eggs and bobber or
drifting eggs can be productive
in the upper bay and river as
the season progresses.
Consult the regulations for
changes in deadline locations
through the season.
Steelhead fishing is slow.
Casting spinners, drifting bait
or using a bobber and jig can
be effective. For cutthroat
trout, casting small spinners,
spoons or fly fishing streamers
or dry flies can be very effec-
tive.
WILSON RIVER: Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing is fair
on the Wilson River. The
Wilson has fished well for fall
Chinook this season, and
although things will probably
start to slow down toward the
end of the month, there are
still some good fish coming in.
Keep an eye on the weather
and River conditions. All of
the usual techniques, such as
bobber fishing, divers and bait,
and back bouncing should be
effective.
Although it’s still a little
early, Thanksgiving is time to
start thinking about winter
steelhead on the lower Wilson.
This basin has some early
returning hatchery fish and
they should start trickling in
towards the end of the month.
YAQUINA RIVER: Chinook
The Yaquina River and bay
is open for Chinook salmon.
Fishing is slow. Trolling her-
ring in the lower bay is an
effective technique.
Eggs and bobber can be
productive in the upper bay
and river as the season pro-
gresses.
COOS COUNTY LAKES
PONDS: Trout
AND
Rainbow trout were stocked
in Upper Empire, Bradley,
Saunders, Powers and
Butterfield lakes last month.
Anglers have been catching
lots of trout on Powerbait,
flies, or by trolling spinners.
This was the last stocking of
these lakes until the spring.
Trout anglers are also catch-
ing trout in Eel and Tenmile
lakes. Trolling wedding ring
spinners tipped with a night-
crawler has been really effec-
tive.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
CLOSED
The South Umpqua is
closed through Nov. 30 to pro-
tect spawning fall Chinook
salmon.
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottom fish in
the Triangle and South jetty
has been successful.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
bass, yellow perch, coho
Trout fishing in the streams
of the Tenmile Basin are now
closed until May 22, 2017.
Trout fishing in Tenmile
Lakes is open all year.
There is no wild coho fish-
ery in Tenmile Lakes this fall.
Largemouth bass fishing has
been decent over the past cou-
ple weeks. Anglers are catch-
ing bass near structure or on
the deep end of the weed lines
using spinner baits, jigs, or
rubber worms.
Fishing for yellow perch has
picked up in Tenmile Lakes.
Anglers have been catching a
few yellow perch measuring
14 to 15-inches long.
from 1C
learning the fundamentals
early and well.
While coaching at Lowell,
Murray says he became famil-
iar with Mapleton and was
impressed by how hard teams
always played regardless of
the scoreboard.
It was for that reason and
the desire to return to coaching
after a two-year hiatus that
Murray jumped at the opportu-
nity to coach the Lady Sailors
when it came along.
“I looked at this as a wel-
come challenge and an oppor-
tunity to give something to a
group of kids I’m really
impressed by,” says Murray,
who interviewed for the job
with
Mapleton
Athletic
Director Aaron Longo.
“By the end of our interview
he asked if I would accept the
job,” Murray says of their
meeting. “I told him absolute-
ly. I’m here for the long haul.”
Longo is equally pleased
with Murray’s decision to take
the Lady Sailors’ helm.
“We feel extremely fortu-
nate to have a coach of his cal-
iber and experience taking
over the program,” said
Longo. “And the kids have
responded really well. They’re
excited to have him as their
coach.”
Murray’s biggest challenge
Worms fished near the lake
bottom work very well for
catching yellow perch. Anglers
should fish in water depths of
15 feet or deeper to consistent-
ly find the bigger yellow
perch.
PACIFIC OCEAN and
BEACHES: Bottomfish, surf
perch, salmon
The ocean is closed for
Dungeness crabs from through
Nov. 30. Recreational harvest
of crabs is closed from
Tillamook Head to the
California Boarder.
Recreational harvest of
razor clams is closed on the
entire Oregon coast due to ele-
vated levels of domoic acid.
Harvest of mussels is open on
the entire Oregon Coast.
Before any shellfish harvest
trip, make sure to check the
Oregon Department of
Agriculture website for any
updates.
Recreational ocean salmon
fishing from Cape Falcon to
Humbug Mt. is closed for
salmon fishing, except the Elk
River Chinook Terminal
Season is open through Nov.
30.
Both the All Depth and the
Nearshore Halibut seasons are
now closed.
As of Oct. 1, fishing for
bottom fish opened back up to
all-depths.
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. Anglers may harvest
1 cabezon per day.
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Fishing for bottomfish was
limited last week due to
weather conditions. For those
few who did venture out, there
was some success with lingcod
and rockfish.
The recreational groundfish
fishery is open at all depths
through March.
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Parks
from 1C
offices, some state park
friends’ group stores and local
businesses throughout the
state.
For a complete list of ven-
dors, visit www.oregonstate
parks.org. First-time members
of the nonprofit Oregon State
3 C
will be fleshing out a thin ros-
ter of just six players at this
point. Among them are three
players who are new to the
game of basketball.
Leading the Lady Sailors
on the hardwood will be its
only senior, Josi Hays, along
with five sophomores, includ-
ing returners Alyssa West, Erin
Michael and Haley Wells.
“Obviously, we’re hoping to
expand our roster before
league begins,” says Murray.
“In the meantime, we’re
focusing on fundamentals,
developing good habits and
setting individual thresholds
that we can measure each day.
“Basketball isn’t an easy
sport to learn, but these girls
are improving every single
day.”
It’s something that Murray
says makes the 45-minute
commute more than worth it.
“We might be few, but we
are mighty,” says Murray.
“They want to improve and I
want to help get them there.”
The Sailors will kick off
pre-season play this Friday,
when they will compete in the
two-day Yoncalla Invitational.
Appropriately enough, the
first team they’ll be playing?
Lowell.
The Sailors will take on the
Red Devils Friday at 3 p.m.,
then play again Saturday at 6
p.m.
ODFW encourages anglers
to release all prohibited rock-
fish by using a descending
device to safely return fish to a
depth of 60 feet or more. Even
fish that are severely bloated
can survive after being
released at depth. For more
information and videos, please
see the rockfish recompression
webpage.
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 anglers?
Nothing in 2016.
Every rule that refers to
blue rockfish (like the daily
bag limit of 3) now applies to
blue rockfish and deacon rock-
fish combined.
P ACIFIC H ALIBUT :
Recreational halibut fishing
in all Oregon subareas are now
closed for the remainder of
2016. This year, anglers were
able to catch approximately 95
percent of the Oregon recre-
ational quota of just over
220,000 pounds.
The 2017 quota will be
determined in early January
2017.
M USSELS
NOTICE: Mussels harvesting
is closed along the entire
Oregon coast due to elevated
levels of biotoxins.
Razor Clams:
NOTICE: Razor clam har-
vesting is closed along the
entire Oregon coast due to ele-
vated levels of domoic acid.
This includes all beaches
and bays.
B AY C LAMS :
Bay clamming is open along
the entire Oregon Coast from
the Columbia River to the
California border. Check the
ODFW Shellfish website for
where and when to harvest
your favorite bivalves.
Updated maps on where to
clam.
C RABBING :
The last day of the ocean
crabbing season was Oct. 15.
However, bays, estuaries, and
piers are still open to crabbing
year-round.
Parks Foundation receive a
free 12-month permit at the
$45 membership level or
above.
Visitors are the single
largest source of funding for
Oregon’s state parks. Revenue
from RV registrations and the
Oregon Lottery, dedicated by
voters in 1998 and 2010, make
up the rest.