SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2017
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Siuslaw National Forest to benefit from restoration grants
CORVALLIS — Siuslaw
National
Forest
officials
received good news last week
in the form of two large grants
awarded to the forest and its
partners for restoration efforts
spanning much of the Oregon
coast.
A total of $495,000 in feder-
al funds will support invasive
species management and eco-
logical restoration on the
Oregon dunes, as well as
stream and forest restoration on
and off Forest Service land on
the north Oregon coast.
The “Salmon SuperHwy
Basin Management Project”
was selected for a highly com-
petitive
Joint
Chiefs’
ATHLETE
OF THE
WEEK
Landscape
Restoration risks associated with fires.
Partnership award by the heads
It builds on the existing
of the U.S. Forest Service and Salmon SuperHwy initiative
Natural
Resources
Conservation
Service
(NRCS).
Funds
totaling
$413,000 will be shared
among
the
Siuslaw
National Forest and the
NRCS Oregon state office
to restore and improve
habitat for the endangered
coho salmon, protect
water quality, increase
— Jerry Ingersoll, SNF supervisor.
forest health, and support
local
communities
through economic develop- that aims to fully address fish
ment, increasing infrastructure passage and habitat needs on
resiliency and reducing the federal and private lands in the
Siusla
w H.S
.
Wrestling
The junior 120-pounder
swept his way through
the bracket at the Alsea
Bay Classic last week,
winning his first match
with a 20-7 major deci-
sion, then pinned three
more opponents including
the final match that he
finished in 17-seconds.
Grapplers
from 1C
with a pair of pins — in the open-
er against Ayite Mettle of
Newport (4:50) and teammate
from 1C
Senior guard Destinie Tatum
provided the biggest threat
against the Pelicans, nabbing a
double-double with 15 points and
13 rebounds, along with a pair of
blocked shots. Fellow senior
Fishing
from 1C
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead
Hatchery steelhead are
available and opportunities
should improve on through
January as conditions improve.
All the usual techniques
such as side drifting, float fish-
ing, and pulling plugs or
divers and bait, should be
effective.
Anglers are reminded that
fall Chinook season is closed.
YAQUINA RIVER:
Honorable Mention
Kainan Lane
Honorable mention goes
to 285 pounder Kainan
Lane
who
finished
second at 285 pounds at
the Alsea Bay Classic.
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Steelhead
The Yaquina River is open
for hatchery winter steelhead.
Casting spinners, drifting bait
or using a bobber and jig can
be effective.
COOS COUNTY
LAKES/PONDS: Trout
Rainbow trout were stocked
in Upper Empire, Bradley,
Saunders, Powers and
Butterfield lakes in October.
Fishing for these stocked fish
has slowed down. Coos
County lakes and ponds will
not be stocked again until the
spring.
COOS RIVER BASIN:
Central Coast Disposal
Alan Twombly-H & R Block
River House & Old Town Inns
J.L. Walker & Sons
Wind Drift Kites
Bridgewater Restaurant
Full Spectrum Computers
Best For Hearing
Dutch Bros.
County Transfer & Recycling
Foglio Drop Box Service
Pavilion Catering
Old Town Barber Shop
Florence RV & Automotive Specialist
Leisure Excavating
Shervin's Automotive
Regency Florence
Cascade Title Co.
The Salvation Army
Randy's Riverview Market & Deli
Siuslaw National Forest,
CPRCD, Save the Riders
Dunes and other local partners
to identify and eradicate inva-
sive species on the Oregon
dunes and build capacity for
broad scale dunes ecosystem
restoration projects into the
future.
This $82,000 grant will sup-
port restoration of 200 acres of
sand dunes within the Oregon
Dunes National Recreation
Area (ODNRA), protect critical
habitat for threatened and
endangered species, provide
trainings for coastal communi-
ties to learn how to detect and
control invasive species on the
dunes, and establish a network
of partners all working towards
the mutual goal of dunes
restoration.
“We’re so thrilled about the
opportunities these grants will
provide to work with our part-
ners to address critical restora-
tion needs up and down the
Oregon coast,” said Jerry
Ingersoll, Siuslaw forest super-
visor. “We have some big chal-
lenges out there.
“By joining forces with our
partners to tackle them, we
have the ability to make great
strides in improving outcomes
for fish and wildlife, and peo-
ple who live, work and play on
the Oregon coast.”
Clark Hooper (4:56) — and a
loss to Mettle in a rematch for
third place.
At 285 pounds, Lane opened
the meet with a pin against Kody
Jenks of Lowell in 1:19, then lost
in the finals to Thomas
Talamantes-Ward by pin in 4:50.
Lowell went on to win the
team title with 161.5 points, fol-
lowed by Newport (117), Siletz
Valley (68) and Siuslaw (46).
The meet served as a warm-up
for this Saturday’s annual Nick
Lutz Memorial Invitational at
Siuslaw, which gets underway at
9 a.m. at Glenn Butler Court.
The multi-divisional tourna-
ment will include teams from
Brookings-Harbor, Churchill,
Crow, Junction City, Lincoln,
South Umpqua, Taft and
Willamette.
Brittany Long, who has been the
team’s other leading scorer this
season, was fighting the flu and
made just two shots.
Junior post Marika White had
6 points.
That same night, the Viking
boys handed Hidden Valley a
decisive 52-35 loss, then faced
Henley on Saturday in a hard-
fought game against the 4A’s No.
2-ranked team.
The Hornets capitalized on
perimeter shooting to pull away
down the stretch, sinking five 3-
pointers in the game to narrowly
escape the Vikings, 48-42.
The Lady Viks, meanwhile,
took on Far West League oppo-
nent Brookings-Harbor in a non-
league standoff that ended in
favor of the Bruins, 51-29.
Last night, the preseason
wrapped up with the boys’ team
on the road at Junction City and
the girls hosting the Tigers at
Glenn Butler Court (after press
deadlines).
Friday, the Vikings will kick
off the Far West League season at
home, with Siuslaw hosting
South Umpqua.
Girls tip off at 6 p.m., followed
by the boys at 7:30 p.m.
Trout fishing in streams is
closed until May 22.
A few steelhead have been
caught the past few weeks in
the West Fork Millicoma,
East Fork Millicoma, and
South Fork Coos rivers.
The West Fork Millicoma
was the only river in the basin
that was fishable over the past
weekend.
Anglers are drifting eggs or
corkies along the stream bot-
tom or using a jig suspended
under a bobber. Anglers fish-
ing the South Fork Coos River
above Dellwood will need a
permit from Weyerhaeuser,
which they can pick up at the
Dellwood office.
In the Coos Basin 1 addi-
tional hatchery steelhead may
be retained per day for a total
aggregate of 3 adult fish har-
vested daily.
Anglers have been catching
a few rockfish and surfperch
along the jetties and sub-
merged rock piles. Fishing for
rockfish in the bay has been
spotty. The marine fish daily
bag limit for bottom fish
(rockfish) is 7 fish and a sepa-
rate daily limit for lingcod (2).
The 7 fish marine bag limit
will remain in place, with
these adjustments for 2017:
Create a sub-bag limit of 6
black rockfish, remove the
sub-bag limit for canary rock-
fish, add China/quillback/cop-
per rockfishes to the sub-bag
limit with blue/Deacon rock-
fish and change the limit from
3 to 4.
Finally remove the 10-inch
minimum size for kelp green-
ling.
Retention of cabezon is not
allowed until July 1.
Recreational crabbing is
now open in all Oregon
waters. Crabbing was decent
over the weekend in Coos Bay.
Crabbing from a boat has
been better than crabbing from
the dock but dock crabbers are
picking up a few legal crabs.
Recreational harvest of bay
clams remains open along the
entire Oregon coast.
Clamming is excellent during
low tides near Charleston, off
Cape Arago Highway, and
Clam Island.
There are also good places
to dig clams even on positive
low tides in Coos Bay.
Recreational harvest of
razor clams and mussels is
closed from the entire Oregon
coast due to elevated levels of
domoic acid.
This includes all beaches
and all bays. Before any shell-
fish harvest trip, make sure to
check the Oregon Department
of Agriculture website for any
updates.
plunking near the acclimation
sites or fishing a jig under a
bobber. Eel Creek is now open
to steelhead fishing.
Largemouth bass fishing has
slowed down over the past few
weeks. Anglers are catching
bass near structure or on the
deep end of the weed lines
using 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.
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.
New bag and sub-bag limits
for 2017: To stay within
Federal allocations, and try to
provide for year-round fishing
opportunities, there are some
changes to daily bag limits.
Canary rockfish has been
declared rebuilt and is now
part of the 7 fish marine bag
limit (no sub-bag limit).
Black rockfish will have a
sub-bag limit of 6 fish (out of
the 7 fish daily bag, no more
than 6 may be black rockfish).
There is a 4 fish sub-bag
limit for blue/deacon, China,
copper, and quillback rockfish
combined (out of the 7 fish
marine bag, no more than 4
may be these species com-
bined). The daily bag limit for
lingcod remains at 2 fish and
flatfish species, other than
Pacific halibut, remains at 25
fish.
• Reminder: the Cabezon
season is closed; it will reopen
July 1.
“These grants will...
address critical
restoration needs up
and down the
Oregon coast.”
Vikings
Richard Huff
Nestucca and Tillamook Bay
watersheds through a partner-
ship of Forest Service, NRCS,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service,
Trout
Unlimited,
private
landowners and others.
Oregon
dunes
restoration efforts will
benefit from the Pulling
Together
Initiative
grant that is being
awarded to Cascade
Pacific
Resource
Conservation
and
D e v e l o p m e n t
(CPRCD)
by
the
National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation. This grant will
support an effort with the
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
rockfish, steelhead
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Crab, steelhead, salmon
Trout fishing in streams is
closed until May 22.
Steelhead anglers have
reported catching a few steel-
head in the North Fork
Coquille at LaVerne Park and
the South Fork Coquille rivers.
Anglers have had success
drifting eggs or corkies.
Recreational crabbing is
now open in all Oregon
waters.
Crabbing is very slow in the
lower Coquille River due to
the large amounts of freshwa-
ter coming downstream.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
bass, yellow perch, steelhead
Trout fishing in the streams
of the Tenmile Basin are now
closed until May 22. Trout
fishing in Tenmile Lakes is
open all year.
A few steelhead have been
reported in Tenmile Creek.
Anglers will have success
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
The South Umpqua is open
to winter steelhead fishing,
upstream to Jackson Creek.
Only adipose fin-clipped
steelhead may be retained.
Steelhead are being caught
up to Canyonville and anglers
are hooking into a few. Fishing
may slow with cooler tempera-
tures.
WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottom fish in
the Triangle and South jetty
has been successful.
PACIFIC OCEAN AND
BEACHES: Bottomfish, surf
perch, crab
Recreational crabbing is
now open in all Oregon
waters.
Bottom fishing has been
good when the ocean condi-
tions allow.
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
ODAwebsite for any updates.
Surf perch fishing was
decent this past weekend. Surf
perch anglers will do the best
fishing with sand shrimp when
ocean swells are small.
• Ocean salmon
The ocean recreational
salmon fishery off Oregon is
currently closed. Please stay
tuned for updates on the 2017
seasons. Details, including reg-
ulations, and more information
on ocean salmon seasons.
• Pacific halibut
The 2017 quota for Pacific
halibut will be determined in
early this month. ODFW staff-
recommended season dates
will be available in mid-
February.
• SHELLFISH
Call the ODA shellfish safe-
ty hotline at 1-800-448-2474
for the most current informa-
tion about shellfish safety clo-
sures before harvesting.
Additional information is
available from ODA’s Food
Safety Program at 503-986-
4720 or the ODA shellfish clo-
sures website.
• Mussels
The recreational harvest of
mussels is open coastwide.
• Razor clams
NOTICE: Razor clams are
closed along the entire Oregon
coast due to elevated levels of
domoic acid. This includes all
beaches and bays.
• Bay clams
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.
• Crab
Crabbing is open in the
ocean and all bays. Crabbing
in Coos Bay has been good.
• Bottom Fishing
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from 1C
their divisions.
Anderson said he feels his
teams’ prospects for a state
appearance are good.
“With only two warm-up
tournaments left before dis-
trict, things look bright that our
varsity teams will make the
state
tournament,”
said
Anderson.